MoMA PS1 Warm Up 2019 lineup: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, Kelly Lee Owens, Smino, Santi, more
The annual Warm Up returns to MoMA PS1‘s courtyard every Saturday in July and August this year, with cool art installations and dance parties under the sun featuring hip hop, electronic music, Afro-pop, dancehall, indie pop, reggaeton, and more.
This year’s Warm Up kicks off on July 6 with Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (whose anticipated new album will hopefully be out before then), plus Cardi B collaborator Pardison Fontaine, the great Kelly Lee Owens (who DJs Elsewhere the day before), Russian ambient/electronic musician Kedr Livanskiy, and locals JOY and duendita.
Warm Up 2019 also includes the US debut of Nigerian alté singer Santi; a day with Smino, Boogie, “Mo Bamba” producers Take A Daytrip, Jamaican dancehall singer Shenseea, bilingual indie pop band The Marías, and more; a day with experimental NYC rapper MIKE, South African gqom rapper Sho Madjozi, Madrid singer/rapper C. Tangana, Queens rapper Deem Spencer, local DJs Tygapaw and Bembona, and more TBA; dancehall crew Equiknoxx (including vocalist Shanique Marie); UK R&B singer Ama Lou; UK electronic/rock artist Nabihah Iqbal; BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac; Argentina reggaeton singer Ms. Nina; more various types of hip hop from London’s AJ Tracey, Alabama’s Chika, Catalonia’s Bad Gyal, London’s Flohio, Detroit producer Black Noi$e, Dominican singer/rapper Fuego, the Bay Area’s P-Lo; more electronic music from Shigeto, DJ Seinfeld, Rosa Pistola, Eris rew, Mr. Mitch, Djrum; and still more.
This year’s big installation is Hórama Rama by Mexico City-based architects Pedro & Juana, “a 40-foot-tall cyclorama featuring jungle imagery that sits atop the courtyard walls, providing a refuge amid the changing Long Island City skyline.”
Tickets are on sale now. Check out the full lineup, as it currently stands, below. A few more artists are still TBA.
Also, listen to some of the artists playing…
WARM UP — 2019 LINEUP
July 6
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib / Keep Cool, RCA, ESGN + Invazion / Gary, Indiana + Los Angeles, CA
Pardison Fontaine / St.Lukes Section8 / Newburgh, NY
Kelly Lee Owens / Smalltown Supersound / London, UK
Kedr Livanskiy / 2MR / Moscow, Russia
JOY (Douglas Sherman, Takaya Nagase, Yuji Kawasaki) / Ridgewood Queens
duendita / Queens, NY
July 13
Mark Ernestus / Rhythm & Sound / Berlin, Germany
Santi / Monster Boy / Lagos, Nigeria
Mina / Earth Kicks / London, UK
BAD GYAL / Interscope + Aftercluv / Barcelona, Spain
Equiknoxx feat Shanique Marie / Bird Sound Power / Kingston, Jamaica
Ms. Nina / Córdoba, Argentina
Lil C / Gal-Dem + Prestige Pak / London, UK
July 20
Take A Daytrip / NO IDLE / New York, NY
Smino / Zero Fatigue / St. Louis, MO
SHENSEEA / Kingston, Jamaica
Boogie / Shady Records / Compton, CA
Everyday People / New York, NY
The Marías / Los Angeles, CA
Jezenia Romero / Bunny Jr. Tapes / Los Angeles, CA + New York, NY
July 27
Michael Brun / Kid Coconut / Port au Prince, Haiti
Aj Tracey / West London, UK
Rosa Pistola / Perreo Pesado / Mexico City / Mexico
Fuego / Transcend.ent + Universal Music Latin / Washington, DC + Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
SCRAAATCH / SCI FI & FANTASY, Halcyon Veil / Philadelphia, PA
August 3
Mall Grab / Looking for Trouble + Steel City Dance Discs / Newcasle, Australia
DJ Seinfeld / Young Ethics / Malmö, Sweden
Ama Lou / London, UK
Mr Mitch / Gobstopper / London, UK
Flohio / Independent / London
Black Noi$e / Detroit, MI
FOOZOOL / CLUB CHAI / San Francisco CA
8ULENTINA / CLUB CHAI / Oakland, CA
August 10
Ron Trent / Music&Power + Future Vision + Prescription / Chicago, IL
Eris Drew / Perth, Australia + Chicago, IL
Chika / Montgomery, AL
DJ Python b2b Anthony Naples / Incienso / Ridgewood, New York
Ouri / Ghostly International / Montreal, QC, Canada
Khotin / Ghostly, Pacific Rhythm / Vancouver, Canada
August 17
C. Tangana / Sony Music / Madrid, Spain
Chaos in the CBD / In Dust We Trust / London, UK
Sho Madjozi / Flourish and Multiply / Limpopo, South Africa
Deem Spencer / Deem Spencer & The Flower Shop / Jamaica, Queens, NY
MIKE / 10K / New York, NY
Tygapaw / Fake Accent / Brooklyn, NY
Bembona / Vibras NYC / Brooklyn, NY
+ more to be announced
August 24
Shigeto / Ghostly / Detroit, Michigan
NOODLES / Above Ground / East Bay Area, CA
P-Lo / EMPIRE / Bay Area, CA
Djrum / R&S Records / London, UK
DJ Osh Kosh / Eardrummer Records / Atlanta, GA + Los Angeles, LA
+ more to be announced
August 31
Annie Mac / BBC Radio 1 / London, UK
FLOORPLAN (Robert & Lyric Hood) / M-Plant / Detroit, MI
Palms Trax / Dekmantel / Berlin, Germany
LAUNDRY DAY / New York, NY
Ugly Primo / Primos Studio / Los Angeles, CA
Nabihah Iqbal / Ninja Tune + NTS Radio / London, UK
