Bonnaroo 15! Let the countdown begin! IMOO the best four days of the year are happening June 9-12 in Manchester, Tennessee and while the lineup leaked last week it was officially released last night on Conan.
Pearl Jam
Dead & Company
LCD Soundsystem
J. Cole
Ellie Goulding
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Tame Impala
Death Cab for Cutie
M83
HAIM
Halsey
Ween
Jason Isbell
CHVRCHES
Miguel
Chris Stapleton
Judd Apatow & Friends
The Chainsmokers
SuperJam
Big Grams (Big Boi + Phantogram)
Band of Horses
Leon Bridges
Grace Potter
Father John Misty
Adam Devine
Purity Ring
The Claypool Lennon Delirium
Two Door Cinema Club
Sam Hunt
Flosstradamus
Zeds Dead
Tyler The Creator
Bridget Everett
Griz
Mavis Staples
Touchpants
Lamb Of God
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Blood Orange
Adventure Club
Lord Huron
RL Grime
The Bluegrass Situation Superjam (Featuring Ed Helms and Friends)
X Ambassadors
Piff the Magic Dragon
Lucius
Vince Staples
Third Eye Blind
Cymande
Misterwives
Clutch
GoldLink
Lettuce
St. Lucia
Cashmere Cat
Goddamn Comedy Jam
FIDLER
Ibeyi
Keys N Krates
Sam Bush Band
The Wood Brothers
Saint Motel
Daughter
The Floozies
Marian Hill
Kamasi Washington
BØRNS
Post Malone
Shamir
Allen Stone
Brett Dennen
Oh Wonder
Boy & Bear
Dungen
Judah & The Lion
Steve Gunn
Steep Canyon Rangers
The Oh Hellos
The Internet
John Moreland
Andra Day
Anderson East
Twin Peaks
Bully
Natalie Prass
Chicano Batman
Givers
Hermitude
Jarryd James
Lizzo
Papadosio
Rayland Baxter
Vulfpeck
Sara Watkins
The Knocks
Waxahatchee
Beach Fossils
Whilk and Misky
Hundred Waters
The London Souls
Lolawolf
Civil Twilight
Roman Gianarthur
LANY
Con Brio
Flux Capacitor
Oh man, just 24 hours from the 2014 Life is Beautiful lineup! I cannot wait to share this year’s lineup with everyone. Each minute we get closer to releasing it the more excited I get. I hope my enthusiasm and love for the talent assembled for year two of the festival is shared by you as well after tomorrow. I hope that as you watch this video below which recaps the music portion of Life is Beautiful 2013, you get pumped to create a whole new set of beautiful memories that will last a lifetime.
“A music festival is a gathering of a lot of strangers but I must say that music by the end of the night it always makes me feel like I know everybody that I shared that experience with and there’s nothing else in the world that can do that like music.” – Dan Reynolds, Imagine Dragons at Life is Beautiful Festival
Just dropped this evening, the 2014 Coachella lineup. Take a look and maybe I’ll see you out in Indio this April. Pretty strong from top to bottom and boy oh boy are there some gems in the tiny font.
Thanksgiving gave me a minute to sit back and have a little fun putting together a Top Tracks of 2013 playlist. This clearly doesn’t include all of the great music that has filtered our ears this year but it is a collection of music that has been on rotation for me in 2013. I tried not to duplicate artists (I could have gone on for days with whole albums from the likes of Vampire Weekend, Cayucas, White Denim, Bastille, etc.) so I hope you like this playlist which should keep you going for hours and perfect for some holiday road trips.
Cheers!
Well it came and went and now the countdown to Life is Beautiful 2014 is underway. Wow, what a wild year 2013 has been. I don’t know if I can yet fully put into words just exactly what the last 12 months have been like but to go from this idea of a four festival in one weekend to actually seeing it come to life and people having the best weekend ever was truly special. It’s not just the music that stands out to me as the shinning moments but rather the memories of people grinning ear to ear and having the best weekend ever.
It was :
seeing my family come through the gates and out of chance being in front to greet them
witnessing a friend who traveled from London be the first one through the gate
watching some of my best friends in the world rocking out to Capital Cities and me surprising them to finally say hi
people chilling in the secret garden listening to HAIM and scoping out the amazing art murals
a packed group of people gathered waiting for Zarkana to take the street for their performance
people lined up to head into the speaker venues to see some brilliant minds give speeches
Downtown come to life in a way I have never seen before
people finally experiencing this vision we had been talking about
being told thank you by countless supporters
riding the ferris wheel and seeing the footprint from high above
the look on a teenager’s face when we fixed a mistake he made when trying to purchase a ticket to the festival
seeing a community come together
running into friends at the El Cortez after party raving about day one and the excitement for day two
hearing all the comments about the great food there was to eat
seeing artists like Zio Ziegler, D*Face, Bicicleta Sem Freio, Doze Green, Ana Marietta, etc. have their art work taken in by thousands of eyes
meeting a father and daughter on Sunday morning at The Beat and hearing about their different experiences at the festival on day one and how thankful they were to have made the trip
seeing grown adults act like kids getting to bowl backstage at Brooklyn Bowl
seeing Beck don a rhinestone cape a la Liberace
The Killers honoring Lou Reed
Kings of Leon’s first show in Vegas since 2009
capturing a sea of people rocking out to Imagine Dragons
seeing two of my staff get to perform at Life is Beautiful
the copious amounts of confetti that made people happy
the Tibetan prayer flags as you entered the footprint
falling in love with Super Sprowtz activation for the kids
my golf cart not moving for nearly two days but in the perfect place for my 10 minute escape from The Killers set to catch a few moments of Empire of the Sun
Jake Wagner replacing my golf cart sticker with “Shine Bright Like A Nyman”
the moment I saw the first post go up at the Downtown Stage
waking up on festival morning realizing that we were about to do something special
watching people with 3-D glasses check out an amazing mural by Las Vegas artists
seeing the best Vampire Weekend show I’ve ever seen
looking at the joy on the faces of the Mystere characters backstage after just performing “Radioactive” with Imagine Dragons
bringing friends into FOH to catch a couple shows which I know made their experience that much more special
riding a bicycle around the festival footprint when nobody was on it
Dawes performing at Grills & Guitars
hearing about the performances from Robert DeLong, STS9, Big Gigantic, Poolside, Cosmic Suckerpunch from friends who’d never listened to those artists and be blown away
the crowd of people lined up outside of Insert Coin(s) waiting for their limited edition New Era Life is Beautiful hat and a pop up performance by F. Stokes
seeing the Red Bull Tour Bus pull into the festival grounds and a realize that program we dreamed of come to life
witnessing Michael Jackson ONE on the Downtown Stage
bass face
all my people in the box office and credential trailer, thank you!
the good vibes that came from listening to Omar
Team Bacon & Eggs
YB
Nok Hockey
our “let’s have a fucking festival” t-shirts
the countless hugs and high fives
taking in the Kings of Leon show with my family
learning from the best
a dream come true
sure there were a whole lot more memories but I hope this gives you an idea….
Slowly I’m crawling out of the hole I was and getting a chance to see friends, catch up on life and return to the “real world.” Thank you all for you patience as I at times was unresponsive, non committal and sometimes short. I hope you didn’t take it personal, I was just embarking on an adventure that would consume me. Was it worth it? Every second!
Quite possibly one of the hottest acts around, I cannot wait to have HAIM perform at Life is Beautiful. The sisters who debuted on Billboard at #6 and #1 in the UK bring their solid rock sound to the neon desert for the first time. This is going to be one show festival goers are going to want to be sure to take in.
Do You Hear The Music? 