Wondering what’s in store for Boston Calling when it returns to City Hall Plaza on Memorial Day weekend? The wait is over. The festival team just announced the full lineup via video to guests who came out to their two Tasty Burger parties, and similar to the first two years of the bi-annual music festival, it’s stacked with legendary, contemporary and up and coming artists of all genres.
The announcement comes after a “Find the Vinyl” scavenger hunt took place across the city, sending festival followers around town to hunt down 11 vinyl records sketched with the name of one of the 23 artists. Soon after the hunt started at 6 p.m., evidence of the records began popping up on social media, and fans could piece together part of the lineup, not long before it was announced in full.
Check out the entire lineup below:
Beck
Pixies
My Morning Jacket
Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
Tenacious D
Tame Impala
St. Vincent
TV On The Radio
Marina and The Diamonds
Vance Joy
Jason Isbell
Gerard Way
Tove Lo
Chet Faker
Run The Jewels
The Lone Bellow
Sharon Van Etten
Jungle
MŘ
Grizfolk
DMA’s
The Ballroom Thieves
Krill
As you can see, the Boston Calling festival rock-heavy headliners will be Beck, Pixies (who got their start in Boston) and My Morning Jacket. The full lineup, however, doesn’t lean on the one genre, as have festivals’ past, and guests will be treated to a high-energy weekend all the way through, thanks to the psychedelic influences of Tame Impala and St. Vincent, the pop beats of MŘ and repeat-artist Marina and the Diamonds, and the cleverly spun lyrics of hip-hop duo Run the Jewels, comprised of rappers Killer Mike and El-P. Even comedy has a place at Boston Calling, in the form of Tenacious D, Jack Black and Kyle Glass’s rock duo.
As for the Boston-bred artists of the upcoming festival, The Ballroom Thieves and Krill will take to the stage, kicking off each day of music, if past schedules are to be trusted. This is the first festival lineup that wasn’t engineered by Boston Calling’s previous booking agency, Boston Calling. After September 2014’s festival, Crash Line Productions decided to bring the festival’s booking in-house, and this dynamic lineup proves that nothing was lost in the change up.
The day-to-day schedule won’t be released for some time, but early bird passes go on sale tomorrow at noon. Early bird passes will cost $160 for general admission, and on Friday, January 16, regular sale passes will go live at 10 a.m. for $185.
You can watch the announcement video screened last night here:
Featured image: Beck; image via Christian Bertrand/Shutterstock
