Vampire Weekend, Rilo Kiley, Bloc Get together and extra have been introduced as performers at this 12 months’s Simply Like Heaven competition.
The competition – which was spearheaded by Coachella and Day N Vegas organisers Goldenvoice – will return to Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA on Saturday, Could 10.
The road-up – which is thought for its 2000s staple of indie-rock and pop trailblazers – additionally consists of the likes of Empire Of The Solar, TV On The Radio, The Drums, Courtney Barnett, Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, GROUPLOVE, Fragrance Genius, The Sounds, Panda Bear, Seashore Fossils, Peter Bjorn and John and extra. Slowdive have additionally been introduced to play at this 12 months’s competition as particular visitors.
Passes for the indie music bash are set to go on sale on Friday (January 31) at 11am PT (2pm ET and 7pm GMT) at JustLikeHeavenfest.com. Normal Admission passes can be found on the beginning worth of $174 plus charges and VIP passes will probably be obtainable beginning at $399 plus charges.
This 12 months, Goldenvoice has teamed up with the Rose Bowl Working Firm and donated $250,000 to the Eaton Fireplace Reduction & Restoration Fund. The fund gives versatile help to native nonprofit organizations actively responding to the fires. These fascinated about donating their very own can go to right here for extra particulars.
Verified GOVX First Responders will be capable to safe as much as two complementary common admission passes to the Simply Like Heaven competition as a thanks for his or her continued service in wildfire-affected areas. The passes can be found for a restricted time, whereas provides final.
The looks of Rilo Kiley on the bash will mark their first present in 17 years. In response to setlist.FM, Jenny Lewis’ beloved emo band final performed collectively on June 18 2008 at LA’s Greek Theatre. The set will see Lewis renting together with her bandmates Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder and Jason Boesel. Different tour dates are set to observe.
Talking in regards to the reunion in a press launch, the band shared: “We’re so very excited to return again collectively for Simply Like Heaven in Pasadena, California — Los Angeles. As a band, we started right here, and we really feel so lucky to return amongst so many artists and buddies, to this group we maintain so expensive, in such a wonderful and significant place.”
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— Rilo Kiley (@RiloKiley) January 27, 2025
Varied artists on the invoice will probably be celebrating totally different milestones on the competition. Bloc Get together will probably be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their debut LP ‘Silent Alarm’ whereas Peter Bjorn and John can even be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their semi-conceptual third album ‘Author’s Block’. Courtney Barnett will probably be celebrating the tenth anniversary of her award-winning debut album ‘Generally I Sit and Assume, and Generally I Simply Sit’.
Final 12 months’s version of Simply Like Heaven noticed the likes of The Postal Service, Demise Cab For Cutie, Phoenix, The Warfare on Medication, Miike Snow, Ardour Pit, Alvvays, Two Door Cinema Membership, Phantogram, Metric, Gossip, Tegan and Sara, Washed Out, CSS, Damaged Social Scene, Warpaint, Be Your Personal Pet, Sleigh Bells, The Go! Group, Them Denims and Chris Cruse take over the Rose Bowl.
It marked Gossip’s first US competition efficiency following the discharge of their hotly anticipated album, ‘Actual Energy’ – their first album launch in 12 years – in addition to Miike Snow’s first efficiency since 2019 and CSS’s twentieth anniversary celebration.
