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Sizget Festival announces more acts to its 2017 lineup

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Sziget Festival, the Island of Freedom, has a lot of to offer when it comes to music from all genres and an endless variety of music running non-stop. The 7-day festival hosts more than 500.000 Szitizens coming from more than 100 countries. This year, at the 25th Sziget, Kasabian, Major Lazer, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Flume, PJ Harvey, Alt-J, Interpol, Billy Talent, Two Door Cinema Club, Jamie Cullum, Rudimental and many more names will perform.

Sziget Festival is on the European festival radar for 25 years now, bringing music and art from all genres to the huge island. Programs never stop, one can always find music or any activity non-stop during the 7 days. There are more than 50 program venues where contemporary circus, art, dance and many more entertain the Szitizens, apart from the music acts. This time, besides the already announced names, we can find PJ Harvey, Alt-J, Rudimental live, George Ezra, White Lies and Dubioza Kolektiv on the Dan Panaitescu Main Stage. One of the favorite venue of the festival, the huge A38 tent, will host once again music for all like The Naked and Famous, Mando Diao, Anne-Marie, Andy C, Watsky, Nothing But Thieves, Léon, Bear’s Den, Chef’Special, De Staat, Valentino Khan, The Strypes, Rone and Weval among the already announced names. The electronic party central of the island, the giant tent of Arena, is happy to have Steve Aoki and Nervo this round.

All names announced so far in alphabetical order:

Alt-J
Andy C
Anne-Marie
Bad Religion
Bear's Den
Billy Talent
Cashmere Cat
Charli XCX
Chef'Special
Clean Bandit
Crystal Fighters
Danny Brown
De Staat
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
DJ Shadow
Dubioza Kolektiv
Flume
Fritz Kalkbrenner
George Ezra
GTA
GusGus
Interpol
Jagwar Ma
Jamie Cullum
Kasabian
Kensington
Leningrad
León
Mac Demarco
Major Lazer
Mando Diao
Maurice West
Metronomy
Nervo
Nothing but Thieves
OH Wonder
Oliver Heldens
PJ Harvey
Rone
Rudimental live
Steve Aoki
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano
The Kills
The Naked and Famous
The Pretty Reckless
The Strypes
Tom Odell
Two Door Cinema Club
Vince Staples
W&W
Watsky
Weval
White Lies
 

JÄGERHAUS lineup announced for Field Day

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Field Day are delighted to reveal the new line-up additions that will be joining headliners James Blake and PJ Harvey, and previously announced artists including Yeasayer, The Avalanches, Beach House, Daphni, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Skepta, NAO, Mura Masa, Roman Flügel, GOAT, John Grant and Air on Field Day Saturday 11th & Sunday 12th June.
 

Field Day are excited to announce the return of the JÄGERHAUS stage to the festival on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th June 2016. One of the buzziest stages on site, Jagerhaus will host a selection of the hottest new bands and talent around.
 
On Saturday 11th June the JÄGERHAUS stage will  play host to the Mercury Prize nominated band, and winners of the 2009 critics' choice iTunes album of the year, The Invisible, in addition to an array of special talents including Jamie Isaac, Petite Noir, FEWS, NZCA Lines, Georgia, Happy Meal Ltd. plus many more. 
 
Field Day welcome the London based four piece, The Duke Spirit, on Sunday 12th June. Following a three-year live break, The Duke Spirit are back with new album 'KIN', the definition of alternative and garage rock, full of edgy guitar riffs, rough vocals, and powerful drum beats. Also taking to the Jagerhaus stage on Sunday 12th June will be the likes of 37 Adventures DJs, Birdskulls, Get Inuit, Saltwater Sun, Stevie Parker, Telegram and a very special DJ set from the Mystery Jets. 
 
Metronomy make their return to Field Day
 
Following their headline slot on Field Day's Main Stage in 2014, Metronomy will be back to perform a very special Metronomy Summer '08 DJ set, following the recent announcement of their new album Summer '08, due to be released this July. For what will be their fifth album, the melancholic electronica masters Metronomy have worked alongside Mix Master Mike – the legendary DJ who worked on several of the Beastie Boys' biggest his. Field Day are delighted to have them on board to help celebrate what will be the festivals 10th anniversary! 
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FULL FIELD DAY 2016 LINE-UP
 
Field Day Saturday 11th June 2016
 
James Blake
Anna Meredith /  Astronomyy / Ata Kak  / Avalon Emerson / Baio (DJ set) / Bicep – Live
The Black Madonna / Cabbage / Champion / Coves / Danny L Harle / Dean Blunt 
 Deerhunter/ Dilly Dally / DIIV / DJ Koze / Doug Hream Blunt / Dusky – Live / Fakear  FEWS / Fickle Friends / Floating Points – Live / Four Tet / Frisco / Georgia / Gillbanks  Girl Band / Gold Panda / Greco-Roman Soundsystem / Happy Meal Ltd. 
Hattie Whitehead / Holly Herndon – Live / Huw Stephens / Invisible, Inc. DJs 
Jackmaster b2b Gerd Janson / Jamie Isaac / Kelela / KINK – Live 
Let's Eat Grandma / Little Simz / Loyle Carner / LUH / Lxury / Mabel / Meilyr Jones  Mentsh (GRSS) / Metronomy Summer '08 DJ Set / Metz / Moscoman 
 Motor City Drum Ensemble / Mount Kimbie – DJ Set 
Mura Masa / Nao / Nicholas Allbrook (Pond) / Nimmo / Novelist / NZCA Lines 
 Opal People / Orchestra Baobab / Pambs – DJ Set 
 Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band / Petit Noir / Plastician / Real Lies 
Red Axes – Live / Rejjie Snow  Roman Flügel / Roots Manuva / Shock Machine 
Siobhan Bell / Skepta / Sleaford Mods  Slimzee / Special Request  Tale Of Us 
The Invisible / Tirzah / Tom Ravenscroft 
 Ton Dis Up! DJ Set / Wild Nothing / Wooden Wisdom & Dj Fitz / Yeasayer 
 Yorkston Thorne Khan / Youth Lagoon
 
Field Day Sunday 12th June 2016
 
PJ Harvey 
Air / The Avalanches 
Arthur Beatrice / Adam Green / Baba Naga / Bad Sounds
Beach House / Ben Watt Band feat. Bernard Butler / Birdskulls / Blossoms 
Brian Jonestown Massacre / Cass McCombs / Daphni / D.D Dumbo / Declan McKenna
Doug Hream Blunt / Empress Of / Fat White Family / Formation 
 Georgie Rogers (DJ Set) / Get Inuit /  

GOAT / Harry James / Inheaven / John Grant  Johnny Llyod /
Junior Boys / Kero Kero Bonito / Killing Moon DJs 
Kimmo Pohjonen Skin / Kiwi / Mbongwana Star 
 Mind Enterprises / Molly Nilsson / 
Moon Duo / Moxie / Mystery Jets / Optimo 
Oscar / Parquet Courts / Psychemagik / 
Royce Wood Junior (DJ Set) 
Saltwater Sun / Shearwater / 
Steve Mason / Stevie Parker / Tangerines / Telegram 
 The Duke Spirit / 
The Temper Trap / The Thurston Moore Group / Tourist 
37 Adventures DJs

PJ Harvey, Sigur Ros and more announced for NOS Primavera Festival

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NOS Primavera Sound has released the full line-up for its fifth edition. After announcing the presence of French duo Air, authors of remarkable work such as “Moon Safari” or the original soundtrack to “The Virgin Suicides”, the festival reveals the names that will be at the Parque da Cidade in Porto, between June 9th and 11th.

Among the confirmed acts are such stand-outs as rock icon PJ Harvey and the dreamy experimental rock of Icelandic band Sigur Rós, besides Brian Wilson in a special performance of “Pet Sounds”, the chief pop oeuvre of the 20th century.

Added to these, are names which are key to understanding the most current music: the dream pop of Americans Beach House, the return to pop by Animal Collective, the post rock of Explosions In The Sky, the showcase of the latest album by German supergroup Moderat, Deerhunter led by Bradford Cox, Ty Segall and the Muggers’ rock’n’roll steamroller or Julia Holter, author of one of 2015’s most impressive albums.

As usual, the festival also saves some room for acts born in the nineties. The return to the stage of mythical hardcore band Drive Like Jehu, the always fit Dinosaur Jr., the instrumental and untethered rock of Tortoise, Mudhoney’s electrical discharge, the noise metal of the legendary Unsane, out rock pioneers Loop or the live “life insurance” policy that is Shellac are among the highlights of NOS Primavera Sound 2016.

Some names which are very much current will also be at the Parque da Cidade. The hip hop of one of the MCs of the moment, Freddie Gibbs, Savages’ battle rock, the synthpop of the mighty Chairlift, the ethylic odes of Titus Andronicus, Dan Bejar on board Destroyer to showcase the recent “Poison Season”, the emotive ball of Kiasmos, the Portuguese cult band Linda Martini, Parquet Courts’ post-punk aromas, Holly Herndon’s experimentalism, or the jazz tinged electronica of Floating Points are some of the hippest names in this edition.

The long list doesn’t end here and continues to showcase names filled with substance and quality: pop seen form a different perspective by Wild Nothing, Car Seat Headrest, Roosevelt, Autolux, Empress Of or Manel, the guitars of Protomartyr, Royal Headache, Neil Michael Hagerty & the Howling Hex or Algiers, djs Fort Romeau and The Black Madonna, the experimental electropop of Sensible Soccers, and electronic alter-ego of João Vieira with the project White Haus, the refined simplicity of Cass McCombs, BEAK>’s kraut rock, the psychedelia of Bardo Pond or the obscure sounds of Mueran Humanos, round off a wide ranging and diverse line-up.

LINE-UP NOS PRIMAVERA SOUND 2016

Air . Algiers . Animal Collective . Autolux . Bardo Pond . Battles . Beach House . BEAK> . The Black Madonna . Brian Wilson performing Pet Sounds . Car Seat Headrest . Cass McCombs . Chairlift . Deerhunter . Destroyer . Dinosaur Jr. . Drive Like Jehu . Empress Of . Explosions In The Sky . Floating Points (live) . Fort Romeau . Freddie Gibbs . Holly Herndon . Julia Holter . Kiasmos . Linda Martini . Loop . Manel . Moderat . Mudhoney . Mueran Humanos . Neil Michael Hagerty & the Howling Hex . Parquet Courts . PJ Harvey . Protomartyr . Roosevelt . Royal Headache . Savages . Sensible Soccers . Shellac . Sigur Rós . Titus Andronicus . Tortoise . Ty Segall and The Muggers . U.S. Girls . Unsane . White Haus . Wild Nothing

Florence and The Machine to headline Croatia’s INmusic Festival

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US alt-rock band Wilco are to play at this year’s INmusic festival. They join the bill featuring headliners Florence + the Machine and PJ Harvey, alongside a wider line-up of The Kooks, Yeasayer, The Heavy, Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band, and Monoswezi, with many more to come!

Now in its eleventh year, INmusic is Croatia’s biggest open-air music festival, held over three islands on Zagreb’s Lake Jarun. The festival takes place between the 20th and 22nd of June, costing just £30 for a three-day ticket (plus £20 for a seven-day camping ticket).

Multi-Grammy award winners Wilco’s latest album, Star Wars, was a self-released surprise in July last year. Free to download for the first 30 days and followed by a CD and vinyl release, Star Wars made the top 10 of Billboard’s US Independent Albums and US Top Alternative Albums charts. Famously known for 2001's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, the band celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2014, releasing two new collections: Alpha Mike Foxtrot (a 4 disc/digital box set of studio and live rarities) and What’s Your 20? (a 2 disc/digital compilation of studio tracks from the band’s first eight albums). Star Wars is among this year's Grammy nominees for Best Alternative Album.

INmusic marks Florence + the Machine’s first ever live show in Croatia.The UK indie-pop act headlined 2015’s Glastonbury in place of the Foo Fighters and released their third studio album How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Also appearing from the UK is Ivor Novello and Mercury Prize winning singer-songwriter PJ Harvey, and indie rock band The Kooks.

Brooklyn experimental psych rockers Yeasayer, UK funk rockers The Heavy and Ghana’s Pat Thomas and Kwashibu Area Band will play the OTP World Stage. Completing the line-up so far is collective Monoswezi, which brings together musicians from Mozambique, Norway, Sweden and Zimbabwe with a passion for African music.
 

First acts announced for Field Day 2016

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From its early inception back in 2007, Field Day has evolved across two days, heightened its levels of production, expanded its culinary and extra-curricular activities, yet always remained true to its core values – impeccably curated music at the heart of everything it does is. Continuing this ethos Field Day are honoured to announce PJ Harvey for a London exclusive in 2016 on Sunday the 12th June.

Since her first album Dry – a record Kurt Cobain considered one of the 20 greatest albums ever written – PJ Harvey has received worldwide acclaim for her unique, restless artistic vision. The recipient of multiple awards, she is the only artist to have won the Mercury Music prize twice, first with the platinum selling Stories From The City: Stories From The Sea in 2000, then over a decade on with 2011's Let England Shake.

2015 has found PJ Harvey breaking more new ground, releasing her first volume of poetry and writing and recording her as-yet-untitled 9th studio album in front of live audiences inside an architectural installation at Somerset House. 

 
Awarded an MBE for services to music in 2013, her headline slot will be a Field Day exclusive and be the first UK live, full band show since she played at the Royal Albert Hall in 2011.

FIELD DAY 2016 – Saturday

Elsewhere at their decade celebrations, Field Day Saturday will see long time friend of the festival Four Tet play a key slot on the Eat Your Own Ears Main Stage."One of the UK's most dedicated club DJs, capable of holding a room in sweaty excelsis for eight hours without pause." He's restlessly dedicated his life to creating other-worldly club music, with his timeless productions sounding like they've been beamed from another dimension.
 
All-conquering grime superstar Skepta graces Victoria Park with his presence as he continues to bring grime kicking and screaming into 2016. A new album imminent with a reportedly all star cast of collaborators, his ascendancy continues at pace. Get set to get Shutdown.
 
Led by the enigmatic frontman Bradford Fox, Deerhunter bring their gloriously shape-shifting genres and sounds, vacillating from post-punk to pop, auspiciously under the all-encompassing umbrella of indie-rock. 
 
Floating Points has won over crowds around the world with his strictly vinyl club sessions, spanning, house, techno, soul and disco, steadily climbing the ranks of the globes most impressive DJ's. Floating Points will bring his enchanting full band show to Field Day Saturday, for a mesmerising performance filled with warm electro weaves and delicate euphoria. 
 
Mercury Prize nominated and this year's rising star SOAK will also appear on Saturday, along with a further line-up which veers into corners as diverse as Cass McCombs blending rock, folk, psychedelic, punk, and alt country, plus Yorkston Thorne Khan, which encompasses the mighty Scottish folk nobility of James Yorkston.
 
Founded in 1970, the six piece Senegalese Afro-Cuban, Son, Wolof and Pachanga band Orchestra Baobab, are hailed as one of Africa's great iconic bands, producing more hits in less than a decade than other bands in a lifetime. Elsewhere, Paradise Bangkok Molam International Band will bring their mix of traditional Thai sound with echoes of folk-rock, blues and dub to a Field Day stage.
 
Renowned for their beautifully blissed out sound, London duo Mount Kimbie come to Field Day on the Saturday and will be joining DJ Koze who was recently selected to mix the 50th edition of !K7's seminal DJ Kicks series. Also up on the Saturday is Motor City Drum Ensemble – a much in demand artist who over the the past few years he's cemented his reputation as one of the top ranking record pioneers making Resident Advisor's Top 20 DJs last year.
 
One of the biggest names in the German electronic music scene and part of the Robert Johnson family, Roman Flügel is also on Saturday's line-up. A chameleon visiting many styles from ambient to house, techno, electro and leftfield. Special Request, the rugged alias for house and techno stalwart Paul Woolford is inspired by the unruly conventions of UK pirate radio stations, with productions span from murky house through darkside techno to chaotic eye-of-the-storm hardcore/jungle tear-outs. Also joining Saturday's bill will be the dynamic house duo Dusky, who in just three years have asserted themselves as leaders of the UK underground.
 
Live electronic acts come in the form of Holly Herndon, Kink and Red Axes. Holly Herndon brings her unique blend of glitching, bewitching electronics and choral voices to her sonic performance. Recent album Platform, co-released on 4AD and the peerless RVNG Intl has seen another step forward in her production and gained her further plaudits far and wide.
 
Hailing from Sofia, Bulgaria, Kink's an enigma in many different forms and will perform one of his much-lauded live sets at Field Day.  Tel-Aviv producers Dori Sadovnik and Niv Arzi have been performing together for a long time, first as post-punk band Red Cotton. It's with their current Red Axes incarnation that they've struck gold, touching on stripped back slow mo techno.
 
Ghanaian musician Ata Kak, was the first ever post on The Awesome Tapes from Africa blog which spawned the hugely influential label. Obaa Sima has gone on to transcend genres and appeared in an unbelievable array of DJ's sets since. Ata Kak comes to the UK to play Field Day for what will be his first time out of Ghana. Special.
 
Performing new live music for the first time, Wild Nothing, the American five piece indie rock/dream pop band from Virginia, will bring their  shimmery, synth-washed indie pop recordings to Field Day Saturday. While Trevor Powers' a.k.a Youth Lagoon, will provide the Festival goers with an insight into his ever mind expanding and varied productions.
 
Producer, DJ and software developer Avalon Emerson and electronic music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mura Masa also join for the Saturday, along with Dean Blunt, an artist renowned for consistently delivering compelling and unpredictable performances and the terrifyingly gifted Meilyr Jones.          

FIELD DAY 2016 – Sunday

On Sunday, hailing from Buchanan, but now ensconced in Iceland, singer, song-writer and honesty purveyor John Grant joins the bill alongside PJ Harvey. His third solo studio album, 2015's Grey Tickles, Black Pressure featured several guests such as singers Tracey Thorn of Everything But The Girl and Amanda Palmer. In 2014 John Grant was nominated for Best International Male Solo Artist at the BRITS and appeared on UK TV show, Later with Jools Holland in early October this year, accompanied on stage by a band including several backing singers and special guest Budgie.
 
Also on Field Day Sunday, Baltimore dream-pop duo and masters of the lullaby, Beach House are known for creating music which is dark, dreamy, and alluringly hypnotic. Since their formation in 2005, Beach House have charmed indie music enthusiasts across the blogosphere with their languid songcraft, and the eerie warmth of "Apple Orchard" landed on Pitchfork's Infinite Mixtape MP3 series in August 2006. 
 
Swedish psych-rockers and master of the on-stage costume, GOAT will bring their unique sound to the main stage. The indie-informed and highly electronic adept Junior Boys, are back with a much lauded new album this year including a synth cover of Bobby Caldwell's 'What You Won't Do For Love'.
 
Elsewhere on Sunday's cohesive yet eclectic line-up, Glaswegian DJ royalty duo Optimo will be representing. JD Twitch of Optimo's Autonomous Africa, Optimo and Optimo Trax labels responsible for some of the most incredibly diverse releases of recent time. Former Sonic Youth frontman will also bring The Thurston Moore Band to the Sunday Field Day crowd. 
 
BBC 6Music resident, and member of the best-selling duo Everything But The Girl, Ben Watt will play with his band featuring Bernard Butler, whilst Molly Nilsson's synth-pop also comes to the fore. Plus many more to be announced complete another classic Field Day Sunday.