u/foolishgrin

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>For over two decades Taking Back Sunday have maintained a consistent chart presence, moving beyond their emo and post-hardcore roots into a more versatile brand of hard melodic rock. After paying their dues amid the East Coast punk scene, they became one of the more visible groups of the early-2000s emo boom. In 2002, they released their platinum-selling debut LP, Tell All Your Friends, which layered Adam Lazzara's emotional vocals and the dual-guitar assault of Reyes and Nolan, creating a classic hardcore sound with pop songwriting components. They soon vaulted into the mainstream with a trio of Top Ten albums including 2006's Louder Now. Despite a handful of significant lineup shifts, Taking Back Sunday have continued to record and tour into the 2020s.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: Yellowcard, Saves the Day, Brand New, The Starting Line - and from this year's lineup, Jimmy Eat World, American Hi-Fi

Scheduled: Saturday, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, Ponce (vs Blood Orange)

Live Footage: If you don't know their live reputation, I hate to be the one to break it to you... Cell footage of Cute Without the E (+ full set) at WWWY 2024 OR AOL sessions from 2006 for old time's sake

Reddit Take of the Day: "It’s like 80% a karaoke concert at this point but it’s still fun... YOLO."

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>Old Mervs are a surf-rock and garage-rock duo from Western Australia, whose music features catchy hooks and country-lad charm. Best mates since the age of 5, David House (vocals & guitar) and Henry Carrington-Jones (drums) grew up together in Kojonup, a tiny town approximately halfway between Perth and Albany. They began their journey as Old Mervs as Henry finished high school in 2017, converting an old stable into their first jam space. After a quick rise, they secured gigs opening for Liam Gallagher, The Wombats, and Spacey Jane.

>[Adapted from AMRAP and SelectMusic]

For Fans Of: Rum Jungle, Spacey Jane, The Terrys

Scheduled: Saturday, 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM, Piedmont (v. Sophie's Body)

Live Footage: Single Cellphone live at Metros Freo OR their 2025 Audiotree session

Reddit Take of the Day: 3rd on the bill at the Lansdowne Hotel in 1993 kinda vibes.

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>Alice Phoebe Lou is a South African singer/songwriter with a distinctive voice and a style that combines ethereal bedroom pop with elements of folk, synth pop, jazz, and blues. The daughter of a pair of documentary filmmakers, Lou was born and raised in the small Cape Peninsula town of Kommetjie. A multi-instrumentalist by the age of 14, she spent her formative years as a street musician in Europe, honing her skills for passerby in Berlin. She self-released her debut EP, Momentum, in 2014, and issued her first LP, Orbit, two years later. "She," a track she contributed to the 2017 documentary Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, was included on the Oscars' shortlist for Best Original Song.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: Kate Bollinger, Angel Olsen, strongboi

Scheduled: Friday, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Criminal Records (vs Turnstile)

Live Footage: Here's her 2024 KEXP set OR a cover of Walk on the Wild Side

Reddit Take of the Day: "Mannn she is spoiling us with these live performance. Such raw talent, you can feel it coming from her bones. Stop sleeping on Alice!!!"

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>We are Hotel Fiction, a band out of Athens GA! We're just two gals, Jade and Jess, who are making our dreams come true one day at a time. After graduating college in May of 2021, we have been playing shows around the country with bands like flipturn, Adam Melchor, Beach Fossils, The Brook & The Bluff, and more! We feel very grateful to do this whole music thing, and we hope our music can make your bad days (and good days) even better.

>[From Their Website]

For Fans Of: flipturn, hey nothing, Beach Fossils

Scheduled: Saturday, 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM, Criminal Records (vs The Inspector Cluzo)

Live Footage: Audiotree session from 2024

Reddit Take of the Day**: "**Does there have to fucking be a 'pit' at every single show in the world? I went to see a super-poppy band (Hotel Fiction) at a super-mainstream venue (Georgia Theater) recently. They are a great and talented band and are really fun to see, but they are all sunshine and singalong, not aggression. They are the opposite of angsty. And there are the youngsters, 'moshing' in the 'pit.'"

[never have i wanted to start a pit at a shaky set more badly...]

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>Violet Grohl combines powerful melodic vocals with gritty, hard-charging guitar riffs, creating a contemporary alt-rock aesthetic with a vintage flair drawing on early influences like the Breeders, PJ Harvey, Cocteau Twins, and other '90s icons. As the daughter of Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl, Violet had early access to the stage. Grohl had early access to the stage, duetting with her father Dave Grohl at age 12 on a performance of Adele's "When We Were Young," and later making live appearances with the Foo Fighters and the surprise reunion of the surviving members of Nirvana in 2025. Heavily influenced by grunge, indie, and trip-hop from the '90s, she released her first album, Be Sweet To Me, in 2026.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: Wolf Alice, Snail Mail, The Breeders, Garbage

Scheduled: Sunday, 1:45 PM - 2:45 PM, Piedmont (vs. The Two Lips)

Live Footage: Lead single Bug in the Cake on The Tonight Show

Reddit Take of the Day: "She would be coming to a Starbucks near you if it wasn’t for her dad"

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>Coheed and Cambria are a New York rock band whose music incorporates elements of prog rock, emo, heavy metal, and post-hardcore, rife with tight hooks, clever lyrics, and imaginative sounds. Most of their recordings have been concept albums in a sci-fi storyline called The Amory Wars, about the doomed marriage of two characters, Coheed and Cambria, whose children may have been infected with a serum whose power can destroy the universe.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: The Mars Volta, Circa Survive

Scheduled: Sunday, 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM, Peachtree (vs Big Special)

Live Footage: Solid live cut of their most famous song, Welcome Home OR legendary 2004 set at Starland Ballroom

Reddit Take of the Day: "One of my favorite songs to recommend to people who don't listen to Coheed is Ten Speed. And I ALWAYS make sure to point out towards the end that it's about a guy arguing with an evil, possessed bicycle."

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>Vancouver indie rock quartet Peach Pit combine jangling, uptempo guitar with melancholic lyrics, for a style that has been dubbed "sad pop." They released their debut album, Being So Normal, in 2017 through DIY indie label Kingfisher Bluez, naming it after negative feedback from the judges in a battle-of-the-bands contest. They went viral after a Filipina YouTuber shared their eponymous song on her popular channel, leading to breakout global success and a record deal with Columbia.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: flipturn, The Backseat Lovers, Hippo Campus

Scheduled: Saturday, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM, Ponce de Leon (vs Minus the Bear) OR Friday LN at Terminal West (tix still available)

Live Footage: Full 2023 Levitation set OR their old but excellent Audiotree session

Reddit Take of the Day: [re: Roo 23 performance] "I haven’t seen anyone mention this yet, but peach pit started their set with the lead guy crowd surfing. It was nuts... Peach Pit had more energy than anyone I’ve seen"

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>The Songs For Kids Band! is an ensemble of kids and young adults with disabilities and illnesses in the Songs For Kids Foundation mentorship program. The band emphasizes the power of teamwork and support for each other, bringing together kids that would otherwise be on a more solitary journey.

>Thank you for supporting this historic musical journey for disability inclusion as we showcase the amazing energy of the kids and young adults in our music mentorship program.

>Join the Songs For Kids Band! in celebrating the unstoppable potential in all of us!

>[Direct from the Songs For Kids organizers]

Scheduled: Saturday AND Sunday, 11:45 AM - 12:15 PM, Peachtree Stage

Even Better Than Live Footage: Join us on Tuesday, July 21st from 12:00 to 2:00 for an AMA with members of the Songs For Kids Band!

Bio

>Hailing from Birmingham (UK), British duo BIG SPECIAL combine spoken and sung vocals with a bruising mix of punk, hip-hop, and electronica. Taking inspiration from the likes of Tom Waits, IDLES, and Sleaford Mods, their lyrics critique the British conservative government and social ills, while centering working-class struggle. Debuting in 2022 with the EP DOOM SONG, the pair went on to issue a run of singles and EPs before delivering their debut album, POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES, in 2024, and their sophomore album, NATIONAL AVERAGE, in 2025. Since breaking through, they have toured in support slots for Sleaford Mods, John Grant, and Pixies.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: Soft Play, Yard Act, IDLES, Sleaford Mods

Scheduled: Sunday, 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM, Criminal Records (vs Coheed & Cambria)

Live Footage: High-quality cut of three of their best live songs OR their 2 Meter Session for some other tunes + a banging version of shithouse

Reddit Take of the Day: "Discovered this band after shazaming the song Shithouse at the end of a recent Black Mirror episode. Hooked immediately."

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>Australia's Psychedelic Porn Crumpets craft an exciting mix of sprawling, exploratory psych-pop, prog-rock, and heavy garage riffs. Formed in 2014, the band began working out of an old horse barn in rural Leederville, pooling their collective consciousness in all-night jam sessions. They rose quickly out of Perth's indie underground, earning a devoted fan base through hard touring and releases like 2016's High Visceral, Pt. 1, which fused bluesy riffs with experimental yet melodic guitar rock. Their sound became heavier and harder-edged in subsequent releases, featuring Black Sabbath-like riffs on their fifth album, Night Gnomes, and a mix of industrial metal, math rock, and atmospheric psychedelia on their most recent album, Carpe Diem, Moonman.

>[Adapted from AllMusic]

For Fans Of: King Gizz, Osees, Tropical Fuck Storm, Frankie and the Witch Fingers

Scheduled: Saturday, 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM, closing Criminal Records (vs Pierce the Veil) AND Friday LN at The Earl (SOLD OUT)

Live Footage: Rooftop session for Night Gnomes and their old KEXP - can't find high-quality recordings of their recent stuff, but March on for Pax Ramona will be a beast live

Reddit Take of the Day: "just caught them on their 4th american tour and holy shit, they tore shit up in the middle of bum fuck nowhere Iowa, insanely good live and just oozing with technical skill holy crap, if you have an opportunity to go see them, do it, you will not regret it"

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>The Prodigy are an electronic dance music band that topped the charts in the 1990s, with smash-hit singles "Firestarter," "Breathe," and "Smack My Bitch Up." Founding member Liam Howlett describes their style as electronic punk. The group crossed over to the mainstream of pop music with an incendiary live experience that approximated the original atmosphere of the British rave scene, while drawing on arena rock showmanship and punk theatrics. Following the tragic death of vocalist Keith Flint in 2019, The Prodigy are returning to the road and planning to release their first album in eight years. Howlett describes its new style as "evil rave" music.

>[Adapted from AllMusic and Wikipedia]

For Fans Of: Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Nine Inch Noize

Scheduled: Saturday, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM, Piedmont (vs Pavement)

Live Footage: Breathe at Glasto 2025 OR Omen at Coachella 2025

Reddit Take of the Day: [re: their 2025 Glasto set] "I’ve never been so jealous of so many people in a bloody field. If there was a roof it would be gone."

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>GoldFord is a singer-songwriter known for his soulful, emotive music that blends classic and modern pop and soul styles. With over 50 million streams on his hit song "Orange Blossoms," GoldFord has garnered support from artists like Sam Smith and SZA, who have championed his music on their social channels. His musical journey is marked by a dedication to mental health and mindfulness education. He partners with organizations such as Whole School Mindfulness and Give to Give to address mental health issues and promote healing solutions.

>[From Resin8]

For Fans Of: Leon Bridges, Teddy Swims, Black Pumas

Scheduled: Friday, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, Criminal Records (vs Hot Mulligan)

Live Footage: The Mix at Martin set

Reddit Take of the Day: Anyways there is this artist called Goldford, and I think his music is very Infj-coded... Even if you aren't an infj you should check him out.