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The Sunset Strip Music Festival—which for the first time is two days, not just one—made the announcement in June that Jane's Addiction would headline, playing their album "Nothing Shocking" in its entirety. Since then, however, they've added more acts to the roster, and have shared the lineups on the indoor stages. The festival takes place September 20 and 21 with other headlining acts including Empire of the Sun, The Cold War Kids, Destructo and Mayor Hawthorne. This is also the first year the festival has had a stage devoted entirely to hip-hop. The MURS 316 stage, which will be hosted by L.A. rapper Murs, will host acts like Riff Raff, Bun B, DJ Quik and Killer Mike (who we just saw with Run the Jewels at FYF Fest).
Stages in Whisky A Go Go and The Roxy offer music from several different directions. For instance, analog synth band Fartbarf (hey, we don't make the names) will play on the same stage as melodic death metal act Nekrogoblikon. Indie rock act The Narwhals will eventually be followed by mariachi-style metal cover act Metalachi and deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation. You could call a festival with a lineup like this "well-rounded."
We've put the lineup for each stage below. Tickets for the event start at $49.50 and can be purchased here.
Saturday, September 20
Outdoor Stages:
Jane's Addiction
Failure
Cold War Kids
††† (Crosses)
Minus the Bear
Kaiser Chiefs
The Birds of Satan
Nightmare and the Cat
Beware of Darkness
Say Say
The Roxy:
The Last Internationale
The Beta Machine
Queen Caveat
Fathers & Suns
Michael Rey & The Woebegones
Kansas City Bankroll
Whisky A Go-Go:
LA Guns
Unwritten Law
Nekrogoblikon
Fartbarf
Bonnet
The Killing Lights
Future Villians
Wild Roses
Dirty Machine
Murs 316 Stage:
Bun B
Riff Raff
Dizzy Wright
Zion I
Mod Sun
King Fantastic
Propaganda
Joey Fatts and A$ton Matthews
Tay F 3rd
Phillyblunts
Toni Monroe
Sunday, September 21
Outdoor Stages:
Empire Of The Sun
Destructo
Mayer Hawthorne
Iration
Big Data
Tove Lo
Big Freedia
We Came as Romans
Nostalghia
Fenech-Soler
The Roxy:
Break Science
FMLYBND
Babes
Lincoln Jesser
MYPET
Strangers You Know
Whisky A Go-Go:
Onyx
Cattle Decapitation
Metalachi
Chon
Abloom
The Young Rapscallions
DFL
The Narwhals
Signal City
Murs 316 Stage:
DJ Quik
Killer Mike
N.O.R.E.
IAMSU
RA the Rugged Man
SPEAK
POS
CES Cru
Pterodactyl Jones
Ill Camille
