Well, it is better than Coachella and certainly closer. It is a lot like Coachella though they do tend to miss one big name and , they tend to leave off one big name till later in the year. Even so something is left to be desired. One huge name is missing, something to blow it into the stratosphere. For instance, Kanye West in 2013 and Outkast in 2014. Guns N Roses? It needs maybe two more huge names…
Still,some of this I am very excited about. Kate Tempest, Bjork (Bjork is huge), Noel Gallagher, and WEIRD AL YANKOVIC(and Flying Locust)
I got this off Stereogum and let’s grade them by Governors Ball standards and not their own personal indebtedness to music.. I’ve missed the ones I don’t know.
Drake – B
The Black Keys – C+
DeadMau5 (First NYC show since 2011) – B
Lana Del Rey (First NYC show since 2012) – C
Florence + The Machine (First NYC show since 2012) – B
My Morning Jacket – C+
Björk (First NYC show since 2012) – A
Ryan Adams – C+
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – B+
Chromeo – C+
Flume – B-
Tame Impala – B
Ratatat (First NYC show since 2011) – B
The Decemberists – B
St. Vincent – B
The War on Drugs – B+
Hot Chip – B
Death From Above 1979 – B
SBTRKT – B-
Charli XCX – B+
Flying Lotus – B+
Rudimental – B
Royal Blood – B-
Conor Oberst – B
Atmosphere – B
Little Dragon – B-
Vance Joy – B+
A-TRAK – B+
Big Gigantic – B
Weird Al Yankovic – A-
Future Islands – B+
Marina & The Diamonds – B
Sturgill Simpson – B
Angus & Julia Stone – B-
Sharon Van Etten – B+
Twin Shadow – B+
Odesza – C-
Mayer Hawthorne – B
Moon Taxi – B-
MØ – B
Kiesza – B+
Labrinth – B-
Gorgon City – B-
J. Roddy Walston & The Business – B+
Clean Bandit – A-
DIIV – B+
Chronixx and the Zincfence Redemption – B
Kaytranada
Logic
Benjamin Booker
People Under The Stairs
Rustie
White Lung – B
Strand of Oaks
Priory
Echosmith – B
Holychild
ASTR
The Districts
Hermitude
Bishop Behru
Streets of Laredo
Charlotte OC
Kate Tempest – A
DMA’s
The Picturebooks
