Co-founded back in 2018 by three New York music industry vets and longtime friends, former Lorimer Beacon founder and head Mike Bell, Kanine Records‘ founder and label head Lio Kanine and Kepler Events‘ and Dedstrange Records co-founder Steven Matrick, The New Colossus Festival over the course of the past couple of years has featured several hundred handpicked, emerging indie bands and artists from Canada, the UK, the European Union, Singapore, Hong Kong and of course, the US.
Since its founding, the festival has quickly established itself as the first stop in New York and in the US for a growing number of emerging and buzz worthy for a growing number of emerging and buzz worthy international artists. Notable festival alumni include a number of JOVM mainstays including GIFT, Penelope Isles, The Orielles, Thus Love, as well as Pom Poko, Pom Pom Squad, Sid Simons, Sobs, Water From Your Eyes, Peel Dream Magazine, Kiwi Jr., and a growing list of others.
The festival’s sixth — er fifth? — edition will take place March 4, 2024 – March 9, 2024 ins one of the Lower East Side’s best and renowned independent venues including Berlin Under A, Arlene’s Grocery, Bowery Ballroom, The Bowery Electric, Heaven Can’t Wait, Pianos, and more. Today, festival organizers announced the first wave of artists performing at next year’s festival, an eclectic array of artists from across the US, Canada, the European Union, UK and Australia.
The second wave of handpicked artists and bands include the likes of festival returnees Mr. Floyd Larry, Pop Music Festival, Outer Shapes, BALACLAVA, Constant Smiles and a list of international first-timers. The full second wave lineup is below — with new additions:
Amiture (US)
BALACLAVA (US)
Basht. (IE)
Big Fat Head (US)
Black Bordello (UK)
Bleary Eyed (US)
Braden Lam (CA)
Bucket (IE)
Campfire Social (UK)
Camp Blu (US)
Casper Skulls (CA)
Celestine Manno (US)
Constant Smiles (US)
country girl (US)
Daniela Pes (IT)
Daydream Twins (US)
diet lemon (US)
Dilettante (UK)
Disputer (US)
Flame Parade (IT)
Forest (US)
Francesca Bono (IT)
FRANKIE FLOWERS (CA)
Gewalt (DE)
Hachiku (AU)
Heaven Slight (US)
Hot Moms Club (US)
Hotspit (US)
Housewife (CA)
Humdrum (US)
ÍLANDRÍA (US)
\Joe & The Shitboys (FO)
Jopy (UK)
KAP BAMBINO (FR)
King Youngblood (US)
Laughing (CA)
Levin Goes Lightly (DE)
Lille Venn (NO)
Listener 555 (US)
Mall Girl (NO)
Matching Outfits (DE)
Mellt (UK)
MENGERS (MX)
MISTER MOTIVATION (US)
Most Likely Marlin (NO)
Mr Floyd Larry (US)
No Waves (CA)
Otis Shanty (US)
Outer Shapes (US)
Pastel Blank (CA)
PEER PLEASURE (IE)
People in the Daytime (US)
Pippy (US)
Polaroid Fade (US)
Pop Music Fever Dream (US)
Pressure Pin (CA)
Primer (US)
Prism Shores (CA)
Prismala (DE)
Prostitute (US)
Public Circuit (US)
Retail Drugs (US)
Rosier (CA)
Rowena Wise (AU)
screenager (US)
smalltalk (US)
Snoozer (US)
SNOWMEN (US)
Sodakill (SE)
Stripes (US)
Suichu Spica (JP)
SunDog (US)
Telos Vision (SE)
test plan (UK)
The Croaks (US)
The Fiends (UK)
The Jump Cuts (US)
The Kaves (Scotland)
The Laughing Chimes (US)
The OBGMs (CA)
Touchdown Jesus (US)
Van Vreeland (US)
Whisper Doll (US)
wyldest (UK)
Wynona Bleach (NI)
NEW ADDITIONS INCLUDE: Amiture (NYC), Basht. (Dublin), Camp Blu (Miami), Constant Smiles (NYC), country girl (Brooklyn | Fader Label), Hachiku (Melbourne, Australia), Mall Girl (Oslo), Mellt (Cardiff, Wales), Mengers (Mexico City), Public Circuit (Brooklyn), Snoozer (Philadelphia | Born Losers Records), Sodakill (Stockholm), SunDog (Anchorage, Alaska), test plan (London), The OBGMs (Toronto)
Of course, feel free to check out the festival’s playlist.
And lastly, badges for next year’s New Colossus Festival have gone on sale. For more information and to purchase a badge, please go here.
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