FYF Fest Announces 2016 Lineup Featuring Kendrick Lamar, LCD Soundsystem and Grace Jones

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FYF Fest has made an earlier-than-usual announcement of their 2016 lineup, with some very heavy hitters at the top of the bill. As has been the case for the last two years, the festival will take place at Exposition Park in South Los Angeles. The festival will be held from August 27-28. Artists who will be appearing at the festival include LCD Soundsystem, Tame Impala, Air, Grimes, Beach House and many more. For Kendrick Lamar, ANHONI and Grace Jones, their performances are being billed as “West Coast exclusives.”

Native Southern Californian Kendrick Lamar is the biggest name of the lineup with other big stories being the appearance of the reunited LCD Soundsystem and Air’s first United States show in five years. Kendrick’s top spot makes this the second straight year a hip-hop superstar gets top billing at the formerly punk-rock focused festival after Kanye West was a last-minute addition to the Saturday lineup. Over the past few  years, the festival has sought to bring in music fans from across the spectrum, introducing more and more hip-hop and electronic focused artists. This year Rae Sremmurd, Young Thug and Vince Staples join Lamar as big-name hip-hop artists making an appearance at the festival.

Other big names to get excited about include Hot Chip, Father John Misty, Explosions in the Sky, Saves the Day (performing their crossover hit Stay What You Are), Shellac, Charles Bradley, Blood Orange, DIIV, Chelsea Wolfe and the Black Lips. Many artists are making their first appearance at the festival, while others like Todd Terje, Grimes, Beach House, Ty Segall and Wild Nothing are making repeat appearances.

While Coachella gets the big national attention, FYF Fest has quietly grown to become Southern California’s other seminal outdoor music festival. It got its start as a small festival hosted in various clubs throughout the Echo Park neighborhood, before growing into a single-venue festival that took place at the now-under-construction State Historic Park just outside of Chinatown. When the park underwent construction, the festival made its move to the (presumed) final home of Exposition Park.

UPDATE – 05/19: According to a press release, RZA and Paul Banks (Interpol) project Banks & Steelz will also be performing at FYF Fest 2016.

FYF Fest 2016:

Kendrick Lamar
LCD Soundsystem
Tame Impala
Grace Jones
Classix
Banks + Steelz
Mac Demarco
Air
Beach House
ANHONI
Grimes
Hot Chip
Father John Misty
Explosions in the Sky
Rae Sremmurd
Blood Orange
Young Thug
Moby (DJ Set)
Saves the Day
Todd Terje & The Olsens
Charles Bradley
Ty Segall & The Muggers
Junior Boys
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats
Jagwar Ma
The Black Lips
Peter Bjorn & John
DIIV
Chelsea Wolfe
Kelela
Bicep
Wild Nothing
Floating Points
Gold Panda
Corbin
Hop Along
Viet Cong
Oneohtrix Point Never
Julia Holter
Denzel Curry
Head Wound City
Boogie
Andy Stott
The Black Madonna
Julien Baker
Alex G
Museum of Love
Gerd Janson
Sheer Mag
Kamaiyah
Honey Soundsystem