Photograph by Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
In all the noise surrounding the College Football Playoff National Championship game (Dawgs! Roll Tide! Trump is coming! It’s raining!), you might have missed that the Shaky Knees lineup dropped this morning. The music festival—with headliners Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age, and The National—returns to Central Park (after a few years at Centennial) on May 4 and runs through May 6. But if you’ve ever stared at the bottom of a festival lineup poster and thought, “I have no idea who these bands are,” we have good news: just like we did for Music Midtown last fall, we’re rounding up Soundcloud and/or YouTube tracks from each artist so that you can hear what the lineup’s all about. Take a listen (and keep in mind, some songs could be NSFW).
Jack White
Queens of the Stone Age
The National
David Byrne
Tenacious D
Fleet Foxes
The War on Drugs
Vance Joy
Cake
Courtney Barnett
Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
Lord Huron
Manchester Orchestra
Matt and Kim
The Distillers
Japandroids
Franz Ferdinand
Jimmy Eat World
The Voidz
All Time Low
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
The Black Angels
Alvvays
Parquet Courts
Circa Survive
Greta Van Fleet
Rival Sons
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Sir Sly
The Menzingers
Chicano Batman
Andrew W.K.
Jacob Banks
Waxahatchee
Basement
Ezra Furman
Torres
Broncho
The Frights
Bully
Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real
Parcels
Alice Merton
Charly Bliss
Mikky Ekko
Mt. Joy
The Wild Reeds
Bayonne
Post Animal
Lillie Mae
The Night Game
Teenage Wrist
Marlon Williams
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
The Ghost of Paul Revere
Welles
The Sherlocks
Stop Light Observations
Frankie Rose
The War and Treaty
L.A. Witch
Sun Seeker
Liz Brasher
*Repeat Repeat
Songs for Kids
An annual Shaky Knees tradition, this daily performance series from nonprofit Songs for Kids features music from children with serious illnesses. More on them here.
