Firefly 2017 Preview

In 2012, the ever-expanding music festival industry entered a strange and unexpected land: Delaware. Firefly Music Festival happens at The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware, Wednesday-Sunday,...
Firefly

Firefly 2017 Preview

In 2012, the ever-expanding music festival industry entered a strange and unexpected land: Delaware. Firefly Music Festival happens at The Woodlands of Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware, Wednesday-Sunday, June 14th-18th:

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14th

The Northeast Hub

San Feldt, 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM

Lawrence, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Walker Lukens, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

New Madrid, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PMQRO photos at a festival
New Madrid

 

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 15th

Backyard Stage

Glass Animals, 10:45 PM – 12:00 AM

Out of Oxford and discovered by Adele’s producer, Glass Animals (QRO photos) bring their more mixed indie (QRO photos outdoors) on last year’s sophomore release How To Be a Human Being back to Firefly for the second time in three years.
Glass Animals
EDEN, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Ireland’s Jonathon Ng, a.k.a. EDEN, has moved from dubstep to indie-pop.
EDEN
K. Flay, 7:45 PM – 8:30 PM

A musical aficionado, K. Flay (QRO photos at a festival) seems to know how to do it: producing beats, making rhymes, and playing guitar, piano, and drums. Her inexplicable catchy hooks, and beats are something least expected of a Stanford graduate but has already been deemed the ‘new best thing in hip-hop.’ This year she’s put out her second record, Every Where Is Some Where.
K. Flay
Also:

Pardison Fontaine, 6:30 PM – 7:15 PM

Salt Cathedral, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Salt Cathedral

Lawn Stage

Kaleo, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM

In music, Iceland is mostly known for its pioneering and experimental artists (and a number of great festivals on its own), but it’s also got a strong blue-rock scene, like Kaleo (QRO photos), who finally make it to Firefly, after having to cancel last year.
Kaleo
O.A.R., 8:15 PM – 9:15 PM

While most of the band hails from Rockville (in nearby Maryland), Of a Revolution – abbreviated O.A.R. (QRO photos) – all formed at Ohio State University (QRO photos at an Ohio festival), and have gone on to have a successful career in both the mainstream and jam worlds, most recently last year’s career-spanning 20th anniversary compilation XX.
O.A.R.
Also:

Maggie Rogers, 6:45 PM – 7:30 PM

Wilderado, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM

Maggie Rogers

The Coffee House presented by StubHub

O.A.R., 10:15 PM – 10:45 PMQRO photos at a festival

Jared & The Mill, 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Salt Cathedral, 7:15 PM – 7:45 PM

The Social Animals, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

O.A.R.

The Northeast Hub

Short Sleeve Heart, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Repeat Repeat, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Carverton, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Social Animals, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Deal Casino, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Trio, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Short Sleeve Heart


Carverton


The Pavilion

Gryffin, 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Anna Lunoe, 9:45 PM – 10:30 PM

Crywolf, 8:30 PM – 9:15 PM

Elohim, 7:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Win and Woo, 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM

Young Bombs, 5:15 PM – 6:00 PM

Gryffin

The Southwest Hub

Jared & The Mill, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Roadkill Ghost Choir, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Fletcher, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Steppin Stones, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Owel, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The Orphan The Poet, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Roadkill Ghost Choir


The Steppin Stones

 

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 16th

Backyard Stage

Flume, 12:15 AM – 1:30 AM

Bringing electronics from halfway around the world is Sydney’s Harley Streten – a.k.a. Flume (QRO photos at a festival). He’s coming off winning the Grammy for Best Dance/Electronic Album this year for Skin.
Flume
Miike Snow, 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM

Stockholm’s Miike Snow (a band, not a person – QRO photos at a festival) got serious notice a few years ago with their combination of indie-pop & electro-dance, especially live (QRO live review). After a break, they’ve now come back (QRO live review) with iii, as they come to Firefly.
Miike Snow
Banks, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM

Los Angeles’ Jillian Rose Banks (QRO photos outdoors) brings her ethereal sonics to Firefly.
Banks
Bob Moses, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

A duo, not a band, Jimmy Vallance & Tom Howe form electronic act Bob Moses.
Bob Moses
Also:

James TW, 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

Alex Wiley, 1:45 PM – 2:30 PM

Alex Wiley

Firefly Stage

Twenty One Pilots, 10:45 PM – 12:15 AM

The somewhat uninspired pop of Twenty One Pilots (QRO photos at a festival) comes back to Firefly for a third time (QRO photos at a festival), now behind 2015’s Blurryface. The record was somehow a hit, including single “Heathens”, which was in the soundtrack to the similarly inexplicably successful Suicide Squad. But people seem to love ‘em…
Twenty One Pilots
Weezer, 8:15 PM – 9:30 PM

For a long time, the new output from Weezer (QRO photos at a festival) like 2010’s Hurley (QRO review) and Death To False Metal (QRO review) or the previous year’s Raditude (QRO review) wasn’t up to their nineties classics (and 2008’s red album-covered self-titled – QRO review – couldn’t hold a candle to the blue- and green-covered earlier Weezers – QRO blue Weezer live review – or PinkertonQRO deluxe edition review), but they still played those nineties classics like “My Name Is Jonas” (QRO video), “Say It Ain’t So” (QRO video), “Buddy Holly” (QRO video), “No One Else” (QRO video), “Surf Wax America” (QRO video), “Falling For You” (QRO video), and “Dope Nose” (QRO video), which can even lift later pieces like “Islands In the Sun” (QRO video) and “Beverly Hills” (QRO video). And their live show (QRO live review) – especially outdoors (QRO live review outdoors) headlining a festival (QRO photos headlining a festival) – has stayed great (QRO photos headlining a festival).

2014 came Everything Will Be Alright In the End (QRO review), their best record in years & years (QRO Everything live review), then last year another Weezer, the white one (QRO review), another good one (QRO White Album live review) – plus dude, Hurley (QRO photo). They return to Firefly.
Weezer
Franz Ferdinand, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Playing Saturday Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (QRO review). The Scottish band broke out of their native Glasgow in 2005 with Franz Ferdinand and killer single “Take Me Out”, and even if their studio output since then hasn’t matched up, they’re still a great band live (QRO live review), and come to Firefly (QRO photos at a festival) after 2013’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action (QRO review) and 2015’s team-up (QRO photos) with art-rock new wave greats Sparks, FFS, but they’ve also got new material all their own (QRO recent live review).
Franz Ferdinand
AFI, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Has it really been over twenty years for AFI (QRO live review)? The band has evolved from their early snot-punk Bay Area roots (full-length debut Answer That and Stay Fashionable was produced by Tim Armstrong of Rancid and featured “High School Football Hero” and “I Wanna Get a Mohawk (But Mom Won’t Let Me Get On)”) to hardcore and then post-hardcore, a dark romantic sound and style that saw them attain mainstream success. The band (QRO photos) comes to Firefly (QRO photos at a festival) after this year’s release of their self-titled tenth studio album.
AFI
Judah & The Lion, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

The “Banjo-booty-poppin music” of Judah & The Lion (QRO photos) comes to Delaware.

Judah & The Lion

Lawn Stage

OK Go, 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM

In this YouTube era, Chicago’s OK Go (QRO photos outdoors at a festival) reinvented the music video as the viral video, first with “A Million Ways” in 2005 then even more so the following year thanks to the choreographed treadmill dancing of “Here It Goes Again” (QRO live video), which earned singer/guitarist Damian Kulash an appearance on The Colbert Report – and the whole band (QRO interview) made it to the Report in 2010, in promotion for Of the Blue Colour of the Sky (QRO review). Though Colour wasn’t nearly as good as their videos or Stephen, 2014’s Hungry Ghosts (QRO review) picked up the slack, and OK Go (QRO spotlight on) are an incredible group live (QRO live review), with confetti, handbells (QRO video, outdoors at a festival), playing from the crowd, and much more (QRO photos). More recently, they rocked their own TED Talk.
OK Go
Also:

Lil Dicky, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

NF, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

Sir the Baptist, 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Shaed, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Foreign Air, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PM

NF


Sir the Baptist


The Coffee House presented by StubHub

Bob Moses, 9:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Judah & The Lion, 6:45 PM – 7:15 PMQRO photos

Shaed, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Dreamers, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Bob Moses


Judah & The Lion


The Northeast Hub

Louie Louie, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Dude Ranch & The Girl At the Rock Show, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Animal Years, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Steppin Stones, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Ben Coolen, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

The Lawsuits, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

The Steppin Stones

The Pavilion

Benny Benassi, 9:45 PM – 10:45 PM

While Italy’s Benny Benassi has yet to match the success of 2002 summer club hit “Satisfaction”, he’s recently be coming close to those heights.
Benny Benassi
Also:

Alan Walker, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM

Big Wild, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Ayokay, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Ayokay

The Porch Stage

Stick Figure, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Sofi Tukker, 6:15 PM – 7:00 PM

Barns Courtney, 4:30 PM – 5:15 PMQRO photos

Dreamers, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Barns Courtney

The Southwest Hub

Warm Brew, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

The Social Animals, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Gene Evaro Jr., 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Future Generations, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Carverton, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Cold Roses, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Carverton

The Treehouse

Paul & Julian from Franz Ferdinand, 10:00 PM – 10:45 PM

Missio, 7:15 PM – 8:00 PM

Klangstof, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM

The Souvenirs, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Missio

Toyota Music Den

Foreign Air, 8:15 PM – 8:45 PM

XXT, 6:15 PM – 6:45 PM

Missio, 4:15 PM – 4:45 PM

Klangstof, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hamish Anderson, 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM
Klangstof

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 17th

Backyard Stage

Chance the Rapper, 12:30 AM – 1:45 AM

Two mixtapes, 2012’s 10 Day and 2013’s Acid Rap, have launched Chicago’s own Chance the Rapper (QRO photos at a festival) into the big time (like an endearing Kit Kat commercial, and his Chicago-sponsored South-by-Southwest showcase in 2015 was shut down due to massive overcrowding – QRO recap). He comes back to Delaware (QRO photos) to headline Firefly (QRO photos at a festival) behind his latest collaboration, last year’s team-up with Jeremih, Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama, and his Grammy-winning mixtape, Coloring Book. Book was the first streaming-only album ever to get a Grammy nomination, let alone a win – oh, and he also won the Grammys for Best New Artist and Best Rap Performance!
Chance the Rapper
Galantis, 9:45 PM – 11:00 PM

Swedish dance DJ duo Linus Eklöw and Christian Karlsson combine as Galantis (QRO photos at a festival), who’ve had hits such as “Runaway (U & I)”, last year’s “No Money”, and redoing early internet hit “Peanut Butter Jelly”.
Galantis
Wale, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Since his discovery by superstar producer Mark Ronson, things have gone very well for D.C. rapper Wale, with mixtapes, collaborations, and even regular ol’ studio albums.
Wale
Also:

Daya, 5:45 PM – 6:30 PM

Goody Grace, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Muna, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PMQRO photos

Taylor Bennett, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

Muna

Firefly Stage

The Weeknd, 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM

Headlining Saturday at Firefly is Toronto’s hip-hop phenom The Weekend (QRO photos at a festival). He comes down to Delaware (QRO photos at a festival) after last year’s Starboy, and after winning Grammys and even appearing on Saturday Night Live (where yes, they did ‘The Weeknd Update’…).
The Weeknd
Bob Dylan, 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM

How can any American able to physically make it to a festival have not heard of Bob Dylan (QRO photos)? The folk-rock singer was acclaimed the ‘voice of a generation’ of baby-boomers, and gave more iconic songs than you can shake a stick at – “Blowin’ In the Wind”, “The Times They Are A-Changin’”, “Like a Rolling Stone”, “Highway 61 Revisited”, “Shelter From the Storm”, “Gotta Serve Somebody”, not to mention defining a color with tracks like “Bob Dylan’s Blues”, “Talking World War III Blues”, “Subterranean Homesick Blues”, “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”, “Tangled Up In Blue”.

And Dylan has kept on going, from controversially ‘going electric’ at one festival to a horrific motorcycle accident and even being born again. And he’s been doing his ‘Never Ending Tour’ for over twenty years now, even inspiring others like in Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed film biography No Direction Home or the most unusual pseudo-biopic I’m Not There, where Dylan-like characters were played by everyone from the late Heath Ledger to the (female) Cate Blanchett. Oh, and last year he was award the freakin’ Nobel Prize in Literature!

Interestingly, he’s not headlining Saturday at Firefly – but that seems to be so that there will be virtually no other performances scheduled against him. So expect all of the festival to catch one of the most important musicians in American history.
Bob Dylan
Capital Cities, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Enjoy the exciting and excitable electro-pop of Capital Cities (QRO photos at a festival), who return to Firefly after playing the likes of the Statue of Liberty (QRO live review), with word of a new record in the works.
Capital Cities
Also:

Bishop Briggs, 4:15 PM – 5:15 PMQRO photos

T-Pain, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Bishop Briggs

Lawn Stage

Kesha, 9:45 PM – 11:00 PM

Kesha Rose Sebert has been something of a divisive figure in popular music. She’s had some huge success – at one point her single “Tik Tok” was the best-selling digital single in history, and she’s worked with everyone from Brittany Spears to The Flaming Lips. She’s also been derided as a pretty face, but trashy rapper, currently in a legal dispute with her former producer – even her former stylized name ‘Ke$ha’ was a subject of debate. Regardless, she brings her big show to Firefly.
Kesha
The Naked and Famous, 7:15 PM – 8:30 PM

From east of the Tasman Sea comes The Naked and Famous (QRO photos outdoors). The New Zealand act (QRO photos) turned heads in 2011 (QRO photos in 2011) with debut Passive Me, Aggressive You, and haven’t looked back (QRO photos). 2013 saw strong follow-up In Rolling Waves (QRO review) getting them a big following stateside (QRO live review), and come to Firefly after last year’s Simple Forms.
The Naked and Famous
Francis & The Lights, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

Francis Farewell Starlite brings ‘The Lights’ (both on stage & on computer) to Delaware. His debut, Farewell, Starlite!, finally came out last year – oh, and he’s previously worked with Saturday’s headliner Chance The Rapper (so good chances of a guest appearance, like at Boston Calling last month – QRO recap).
Francis & The Lights
Also:

Magic Giant, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Rainbow Kitten Surprise, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Mondo Cozmo, 12:30 PM – 1:15 PMQRO photos

Mondo Cozmo

The Coffee House presented by StubHub

Rainbow Kitten Surprise, 9:15 PM – 9:45 PM

Magic Giant, 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Walker Lukens, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Scriptkiddie, 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM

Walker Lukens & The Sidearms

The Northeast Hub

Michael Blume, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM QRO photos

Savoir Adore, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PMQRO live review

Vita & The Woolf, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Hamish Anderson, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Sub-Radio, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Hdbeendope, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Michael Blume


Savoir Adore


The Pavilion

Cashmere Cat, 9:45 PM – 10:45 PM

From cold Norway to hot Delaware summer comes Magnus August Høiberg, a.k.a. Cashmere Cat (QRO photos at a festival).
Cashmere Cat
Slushii, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

DJ Julian Scanlan, a.k.a. Slushii, has worked with the big name likes of marshmello, and has found big name fans like Skrillex.
Slushii
DJ Jazzy Jeff, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

West Philadelphia, born & raised, DJ Jazzy Jeff (QRO photos at a festival) became one of the first widely famous DJs, thanks to his nineties work with The Fresh Prince, both in music (classic “Parents Just Don’t Understand”) and his hilarious appearances on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, usually ending with the same clip of Uncle Phil literally throwing him out of the house.

Even as The Fresh Prince became leading man Will Smith, Jazz helped usher in a whole new generation of musicians, from Jewel to The Roots to Eminem, and has been scratching records around the world.



Also:

Steve James, 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM

CVBZ, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

DJ Jazzy Jeff

The Porch Stage

Lewis Del Mar, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Rockaway Beach, New York City’s Lewis Del Mar – a duo, not a person (QRO photos) – come to Firefly behind last fall’s self-titled debut & hype.
Lewis Del Mar
Also:

Quinn XCII, 6:30 PM – 7:15 PM

Sunflower Bean, 4:30 PM – 5:15 PMQRO photos

Kevin Garrett, 2:45 PM – 3:30 PMQRO photos

Handsome Ghost, 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM QRO photos

Sunflower Bean


Kevin Garrett


The Southwest Hub

Quitehype, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Miles Chancellor, 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM

Mir Fontane, 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM

Joie Kathos, 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM

Ill Fated Natives, 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Astro 8000, 2:50 PM – 3:20 PM

Hardwork Movement, 2:20 PM – 2:50 PM

Chill Moody, 1:20 PM – 1:50 PM

Oddkidout, 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Luke O’Brien, 11:40 AM – 12:10 PM

Anna Shoemaker, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Armani Lee, 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM

Shizz Lo, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Quitehype


Astro 8000


The Treehouse

Sunflower Bean, 7:30 PM – 8:00 PMQRO photos

Andy Frasco & The U.N., 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

Sunflower Bean

Toyota Music Den

Goody Grace, 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Kevin Garrett, 7:00 PM – 7:30 PMQRO photos

Scriptkiddie, 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM

Handsome Ghost, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PMQRO photos

Savior Adore, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PMQRO live review
Kevin Garrett


Handsome Ghost

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 18th

Backyard Stage

Dillon Francis, 10:45 PM – 12:00 AM

American electronic artist Dillon Francis (QRO photos at a festival) has worked with big name DJs like Calvin Harris (QRO album review) and Diplo (QRO photos), to the point where he’s a big-name DJ all on his very own, headlining the last night of Backyard Stage.
Dillon Francis
Phantogram, 8:15 PM – 9:15 PM

Saratoga Springs’ dancetronica act Phantogram (QRO photos at a festival) got notice less for their debut full-length Eyelid Movies (QRO review) than their enchanting live show (QRO photos at a festival) – which works outdoors (QRO photos outdoors at a festival), when in the evening (QRO photos at a festival). 2014’s Voices (QRO review) upped their game (QRO photos at a festival), after which they teamed up with Big Boi as ‘Big Grams’ (QRO photos at a festival). But now the Phanto is back (QRO photos), with last year’s strong Three (QRO review). They return to Firefly.
Phantogram
Nahko & Medicine For the People, 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

“They embrace Bob Marley’s idea of world-­‐ bridging, bringing people together to resolve differences. For us, music is a tool to create healing and activate people to change things.” Nahko and Medicine for the People (QRO photos at a festival) expands this sensibility onstage. The band has toured with SOJA, and internationally with Xavier Rudd, and performed at festivals across the globe (QRO photos at a festival).
Nahko & Medicine For the People
Also:

Waka Flocka Flame, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PMQRO photos

Rozes, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Waka Flocka Flame

Firefly Stage

Muse, 9:15 PM – 10:45 PM

Devon’s Muse (QRO photos at a festival) are now established as full-fledged mega-stars. The trio reached for true stadium glory with 2009’s The Resistance (QRO review), as their electric bombast, which had already conquered Europe, set its sights on the States, playing Saturday Night Live (QRO Music on Late Night TV) and headlining Madison Square Garden (QRO photos). Yet 2012 was in even bigger, with the gigantic (in every sense of the word) The 2nd Law (QRO review) – not to mention making the official song for the London Olympics, “Survival”. 2015 saw Drones top charts in U.K. & America, and win the Grammy for Best Rock Album. They’re completely suitable to headline Firefly.
Muse
Thirty Seconds To Mars, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM

It would have been easy for pretty boy actor Jared Leto to go the pretty boy actor route (literally played “Angelface” in 1999’s Fight Club, but don’t talk about Fight Club…), but he has done different things, like his Oscar-winning portrayal of a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club, to forming 30 Seconds to Mars (QRO live review) with guitarist Tomo Milićević and drummer/brother Shannon Leto. Of course, he only moved into the emo-heartthrob arena, hardly a huge jump, but of course has found huge success and huge crowds of fans (QRO photos).
30 Seconds to Mars
Bleachers, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

Jack Antonoff of fun. (QRO live review) launched his own indie-pop side-project, Bleachers (QRO photos at a festival) only a few years ago, but it has quickly become as well known as his ‘main’ gig, like at Firefly ’14.
Bleachers
The Strumbellas, 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

The “folk popgrass” of Canada’s The Strumbellas (QRO photos at a festival) comes to Firefly behind last year’s third record, Hope.
The Strumbellas
Busta Rhymes, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Firefly busts rhymes with Busta Rhymes. Mixing wild style with intricate rapping for a few decades now, Busta is a force on stage – “Woo Hah!! Got You All In Check”!

Busta Rhymes

Lawn Stage

The Shins, 8:00 PM – 9:15 PM

The Shins (QRO photos) are back! The Shins are back! The band (QRO live review) that caused Zach Braff (and the world) to fall in love with Natalie Portman in Garden State had one of the most-anticipated & best-received records of 2007 in Wincing the Night Away (QRO review). Then the band (QRO photos) left label Sub Pop, and soon started losing members around main man James Mercer, who eventually put The Shins on hold to work with Danger Mouse as the middling Broken Bells (QRO album review). But Mercer & whoever makes up the rest of The Shins (QRO photos at a festival) came back, reclaiming their indie crown with 2012’s great Port of Morrow (QRO review), and again played big stages (and big shows, like Austin City LimitsQRO live review on Austin City Limits) and big festivals (QRO photos at a festival). Mercer took time off for another, better, Broken Bells record (QRO review), but returned this year for another great Shins record, Port of Morrow (QRO review) and are perfect for Firefly (QRO photos at a festival).
The Shins
MisterWives, 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Catch the excitable, electric indie-pop of MisterWives (QRO photos) as they return to Firefly (QRO photos at a festival).
MisterWives
Hamilton Leithauser, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

The ‘wise old men’ of the Brooklyn indie scene have long been The Walkmen (QRO live review), who virtually invented it. They were such staples that, of course, they had to go on an “extreme hiatus” in 2013, with various members starting various other projects. Frontman/singer Hamilton Leithauser has stepped into solo shoes with 2014 solo release Black Hours (QRO review), though he’s since done team-ups, 2015’s Dear God with The Walkmen’s Paul Maroon, and last year’s I Had a Dream That You Were Mine with Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmangli.
Hamilton Leithauser
Also:

Jacob Banks, 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM

Secret Weapons, 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

Jacob Banks

The Coffee House presented by StubHub

Hamilton Leithauser, 7:15 PM – 7:45 PMQRO album review

Michael Blume, 5:15 PM – 5:45 PM QRO photos

The Orphan The Poet, 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM

Songwriter Sessions, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM

Hamilton Leithauser


Michael Blume


The Northeast Hub

Quitehype, 6:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Miles Chancellor, 5:40 PM – 6:00 PM

Mir Fontaine, 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM

Joie Kathos, 4:20 PM – 4:50 PM

Ill Fated Natives, 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Astro 8000, 2:50 PM – 3:20 PM

Hardwork Movement, 2:20 PM – 2:50 PM

Chill Moody, 1:20 PM – 1:50 PM

Oddkidout, 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Luke O’Brien, 11:40 AM – 12:10 PM

Anna Shoemaker, 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Armani Lee, 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM

Shizz Lo, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Quitehype


Astro 8000


The Pavilion

Snakehips, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Illenium, 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Jonas Blue, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Saint Wknd, 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

Snakehips

The Porch Stage

Sir Sly, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PMQRO photos

A R I Z O N A, 5:00 PM – 5:45 PM

888, 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Nawas, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Sir Sly

The Southwest Hub

Spiritual Rez, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

The Orphan The Poet, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

Trio, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Spiritual Rez

The Treehouse

Nahko & Medicine For the People, 8:30 PM – 9:00 PMQRO photos at a festival).

Bishop Briggs, 6:15 PM – 6:45 PMQRO photos

Secret Weapons, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Lawrence, 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Nahko & Medicine For the People


Bishop Briggs


Toyota Music Den

Jonas Blue, 7:45 PM – 8:15 PM

Nawas, 6:45 PM – 7:15 PM

Rozes, 4:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Roadkill Ghost Choir, 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM
Roadkill Ghost Choir

 

 

For festival website, go here: https://fireflyfestival.com/

Categories
Features