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Massive Summerfest line-up reflects Wisconsin’s weird music taste

Kendrick Lamar is listed after Linkin Park, also Paris Hilton is going to be there
Florida Georgia Line passing some gas prior to festival.
Gif courtesy of America Country Countdown Awards/Giphy
Florida Georgia Line passing some gas prior to festival.

Florida George Line, Kings of Leon, Keith Urban, Zac Brown Band, Linkin Park, Kendrick Lamar and Ed Sheeran will headline the extremely — and ridiculously — diverse Summerfest 2015 line-up, announced on the festival’s website earlier today.

Regarded as America’s largest music festival, Summerfest will feature 95 total acts over its 11-day run from June 24 through June 28 and June 30 through July 5, according to Consequence of Sound.

While headliners will play the Marcus Amphitheater, other “smaller” acts will occupy many stages across the Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, according to their website.

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To help you sort through the daunting list of names, here are some convenient — yet still in-exhaustive — categories:

Billboard’s wet dream

Ed Sheeran
Phillip Phillips
Aloe Blacc
AWOLNATION

Indie rock

Kongos
The Flaming Lips
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
The Kooks
Walk the Moon
Trampled by Turtles
The New Pornographers
PHOX
Atlas Genius
Sylvan Esso
The Mowgli’s
Misterwives

Rap

Kendrick Lamar
Schoolboy Q
Lupe Fiasco

Country/Folk

Florida Georgia Line
Keith Urban
Zac Brown Band
Delta Spirit
Kip Moore
Martina McBride
Mat Kearney
Blackberry Smoke

Circa. Justin Timberlake bringing sexy back

A Day to Remember
Third Eye Blind
Linkin Park
Smash Mouth

As featured on your parent’s vinyl

Sheryl Crow
Jane’s Addiction
Buddy Guy
Doobie Brothers
Sublime with Rome
Coheed and Cambria
Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo
Kansas

Wait, what?

Weird Al
Paris Hilton (she’s a DJ)

Tickets are available here.

Here is a playlist to get you jazzed about some of the quirkier performers mixed in with the classic headliners.

 

 

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