Hip-hop heavyweight OutKast, country star Eric Church and modern-rock legends The Cure will headline the 2014 BottleRock Napa Valley, the festival announced Friday.
Indie-rockers Weezer, rap legend LL Cool J and Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart are among the other top acts set to perform at the festival, which runs May 30-June 1 at the 26-acre Napa Valley Expo center.
Three-day tickets -- which run from $249 general admission (with promo code) to $3,000 for a platinum pass -- are now on sale at www.bottlerocknapavalley.com. No word on when or if single-day tickets will be made available.
The lineup is a big step back from what was a troubled debut for the festival in 2013. Despite a lineup featuring such A-Listers as Zac Brown Band, the Black Keys and Kings of Leon, the festival organizers fell into financial trouble, were sued for alleged nonpayment by several vendors and eventually filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
However, the festival has a new producer, Latitude 38 Entertainment, a Napa Valley-based company, which bought the rights to the event earlier this year. The festival's new director is Steve Macfadyen, former general manager of a 2,000-seat concert venue at the Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa in Southern California, has signed on as festival director. Macfadyen has also worked for House of Blues Entertainment and Bill Graham Presents.
Here is the 2014 lineup so far:
The Cure
OutKast
Eric Church
Weezer
The Fray
LL Cool J
Heart
Sublime with Rome
Matt and Kim
Deerhunter
Matisyahu
Third Eye Blind
Barenaked Ladies
Blues Traveler
Smash Mouth
De La Soul
The Black Angels
Robert Earl Keen
Spin Doctors
Gin Blossoms
Ed Kowalcyck
Thee Oh Sees
Cracker
Howie Day
Robert DeLong
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
Empires
Camper Van Beethoven
Hurray for the Riff Raff
Delta Rae
Keep Shelly in Athens
Moon Taxi
Miner
Tea Leaf Green
Jon Batiste
James Otto
Ben Sollee
Moonalice
The Stone Foxes
Victory
The Soft White Sixties
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