North Coast Music Festival Announces Initial 2015 Lineup

The North Coast Music Festival will once again be held at Chicago’s Union Park over Labor Day Weekend, September 4 -6. Organizers have revealed the lineup of artists heading to the Windy City for the festival’s 6th annual installment. 


The Chemical Brothers -making their return after appearing at the inaugural NCMF in 2010 -and first-timers D’Angelo and The Vanguard will headline the festival. Expect a third headliner to be announced Tuesday, May 12. The diverse lineup also includes confirmed performers such as The Roots, The Disco Biscuits, Galactic with Macy Gray, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead and Turbo Suit featuring Joel Cummins of Umphrey’s McGee, along with several others. The Silent Disco will again be on site as well as the “Living Gallery” graffiti area presented by Elder Tree. 

Tickets for the festival are currently on sale via the festival’s website. Official late night after parties will be announced at a later date. Those with tickets to the festival will have the opportunity to purchase tickets to the after shows prior to the general public on sale. Check out the North Coast Music Festival entry in our newly redesigned JamBase Festival Guide.

North Coast Music Festival 2015 Lineup (listed alphabetically):

Atmosphere
Booka Shade
Chemical Brothers
Chromeo
D’Angelo and The Vanguard
Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Exmag
Future Rock
Galactic with Macy Gray
Gold Panda
Goldfish
Green Velvet
Gryffin
Haywyre
Jauz
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead
Kill the Noise
King Chip
Knife Party
Lili K
Manic Focus
Michal Menert
Nahko & Medicine for the People
Ne-Hi
Phoebe Ryan
Porter Robinson
Portugal. The Man
Quantic
RAC
Salva
Shpongle
Skizzy Mars
Slow Magic
Snails
SOJA
Soysauce
Steve Aoki
The Disco Biscuits
The Glitch Mob
The Heard
The Main Squeeze
The O’My’s
The Roots
Tripy Turtle
Turbo Suit ft. Joel Cummins of Umphrey’s McGee
Turkauz
Twin Shadow
Tycho
Until the Ribbon Breaks
Wale
Zebo
+ Surprise Rock Headliner TBA