The 2025 edition of NYC’s New Colossus Festival happens March 4-9 at venues all over the Lower East Side and East Village. The festival focuses on discovery, with artists from all over the world (most on their was to SXSW) playing, and it encourages hopping around from venue to venue. It’s a good time.
They’ve just announced the initial lineup for 2025 featuring nearly 100 acts, including reunited NYC grunge band Das Damen, Canadian bands Bibi Club, knitting and Kestrels, UK bands Dutch Mustard, Garden Centre and Pynch, Australian groups Delivery and RINSE, and lots more.
Festival badges are on sale and you can check out the full initial lineup, plus the official New Colossus 2025 playlist, below.
NEW COLOSSUS INITIAL 2025 LINEUP
12090 A.D. (US)
Abby Jeanne and the Shadowband (US)
Amery (CA)
Arly Scott (US)
Autobahn (US)
Barber for the Queen (CA)
Bestial Mouths (US)
Bibi Club (CA)
Big Girl (US)
Blythe (UK)
Cloudsurfers (NL)
Coming Up Roses (UK)
cootie catcher (CA)
CS Cleaners (US)
Cusp (US)
DahL (CA)
Das Damen (US)
Delivery (AU)
Diamond Day (CA)
Diary (US)
Dictator (Scotland)
DIVES (AT)
Dutch Mustard (UK)
Eyas (US)
Factual Brains (US)
Faze Wave (US)
first president of japan (US)
Flowers for the Dead (US)
Gamblers (US)
Garden Centre (UK)
Genre is death (US)
Gilah (US)
Ginger Winn (US)
gloss (US)
grocer (US)
Gurriers (IE)
Hiçamahiç (TR)
HOLIEM (US)
Hongza (UK)
Kestrels (CA)
Kingdom of Birds (CA)
knitting (CA)
Last Waltzon (CA)
Libby Quinn (US)
Loviet (CA)
Mahogany (US)
Marry Cherry (US)
Marvin’s Revenge (UK)
Mega Mango (US)
Mosez Jones (CA)
MOULD (UK)
Nora Kelly Band (CA)
PANIK FLOWER (US)
Personal Trainer (NL)
Pons (US)
Pynch (UK)
Queen Serene (US)
Ranch Ranch (US)
READY ATLANTIC (NO/US)
Red Ribbon (US)
RINSE (AU)
Scattered Ashes (IE/UK)
Scotch Mist (US)
SHADY BABY (UK)
Silent Mass (US)
Skye Wallace (CA)
s k y m e n d e r (US)
Sterling Press (UK)
stockdale (DE)
SUNHILL (SE)
SuperKnova (US)
TEll A ViSiON (DE)
Tetsuians (AU)
Them Flying Monkeys (PT)
Tula Vera (US)
url (US)
Velveteen (UK)
Vera Ellen (NZ)
Walk Me Home (US)
Wax Jaw (US)
WIND MILE (DE)
Winkler (US)
World News (UK)
YOU SAID STRANGE (FR)