Atlanta music festival Shaky Knees‘ 2025 lineup is here, and it’s pretty epic. The headliners are all millennium-era rock bands, Deftones, My Chemical Romance, and blink-182; and the fest also includes the recently-reactivated bands Alabama Shakes and TV On The Radio; plus other indie/alt rock heavy hitters Vampire Weekend, Pixies, Devo, Lucy Dacus, IDLES, Spoon, Wet Leg (their first-announced US show of 2025), Franz Ferdinand, The Black Keys, Johnny Marr, Murder By Death, and more; rising punk bands Mannequin Pussy, Scowl, Fleshwater, and Fat Dog; hip hop legends Public Enemy; the new version of Sublime; Lenny Kravitz; a “special guest” billing for “Weird Al” Yankovic; and much more.
The fest goes down September 19-21 in Piedmont Park. Pre-sale signups are underway now, and the presale runs through Thursday (2/27) at 10 AM ET. If there are any remaining tickets after that, a public on-sale will follow.
For My Chemical Romance, this comes at the end of their Black Parade stadium tour. Deftones are also doing a big tour with The Mars Volta and Fleshwater this year, and opening two of the rare System Of A Down shows.
See the full Shaky Knees lineup below…
FRIDAY
Deftones
Lenny Kravitz
Sublime
The Marías
Pixies
Idles
Spoon
Inhaler
Joey Valence & Brae
Lambrini Girls
Sarah Kinsley
SATURDAY
My Chemical Romance
Cage The Elephant
The Black Keys
Public
The Backseat Lovers
TV On The Radio
The All-American Rejects
Johnny Marr
The Beaches
Mannequin Pussy
Bilmuri
CMAT
Scowl
Michigander
Fat Dog
Hey, Nothing
Radio Free Alice
Die Spitz
Soft Play
Ecca Vandal
Girl Tones
Junior Varsity
Songs For Kids
SUNDAY
Blink-182
Vampire Weekend
Alabama Shakes
Lucy Dacus
DEVO
Wet Leg
4 Non Blondes
Franz Ferdinand
Stereophonics
The Stews
Fleshwater
Murder By Death
Mdou Moctar
Improvement Movement
English Teacher
The Criticals
Worry Club
Songs For Kids
Special guest “Weird Al” Yankovic