Best Friends Forever Fest is a new emo competition taking place in Las Vegas this fall from Oct. 11-13 on the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center. The lineup primarily focuses on back-in-action bands from the ’90s and the newer generations of bands holding these kinds of emo, indie, and post-hardcore alive, and there are a handful of reunited bands on the lineup, together with two whose newest reunions had been simply introduced right now: Cap’n Jazz and the Dismemberment Plan.
The headliners are Bright Eyes, Sunny Day Real Estate, and the aforementioned Cap’n Jazz, and the lineup additionally contains American Football, Algernon Cadwallader, Mannequin Pussy, Pool Kids, Sweet Pill, Fiddlehead, the Get Up Kids, Braid, Hot Rod Circuit, Rainer Maria, Piebald, Unwound, Karate, Everyone Asked About You, the Anniversary, Momma, Foxing, La Dispute, Drug Church, From Indian Lakes, Vs Self, Home Is Where, and extra.
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Tickets go on sale Thursday (Feb. 29) at 10 AM PST (1 PM ET). Check out the complete lineup on the poster beneath.
This competition announcement follows the discharge of Sunny Day Real Estate’s first new music in 10 years, which will likely be included on the band’s upcoming launch Diary – Live at London Bridge Studio, due May 3. Watch the video for the new music beneath.
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