Electric Forest 2015 Preview

Electric Forest Festival returns to Rothbury, Michigan’s Double JJ Resort, Thursday to Sunday, June 25th to 28th....
Electric Forest

Electric Forest 2015 Preview

Electric Forest Festival returns to Rothbury, Michigan’s Double JJ Resort, Thursday to Sunday, June 25th to 28th:

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 25th

Ranch Arena

Kaskade, 12:00 AM – 1:15 AM

Ryan Raddon’s origins, which include a two-year mission in Japan for the Mormon Church, might sound more apropos for a country musician in Louisiana, but he’s become a top electronic performer worldwide.
Kaskade
ODESZA, 10:15 PM – 11:30 PM

Harrison Mills & Clayton Knight managed to put out their debut as electronic duo ODESZA (QRO photos) while still in their senior year back in ’12 with Summer’s Gone, and come to Electric Forest (QRO photos at a festival) off of last year’s follow-up full-length, In Return.
ODESZA
Shpongle, 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM

Simon Posford of the ambient psychedelic trance – or ‘psybient’ – Shpongle does a DJ set to close out the second night of the Underground Tent.



Also:

Borgeous, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM

Dabin, 4:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Shpongle

Sherwood Court

Flume, 12:45 AM – 2:00 AM

Bringing electronics from halfway around the world is Sydney’s Harley Streten – a.k.a. Flume (QRO photos at a festival).
Flume
Four Tet, 11:15 PM – 12:30 AM

U.K. post-rock electronic musician Kieran Hebden, also who’s remixed everyone from Andrew Bird (QRO live review) to Radiohead (QRO live review), tours once more as Four Tet (QRO photos outdoors), on the back of last year’s Beautiful Rewind, and comes to Electric Forest (QRO photos at a festival).
Four Tet
Also:

Goldlink, 10:00 PM – 11:15 PM

Lido, 8:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Wave Racer, 7:45 PM – 8:45 PM

Mr. Carmack, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM

Nadus, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

Goldlink

Tripolee

Carl Cox, 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM

British techno-house DJ Carl Cox has become something of the ‘elder statesman’ of electronic music – he was the first person ever named ‘Number One DJ in the World’ by DJ Magazine (when it started its annual ‘Top 100 DJ’ lists, back in the Paleolithic era of 1997). So it’s fitting that he’s got his own stage for him & his friends at Electric Forest (QRO photos at a festival).
Carl Cox
Also:

John Digweed, 11:15 PM – 12:30 AM

Dubfire, 10:00 PM – 11:15 PM

Pete Tong, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Matrixxman, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Saeed Younan, 4:45 PM – 7:00 PM

John Digweed

The Hangar

Jpod, 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM

Jaga Jazzist, 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM

Bart & Baker, 9:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Marcella Puppini, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

The Gentlemen Callers, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Vourteque, 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Jaga Jazzist


Vourteque


Jubilee

EOTO, 12:15 AM – 1:45 AM

Electronics go live with Boulder, Colorado’s EOTO (QRO photos at a festival). The duo of Jason Hann and Michael Travis perform without a script or loops.
EOTO
Also:

Phuture Primitive, 10:30 PM – 11:45 PM

Brodinski, 9:15 PM – 10:15 PM

Sango, 7:45 PM – 9:00 PM

MartyParty, 6:15 PM – 7:30 PM

Chaz French, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Brodinski

Forest Stage

MartyParty, 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM

Jacklndn, 11:00 PM – 12:00 AM

Little People, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Vaski, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Lafa Taylor, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Vibe Street, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

The Imagine Nation, 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

MartyParty

The Observatory

The Fungineers & Bubble Gutter, 12:30 AM – 1:30 AM

Superhuman Happiness, 10:45 PM – 12:00 AMQRO photos outdoors

Flint Eastwood, 9:15 PM – 10:15 PM

Mike Love, 7:30 PM – 8:45 PM

The Accidentals, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Dixon’s Violin, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Superhuman Happiness

 

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 26th

Ranch Arena

Skrillex, 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM

Originally frontman for L.A. post-hardcore outfit From First to Last, Sonny Moore – a.k.a. Skrillex (QRO photos) – has since reinvented himself as the electro-house/dubstep DJ (QRO photos), headlining all sorts of festivals (QRO photos headlining a festival), and even been impersonated on Saturday Night Live.
Skrillex
The String Cheese Incident, 8:00 PM – 11:45 PM

Colorado’s String Cheese Incident (QRO photos at a festival) had been one of the jam bands hardest working the road circuit, combining bluegrass and a whole host of other sounds. But after the 2007 departure of guitarist Bill Nershi following that summer’s tour, the band went into hiatus as they worked on their various solo projects. Only a couple of years later the group reunited for sporadic shows and touring (QRO photos), before last year’s A Song In My Head, their first new record in five years.
The String Cheese Incident
G-Eazy, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Oakland’s G-Eazy comes to Electric Forest behind last year’s debut studio album, These Things Happen, so see them happen & more.



Also:

The Ragbirds, 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM

G-Eazy

Sherwood Court

LOTUS, 12:30 AM – 2:30 AM

Indiana’s Lotus moved from self-described “jamtronica” into a more electronic & instrumental style – but is still a jam band festival mainstay (QRO photos at a festival).
LOTUS
Lettuce, 10:30 PM – 12:00 AM

Get funky with Boston’s many-membered Lettuce!
Lettuce
Break Science, 8:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Brooklyn electronic duo Break Science plays twice at Electric Forest (see below).
Break Science
The Motet, 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

The sprawling Motet (QRO photos at a festival) crisscrosses genres as they crisscross the country.



Also:

Superhuman Happiness, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PMQRO photos outdoors

Forest Family Group Hug World Record Attempt, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM

The Motet

Tripolee

Flux Pavilion, 1:45 AM – 3:15 AM

Joshua Steele, a.k.a. Flux Pavilion, is a one-man orchestra for the twenty-first century.
Flux Pavilion
Carnage, 12:30 AM – 1:45 AM

From Maryland by way of Central America, Carnage comes to Electric Forest behind his debut Bang on acclaimed imprint Fool’s Gold.
Carnage
Also:

Datsik, 11:30 PM – 12:30 AM

Snails, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Crizzly, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PMQRO photos at a festival

Ed Rush & Optical, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Minnesota, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Koan Sound, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Mt Eden, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Vaski, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Son of Kick, 2:45 PM – 4:15 PM

Illenium, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Yoga, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Crizzly
yoga

The Hangar

Bart & Baker, 1:30 AM – 3:00 AM

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM

Jerk Church, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Vourteque, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

The Gentlemen Callers, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Lafa Taylor, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Marcella Puppini, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Jpod, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Preservation Hall Jazz Band


Vourteque


Jubilee

The Motet, 1:00 AM – 3:00 AM

The sprawling Motet (QRO photos at a festival) crisscrosses genres as they crisscross the country.

They play ‘The Mixtape 1975’ at the Jubilee Stage.
The Motet
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, 11:15 PM – 12:30 AM

The ‘Screaming Eagle of Soul’, Charles Bradley is one of the many great soul singers to emerge from Brooklyn’s DapTone Records, which also brought the world Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (QRO live review) and Budos Band (QRO album review), but Bradley more than stands on his own, from festivals (QRO photos at a festival) to topping the bill at the one-and-only Apollo Theater (QRO photos)!
Charles Bradley
Also:

Dehli 2 Dublin, 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM

Lyrics Born, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Trevor Hall, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Everyone Orchestra, 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM

KC Roberts & The Live Revolution, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Lyrics Born

Forest Stage

Soul Clap & Friends, 12:30 AM – 2:45 AM

Midnight Magic, 11:30 PM – 12:30 AMQRO photos

Wolf + Lamb/The Wolf, 10:15 PM – 11:30 PM

Life On Planets, 9:30 PM – 10:15 PM

Slow Hands, 8:30 PM – 9:15 PM

Nick Monaco, 7:30 PM – 8:15 PM

Crew Love Throw Down, 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM

The Unsheathed!, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM

Vibe Street, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Midnight Magic


Nick Monaco


The Observatory

Dixon’s Violin, 2:30 AM – 3:30 AM

Funk Hunterz, 1:15 AM – 2:15 AM

The Fungineers & Bubble Gutter, 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM

Autograf, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Teemid, 9:15 PM – 10:15 PM

Kevin Garrett, 7:45 PM – 8:45 PM

Joseph, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Delta Spirit, 44:45 PM – 5:45 PMQRO album review

Devon Baldwin, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Pan Astral, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Delta Spirit


Pan Astral

 

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 27th

Ranch Arena

Bassnectar, 12:30 AM – 2:00 AM

A festival mainstay (QRO photos), Lorin Ashton (a.k.a. Bassnectar – QRO photos) brings the lights live (QRO photos at a festival) – as well as the hair… (QRO photos at a festival)
Bassnectar
The String Cheese Incident, 8:15 PM – 11:45 PM

Colorado’s String Cheese Incident (QRO photos at a festival) had been one of the jam bands hardest working the road circuit, combining bluegrass and a whole host of other sounds. But after the 2007 departure of guitarist Bill Nershi following that summer’s tour, the band went into hiatus as they worked on their various solo projects. Only a couple of years later the group reunited for sporadic shows and touring (QRO photos), before last year’s A Song In My Head, their first new record in five years.
The String Cheese Incident
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Alex Ebert, former singer of Ima Robot (QRO interview), got a ton of buzz right after forming Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros (QRO live review) – is it justified, or just PR hype (QRO spotlight on)? Judge for yourself (QRO photos at a festival) – but watch out for him jumping into the crowd (QRO live review), like at so many festivals (QRO photos at a festival)!



Also:

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, 3:45 PM – 5:15 PM

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Sherwood Court

Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, 1:00 AM – 2:30 AM

Furthur drummer Joe Russo teams up with Marco Benevento (who’s also playing Electric Forest solo – see below), Ween’s Dave Dreiwitz, and more to play the music of The Grateful Dead as Joe Russo’s Almost Dead.
Joe Russo
Electron, 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM

Disco Biscuits’ Marc Brownstein works solo as Electron.
Electron
Phantogram, 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM

Saratoga Springs’ dancetronica act Phantogram (QRO photos at a festival) got notice less for their debut full-length Eyelid Movies (QRO review) than their enchanting live show (QRO photos at a festival) – which works outdoors (QRO photos outdoors at a festival), when in the evening (QRO photos at a festival). They come to Electric Forest (QRO photos at a festival) behind last year’s Voices (QRO review).
Phantogram
The Werks, 7:45 PM – 9:00 PM

Dayton, Ohio’s The Werks mixes styles as a jam festival circuit regular.



Also:

Nattali Rize & Notis, 6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

People’s Blues of Richmond, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM

The Werks

Tripolee

Claude VonStroke, 1:45 AM – 3:15 AM

San Francisco house & techno producer Barclay Macbride Crenshaw spins beats of his own as Claude VonStroke.
Claude VonStroke
Green Velvet, 12:30 AM – 1:45 AM

A man of many names (including Cajmere, Half Pint, Curan Stone, and more), Green Velvet – a.k.a. Curtis Jones – puts together krautrock for the next generation.
Green Velvet
Also:

Matoma, 11:00 PM – 12:30 AM

MJ Cole, 9:30 PM – 11:00 PM

SNBRN, 8:00 PM – 9:30 PM

Skylar Spence, 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM

Slow Magic, 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM

Mako, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PM

Jacklndn, 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM

Vibe Street, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Yoga, 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

yoga

The Hangar

Jpod, 1:30 AM – 3:00 AM

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM

The Gentlemen Callers, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Vourteque, 8:45 PM – 10:00 PM

Bart & Baker, 7:15 PM – 8:15 PM

Marcella Puppini, 5:45 PM – 6:45 PM

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM

Jerk Church, 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM

Preservation Hall Jazz Band


Vourteque


Jubilee

Galactic with Macy Gray, 1:15 AM – 3:00 AM

Hailing from New Orleans, Galactic (QRO photos at a festival) is a five-man funk band. They combine traditional jazz with brass-heavy funk that’s much like the city’s signature sound. Thrown into the mix are their cutting edge, ‘new school’ horns and the regional hip-hop known as New Orleans Bounce. Galactic (QRO photos at a festival) succeeds in producing a sound that’s entirely new while still paying homage to the style that made the Big Easy famous. Since their latest album YA-KA-MAY was released, the band’s been touring across the country.

This summer the Galactic set will feature singer Macy Gray (QRO photos at a festival).
Galactic
Also:

Dopapod, 11:30 PM – 12:45 AM

Funk Hunters featuring Chali 2na, 9:45 PM – 11:00 PM

The Ragbirds, 8:15 PM – 9:15 PM

Lindsey Stirling, 6:30 PM – 7:45 PMQRO photos at a festival

Tauk, 4:45 PM – 6:00 PM

The Accidentals, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Hoop Troupe Showcase, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Lindsey Stirling

Forest Stage

Russ Liquid, 2:00 AM – 3:30 AM

Gibbz, 1:00 AM – 2:00 AM

Branx, 11:30 PM – 1:00 AM

Freddy Todd, 10:00 PM – 11:30 PM

Ben Negative, 8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Minnesota, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Jakubi, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

SNBRN, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Dixon’s Violin, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Unsheathed!, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Russ Liquid


Ben Negative


The Observatory

Everyone Orchestra, 1:45 AM – 3:15 AM

The Fungineers & Bubble Gutter, 12:15 AM – 1:15 AM

Skylar Spence, 10:45 PM – 11:45 PM

Teengirl Fantasy, 9:15 PM – 10:15 PMQRO photos at a festival

Pan Astral, 7:45 PM – 8:45 PM

American Babies, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Joseph, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

Katie Boeck, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

KC Roberts & The Live Revolution, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Teengirl Fantasy


Pan Astral

 

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 28th

Ranch Arena

The String Cheese Incident, 8:30 PM – 12:45 AM

Colorado’s String Cheese Incident (QRO photos at a festival) had been one of the jam bands hardest working the road circuit, combining bluegrass and a whole host of other sounds. But after the 2007 departure of guitarist Bill Nershi following that summer’s tour, the band went into hiatus as they worked on their various solo projects. Only a couple of years later the group reunited for sporadic shows and touring (QRO photos), before last year’s A Song In My Head, their first new record in five years.
The String Cheese Incident

Also:

Yonder Mountain String Band, 6:15 PM – 7:45 PM

Keller Williams’ Grateful Grass, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PMQRO photos at a festival

Keller Williams

Sherwood Court

Big Gigantic featuring The Motet, 12:30 AM – 1:45 AM

Boulder’s Big Gigantic (QRO photos at a festival) mix (big) electronic beats with live drums and even live saxo-mo-phone. Known to set crowds in a writhing heap of body parts (QRO photos at a festival), Big Gigantic (QRO photos at a festival) has been showcasing their electronic fervor all across the globe (QRO photos at a festival), including the last ever New Year’s Eve at New York City’s closed landmark venue Roseland Ballroom (QRO live review).

They play Electric Forest with The Motet (QRO photos at a festival).
Big Gigantic
Gramatik, 10:45 PM – 12:00 AM

Gramatik (QRO live review) comes all the way from Slovenia (the best part of the former Yugoslavia).
Gramatik
Also:

Goldroom, 8:45 PM – 10:00 PMQRO photos

Dopapod, 6:45 PM – 8:15 PM

Leikeli47, 5:30 PM – 6:15 PM

The Heard, 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Goldroom

Tripolee

Paul Oakenfold, 12:30 AM – 1:45 AM

One of, if not the first superstar DJ/producer, Paul Oakenfold paved the way for the electronica boom of the nineties (as well as giving birth to the famed Ibiza rave scene on the Spanish tourist isle), but he himself was hampered by touring and label issues. But he’s kept on keeping on, working with everyone from Shifty Shellshock (of Crazy Town and Celebrity Rehab) to opening for Madonna, and headlining festivals.
Paul Oakenfold
Also:

Wiwek, 11:15 PM – 12:15 AM

Black Tiger Sex Machine, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Goldfish, 8:45 PM – 9:45 PM

Peking Duck, 7:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Tokimonsta, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Allison Wonderland, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Jacklndn, 3:45 PM – 4:45 PM

Borahm Lee, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Unsheathed!, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Yoga, 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM

Tokimonsta
yoga

The Hangar

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 1:15 AM – 2:15 AM

New Orleans’ Preservation Hall has been preserving the iconic city’s jazz tradition not just in the Big Easy but also around the world thanks to the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, who having been bringing Dixieland to other lands since the founding of the hall back in the sixties.

They play four times at Electric Forest ’15!
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Also:

Bart & Baker, 11:30 PM – 12:45 AM

Marcella Puppini, 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Jerk Church, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

The Gentlemen Callers, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

The Shadowboxers, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Jpod, 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM

Vourteque, 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

The Shadowboxers

Jubilee

Break Science, 1:00 AM – 2:15 AM

Brooklyn electronic duo Break Science plays twice at Electric Forest (see above).
Break Science
DâM-FunK, 11:15 PM – 12:30 AM

Pasadena funk singer/DJ DâM-FunK (QRO photos outdoors) threw down five full-lengths worth of new material in 2010, edited and compiled into double-disc Toeachizown, and comes to Electric Forest (QRO photos at a festival) in the run-up to the release of his new Invite the Light.
DâM-FunK
Also:

Tauk, 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM

Exmag, 7:45 PM – 9:00 PM

Made In Heights, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Nattali Rize & Notis, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

The Accidentals, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Tauk

Forest Stage

Goldfish, 11:45 PM – 1:00 AM

Goldroom, 10:30 PM – 11:30 PMQRO photos

Tokimonsta, 9:15 PM – 10:15 PM

Miami Horror, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PMQRO spotlight on

Snbrn, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Haywyre, 5:15 PM – 6:15 PM

Adam Deitch, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Armstrong Leigh, 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM

Bobby McManus, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Goldroom
Miami Horror

The Observatory

Dixon’s Violin, 12:45 AM – 1:45 AM

The Fungineers & Bubble Gutter, 11:45 PM – 12:15 AM

People’s Blues of Richmond, 9:30 PM – 10:45 PM

Marco Benevento, 7:45 PM – 9:00 PMQRO photos

Yojimbo, 6:15 PM – 7:15 PM

Saritah, 4:45 PM – 5:45 PM

Talia Keys, 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM

Katie Boeck, 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM
Marco Benevento

 

 

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