Sir Richard Branson kicked off the inaugural broadcast of his company’s brand new Internet music stream this morning with the much-anticipated reveal of the lineup for this year’s Virgin Mobile Festival, slated to be held at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday, September 25.
The free festival, co-produced by Virgin and D.C.’s own IMP Productions — who operate the 9:30 Club as well as Merriweather — enters its second year at the Merriweather grounds after operating at Pimlico as a paid event from 2006 to 2008.
The lineup — so far — is as follows:
Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus will be on hand for this year’s Virgin FreeFest.