Festival-goers visit the sweetgreen food truck at the Sweetlife Festival.
The Sweetlife Festival—the concert sponsored by salad chain Sweetgreen—announced this afternoon the artists that will populate its second stage at the April 28 festival at Merriweather Post Pavilion.
Among the local acts getting a nod are U.S. Royalty, which played the main stage at last year’s festival, and Bluebrain, the experimental pop duo of brothers Ryan and Hays Holladay, who we’re counting on to enliven the festival with one of their trademark mind-boggling performances.
But U.S. Royalty was last year’s buzzy D.C. band, and some of the other names announced today are kind of meh. The Brooklyn-based party rockers The Knocks are just annoying, and LP is best known as the band that did “that song from the Citigroup commercial.” Maybe they can hang out with main-stage anchors fun., aka that band from Chevrolet’s Super Bowl ad.
Though Zola Jesus (read her recent interview with Erin Keane) is returning to the area with her eerie, lo-fi voice.
Real quick, here’s the rundown for the Sweetlife Festival’s second stage:
- Bluebrain
- U.S. Royalty
- Delta Spirit
- Twin Shadow
- The Knock
- Zola Jesus
- RAC
- Yuna
- Haim
- LP
- Ben Browning of Cut Copy
