December 4, 2024

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Electric Forest Unveils 2025 Lineup

Alive Coverage/Electric Forest

Welcome back friends, to the Cherry Orchard. On the northeast corner of the rectangle, it’s not a bad place to call home. The last two years, cherries have been ripening on the tree during the festival. Believe what you want. Herald back to days gone by, lost in the interactive labyrinth that is GA. The forgotten horizon of apes and fools and a clown college of blatant fun. These are the Michigan wooks, doncha know? And the source. Happy Forest. It has begun. Electric Forest Unveils 2025 Lineup. Danger swamp.

The Cherry Orchard, Electric Forest 2023. Photo by Lucienda Rosalita.

Electric Forest unveils the initial lineup for its 2025 edition, returning to Rothbury, Michigan from June 19-22, 2025. One of the world’s most celebrated festivals, Electric Forest is an all-encompassing experience, defined by total immersion through its pillars of music, art, community, and exploration. Electric Forest’s 2025 lineup represents its commitment to showcasing the best and brightest of electronic, jam, and world music, continuing to be a beacon for what’s next across these scene-defining genres.

Headliners include French electro pioneers Justice, fan-favorite Aussie party starter FISHER, GRAMMY-nominated Disclosure (DJ Set), the dreamy grooves of prolific Houston three-piece Khruangbin, and Forest Family favorites Louis The Child. Additional highlights include the mind-melting sonics of Liquid Stranger and Of The Trees, the high priestess of hard techno Sara Landry, meteoric Scottish multi-instrumentalist Barry Can’t Swim, the legendary Tiësto, jam band visionaries The String Cheese Incident performing two incidents, superstar Brazilian globetrotter Mochakk, and Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock, and 1991’s drum & bass behemoth WORSHIP.

Programming the best of international talent, Electric Forest’s 2025 lineup also features UK’s next-gen jungle sensation Nia Archives, Toronto clubland innovator BAMBII, Brazilian flag bearer Maz, Swedish composer and multi-instrumentalist Arc De Soleil, and Colombian psychedelic funk trio BALTHVS. The ever-eclectic lineup also features genre-crossing acts bbno$Joey Valence & Brae, and GASHI alongside eclectic favorites like CaribouConfidence ManThe Free LabelMindchatter, and Forest veteran Dixon’s Violin.

VIPness, Electric Forest 2024. Photo by Lucienda Rosalita.

Flavors of house and techno are represented by the likes of GordoClooneeBlond:ishLilly PalmerLoco DiceWill ClarkeØTTA, and Pretty Pink; while trap, bass and low-end frequencies come courtesy of MersivCrankdatHamdiYDGZingara, and Jade Cicada. Electric Forest will also continue to foster a home for underground talent, where acts like BIIANCOAhmed SpinsInterplanetary CriminalFcukers, and TAAHLIAH will grace its stages. Many more lineup names will be announced in the coming months.

Continuing the tradition of engaging the Forest Family in creative reveals, Electric Forest sparked lineup speculation and excitement in the community. First posting discreet hints on official social media channels, then sending poems, limericks, and coded messages to various Loyalty Tiers via SMS, astute fans began to piece together which of their favorite artists would appear on the 2025 lineup. Finally, EF Radio, a community-driven radio platform dedicated to broadcasting frequencies from The Forest, spun a curated playlist of artists on the lineup, mixed with messages from fans who called in and correctly guessed 2025 artists, leading into the official lineup reveal.

Alive Coverage/Electric Forest

Electric Forest provides a participatory sanctuary for creative expression and limitless connection. Through the celebrated fan-participation Plug In Programs, Forest Family has the unique opportunity to shape their festival experience alongside Forest HQ. Applications are open now for select programs – learn more about The Wish Machine, Art Installation Sponsorship, Art Spark!, and The Digital Brainery here, and stay tuned for more information about additional Plug In Programs to open soon.

Electric Forest’s Loyalty Program, designed to reward returning Forest Family, begins its On Sale with 10 in The Forest on Tuesday, December 3 at Noon ET with all subsequent Loyalty Tiers following until Thursday, December 5.

The General Public On Sale for Electric Forest 2025 will begin at Noon ET on Friday, December 6. To register for access and more information about the EF Loyalty Program, available Passes and Packages – including the new Good Life Meadow, Hotel Packages, and more – visit the Festival’s official website.

Electric Forest Initial 2025 Lineup (A-Z)
1tbsp, 33 Below, Ahmed Spins, Arc De Soleil, BALTHVS, BAMBII, Barry Can’t Swim, bbno$, Beltran, BIIANCO, Blond:ish, BUNT., Caribou, Cloonee, Confidence Man, Crankdat, CVBZ, Disclosure (DJ Set), Dixon’s Violin, Evening Elephants, Fcukers, FISHER, GASHI, Gordo, Hamdi, Interplanetary Criminal, Jade Cicada, Joey Valence & Brae, Justice, Khruangbin, Lilly Palmer, Liquid Stranger, Loco Dice, Loods, Loofy, Louis the Child, LowDown Brass Band, Maz, Mersiv, Mindchatter, Mochakk, Moody Good, Nia Archives, Of The Trees, ØTTA, Pocket, Pretty Pink, Riordan, Roi Turbo, Sara Landry, Say She She, TAAHLIAH, The Free Label, The Philharmonik, The String Cheese Incident, Tiësto, Villager, WAKYIN, Will Clarke, WonkyWilla, WORSHIP (Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock, 1991), YDG, Zingara.

Electric Forest Music Festival 2024. Photo by Jason Nail

 

Keep up with Wranglers Media as we celebrate ten years of internet glory and the ultimate search for truth and the world’s best grouper sandwich. Please remember to leave your Jolly Rogers as home unless you want them flapping behind someone’s golf cart. Ed. note-All of the Jolly Rogers taken at EForest were subsequently retook at Lost Lands and Hulaween. We are all about that life. Namaste y’all.