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Hangout “24 Returns to Gulf Shores

jason — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 16:06:28 +0000

Welcome wranglitos, back to your festival hub where we are studying the framework of this year’s upcoming party season with baited breath and warm spittle running down our fangs. Right in the meat of the order comes Hangout Festival, splayed out on the white, sandy beaches of the Redneck Riviera. Bikinis, bait nets and bushwackers are the order of the day. This is L.A. and you love it. Lower Alabama.

Hangout Music Festival announces their lineup for the 2024 festival May 17-19 in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This year’s party includes Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey and ODESZA set to headline on the beachfront over three days and nights, featuring additional performances from The Chainsmokers, Cage The Elephant, Dominic Fike, Renée Rapp, Subtronics, Jessie Murph, A Day To Remember, Dom Dolla, Doechii, Alison Wonderland, Nelly, Koe Wetzel, Megan Moroney, Sexyy Red, All Time Low, NLE Choppa and Many More. Local Resident Presale Begins Thursday, January 11 at 11 am CT. Public Onsale Begins Friday, January 12 at 11 am CT.

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

Hangout Music Festival is excited to reveal its 2024 lineup, featuring an eclectic group of artists set to perform on the white sand beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama this May 17-19. Headed into its thirteenth edition, Hangout has become a state of mind where life is a party, a happy place with good vibes only, and a beachside daydream where sun-drenched lifelong memories are made. This year’s lineup will showcase a slew of leading names in varying genres from pop and country, to electronic music, rock, alternative, rap, and beyond.

Hangout’s 2024 headliners demonstrate the festival’s multi-genre ethos, showcasing three of the most in-demand acts of the moment on the beaches of Gulf Shores. Alt-country superstar Zach Bryan is set to perform his stadium-filling anthems, fresh off of his chart-topping fourth studio album. Joining him for a rare U.S. festival performance will be influential songstress Lana Del Rey and her extensive catalog of dreamy hits. One of electronic music’s most captivating production duos, ODESZA, will also bring their acclaimed live show to Hangout main stage as one of their final shows of their “The Last Goodbye” era.

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

The lineup’s depth continues with no shortage of star power, from GRAMMY-award winning DJ and production duo The Chainsmokers, to longtime fixtures of alternative rock Cage The Elephant, and multi-hyphenate actor/singer-songwriter sensations Dominic Fike and Renée Rapp.

When it comes to a blending of pop stylings, find one of the genre’s breakout favorites Chappell Roan and homegrown talent Jessie Murph, who returns to Gulf Shores after a triumphant Hangout 2023 appearance. Flavors of country will be represented by the likes of emerging star Megan Moroney and Texas powerhouse Koe Wetzel. Nostalgic alternative music takes center stage as well with Florida rock band A Day To Remember and Baltimore pop-punk band All Time Low.

The top tier of electronic music talent is consistently present at Hangout, where this year’s highlights include the head-splitting sounds of Subtronics and bass-heavy fan favorite Alison Wonderland, alongside fellow Aussie four-to-the-floor house hitter Dom Dolla. Hip-Hop acts of varying generations will also be on display, where fans can sing every word to hit after hit from the iconic Nelly or get rowdy to the energetic performances of Doechii, Sexyy Red, and NLE Choppa.

Beyond the music, a weekend spent at Hangout offers the most perfectly-timed and carefree antidote to winter where adulting takes a back seat to picturesque sunsets and leisurely days spent with toes in the sand. Imagine posting up at Hammock Beach, playing beach volleyball or sliding down a slip-and-slide at Camp Hangout, catching heartfelt vows at the Beach Wedding Chapel, then popping into a beach dance club with direct swimming access in the refreshing Gulf of Mexico, all between sets and before retiring to your condo, beach house, or nearby hotel.

Those looking for an elevated experience can fest in style with a VIP ticket that grants expedited access via dedicated entry lane, an in-venue pool for midday dips, and complimentary cocktails and bites at the VIP Grove. Super VIPs can take in the sights and sounds from their viewing area and elevated deck at the Hangout Main Stage, zip around on golf-cart shuttles between stages, and enjoy complimentary gourmet meals prepared by award winning chefs throughout the weekend.

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

Those looking for unparalleled access paired with utmost convenience should look no further than Hangout House, where views of the festival can be enjoyed from the privacy of your own balcony. Hangout Lodging Packages conveniently bundle festival tickets with local lodging, and are on sale now via On Location; no registration is required to purchase.

For 2024, all ticket types can be bundled into 4-packs and paired with shuttle passes or event merchandise for a discount, if added at the time of initial purchase. The Hangout team is also standing by to accommodate large groups looking to build custom vacation or staycation lodging packages for fans near and far.

As part of Hangout’s efforts to support the local community, the festival launched its Earn-A-Ticket Program (in partnership with Propeller) last year, encouraging interested festival-goers in the Gulf Shores area to take action online and volunteer their time in exchange for festival tickets and additional prizes. Over 75 volunteers attended Hangout’s Beach Cleanup with the Alabama Coastal Foundation and Fort Morgan Civic Association, collecting a total of 3,860 pounds of trash along four beach locations in the Fort Morgan area. Details for Hangout’s 2024 Earn-A-Ticket Program will be announced soon.

Local residents will be given the opportunity to purchase full price tickets to Hangout Fest 2024 before they go on sale. The Resident Presale will begin on Thursday, January 11 at 11 AM CT and end on Friday, January 12 at 10:59 AM CT. Ticket purchasers’ billing zip code must match one of the eligible zip codes for your order to be processed. For full details, visit, www.hangoutmusicfest.com/residents.

Those who missed out on the Advance Sale in December are invited to register for access to tickets now, on sale beginning Friday, January 12 at 11AM CT.

For festival tickets, lodging ackages and more visit the Hangout website. Like their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, X and Spotify.

Ticket Type Details

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

Admission to all GA areas of the festival all weekend long, tons of food & beverage vendors, beach activities and sponsored areas
Beach and swimming access to designated beach clubs
Tons of food & beverage vendors, beach activities and sponsored areas

GA PLUS

All the perks of GA, plus:

Priority GA Plus entrances at all festival gates
Access to the GA Plus Grove with private air-conditioned restrooms, premium food offerings, a private bar, and shaded areas to relax

VIP

Treat yourself to all the perks of GA, in addition to:

Up front viewing at all main stages
Access to the VIP Grove with complimentary premium cocktails featuring festival partner spirit selections, beer, wine & daily buffet
Access to side stage pools at Hangout Main Stage
Private air-conditioned restrooms
Priority VIP entry lane at every festival entrance

SUPER VIP

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

Go all out with the perks of GA, as well as:

Up front viewing at all main stages
Access to the VIP Grove with complimentary premium cocktails featuring festival partner spirit selections, beer, wine & daily buffet
Access to side stage pools at Hangout Main Stage
Private air-conditioned restrooms
Priority VIP entry lane at every festival entrance
Access to the private Super VIP Deck with elevated views of Hangout Main Stage, shaded seating, and premium cocktails featuring festival partner spirit selections
New! Access to exclusive Super VIP up-close viewing area at festival main stages
New! WiFi access
Golf cart shuttles between designated stages
Complimentary gourmet meals prepared by award winning chefs in the air-conditioned Super VIP Dining room equipped with ample lounge seating and charging areas

Hangout Festival. Photo by wook wranglers.

Hangout Music Festival 2024 Lineup

Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey, ODESZA, The Chainsmokers, Cage The Elephant, Reneé Rapp, Dominic Fike, Jessie Murph, Subtronics, Dom Dolla, A Day To Remember, Doechii, Nelly, Koe Wetzel, Alison Wonderland, Megan Moroney, Sexyy Red, NLE Choppa, All Time Low, Chappell Roan, David Kushner, Matt Maeson, Qveen Herby, Disco Lines, Chromeo (DJ), Daily Bread, The Beaches, Kasbo, Paul Russell, Wyatt Flores, Del Water Gap, Dylan Gossett, Alana Springsteen, Austin Millz, BUNT., Eliza Rose, Flyana Boss, G Flip, hemlocke springs, Le Youth, LF SYSTEM, Little Stranger, Odd Mob x OMNOM: HYPERBEAM, The Stews, VNSSA B2B Nala, Westend, Brenn!, Jaime Wyatt, Laci Kaye Booth, Linka Moja, Tanner Adell, The Taylor Party, Willow Avalon and more.

Hangout Festival. Photo by Alive Coverage.

About Hangout Music Festival

Now in its 13th year, Hangout Music Festival is more than a 3-day concert, it’s a music lover’s paradise. Hosted on the white sand beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama, Hangout serves as the ultimate kickoff to summer, with equal parts high energy party and relaxing tropical vacation, where the top artists of the moment descend upon a stunning setting that boasts seaside beach clubs and in-ground swimming pools at the main stage, plus delicious food, luxury VIP options, and more for their fans to enjoy. Gulf Shores is just a short drive from the Pensacola, FL and Mobile, AL airports and offers an array of lodging packages that include beach houses, condominiums and hotels, making it the perfect destination for road trippers and group travelers. Hangout has been awarded as Pollstar’s “Music Festival of the Year” and is continuously recognized as one of the best festivals in the US. The festival also adds over $40 million into the local economy each year.

And does lil-d really think he’s getting in to see this show for free? Probably a hard no after last year. It doesn’t matter that he’s the big ODESZA fan. People don’t forget. We will also hook up with the Crew One kids slinging steel and building stages. Alabama Point, Orange Beach, the best seafood on Earth. It’s all here. Stay focused on the prize as we edge ever closer to the Florida spring festival season already in progress. Namaste yo.

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Hangout Fest “23: Redneck Renaissance

jason — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:08:09 +0000

Welcome back Wranglos to the world of the living and this edition of the Dirt Won’t Come Off Summer Tour spotlights Hangout Fest in sunny Gulf Shores, Alabama. For a week leading up to the festival the wranglers prefest stage hand team has been busy at work building stages in the shadow of the Pink Pony Pub. ADA, trailer stages, temporary fencing and more, it’s all part of the festival mandate and the krewe was up for the task. There’s nothing more fun than slogging around in sand with steel toed boots. The prefest team would leave Wednesday before the festival and head east to Rockville while wook wranglers’ correspondent Pablo the Monkey King came south from Mobile to join the fray May 19-21, 2023 just down the road from Fort Morgan on the beaches of the Redneck Riviera. But you were there. You saw what was possible through the curved lenses of rock n roll. You are now in the eye of the storm. This is Hangout Fest “23: Redneck Renaissance. Thank you for your service.

The feeder bands included the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rezz, Skrillex, John Summit, Lil Nas X, Louis the Child and more, all who brought the real vibration to the stages of Hangout Fest. For some, it was a return to the beaches of their youth. Lucy and Baitbucket were reunited with a beach they had lived on as far back as 1974 and photographs inside the Hangout Restaurant echoed reminders of how much the beach and surrounding town had grown. Quinn and Pablo made the loop, bought the ticket, saw the show. Somehow they ended up in the VIP swimming pool near the tequila tent. An amazing turn of events to be sure. Some mysteries are best left unsolved.

On the way back to the land of yellow flies and no se-umsm, they stopped off in Santa Rosa Beach to see Moonshine Gary and family only to continue down the road to Fort Morgan. You have found yourself back into the pocket of the American South. Beautiful water, light breezes and Skrillex? Take my money.

Baitbucket was unable to pass the Flora-Bama without pulling in for a Bushwacker. Back in the day he would come here just to buy fireworks so he and his cousins could have wars in the mazes of the sea dunes. Pro tip: When engaged in a Roman candle battle, do not seek protection in a fox hole. Famously bad idea and your tears won’t save you.

What you know about tar balls and oil derricks? This year there were no jelly fish although Pablo was still pining for someone to pee on his leg. Forget what you think you know. This is the Redneck Renaissance and the beach rats are taking over.

Visit the Hangout Fest website and like their social media channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The etherweb is real. Welcome to the machine. Visit the wook wranglers’ little nooks and crannies on the computer box. You are caught in the portal.

This festival had something for the whole crowd. Pretty girls, day drinkers, fraternity boys, cops with bad shoes. The whole enchilada. It’s a testament to the town of Gulf Shores for being able to pull this all together in the basket of this tourist mecca. The stage hand campground was only two short miles away and easy traveling for the haggard hand who wants to stop by the bar on his way back to the domicile. It’s the stagehand business. Felony convictions, masters degrees and unfinished, homemade hand tattoos enough to go around.

He’d been beaten unconscious with a screw jack for urinating in the VIP pool. The riggers were having a Jihad with the heavy equipment operators to see who could be the biggest douche bags. Alex had been on the hunt for a hippy girl and he found one complete with homemade tattoos and as a bonus her back was covered with transdermal patches that he could turn into Skoal Bandits at his leisure. She wore one for nicotine, one for hangover, the day after, suboxin, fentanyl, ensam, buprenorphine and nitroglycerine. It looked as if the old gypsy woman had been right after all.

Thank you so much to Hangout Fest for including the wranglers in the silly beach fun. There’s nothing like the squeak of bear feet in what could possibly be the softest, whitest sand anywhere. Real men can toss a bait net.

Keep up with the wranglers as we head west to Chillicothe and Summer Camp before heading back into the mountains and Mountain Music Festival in West Virginia. After that it’s the grand three-punch of Bonnaroo, Electric Forest and Peach. See you in the lot. And what did the girl with the green hair say? “If you see me running, you probably should as well.”

#vanlife?

Don’t forget, Alabama hates drugs.

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Hangout Music Festival Lineup Additions

jason — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 00:39:47 +0000

Hangout Music Festival has announced lineup additions and day by day lineups for its quintessential beach vacation on the majestic white sand beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama this May 19-21. Hangout is the ultimate kickoff to summer, a weekend defined by dancing in the sand with your best friends while listening to your favorite pop, dance, and rock artists at one of North America’s most beautiful beaches. This is Hangout Music Festival Lineup Additions.