Coachella, the bellwether of the American festival circuit, has long been unrivaled when it comes to the comprehensive music festival experience. A proverbial melting pot of musical genres, Coachella fields lineups that place the worldâs biggest names alongside its budding next wave. Goldenvoiceâs crown jewel also deftly marries technology with culture, offering a wide spectrum of amenitiesâboth music-related and otherwiseâthat will find appeal with nearly all would-be attendees. Now, for the first time ever, Goldenvoice is bringing a Coachella doppleganger to the east coast: a three-day, broad reaching music festival in New York City thatâs fittingly named, Panorama.
Beginning this Friday, New York’s Randall’s Island will play host to the new music festival. The lead-up to the inaugural Panorama has not been without some contention. Governorâs Ball, the cityâs other three-day summer music festival, petitioned mayor Bill de Blasio to reject the festivalâapparently on the grounds that two is not better than one. The petition failed, though, and now here we sit on the verge of the first ever Panorama.
The festivalâs headliners are about as big as they come. Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, and the newly reincarnated LCD Soundsystem will each cap one of the weekendâs three music-filled days. En masse, Panorama is admittedly a little more top heavy than its West Coast counterpart. A bevy of major players, like Sia, Alabama Shakes, The National, Major Lazer, and Sufjan Stevens, dominate the lineup, but thereâs certainly a smattering of notable smaller acts, too. To help you find the perfect balance of musicâfrom indie mainstays to explosive MCs to burgeoning turntablistsâweâve prepared this Spotify playlist. If youâll be at Panorama, take a listen and take heed, and if you won’t be there, hopefully this simply turns you on to some sweet new tunes.
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