FPSF 2014 Lineup, Now Released

BOOM, there we go. After several months of anxious waiting from us out here in the Houston music world, the organizers of the Free Press Summer Festival (FPSF, for short) just released the official lineup for this year’s festival. And yes, it’s looking pretty damn good.

The official headliners are Jack White, Vampire Weekend, Zedd, Lauryn Hill (who I’d honestly thought had fallen off the face of the earth), Above & Beyond, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Dwight Yoakam, Childish Gambino, Deftones(!), and the motherfucking Wu-Tang Clan, but there’re plenty of other things down the list that make me smile, at least, like Chvrches, Drive-By Truckers, The Kills, The 1975 (who I’ve been kicking myself for missing out on when I was in London last fall), Lord Huron, Mariachi El Bronx, and Jana Hunter, plus awesome H-towners like The Tontons, Wild Moccasins, Venomous Maximus, Bagheera, New York City Queens, iLL LiaD, & Another Run.

Here’s the full list released so far — I expect there’ll be more names added between now and May 31st, so keep an eye out:

• Jack White
• Vampire Weekend
• Zedd
• Ms. Lauryn Hill
• Above & Beyond
• Wu-Tang Clan
• Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
• Dwight Yoakam
• Childish Gambino
• Deftones
• Cage The Elephant
• The Kills
• Die Antwoord
• Big Gigantic
• Chvrches
• DMX
• The 1975
• tUnE-yArDs
• Laidback Luke
• Rebelution
• Washed Out
• The Naked and Famous
• Adventure Club
• Flosstradamus
• Drive-By Truckers
• Lord Huron
• Ying Yang Twins
• Sky Ferreira
• J. Roddy Walston & the Business
• First Aid Kit
• Mariachi El Bronx
• Paper Diamond
• King Khan & The Shrines
• Flatbush Zombies
• The Oh Hellos
• Shakey Graves
• Wildcat! Wildcat!
• Poolside
• Robert DeLong
• The Orwells
• Anamanaguchi
• Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors
• The Chain Gang of 1974
• William Fitzsimmons
• Destruction Unit
• White Sea
• Uh Huh Her
• Jana Hunter
• The Tontons
• Syd Arthur
• Benjamin Booker
• Lizzo
• Bagheera
• Wild Moccasins
• Ishi
• Feathers
• A Fistful of Soul DJs
• Yung Slutty
• Eagle Claw
• Venomous Maximus
• Wild Party
• Carnival Talk
• Driver Friendly
• BLSHS
• The Caldwell
• Pleasure 2
• Children of Pop
• Los Skarnales
• New York City Queens
• De’Wayne Jackson
• Beat King
• Make
• Another Run
• Gracie Chavez
• Pinkish Black
• Dead Roses
• Grand Old Grizzly
• iLL LiaD

Dang. While I’ll admit I do long for the days when there were more local acts in the pile, I can’t begrudge the FPSF folks too much; they’ve picked a nicely diverse, uniformly cool lineup, and I’m pretty damn psyched. Get your wristbands now, y’all.