WHOA HEY HERE'S THE MUSIC FEST LINE-UP

Good afternoon, weirdos, here is your Beale Street Music Festival line-up. I will have a Spotify playlist of the best stuff that is coming, in my esteemed opinion, later on today or tomorrow or maybe next week, stop pressuring me. [click to embiggen, as usual.]

Or, in handy list form:

The Black Keys - Alice in Chains - Bassnectar - Daryl Hall & John Oates - Flaming Lips - Phoenix - The Smashing Pumpkins - ZZ Top - The Black Crowes - The Roots - Sheryl Crow - Gary Clark Jr. - Dwight Yoakam - Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Public Enemy - Three Days Grace - Gavin Degraw - The Wallflowers - Big Boi - Deftones - Jerry Lee Lewis - Patti Smith - Porter Robinson - Mavis Staples - AWOLNATION - Papa Roach - MiM0SA - Gov’t Mule - The Joy Formidable - Lucero - Cracker - Yngwie Malmsteen - Charles Bradley - Al Kapone - Deer Tick - Vintage Trouble - Jake Bugg - Coco Montoya - Louise Hoffsten - Davy Knowles - Sonny Burgess and the Legendary Pacers - Shannon McNally - Pickwick - Zac Harmon - The Slide Brothers - Star and Micey - Ronnie Baker Brooks - River City Tanlines - Heritage Blues Orchestra - James SuperChikan Johnson - Jimbo Mathus & The Tri-State Coalition - Royal Southern Brotherhood - Will Tucker - Don Trip - Heartless Bastards - Kenny Brown - Brandon Bailey - Marcus James & Kinney Kimbrough - Matt Isbell - Barbara Blue - Kingston Springs - Brad Webb - Blind Mississippi Morris - Fuzzy Jeffries & the Kings of Memphis

So, what do you all think?! I can tell you right now that Effin' Memphis will do everything possible to attend all the musical performances in bold, with a heavy emphasis on the Deer Tick and the Patti Smith parts. As I said, stay tuned for later, when I'll have a handy Spotify playlist of the best of this year's line-up, and also look for another post about the amazing next few weeks of live music in Memphis.