Returning to New York City’s vibrant Lower East Side and expanding to six days, the New Colossus Festival begins on Tuesday 4 March and runs through Sunday 9 March 2025. This showcase festival and industry conference offers an opportunity to discover the next wave of emerging artists across multiple independent New York City venues, including Arlene’s Grocery, Baker Falls, Berlin Under A, Bowery Electric, Drom, Hotel Chantelle, Nublu, Nublu Classic, Pianos, Sour Mouse, and The Delancey.
The artists included in this announcement include: Amiture (NYC), Basht. (Dublin), Camp Blu (Miami), Constant Smiles (NYC), country girl (Brooklyn | Fader Label), Hachiku (Melbourne, Australia), Mall Girl (Oslo), Mellt (Cardiff, Wales), Mengers (Mexico City), Public Circuit (Brooklyn), Snoozer (Philadelphia | Born Losers Records), Sodakill (Stockholm), SunDog (Anchorage, Alaska), test plan (London), The OBGMs (Toronto).
The New Colossus will also once again present a series of panels and workshops called Colossal Conversations. Discussions on artist management, touring, production, sync licensing, festivals, publishing, and other relevant topics focused on the future of the global independent music scene.
This year’s event partnerships include media such as Brooklyn Vegan, Exclaim!, Radio Free Brooklyn, Groover, Maker Park Radio & more. International partners include Focus Wales, Iceland Airwaves, Icelandair, M for Montreal, The Spanish Wave & Westside Music Sweden. Industry partners include Annibale Agency, Anniversary Group, Bands do BK, Born Losers Records, Consulate General of Canada In New York, Dedstrange, Ditto Music, Funhouse Merch, Keychange (US), Music Managers Forum (US), Oxfam America, Planetary Group, Radio Free Brooklyn, & smartyPass.
Founded in 2019 by music industry veterans Mike Bell, Lio Kanine, and Steven Matrick, The New Colossus Festival has quickly become the first stop in the US for many emerging international artists. Past festival alumni include Baby Queen (ZA), CHAII (NZ), Ducks ltd. (CA), GIFT (US), Jaywood (CA), Kiwi Jr. (CA), NOBRO (CA), Peel Dream Magazine (US), Penelope Isles (UK), Pom Poko (NO), Pom Pom Squad (US), Sid Simons (US), Slow Fiction (US), Sobs (SG), The Orielles (UK), Thus Love (US), Water From Your Eyes (US), Ultra Q (US), Zoon (CA) and over 750 other artists.
Named after Emma Lazarus’s 1883 sonnet featured on The Statue of Liberty, The New Colossus Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue showcase and conference that brings together emerging musical talent from around the world to New York City’s Lower East Side.
The 2025 New Colossus Line Up includes the following, with more to be announced:
| 12090 A.D. (US), Abby Jeanne and the Shadowband (US), Amery (CA), Amiture (US), Arly Scott (US), Autobahn (US), BALACLAVA (US), Barber for the Queen (CA), Basht.( IE), Bestial Mouths (US), Bibi Club (CA), Big Fat Head (US), Big Girl (US), Black Bordello (UK), Bleary Eyed (US), Blythe (UK), Braden Lam (CA), Bucket (IE), Camp Blu (US), Campfire Social (UK), Casper Skulls (CA), Celestine Manno (US), Cloudsurfers (NL), Constant Smiles (US), cootie catcher (CA), country girl (US), CS Cleaners (US), Cusp (US), DahL (CA), Daniela Pes (IT), Das Damen (US), Daydream Twins (US), Delivery (AU), Diamond Day (CA), Diary (US), Dictator (Scotland), diet lemon (US), Dilettante (UK), Disputer (US), DIVES (AT), Dutch Mustard (UK), Eyas (US), Factual Brains (US), Faze Wave (US), first president of japan (US), Flame Parade (IT), Flowers for the Dead (US), Forest (US), Francesca Bono (IT), FRANKIE FLOWERS (CA), Gallus (Scotland), Gamblers (US), Garden Centre (UK), Genre is death (US), Gewalt (DE), Gilah (US), Ginger Winn (US), gloss (US), grocer (US), Hachiku (AU), Heaven Slight (US), Hiçamahiç (TR), HOLIEM (US), Hongza (UK), Hot Moms Club (US), Hotspit (US), Housewife (CA), Humdrum (US), ÍLANDRÍA (US), Joe & The Shitboys (FO), Jopy (UK), KAP BAMBINO (FR), Kestrels (CA), King Youngblood (US), Kingdom of Birds (CA), knitting (CA), Last Waltzon (CA), Laughing (CA), Levin Goes Lightly (DE), Libby Quinn (US), Lille Venn (NO), Listener 555 (US), Loviet (CA) |
| Mahogany (US), Mall Girl (NO), Marry Cherry (US), Marvin’s Revenge (UK), Matching Outfits (DE), Mellt (UK), MENGERS (MX), MISTER MOTIVATION (US), Mosez Jones (CA), Most Likely Marlin (NO), MOULD (UK), Mr Floyd Larry (US), No Waves (CA), Nora Kelly Band (CA), Otis Shanty (US), Outer Shapes (US), PANIK FLOWER (US), Pastel Blank (CA), PEER PLEASURE (IE), People in the Daytime (US), Personal Trainer (NL), Pippy (US), Polaroid Fade (US), Pons (US), Pop Music Fever Dream (US), Pressure Pin (IE), Primer (US), Prism Shores (CA), Prismala (DE), Prostitute (US), Public Circuit (US), Pynch (UK), Queen Serene (US), Ranch Ranch (US), READY ATLANTIC (NO/US), Red Ribbon (US), Retail Drugs (US), RINSE (AU), Rosier (CA), Rowena Wise (AU), Scattered Ashes (IE/UK), screenager (US), Scotch Mist (US), SHADY BABY (UK), Silent Mass (US), Skye Wallace (CA), s k y m e n d e r (US), smalltalk (US), Snoozer (US), SNOWMEN (US),Sodakill (SE), Sterling Press (UK), stockdale (DE), Stripes (US), Suichu Spica (JP), SunDog (US), SUNHILL (SE), SuperKnova (US), TEll A ViSiON (DE), Telos Vision (SE), test plan (UK), Tetsuians (AU), The Croaks (US), The Fiends (CA), The Jump Cuts (US), The Kaves (Scotland), The Laughing Chimes (US), The OBGMs (CA), Them Flying Monkeys (PT), Touchdown Jesus (US), Tula Vera (US), url (US), Van Vreeland (US), Velveteen (UK), Walk Me Home (US), Wax Jaw (US), Whisper Doll (US), WIND MILE (DE), Winkler (US), World News (UK), wyldest (UK), Wynona Bleach (NI), YOU SAID STRANGE (FR) |
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