The Underground Music Showcase made its first lineup announcement today for the 2017 festival.
Topping the bill this year are New Orleans singer and guitarist Benjamin Booker, Portland stoner-metal band Red Fang and local singer-songwriter, Esmé Patterson.
For those of you new to the UMS: The four-day festival on South Broadway features hundreds of bands in more than a dozen venues between Fifth and Alameda avenues, including an outdoor main stage this year at 363 S. Broadway (the former site of K-Mart).
This year's festival will be held July 27-30.
Among the 195 artists announced in the first round are local mainstays Call of the Void, Colfax Speed Queen, CRL CRRLL, déCollage, Plume Varia, Slow Caves and ... well, obviously a whole lot more.
Tickets are on sale now. A four-day pass costs $55 in advance and $75 the day of.
Here's the full first wave:
Brothertiger
Call of the Void
Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels
Colfax Speed Queen
Brent Cowles
Dirty Few
Dragondeer
EX-CULT
Flaural
Aldous Harding
Land Lines
The Life and Times
NOTHING
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Povi
The Raven & The Writing Desk
RUMTUM
Slow Caves
The Still Tide
The Velveteers
YaSi
Altas
Ancient Elk
Andy Hamilton & the Rocky Mountain Contraband
Andy Thomas' Dust Heart
Animal Electricity
Anthony Ruptak & the Midnight Friends
At.Play
ATOMGA
Automatic Iris
Avifauna
The Baltic
Bandits
Bear Antler
Beth Preston
Big J Beats
Bigwheel Electro Soul
Birch Street
Bison Bone
Blake Brown & The American Dust Choir
Boat Drinks
Boyhollow
Britt Margit
Bud Bronson & the Good Timers
The Burroughs
byH2O & Ty Til
Cheap Perfume
Chella & The Charm
Chimney Choir
Church Fire
CITRA
Clouds & Mountains
Coastal Wives
Cocordion
Corsicana
The Coteries
Creature Canopy
CRL CRRLL
Dandu
Dead Palms
déCollage
DeDoz
Paul DeHaven
Patrick Dethlefs
DLZMKSBTS
Down Time
Elder Grown
Wolf van Elfmand
Emerald Siam
Kyle Emerson
Evan Holm & the Restless Ones
Extra Gold
Eye and the Arrow
The Fabulous Boogienauts
False Report
Finding Common Ground
Foxxes
Freaky North
Funk Hunk
Gasoline Lollipops
Get Along
The Get Together
Ghost Tapes
Gracie Bassie
Grant Sabin and The Juke Joint Highball
Grass
Grayson County Burn Ban
The Guestlist
Gun Street Ghost
Hang Rounders
Hello Dollface
High Plains Honky
Holly Lovell
Hydraform
Andy Immerman
in/PLANES
Instant Empire
Turner Jackson
Jen Korte & the Loss
Jilly.FM
Joseph Lamar
Kid Reverie
King Cardinal
King Eddie
Kissing Party
The Knock
La Pompe Futur
Last of the Easy Riders
Lawsuit Models
Leon and the Revival
Lillian
Loretta Kills
Love Gang
Low Hanging Fruit
Luna Sol
The Maykit
Male Blonding
Jesse Manley
Mawule
The Milk Blossoms
Milky.WAV
Mirror Fears
Modern Leisure
Montoneros
Montropo
Morning Bear
Motion Trap
The Munsens
Muscle Beach
Nasty Nachos
Necropanther
Larry Nix
Oko Tygra
The Omens
One Flew West
OptycNerd
The Other Black
The Outfit
Pale Sun
Panther Martin
Parallelephants
Particle Parade
The Patient Zeros
Peach Oblong
Pineross
Plastic Daggers
Playboy Manbaby
Plume Varia
Poet's Row
Porlolo
PrettyMouth
Pross
Pueblo Escobar
Quantum Creep
REDLANDS
Remember the Radio
RL Cole
The Royal
RUMOURS FOLLOW
Safe Boating is No Accident
The Savage Blush
Shady Elders
Shiny Around the Edges
Silver and Smoke
SIXXXD
Soft Skulls
The So Help Me's
Katey Sleeveless
Space Jail
Super Bummer
SYCDVK
Chloe Tang
Natalie Tate
Television Generation
This Broken Beat
Thousand Frames
Tomahawk Fox
Tyto Alba
U.S. Tygers
Units of Disco
Tana Victoria
The Violet Tides
Viretta
VYNYL
We are Not a Glum Lot
What Young Men Do
Whippoorwill
Whiskey Autumn
Whole Milk
Wildermiss
Wire Faces
Zealot
