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As Coachella struggles, nostalgia festivals are booming: ‘We never stopped listening to these bands’
Events like Lovers & Friends, with big R&B names from decades past, sell out immediately while Coachella sales plummet
Janet Jackson, Usher, Alicia Keys, Nelly, Ludacris, Gwen Stefani and Lil Wayne are among the big-name acts at the top of the poster with Craig David, Brandy, Monica, Eve and Sean Paul lower down. A California festival, Just Like Heaven, revives the Pitchfork-approved height of the mid-2000s indie era while the aptly named When We Were Young will bring hordes of emo and pop-punk fans to Las Vegas this October to see My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World. Looking back is fun but it also revives some of the same issues of diversity and inclusivity that plagued past line-ups, while furthering the “ pipeline problem ” organizers have been warning against for years – essentially, that there aren’t good ways for a new act to get on the headliner track.
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