Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music, earning her vast critical praise and seven Grammy awards through deeply expressive performance.

Grammy Award winning recording artist and songwriter, Leon Bridges, brings to the stage all elements of his career spanning experiences, inspirations, and award winning catalog of songs with every performance. From working as a dishwasher and busking on the streets of his beloved Fort Worth, TX to being signed to a major label and performing at the White House for Former President Barack Obama within a two-year span, Leon has continued to push the boundaries of his career.

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Jamie xx’s music speaks in rangy textures of soul, gospel, hip-hop and every mutation of the purity of house music, twisting its way into a new sub-genre since 1986. With traces of break-beat and clipped techno throughout his rhythm tracks, Jamie seems to hit a tangent somewhere between rave's blaring air-horns, a riff from an old, dusted-off New Romantic curiosity and the sweep and ballast of a classical string solo. Afflicted by a fastidious, perfectionist approach to making music, today he has become one of the major DJs at the sophisticated end of the global nightlife spectrum.

The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in intersectional feminism and human rights for all. With interventions and exhibitions all over the world, their art has been shown up and down the totem pole reaching esteemed establishments such as the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), and all under one self-proclaimed motto: ”Do one thing. If it works, do another. If it doesn’t, do another anyway. Keep chipping away!”

Since they broke through into the Australian music scene more than a decade ago, Tash Sultana has been nothing less than a musical force.The gender-fluid multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer-songwriter, engineer and entrepreneur has carved out every step in their musical journey over the last 15 years, which has taken them from performing open night mics all over the country, busking the streets of Melbourne to releasing platinum records, accumulating billions of streams, nominations across the globe, to winning awards and selling hundreds of thousands of concert tickets worldwide.

Bob Moses the Vancouver-bred, Grammy nominated duo consisting of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance brings a sound meshing guitar licks, a moody smolder and a dash of dance-floor ambience with lyrical depth and classic songwriting to be performed live at FORMAT.

JR is a French artist who has the largest art gallery in the world by exhibiting freely in the streets. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, JR created the Inside Out Project - a participatory art platform that helps communities worldwide make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. The Inside Out Photobooth will be at the festival, inviting everyone to take their portrait and see it pasted in a large mural that will come to life throughout the weekend.

Poolside returns to the stage as a live band for the first time since 2019. Their signature Daytime Disco sound is elevated to new heights by a formidable 7-piece ensemble comprised of accomplished veteran players who have left indelible marks on indie rock and electronic music over the course of the last two decades.

Ragnar Kjartansson

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theater, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting, as he attempts to convey sincere emotion through pretending and staging.

The National

Throughout their twenty-three year career indie-alternative band The National have sold two million albums worldwide met with critical acclaim and established themselves as mainstays of arenas and festivals with sold-out performances and headlining slots around the world. The National consists of Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf.

A learner, Brooklyn based Kameelah Janan Rasheed (she/they), grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation. The author of several books, she is also and adjunct instructor, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and has been the recipient of multiple artist awards including the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

Simon Parmeggiani is a San Francisco-based artist and award-winning creative director with a penchant for all that is surreal and uncanny. Under the artist name ‘Neptunian Glitter Ball’, he brings to life a surreal AI world that seamlessly intersects with everyday life, infusing it with fun and unpredictability, while offering a glimpse of what things could look like, in a slightly shifted, glitchy dimension.

Since 1995, Alanis Morissette has been one of the most influential singer-songwriter-musicians in contemporary music, earning her vast critical praise and seven Grammy awards through deeply expressive performance.

Grammy Award winning recording artist and songwriter, Leon Bridges, brings to the stage all elements of his career spanning experiences, inspirations, and award winning catalog of songs with every performance. From working as a dishwasher and busking on the streets of his beloved Fort Worth, TX to being signed to a major label and performing at the White House for Former President Barack Obama within a two-year span, Leon has continued to push the boundaries of his career.

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Jamie xx’s music speaks in rangy textures of soul, gospel, hip-hop and every mutation of the purity of house music, twisting its way into a new sub-genre since 1986. With traces of break-beat and clipped techno throughout his rhythm tracks, Jamie seems to hit a tangent somewhere between rave's blaring air-horns, a riff from an old, dusted-off New Romantic curiosity and the sweep and ballast of a classical string solo. Afflicted by a fastidious, perfectionist approach to making music, today he has become one of the major DJs at the sophisticated end of the global nightlife spectrum.

The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals and killer statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics and pop culture. They believe in intersectional feminism and human rights for all. With interventions and exhibitions all over the world, their art has been shown up and down the totem pole reaching esteemed establishments such as the Tate Modern, Whitney Museum and Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), and all under one self-proclaimed motto: ”Do one thing. If it works, do another. If it doesn’t, do another anyway. Keep chipping away!”

Since they broke through into the Australian music scene more than a decade ago, Tash Sultana has been nothing less than a musical force.The gender-fluid multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer-songwriter, engineer and entrepreneur has carved out every step in their musical journey over the last 15 years, which has taken them from performing open night mics all over the country, busking the streets of Melbourne to releasing platinum records, accumulating billions of streams, nominations across the globe, to winning awards and selling hundreds of thousands of concert tickets worldwide.

Bob Moses the Vancouver-bred, Grammy nominated duo consisting of Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance brings a sound meshing guitar licks, a moody smolder and a dash of dance-floor ambience with lyrical depth and classic songwriting to be performed live at FORMAT.

JR is a French artist who has the largest art gallery in the world by exhibiting freely in the streets. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, JR created the Inside Out Project - a participatory art platform that helps communities worldwide make a statement by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces. The Inside Out Photobooth will be at the festival, inviting everyone to take their portrait and see it pasted in a large mural that will come to life throughout the weekend.

Poolside returns to the stage as a live band for the first time since 2019. Their signature Daytime Disco sound is elevated to new heights by a formidable 7-piece ensemble comprised of accomplished veteran players who have left indelible marks on indie rock and electronic music over the course of the last two decades.

Ragnar Kjartansson

Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson draws on the entire arc of art in his performative practice. The history of film, music, theater, visual culture and literature find their way into his video installations, durational performances, drawing and painting, as he attempts to convey sincere emotion through pretending and staging.

The National

Throughout their twenty-three year career indie-alternative band The National have sold two million albums worldwide met with critical acclaim and established themselves as mainstays of arenas and festivals with sold-out performances and headlining slots around the world. The National consists of Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Scott Devendorf and Bryan Devendorf.

A learner, Brooklyn based Kameelah Janan Rasheed (she/they), grapples with the poetics-pleasures-politics of Black knowledge production, information technologies, [un]learning, and belief formation. The author of several books, she is also and adjunct instructor, a Critic at Yale School of Art, Sculpture, and has been the recipient of multiple artist awards including the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fine Arts.

Simon Parmeggiani is a San Francisco-based artist and award-winning creative director with a penchant for all that is surreal and uncanny. Under the artist name ‘Neptunian Glitter Ball’, he brings to life a surreal AI world that seamlessly intersects with everyday life, infusing it with fun and unpredictability, while offering a glimpse of what things could look like, in a slightly shifted, glitchy dimension.