The 2025 lineup for California’s Simply Like Heaven music competition has been introduced. Vampire Weekend will headline, sharing the invoice with TV on the Radio, Bloc Occasion, Empire of the Solar, and, most notably, a reunion of Jenny Lewis’ beloved emo band Rilo Kiley, who haven’t performed a present collectively since 2008. The one-day competition will happen on Might 10 at Brookside on the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. Scroll all the way down to see the complete poster.
Shaped in 1998, in Silverlake, California, Rilo Kiley first discovered notoriety when “The Frug,” a music from their self-titled EP that picked up play on MTV’s 120 Minutes. Followers rapidly fell in love with Lewis’ unfiltered and witty songwriting, and the band launched its full-length debut album, Take Offs and Landings, in 2001. By then, the core lineup of Lewis, her songwriting associate and guitarist Blake Sennett, bassist Pierre de Reeder, and drummer Jason Boesel had solidified, and Rilo Kiley would launch three extra studio albums over the course of the 2000s: 2002’s The Execution of All Issues, 2004’s Extra Adventurous, and 2007’s Below the Blacklight. Whereas they performed their final reside exhibits to this point on their Below the Blacklight tour, Rilo Kiley didn’t formally announce their breakup till 2013. Lewis, specifically, has cultivated a profitable solo profession within the intervening years, releasing the studio albums The Voyager (2014), On the Line (2019), and Pleasure’all (2023).
In an announcement concerning the reunion, Rilo Kiley mentioned, “We’re so very excited to return again collectively for Simply Like Heaven in Pasadena, California—Los Angeles. As a band, we started right here, and we really feel so lucky to return amongst so many artists and buddies, to this group we maintain so pricey, in such a good looking and significant place.”
Different acts enjoying Simply Like Heaven 2025 embrace the Drums, Courtney Barnett, Toro y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Grouplove, and Slowdive, the latter of whom are listed as “very particular company.”
Revisit the 2019 function “Jenny Lewis Escapes the Void.”
