Arts & Entertainment

New Order, James Blake Headline Music Tastes Good Festival

The two day music, arts, and food festival returns to Long Beach with artists like Broken Social Scene, Santigold, Parquet Courts, and more.

LONG BEACH, CA – Music Tastes Good, a music, food, and arts festival in Long Beach's Marina Green Park, has announced their line-up for the September 29-30 festival. Iconic British New Wave legends New Order will headline Saturday, and Grammy-nominated English singer-songwriter James Blake will perform Sunday.

Saturday's line-up will also include Canadian indie rock group Broken Social Scene, performing their album You Forgot It In People, along with Joey Bada$$, Santigold, Lil B, Princess Nokia, Blake Mills, Big Thief, Cherry Glazerr, Oliver Tree, Shame, Los Master Plus, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, NO BS! Brass Band, Radiolistener: Tribute to Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, Feels, Forest of Tongue, Neighbor Lady, BLCKNOISE, Haunted Summer and Manuel The Band.

Sunday's line-up will feature performances by The Black Angels, Lizzo, Parquet Courts, The Church performing their album Starfish to celebrate it's 30th Anniversary, Sun Kil Moon, Bill Callahan, Hollie Cook, Hailu Mergia, Ezra Furman, Ladama, The Blow, De Lux, Ethio Cali, B.A.G. (Blimes x Gifted Gab), The Fling, Baum, Hana Vu, Asi Fui and NO BS! Brass Band.

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The Taste Tent returns to the festival for the third year, and it's expanded and more inclusive with the theme "Port Cities of the West Coast." It'll offer attendees a chance to eat food made by some of the West Coast's most acclaimed chefs and restaurants, including: Wesley Young of Vancouver's Pidgin, Jeffery Vance of Seattle's No Anchor, Cameron Hanin on Seattle's Ma’Ono, Pat Manning of Portland's Toro Bravo, Rachel Aronow, independent (formerly of San Francisco's Alembic), Sincere Justice of Oakland's Tacos Sincero, Edward Martinez of Sacramento's Milk Money, and more.

For more information or to purchase tickets, visit their website.

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