CC and I drove to Las Vegas for the Life is Beautiful Festival. We found out about this first annual event by looking to see where ZZ Ward was playing next. The line-up was so amazing that we had to go. And a good thing we did. It turned out to be the most surprising music festival with the addition of a special Food and Art component. The art really knocked us out, but that’ll come in the next post.

Here’s the lineup: (my favorites in Bold)

Kings of Leon, Beck, Imagine Dragons, The Killers, Vampire Weekend, Pretty Lights, Alabama Shakes (pictured below), Childish Gambino, Purity Ring, Big Gigantic, Dawes, Cults, Earl Sweatshirt, Andrew McMahon, Joey Bada$$, Capital Cities, Youngblood Hawke, ZZ Ward, Poolsde, Family of the Year, Cayucas, Nico Vega, Wallpaper, Alpine, Chancellor Warhol, Children of the Night, Tink, Dreamers, Rhyme N Rhythm, Ekoh, Rusty Maples, Same Sex Mary, Sabriel, Crazy Chief, A Crowd of Small Adventures, Goldboot, Turner, Shalvoy Music and DJ Zo, Empire of the Sun, Passion Pit, Jurassic 5, Zedd, Janelle Monáe, STS9, Portugal. The Man, Danny Brown, The Joy Formidable, Charli XCX, Living Colour, Allen Stone, Haim, Smith Westerns, Twenty One Pilots, Robert DeLong, Five Knives, Wildcat! Wildcat! The Kingston Springs, Cosmic Superpunch, Knocked Up Kids, The Dig, Moondog Matinee, American Cream, The Dirty Hooks, Most Thieves, Kid Meets Cougar, Beau Hodges Band, Haleamano, Jordan Kate Mitchell, Joey Pero and His Band, Dusty Sunshine, DJ 88 and DJ Supra.

Alabama Shakes was off the hook!