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The Full 2024 Osheaga Lineup Features Smashing Pumpkins, Hozier, Alvvays and More

The major Montreal festival has announced all artists playing the 2024 edition, adding big names like Melanie Martinez, Skepta, Reneé Rapp, Justice, Tyla and many more.

Alvvays

Alvvays

Eleanor Petry

Osheaga has announced who will be appearing at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau this summer. The major outdoor festival announced headliners SZA, Green Day and Noah Kahan last fall, and now it's revealed which artists will share the stage with those stars. Alt-rock band Smashing Pumpkins, French electronic duo Justice, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier, Canadian indie rockers Alvvays, and British grime rapper Skepta are among the top-line names added to the stacked festival lineup.

The festival also added rising artists like Reneé Rapp, star of the new Mean Girls movie and recent SNL musical guest; Tyla, the South African singer who's been climbing the charts with "Water"; and British singer Raye, who had a big hit last year with "Escapism."


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The lineup is a mix of genres and eras, bringing together artists from thirty years of popular music. The Friday lineup alone is a journey through three decades of rock and indie music, featuring '90s-formed bands like Sleater-Kinney and Blonde Redhead, 2000s indie rock group Two Door Cinema Club and newer rock acts like Cam Kahin.

Kahin also forms part of the strong Canadian contingent in the festival's lineup, alongside Alvvays, viral singer and Juno nominee Talk, hip-hop artists Myst Milano. and Cadence Weapon, Ontario blues duo Blue Stones, Montreal punks No Waves, and more.

Alvvays played the festival previously in 2018, but this marks the band's first time as a top-line act at Osheaga, following the success of their 2022 album Blue Rev and a Grammy nomination last fall. In 2018, they had a 4pm set time, but it's likely they'll be taking the stage in the evening this time around.

"The model for our festival has always been about strength of lineup from the beginning to the end," Osheaga co-founder Nick Farkas, told Billboard Canadalast fall. "Whenever we see an artist that plays early and then eventually ends up headlining, that's kind of always been our goal, to elevate artists and really develop younger talent."

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Single-day tickets for the festival go on sale on Feb. 23. Check out the full lineup below.

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Obituaries: '60s Pop Idol Lou Christie Passes Away at 82

This week we also acknowledge the passing of New York City rock photographer Marcia Resnick, reggae star Leroy Gibbons and South African jazz drummer Louis Moholo.

Lou Christie (Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco), one of the most beloved teen pop idols of the 1960s and the voice and songwriter behind Billboard Hot 100-topper “Lightnin’ Strikes,” died on June 18, after a long illness. He was 82 years old.

ABillboard obituary reports that the Pennsylvania-born singer "Christie soared to fame in the early ’60s with hits such as 'The Gypsy Cried' and 'Two Faces Have I,' the latter of which reached No. 6 on the Hot 100 in 1963. The star’s biggest hit came three years later, when 'Lightnin’ Strikes' ascended to the chart’s summit, but he would still score a top 10 smash years later in 1969 with 'I’m Gonna Make You Mine.'"

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