New Colossus fest: 2025 final lineup and daily schedule

The 2025 edition of NYC’s New Colossus Festival is just two weeks away, happening March 4-9 at venues all over the East Village and Lower East Side. The fest has announced its finalized lineup and daily schedule. Festival badges are still available and you can check out the full list of acts below.

As is now a tradition, there is an all-day shoegaze showcase at Arlene’s Grocery on Saturday (3/8) and this year it features sets from skymender (US), Kestrels (CA), smalltalk (US), Hiçamahiç (TR), Hongza (UK), Heaven Slight (US), Autobahn (US), Prism Shores (US), Mahogany (US), Dutch Mustard (UK), Bleary Eyed (US) and Velveteen (UK).

A few other notable showcases:

Our friends at M for Montreal have their all Canadian mixer/showcase on Wednesday (3/5) at Drom with Bibi Club, Diamond Day, Amery, Laughing, Pressure Pin, FUUDGE, and Truck Violence.

Dedstrange, the label run by A Place to Bury Strangers’ Oliver Ackerman and New Colossus cofounder Steven Matrick, has a showcase on Wednesday at Berlin Under A with The Jump Cuts, SNOWMEN, Gewalt Public Circuit, PEER PLEASURE, test plan, Joe & The Shitboys, Bucket, and Pons.

For the Anglophiles, The British House is hosting an all-UK showcase on Thursday (3/6) at Parkside Lounge with test plan, Sterling Press, Hongza, The Fiends and Marvin’s Revenge.

Sunday is the official closing party with free matinees at Arlene’s Grocery, Baker Falls, and Pianos. There are free matinees at many venues on Friday and Saturday, too.

We’ll have a more comprehensive New Colossus guide when we get closer to the festival. Head here for the full 2025 schedule and check out the lineup, and the official playlist, below.

NEW COLOSSUS 2025 LINEUP (FINAL)
Abby Jeanne and the Shadowband (US)
AKAI SOLO (US)
Amery (CA)
Amiture (US)
Arly Scott (US)
Atalhos (BR)
Autobahn (US)
Bakers Eddy (NZ)
BALACLAVA (US)
Barber for the Queen (CA)
Basht.( IE)
Bestial Mouths (US)
Bibi Club (CA)
Big Fat Head (US)
Big Girl (US)
Black Bordello (UK)
Bleary Eyed (US)
Blythe (UK)
Braden Lam (CA)
Bucket (IE)
Camp Blu (US)
diet lemon (US)
Dilettante (UK)
Disputer (US)
DIVES (AT)
Dutch Mustard (UK)
El Culto Casero (PY)
ELEPHANT KIND (UK)
Elijah Kessler (US)
Eyas (US)
Factual Brains (US)
Faze Wave (US)
Fine Food Market (CA)
first president of japan (US)
Flame Parade (IT)
FLASYD (US)
Flawless Issues (DE)
Flowers for the Dead (US)
Forest (US)
Gallus (Scotland)
Gamblers (US)
Garden Centre (UK)
Genre is death (US)
Gewalt (DE)
Gilah (US)
Ginger Winn (US)
Glimmer (US)
gloss (US)
grocer (US)
Hachiku (AU)
Heaven Slight (US)
Hiçamahiç (TR)
HOLIEM (US)
Hongza (UK)
Hotspit (US)
Humdrum (US)
ÍLANDRÍA (US)
lúpína (IS)
IVY FLINDT (DE)
Joe & The Shitboys (FO)
KAP BAMBINO (FR)
Kestrels (CA)
King Youngblood (US)
Kingdom of Birds (CA)
knitting (CA)
Las Petunias (ES)
Last Waltzon (CA)
Laughing (CA)
Laura Lee & The Jettes (DE)
Levin Goes Lightly (DE)
Libby Quinn (US)
Lille Venn (NO)
shishi (LT)
Silent Mass (US)
Skye Wallace (CA)
s k y m e n d e r (US)
smalltalk (US)
Snoozer (US)
SNOWMEN (US)
Sodakill (SE)
Sofi O (NO)
Sterling Press (UK)
stockdale (DE)
Stripes (US)
Suichu Spica (JP)
SunDog (US)
SUNHILL (SE)
SuperKnova (US)
Talon (US)
TEll A ViSiON (DE)
Telos Vision (SE)
test plan (UK)
Tetsuians (AU)
The Croaks (US)
The Fiends (CA)
The Jump Cuts (US)
Campfire Social (UK)
Casper Skulls (CA)
Celestine Manno (US)
Charles Fauna (US)
Chloë Doucet (CA)
Cloudsurfers (NL)
Constant Smiles (US)
Coatie Pop (US)
CONSUMABLES (US)
cootie catcher (CA)
country girl (US)
Cousines like Shit (AT)
CS Cleaners (US)
Cusp (US)
DahL (CA)
Daniela Pes (IT)
Das Damen (US)
Daydream Twins (US)
Delivery (AU)
Diamond Day (CA)
Diary (US)
Dictator (Scotland)
Listener 555 (US)
Los Petardos! (PR)
Loviet (CA)
Mahogany (US)
Mall Girl (NO)
Marry Cherry (US)
Marvin’s Revenge (UK)
Matching Outfits (DE)
Mellt (UK)
MENGERS (MX)
Mirage (ES)
MISTER MOTIVATION (US)
Mosez Jones (CA)
Most Likely Marlin (NO)
MOULD (UK)
Mr Floyd Larry (US)
My Transparent Eye (US)
Nitefire (US)
No Waves (CA)
Nora Kelly Band (CA)
OLGA (CA)
Otis Shanty (US)
Outer Shapes (US)
PANIK FLOWER (US)
Pastel Blank (CA)
PEER PLEASURE (IE)
People in the Daytime (US)
Personal Trainer (NL)
Pippy (US)
Polaroid Fade (US)
Pons (US)
Pop Music Fever Dream (US)
Pressure Pin (IE)
Primer (US)
Prism Shores (CA)
Prostitute (US)
Public Circuit (US)
Pynch (UK)
Ranch Ranch (US)
READY ATLANTIC (NO/US)
Red Ribbon (US)
Retail Drugs (US)
Rew (US)
Rosier (CA)
Rowena Wise (AU)
Scattered Ashes (IE/UK)
screenager (US)
Scotch Mist (US)
Seafoam Walls (US)
SHADY BABY (UK)
SHITFIRE (US)
The Kaves (Scotland)
The Laughing Chimes (US)
The OBGMs (CA)
Them Flying Monkeys (PT)
Theo Bleak (Scotland)
Touchdown Jesus (US)
Truck Violence (CA)
Tsunamis (CL)
Tula Vera (US)
twst (UK)
url (US)
Van Vreeland (US)
Velveteen (UK)
Wax Jaw (US)
Wet Iguanas (ES)
Whisper Doll (US)
WIND MILE (DE)
Winkler (US)
World News (UK)
wyldest (UK)
Wynona Bleach (NI)
Yndling (NO)
YOU SAID STRANGE (FR)