Live 105’s BFD Music Festival returns this summer with Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups and Awolnation headlining.

The lineup for the concert on May 19 at Shoreline Amphitheater was revealed on air this morning on Live 105. In addition to the main stage, the concert features performers on three other stages: the Bud Light Festival Stage, the Subsonic Tent and the Local Soundcheck Stage.

Several South Bay bands are performing on the Soundcheck stage this year, including Picture Atlantic, Anya and the Get Down and The Trims, joined by San Francisco favorites Doe Eye, Rin Tin Tiger and Mister Loveless. An opening spot still remains for the band that wins Live 105’s local band contest.

The Subsonic Tent hosts some of electronic music’s biggest names with Diplo, Crystal Method and DJ Shadow. Oakland’s Wallpaper will also be DJing in the tent.

The Complete Lineup

MAIN STAGE
Thirty Seconds to Mars
Passion Pit
Silversun Pickups
Of Monsters and Men
AWOLNATION

BUDLIGHT FESTIVAL STAGE
Jimmy Eat World
The Airborne Toxic Event
Fitz and the Tantrums
Capital Cities
Atlas Genius
Youngblood Hawke
Twenty One Pilots
The Neighbourhood
Wavves
The Mowgli’s
New Politics
Gold Fields

SUBSONIC TENT
Diplo
The Crystal Method
DJ Shadow
Wallpaper.
Justin Martin/Dirtybird
Robert DeLong
K Theorty
Aaron Axelsen
Miles the DJ
St. John
Nick G

SOUNDCHECK LOCAL BAND STAGE
Tumbleweed Wanderers
Picture Atlantic
Finish Ticket
Anya & The Get Down
Mister Loveless
Doe Eye
The Trims
Rin Tin Tiger
Bonnie and the Bang Bang

BFD is May 19 at the Shoreline Amphitheater. Ticket presales start on Thursday, March 28. General sale opens on Saturday, March 30.

After a long wait for Coachella fans, festival organizers finally announced the 2013 lineup today with Blur, the Stone Roses, Phoenix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers  topping the bill.

After months of speculation and big rumors about the Rolling Stones and other heavyweights, the late announcement is a bit lackluster. Sure, the Chili Peppers are great (if they stick to the old stuff), Phoenix will have new material, and you can’t go wrong with SoCal punk from Social D. and the Descendents, but where’s the fire power?

Who’s going to live up to hologram Tupac, Prince playing purple rain in the dessert, Jay Z… the Beastie Boys? First impression: underwhelming.

Share you thoughts in the comments section.

Straying from it’s usual beat-orientate lineup, The Pagoda Lounge at The Fairmont Hotel presents a full rock-centered lineup for SVSX featuring Will Sprout (Mumlers), Fierce Creatures and Mike Huguenor (Shinobu) followed by an after-party DJ set by B.Lewis.

Will Sprott
11:30pm, Pagoda Lounge, Fairmont
South Bay fans may wonder where Will Sprott of the Mumlers has been. The singer/songwriter known for sparking the South Bay’s wave of freak-rock a few years ago hasn’t been nearly as ubiquitous here since he moved to the East Bay. But he’s been perhaps busier than ever. It’s been a couple of years now since the Mumlers’ second album, Don’t Throw Me Away. If the folky debut was surprising and offbeat enough to get Sprott national media attention, the follow-up surpassed it in every way with its grittier, Stax-on-acid soul.

Sprott, however, felt that in many ways he didn’t get to capitalize on the album’s strengths live, because it was just too hard to get the big Mumlers lineup on tour. In 2011, he decided to do some dates as a solo act.

He’s also been working on his follow-up to Don’t Throw Me Away, though he doesn’t yet know if it’ll be released under the Mumlers moniker, his own name or something else entirely. The upcoming album promises to be something unexpected. It’s not a revisiting of his sound on the last record—in fact, there are no horns at all. Instead, Sprott is focusing on bizarre new uses for vocal harmonies.

Fierce Creatures
10:30pm, Pagoda Lounge, Fairmont
Being a seven-piece indie-rock band gives Fierce Creatures the maneuverability to play exactly the kind of music they imagine. It also gives them plenty of room to layer in as many sounds and harmonies as they need to create gorgeous, dynamic-enriched arrangements.

They combine guitars, keyboards, drums, percussion and even some less-standard instruments like an occasional mandolin, harmonica and some bells—a tactic that creates a wall of sound larger than any one instrument. They work together to create new soundscapes, intense moods and crescendos, rather than focusing on any one member and showing off their chops.
Fierce Creatures tinker with musical styles indiscriminately, tactfully hodgepodging bits of pop, folk, soul, classic rock and experimental sounds into their songs to create something that is all their own. They dig for the most basic thread of childlike musical expression and re-interpret the standard rock & roll conventions to give new life to pleasantly familiar simple songs.

Mike Huguenor
9:30pm, Pagoda Lounge, Fairmont
“Agues,” the first song off Mike Huguenor’s solo album, Bardamu, is a solid, quirky alt-rock jam that rests nicely between the musical extremes of his various bands. There is Shinobu, his on-again-off-again neurotic jangle-pop quartet. Then there’s Hard Girls, the sophisticated, post-punk power trio. And of course there’s the Classics of Love, his old-school punk-rock group that’s fronted by none other than Jesse Michaels, the former lead singer of Operation Ivy.

Somehow, Huguenor also found time to record this solo EP and even shot a music video for “Agues,” which features him as every member of the band and every person in the audience. His solo material isn’t as overtly offbeat as Shinobu, or as complex as Hard Girls, or even as fierce as the Classics of Love. But what it does have is a newfound level of maturity that marries all of these elements and delivers them in an understated, clever way.

B. Lewis
12:30am, Pagoda Lounge, Fairmont
Producer and beatmaker B. Lewis is one of many local musicians influenced by Peanut Butter Wolf. Born and raised in San Jose, B. Lewis quickly came to appreciate Wolf’s legacy as a trailblazer once he started making music in 2009. “He definitely led the way, in the right way,” says Lewis.

Only 23 now, Lewis ironically didn’t discover labels like Stones Throw and Brainfeeder until he went away to Expression College in the East Bay. After college, Lewis moved back to San Jose. This spring, he finished the Egg Black EP, with singer Miles Bonny. What might surprise those who are only familiar with Lewis’ more experimental beats is the sleek and smooth sound of the songs’ soulful R&B.

Lewis’ newest release, A Lion’s Aperture, came out in late July, and delivers further proof of his willingness to push boundaries in a late-night groove. “Priority Number One” kicks off with spacey pinging sounds that evolve into an otherworldy wash of sound and vocal abstractions. “World Frozen Over” spins off in a swirl of sonic scat, anchored by strong keyboards.