Troye Sivan to join Charli XCX at Primavera Sound

Charli XCX has announced she will reunite with Troye Sivan for her Primavera Sound Barcelona headline slot next year.

The 5 June performance will be the only European stop on their Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: SWEAT tour and follows their sold-out 22-date tour of North America last autumn, which saw the British and Australian artists play to almost 300,000 fans. Both acts performed separately at Primavera this year.

Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter will also headline the 5-7 June 2025 festival at Parc Del Fòrum.

Elsewhere in Spain, Madrid’s Mad Cool has released the first wave of acts for the 2025 edition, led by Olivia Rodrigo, Kings of Leon, Noah Kahan and Gracie Abrams.

Alanis Morissette, Weezer, Benson Boone, Justice, Iggy Pop, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Arde Bogotá, Residente, Glass Animals and St. Vincent are also on the bill. The festival will return to Iberdrola Music between 10–12 July.

Brazil’s The Town has lined up Green Day, Sex Pistols, Bruce Dickinson, Iggy Pop, Initial Capital, Pitty, CPM 22 and Supla & Innocents for 2025.

Organised by Rock in Rio founder Roberto Medina, the 100,000-cap festival will return to São Paulo between 6–7 and 12–14 September.

Portugal’s Nos Alive has announced an additional six acts: Barry Can’t Swim, Dead Poet Society, Finneas, Foster The People, Parov Stelar, Mother Mother and Sammy Virji.

They will perform at the Lisbon festival between 10–12 July and alongside previously announced acts such as Olivia Rodrigo, Kings of Leon, Amyl and The Sniffers, Artemas, Benson Boone, CMAT, girl in red and Glass Animals.

Poland’s Orange Warsaw has announced its first headliner, Charli XCX, who will deliver the final set of the festival.

The Alter Art-promoted event will return to Służewiec Horse Racing Track in Warsaw between 30–31 May.

The US is set to gain another new music festival called Starbase

France’s We Love Green has also secured Charli XCX for a headlining set alongside other acts including Air, Laylow, Gesaffelstein, Amelie Lens, Parcels, FKA Twigs and Bicep.

The festival will once again take place at Bois de Vincennes Park in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, between 6–8 June.

Across Europe, Austria’s Lido Sounds has confirmed Justice, Parcels and PaulWetz for the 2025 instalment, set to take place between 27–29 June on the banks of the Danube in Linz, Vienna.

City Splash – billed as the world’s biggest independent one-day celebration of Caribbean and African culture – will take over London’s Brockwell Park on the 26 May bank holiday.

Set to perform at the event is Jamaican roots reggae singer Tarrus Riley, queen of dancehall Spice, one of Jamaica’s brightest stars Valiant, the voice behind one of Dancehall’s biggest anthems ‘Drift’; Teejay and Afrobeats music collective The Compozers.

Live Nation-owned C3 Presents plans to launch a new rock festival in the US called Boardwalk Rock Festival.

The two-day event will take place between 17–18 May 2025 in Ocean City, Maryland, with some of the biggest names in rock history alongside contemporary favourites.

Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Nickelback, and Shinedown will headline the inaugural edition, with Bush, Chevelle, Three Days Grace and Flyleaf appearing further down the bill.

The US is also set to gain another new music festival called Starbase, launched by GRAMMY-nominated electronic music duo SLANDER in partnership with Insomniac.

The two-day event will take place between 25–26 April at Lake Perris in Southern California with more than 35 events.

A Hundred Drums, AU5, Before Dawn, Body Ocean, Bommer, Charles D, Codd Dubz, Control Freak, Copycatt, Dimension, Fairlane, FrostTop, Ivory, Kill the Noise, Lunice, Mha Iri, Moody Good B2B Chee, Nikademis and Pauline Herr are set to perform at the inaugural edition.

Meanwhile, St. Louis natives Nelly & Metro Boomin will launch a festival in their hometown next year featuring a mix of country and hip-hop music.

The festival announcement comes after St. Louis was notably snubbed from Nelly’s upcoming Where the Party At World Tour.

Details of the inaugural Smokin’ Hayride Festival are yet to be announced.

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