Organizers of Life Is Beautiful have announced a new festival coming to Downtown Las Vegas. A Big Beautiful Block Party will take place over two days from September 27-28 and will showcase headliners Peggy Gou, Justice, and LCD Soundsystem. The event will feature two stages, non-overlapping sets, and performances from Jamie XX, Jungle, James Blake, Thundercat, Toro y Moi, Badbadnotgood, Neil Frances, LP Giobbi, Empress Of, John Talabot, and Fifi.
Tickets for the festival will go on sale tomorrow (June 27) at 10 am PT. General admission prices will be $199, and VIP tickets will be priced at $399. Festival-goers will enjoy non-stop music from 5 pm to 2 am each day.
In a statement released on Instagram, Life Is Beautiful organizers said that while this year’s festival was on pause, the Big Beautiful Block Party would keep alive the tradition of gathering in Downtown Las Vegas. The statement continued that the organizers were “incredibly excited to reimagine and evolve the experience for you, the fans, and the wonderful community that surrounds us. We can’t wait to see you again.”
Previous headliners of the Life Is Beautiful festival include The Killers, Kendrick Lamar, and Odesza, while Bebe Rexha, The 1975, Omar Apollo, and Kim Petras also performed.
Peggy Gou, one of the festival’s headliners, recently released her debut album, I Hear You. In a three-star review, NME said of Gou’s music that “she balances class and kitsch equally… When it works, it’s like finding dance music for the first time. ‘I Hear You’ has a pureness that will give many that feeling.
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