Lightning in a Bottle //
Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area – Bakersfield, CA
May 22nd-27th, 2024 //
Boom!
Following last week’s announcements that saw BottleRock, Coachella and BeachLife Festival reveal their 2024 plans, the dominoes continue to fall across California’s music festival landscape on a rainy day in January.
Just hours after Goldenvoice told us who will be playing Just Like Heaven in May, Lightning in a Bottle has become the latest music festival in the Golden State to release its lineup for 2024.
North America’s original boutique festival will once again call Buena Vista Lake home this year after a 2023 edition led by REZZ, SOFI TUKKER and ZHU, and this time LA-based promoter and production company Do LaB has secured another star-laden roster for the 21st year of its signature event.
Skrillex, Labrinth, Lane 8, James Blake and M.I.A. will lead the way over Memorial Day weekend while the undercard offers its own share of highlights, including ISOxo, Tipper, Fatboy Slim, CloZee, Nora En Pure, Bob Moses (Club Set), Cannons, Bomba Estéreo, Honey Dijon, Damian Lazarus, Mura Masa, Of The Trees and Floating Points. Plus, a dubstep set by Skream and sunset set by Tycho are a couple of other performances that piqued our interest at first glance. Check out the poster above to see who else has been booked to perform.
LIB has always been a great way to cure those Coachella blues just a month after leaving the desert, and we have certainly seen plenty of artists cross over from one to the other over the past decade — Skrillex and Labrinth, for instance, both performed in Indio last year. But the “transformational” festival has always attempted to be more than just “Coachella Light” by promoting the ideals of sustainability, social cohesion, personal health and creative expression through art, yoga, workshops and speakers, even if it hasn’t felt as such in previous years.
GA passes to LIB 2024 can be purchased here for $349 (three-day) and $419 (five-day), with VIP tickets up to $649 (three-day) and $779 (five-day), beginning this Wednesday, January 24th at 10 a.m. PT. Car camping and RV passes, group campsites, bed tents and family camp passes are also available, along with hotel packages for the first time that feature special rates from the fest’s local partners.
Thinking about going? Take a look at our past coverage of LIB here.
UPDATE (May 8th): We are just two weeks away, and LIB has revealed daily lineups with Honey Dijon leading Thursday’s abbreviated bill, Lane 8 and Blake sitting on Friday’s top line, Labrinth headlining on Saturday, and Skrillex plus M.I.A. closing things out Sunday. See the poster above for more details.
UPDATE (May 16th): Set times have landed as the 2024 installment of LIB quickly approaches in less than a week. Don’t forget the music now goes until 4 a.m. on Thursday-Sunday (after what used to be Friday-Sunday), so do your best not to expend all of your energy on the first day at Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area next weekend. See more details above.
[…] For those seeking more festival fun after Coachella’s two weekends, LIB has always been a great way to get back out there shortly after leaving the desert and it’s worth mentioning that plenty of artists have crossed over to play both. Of course, the Do LaB has made an imprint in Indio for quite some time with its own stage on the polo fields, but its signature event that has called Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area home since 2019 is more than just a laid-back version of what you might experience out in Indio. That’s in part due to the design and production company, which has specialized in creating interactive environments for fans, always giving as much attention to the ideals of sustainability, social cohesion, personal health and creative expression through art, yoga, workshops and speakers as the music that draws the majority of the headlines each year like Skrillex, Labrinth, Lane 8, James Blake & M.I.A. did a year ago. […]