WKNC is delighted to be the primary media sponsor for this year’s Phuzz Phest- Winston-Salem’s premiere annual music festival. This fourth annual event returns to the City of the Arts & Innovation’s burgeoning downtown area to thousands of music fans across the southeast. This year the festival will span three days from Friday April 4 through Sunday April 6, featuring their most potent and genre-spanning lineup yet with more than 50 musical acts coming from as far away as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn and Detroit.
Though far from NC’s largest music festival, Phuzz Phest has built its reputation on keenly curating the region’s best acts for a truly special weekend of music, offering attendees a rare opportunity to see critically-acclaimed artists alongside under-praised locals in settings more intimate than would otherwise be possible.
The 2014 lineup features headliners like L.A.’s pioneering noise-punk duo No Age, visionary rap legend Kool Keith, hypnotic alt-country songstress Jessica Lea Mayfield, and San Francisco psych-rock stalwarts White Fence. Festival alumni and Merge Records acts Mount Moriah & The Love Language make return appearances alongside Ex Hex, the new project of Mary Timony (Wild Flag, Autoclave, Helium) whose debut record is due in March via Merge Records. View the full lineup below, bold indicates headliners.
All Them Witches (Nashville, TN)
ASG (Wilmington, NC)
Bocanegra (Lima, Peru)
Body Games (Carrboro, NC)
Brain F/ (Charlotte, NC)
Caleb Caudle (New Orleans, LA)
Dark Prophet Tongueless Monk (Winston-Salem, NC)
Diarrhea Planet (Nashville, TN)
Drag Sounds (Greensboro, NC)
Eston & The Outs (Raleigh, NC)
Estrangers (Winston-Salem, NC)
Ex Hex (Washington, D.C.)
Ex-Cult (Nashville, TN)
Flagship (Charlotte, NC)
Human Pippi (Charlotte, NC)
I, Anomaly (Winston-Salem, NC)
IYEZ (Brooklyn, NY)
Jessica Lea Mayfield (Kent, OH)
Jews & Catholics (Winston-Salem, NC)
Josh Moore (Carrboro, NC)
Judy Barnes (Winston-Salem, NC)
Kool Keith (The Bronx, NY)
Libraries (Wilmington, NC)
Loamlands (Durham, NC)
Miss Eaves (Brooklyn, NC)
Mount Moriah (Durham, NC)
Must Be The Holy Ghost (Winston-Salem, NC)
No Age (Los Angeles, CA)
Primovanhalen (Winston-Salem, NC)
Spirit System (Winston-Salem, NC)
T0W3RS (Carrboro, NC)
The Bo-Stevens (Winston-Salem, NC)
The Genuine (Winston-Salem, NC)
The Love Language (Chapel Hill, NC)
The Nervous Ticks (Richmond, VA)
The Sweets (Winston-Salem, NC)
The Tills (Asheville, NC)
Toon & The Real Laww (Durham, NC)
Trioscapes (Greensboro, NC)
Twelve Thousand Armies (Drughorse, NC)
Uzzard (Winston-Salem, NC)
Whatever Brains (Raleigh, NC)
White Fence (San Francisco, NC)
Wilde Blood (Winston-Salem, NC)
Woodsman (Brooklyn, NY)
Yip Deceiver (Athens, GA)