Sweden’s Way Out West Festival Adds Nine New Artists To the Lineup

The new additions include Black Star, Josef Slunge and Seun Kuti & Egypt 80.

Sweden’s Way Out West festival just keeps on getting bigger and bigger with the announcement of nine new artists to the lineup.

Headlining the new additions are Black Star, the iconic hip hop duo of Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli. Expect to hear all the classic tracks from their seminal album 1998 debut album, Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star.

Also appearing are boom bap rapper Westide Gunn alongside Smoke DZA, Afrobeat pioneer Seun Kuti with his band Egypt 80, Swedish singer Cherrie, emerging hip hop artist Mwuana, chart-topping Dizzy, hip-hop poet Erik Lundin, and local heroes Josef Slunge and Venus Anon.

These new artist join an already stacked Way Out West bill headlined by American superstar Chappell Roan alongside Charli xcx, Khruangbin, Fontaines D.C., Little Simz, Queens of the Stone Age, Beth Gibbons, Mall Grab, Refused, Kneecap, Eliza Rose, Wet Leg, MJ Lenderman and his band The Wind, Montell Fish and many more.

Held at the massive Slottsskogen parklands in the town of Gothenburg, Way Out West runs from Thursday, August 7, to Saturday, August 9. Tickets are on sale now via wayoutwest.se.

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First held in 2007 as a single-day music festival, Way Out West expanded to a three-day event in 2012. The festival features five stages spread throughout Slottsskogen, a huge parkland area in the town of Gothenburg.

Not only does the festival deliver a jam-packed lineup of awesome artists, but once each night finishes, the clubs and bars around the city put on gigs with international artists and throw massive parties for festival attendees to kick on well into the early morning.

The 2024 festival was a monster success with a bill headlined by the likes of The National, PJ Harvey, Fever Ray, Jack White, Fred Again.. and many more.

Way Out West takes place at Slottsskogen in Gothenburg from Thursday, August 7 to Saturday, August 9. Tickets on sale now via wayoutwest.se.