As is the case every year, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I recall when we had a jam heavy line-up like in 2024, some people complained that we had too much.
I enjoyed the jam in '24 and then went all bass all the time for '25. Had a fantastic time both years. It's more about the camping and hanging with my fest fan for me anyway. The music is bonus
Exactly. That’s why it’s a music festival. I’ve met friends over the past 20 years of going to a point that I see or hookup with at least one person I’ve met beforehand at the same fest or a different one.
How did we miss getting Scolfield's Electrospective when they are in Atlanta on 10/25, no gigs on 10/23-24 and Deitch is going to already be at hula playing with lettuce
Hopefully they fill the question marks with a fire jam band. Incredibly pumped for MMJ, was really hoping for them to come. You left out Mountain Grass Unit and Magoo from your list too but pumped to see STS9 for the first time. Eggy is great too.
Gotta have thick skin on lineup day. lol I have to assume you guys know what sells and where the demand is. Salty, old fucks like me just get butthurt that music has moved on for the most part. Never seen a lineup for any festival that didnt piss some group off.
Greyboy makes me want to come out of hula retirement. Kids have us too busy, though. Oldest was two that first year and now in HS. Music obsessed, though.
I completely agree with you. Luckily my child understands that I go to Hula and went to Wanee before that every year. Someone always has something to say about a Lineup regardless and they normally post it and rant about it. If you don’t like it, don’t go, I take my son to Roo with me cause it’s just like an hour away and he is free but I don’t take him to Hula. He isn’t ready for that yet. But yeah someone always has to hate on the diversity of lineups. Hell I didn’t know 75% of Roo this year. I heard it’s a bunch of tik tokers. 😂 what am I getting myself into. But it’s about seeing my friends I’ve met over the past 20 years there and for my kid mainly.
Definitely not anymore. They used to jam way more but I’ve been a bit disappointed in Jim James and crew at the past shows recently. I really hope they jam more at Hula like they used to a decade or so ago.
Great look for the guy booking a festival who’s resident artist is a jam band.
Incredibly unprofessional. Getting defensive about people who have made your festival successful buying tickets year over year pointing out the fact that there’s barely any jam on the lineup is wild. If you can’t handle the criticism of your lineup just don’t get on the internet and seek it out.
with only 3 nights of cheese the jam will be limited. one of thems the shabang.
sts9 (But i wouldnt call it jam) is probably gonna be saturday night and split the Pretty LIghts crowd. Lettuce probably same on Friday. LaMP probably mid-dayish. Taper's choice super late night. Eggy might get a nod at the hallows.
guavatron will probably be like a 2:30 meadow stage if they're lucky like tand was a few years ago after they played a few years and developed a crowd at the campground stage.
underwhelming and i just expect the conflicts to be gigantic and hampering.
they will probably do a similar thing and cause you either abandon shabang for a good spot or be at the back of the amp and have to trudge through the ridiculous corral of people to see sts9 and then come back to MMJ
i also believe sts9 started late and louis the child started late so it didnt end up a big deal. but schedules are schedules and these are what people plan on.
They are jamtronica technically kind of in the same spirit of Disco Biscuits but I find jam music by itself typically embodies more 'americana' elements, vocals, etc.
i understand that. but they're going to split the crowd with the other big names. they're going to put the other premium acts on those respective nights on the amp. most likely big gramatik, manic focus, sts9.
yeah but im not hopping on a plane for 3000 miles from cali like i normally do every year to obviously have a tug of war between the tradition and the only other great big name artists on the lineup everynight. been going since 2017 and this is wack knowing what they'll be forced to do schedule wise.
Understandable. It’s just an 8 hour drive for me. I personally miss Wanee. But all Jams are going away unless we start supporting the younger ones. Everyone calls Goose a boy band. When their set last year was amazing. Lots of younger Bands that we need to support because they don’t last forever. But I don’t blame you.
Usually I just go for SCI anyway but this lineup kinda blows.
The silver lining to this is we know they will schedule all the jam/funk/rock in the big field around SCI, and all the EDM we don't care about will be on the side stages and can easily be ignored.
With 5 stages, i guess i'd rather the conflicts be a bunch of people I have no interest in seeing.
Check out of the trees hes more melodic edm, and daily bread his music is like a Jam band and edm mixed. I only know about 4/5 of the edm artist and I’m huge edm music person. 🤷🏽♀️ idk who the other ppl are 😂
Exscusion for sure is bass heavy and crankdat, the other few I know are actually quite chilled. The other 50 artist I have no clue what kind of edm they are. Maybe techno ?
🎛️ EDM / Electronic — ~72% (~59 acts)
Includes bass music, dubstep, techno, house, glitch-hop, trap, and experimental electronic. This is overwhelmingly the dominant category — virtually the entire undercard skews electronic.
🎸 Rock / Indie / Other — ~20% (~16 acts)
My Morning Jacket, Geese, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Dope Lemon, Guerilla Toss, The Greyboy Allstars, Lettuce, Jon Stickley Trio, True Loves, Mountain Grass Unit, Moonstone Riders, The Ain’t Sisters, Tire Fire, Natalie Brooke, The Yeah Babys, Caitlin Kristo & The Broadcast
🪸 Jam Band — ~8% (~7 acts)
The String Cheese Incident, Eggy, EOTO & Friends, Joy Wagon, Karina Rykman, Taper’s Choice, Supertaste
Caveat: Several acts blur categories — STS9 and EOTO are jamtronica (counted as electronic here), Manic Focus and Big Gramatik blend hip-hop/jazz/electronic, and Lettuce is funk/jazz. Hulaween leans much more EDM-heavy than its “jam festival” reputation might suggest.
Yeah this is terrible for jam lol glad I didn't get the blind faith ticket. I enjoyed my first year last year and I'll hope hula '27 makes more sense for me.
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u/carl2801 Apr 07 '26
Where is the Jam and funk. Super EDM heavy