The 3rd annual installment of Governors Ball will take place June 7-9 in beautiful Randall’s Island Park, and feature the best in indie, hip-hop, electronic music, rock, pop, and more. Governors Ball will continue to build upon the incredible success of the past two years, incorporating additional performance areas to the festival grounds, expanding the scope and strength of the line up, and adding to and improving existing attractions and activities including art installations, games, gourmet food trucks, craft beer, wine vendors, and much more.
Ticket Price: $190 - $220
Headliners
Festival lineup
- Alt-J
- Animal Collective
- Azealia Banks
- Beach House
- Bear Mountain
- Beirut
- Best Coast
- Bloc Party
- Cherub
- Cold War Kids
- Crystal Castles
- Cut Copy
- Deerhunter
- Dillon Francis
- Dinosaur Jr
- Dirty Projectors
- Divine Fits
- Edware Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- Eykah Badu and the Cannabinoids
- Feist
- Foals
- Freddie Gibbs
- Fucked Up
- Gary Clark, Jr.
- Griz
- Grizzly Bear
- Guns N' Roses
- Haim
- Holy Ghost!
- Icona Pop
- Japandroids
- Kanye West
- Kendrick Lamar
- Kings of Leon
- Local Natives
- MS MR
- Moon Hooch
- Nas
- Of Monsters and Men
- On An On
- Pacific Air
- Paper Diamond
- Polica
- Portugal. The Man
- Pretty Lights
- Reignwolf
- Roadkill Ghost Choir
- Robert Delong
- Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics
- Solid Gold
- St. Lucia
- Steel Pulse
- Swear & Shake
- The Avett Brothers
- The Knocks
- The Lumineers
- The Revivalists
- The Vaccines
- The xx
- Thievery Corporation
- Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
- Twin Shadow
- Wild Nothing
- Yeasayer
- Young The Giant
Festival News and Rumors

Insane Clown Posse Announce Otherworldly 2023 Edition of Gathering of the Juggalos
The festival promises such such attractions as "ICP's Alien Probe Adventure"
Bryan Kress May 22, 2023

Hopscotch 2023: Pavement, Denzel Curry, Japanese Breakfast Top Lineup
Alvvays, Digable Planets, Soccer Mommy, and more will also hit the Raleigh fest this September.
Abby Jones May 19, 2023

Live Nation Offering $99 All-In Festival Tickets During Festival Weekend
Governors Ball Roots Picnic, Sound on Sound, and more are participating in the discount.
Carys Anderson May 17, 2023

The National's Homecoming 2023 Lineup Led by Patti Smith, Pavement, & The Walkmen
Weyes Blood, Snail Mail, and Bartees Strange will also play the Cincinnati festival.
Eddie Fu May 17, 2023

Riot Fest's Killer 2023 Lineup Led by Foo Fighters, The Cure & The Postal Service
Carys Anderson May 16, 2023

Guns N' Roses, Billie Eilish, and P!NK to Headline Music Midtown's 2023 Lineup
P!NK, The 1975, Flume, Incubus, and Tove Lo are also set to play the Atlanta festival.
Scoop Harrison May 16, 2023