San Francisco’s Portola returns to rave another day in front of the shipping cranes at Pier 80, and the massive music festival just announced its 2025 lineup.
LCD Soundsystem, who ruled the Brooklyn electroclash scene of the 2000s, performs Saturday, Sept. 20, along with U.K. big beat legends the Chemical Brothers, who’ll be playing a DJ set in the warehouse. Anti Up, an EDM and tech-house duo made up of Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo, will also headline, on the heels of rocking a massive crowd at Coachella. Continuing Portola’s venerable tradition of booking at least one throwback pop artist (Natasha Bedingfield was last year), Christina Aguilera will break up the schedule of nonstop DJs to perform live.
Portola continues on Sunday, Sept. 21, with “Firestarter” hitmakers The Prodigy (whose singer Keith Flint died in 2019), and a live set by Moby. DJ, producer and singer Peggy Gou, whose Korean-language house anthems have fueled dance floors world over, will also perform alongside punk-rapper Rico Nasty, art-pop singer Blood Orange, experimental producer Arca, R&B singer Revyn Lenae and more.
Tickets for Portola go on sale at 12 p.m. on Thursday, May 15. More details here.
