The Postal Service will headline May's Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena, organizers announced Monday, marking a quick return to Southern California for the influential electro-pop group that brought its reunion tour to the Hollywood Bowl for a three-way affair nights in October.
Other acts on the bill for the one-day festival, which takes place May 18 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, include Phoenix, Death Cab for Cutie, War on Drugs, Miike Snow, Passion Pit and Alvvays.
Formed in the early 2000s by Ben Gibbard of Death Cab and producer Jimmy Tamborello (aka Dntel), and featuring Jenny Lewis on backing vocals, the Postal Service came together last year for the first time in a decade to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their platinum album. -certified debut, “Give Up”. On tour with Death Cab, the band performed the upbeat and tuneful “Give Up” from start to finish, while Death Cab performed the entirety of 2003’s “Transatlanticism”; Each group will do the same here.
Just Like Heaven, which debuted in 2019 in Long Beach before moving to the leafy grounds outside the Rose Bowl, is one of a growing number of music festivals built around specific scenes or eras; others include the emo-themed When We Were Young and the nu-metal-focused Sick New World, both recently launched in Las Vegas, and Cruel World, the goth and new wave extravaganza bringing its third edition to Brookside in May.
Like Cruel World, the nostalgic indie Just Like Heaven is brought to you by Los Angeles-based Goldenvoice, which also puts on the annual Coachella and Stagecoach megafestivals in Indio. This year's lineup also includes blog-era favorites like Two Door Cinema Club, Phantogram, Metric, Gossip, Tegan and Sara, Washed Out and CSS. In 2023, the festival featured Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, Future Islands and Empire of the Sun, among other acts.
Tickets for Just Like Heaven, which start at $159 and go up to $659 for various VIP packages, go on sale Friday.
