OffBeat Joins 2014 Hangout Music Festival as Media Partner

In January, the Hangout Music Festival announced the lineup for its fifth annual beachfront retreat in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Set for May 16-18, 2014, the three-day, six-stage, 60-plus band festival will feature headliners the Black Keys, Outkast and the Killers as well as Queens of the Stone Age, Modest Mouse, Zedd, Wiz Khalifa, Jack Johnson, Fitz and the Tantrums and scores more.

Black Keys, Hangout Music Festival, 2014, press photo

The Black Keys lead a stacked bill at the fifth annual Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama on May 16-18, 2014.

For the first time in the Hangout’s history, OffBeat will join the festival as an official media partner. On stage, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue will represent the Big Easy at the Gulf Shores gathering. This performance will mark the New Orleans supafunkrock ensemble’s second appearance at the fest, a feat it shares with fellow acts the Black Keys, Portugal. The Man, Pretty Lights, Amos Lee, the Avett Brothers, Allen Stone and Soja. Psychedelic rockers the Flaming Lips, space jammers Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) and mashup mastermind Girl Talk (which will perform at the festival’s official pre-party on Thursday, May 15) will play the Hangout for the third time. While the Hangout Music Festival has yet to release its daily schedules, the full 2014 bill is listed below.

$299 general admission, $999 V.I.P. and $1599 Super V.I.P. tickets for the Hangout are currently on sale online. V.I.P. tickets include complimentary snacks, beverages, beer, wine and spirits and access to a shaded grove, air-conditioned restrooms, special viewing areas at two stages and a swimming pool at the main stage. Super V.I.P. tickets include all V.I.P. amenities plus entry into the pre-party, golf cart transportation from the festival’s concierge service, meals provided by celebrity chefs and access an to air-conditioned dining room and an elevated viewing area with hot tubs at the main stage. General admission tickets for the Thursday night pre-party featuring Girl Talk are slated to go on sale later this month. Lodging information including travel packages from recommended resorts can be found on the Hangout’s website. Also, $50, three-day shuttle passes can be added to each purchase. All shuttle pass purchasers are entered into the festival’s “Golden Shuttles” program, which surprises passengers on random buses with pop-up concerts, prizes, games, V.I.P. upgrades, snacks and other goodies.

OffBeat proudly supports the Hangout Music Festival. Stay tuned to OffBeat.com for Hangout-related news and updates in the upcoming months and visit hangoutmusicfest.com for more information.
 

Hangout Music Festival 2014 Complete Lineup

The Black Keys
The Killers
Outkast
Jack Johnson
Queens of the Stone Age
Pretty Lights
Avett Brothers
Modest Mouse
The Flaming Lips
STS9
Wiz Khalifa
Zedd
Childish Gambino
Amos Lee
Conor Oberst
Tegan and Sara
Portugal The Man
Fitz and the Tantrums
Capital Cities
Needtobreathe
Boys Noize
The Bloody Beetroots Live
Ingrid Michaelson
Los Lobos
Blackberry Smoke
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Bastille
Chance The Rapper
Soja
Allen Stone
The 1975
ALO
Claude VonStroke
Andrew W.K.
Black Lips
Brodinski Moon Taxi
Little Green Cars
Tom Odell
Balkan Beat Box
Valerie June
Wild Belle
RAC
Daedelus
Robert DeLong
heRobust
RDGLDGRN
Shakey Graves
Bronze Radio Return
Wild Cub
Le1f Reignwolf
Gemini Club
The Wans
Diarrhea Planet
Bad Suns
Desert Noises
John and Jacob
Ethan Tucker
Mystery Skulls
The Lonely Biscuits
Los Colognes
Bagheera
Dugas