Big Ears 2027 Has Jeff Tweedy, Wednesday, Oneohtrix Point Never, & Much More

Big Ears, the experimentally inclined Knoxville music festival, revealed its 2027 lineup today. The event is not organized around traditional headliners, but Jeff Tweedy is the first name in the press release, followed by Robert Glasper, Natalie Merchant, Brad Mehldau, Weyes Blood, Courtney Barnett, Dinner Party, Kronos Quartet, Jim James, Thundercat, Rosanne Cash with John Levanthal, Gustavo Santaolalla (performing Ronroco), Sylvan Esso, Oneohtrix Point Never, Penguin Café, Chucho Valdés, Wednesday, Hannibal Buress, and Mon Rovîa. There's much more on the docket beyond that initial cloud of names, like this other cloud that touts Cornelius, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Evan Ziporyn & Maya Beiser: Bowie Cello Symphonic (an orchestral interpretation of Blackstar), Ndudzu Makhathini, Valerie June, Sleaford Mods, Midori Tanaka, Mouse On Mars, SML, Melvins, Mavis Staples, the Womack Sisters, Bob James, Daniel Lanois, David Murray, Meat Puppets, Dirty Projectors, and Kali Malone.More names that get a lot of attention here at Stereogum: Mount Eerie, Kevin Morby, U.S. Girls, Tyondai Braxton, Finom, Dave Harrington, Jeremiah Chiu, the Whitney Johnson/Lia Kohl/Macie Stewart trio, L'Rain, Liam...