Made In America 2017

I don't want to live in this world.

Depeche Mode makes zero sense for this festival, demographic-wise. The majority of their fanbase will not want to stand around with a bunch of 17-25 year olds all day and I imagine, for the price they ask for, they can get a lower teir "rock" band or pop headliner. That being said, they have the date open for maybe they're in talks? Also, for whatever reason, DM has a tendency to play AC rather than the proper Philadelphia area.

Ed Sheeran out via tour dates.

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
June 29 || Kansas City, MO || Sprint Center
June 30 || Des Moines, IA || Wells Fargo Arena
July 1 || St. Paul, MN || Xcel Energy Center
July 7 || Toronto, ON || Air Canada Centre
July 9 || Buffalo, NY || KeyBank Center
July 11 || Philadelphia, PA || Wells Fargo Center
July 14 || Uncasville, CT || Mohegan Sun Arena
July 15 || Uncasville, CT || Mohegan Sun Arena
July 18 || Quebec City, QC || Videotron Centre
July 19 || Montreal, QC || Bell Centre
July 22 || Winnipeg, MB || MTS Centre
July 23 || Saskatoon, SK || SaskTel Centre
July 25 || Edmonton, AB || Rogers Place
July 28 || Vancouver, BC || Rogers Arena
July 29 || Tacoma, WA || Tacoma Dome
July 30 || Portland, OR || Mode Center
August 1 || Sacramento, CA || Golden 1 Center
August 2 || Oakland, CA || Oracle Arena
August 4 || Las Vegas, NV || T-Mobile Arena
August 5 || Glendale, AZ || Gila River Arena
August 6 || San Diego, CA || Valley View Casino Center
August 10 || Los Angeles, CA || Staples Center
August 15 || Denver, CO || Pepsi Center
August 17 || Tulsa, OK || BOK Center
August 18 || Dallas, TX || American Airlines Center
August 19 || Houston, TX || Toyota Center
August 22 || San Antonio, TX || AT&T Center
August 25 || Duluth, GA || Infinite Energy Center
August 29 || Tampa, FL || Amalie Center
August 30 || Miami, FL || American Airlines Arena
August 31 || Orlando, FL || Amway Center
September 2 || Raleigh, NC || PNC Arena
September 3 || Charlotte, NC || Spectrum Center
September 5 || Charleston, SC || North Charleston Center
September 7 || Louisville, KY || KFC YUM! Center
September 8 || Indianapolis, IN || Bankers Life Fieldhouse
September 9 || Cleveland, OH || Quicken Loans Arena
September 12 || Omaha, NE || CenturyLink Center
September 15 || Chicago, IL || Allstate Arena
September 17 || St. Louis, MO || Scottrade Center
September 19 || Washington, DC || Verizon Center
September 22 || Boston, MA || TD Garden
September 26 || Pittsburgh, PA || PPG Paints Arena
September 27 || Detroit, MI || Little Caesars Arena
September 29 || Brooklyn, NY || Barclays Center
September 30 || Brooklyn, NY || Barclays Center
October 3 || Columbus, OH || Nationwide Arena
October 6 || Nashville, TN || Bridgestone Arena

Beale Street. Was he at music midtown?

Feel like RTJ is overdue to play this. They have no dates past Osheaga in August right now and it will have been 8 months since they were last in Philly.

Isn't he also booked for both nights of this festival?

Linkin Park, who are Jay-Z associates, would be a perfect fit for the "rock" headliner.   Same goes for Fall Out Boy.

Fall Out Boy are an arena act and have collaborated with Jay-Z before.   They can definitely move more tickets that Kings Of Leon and Nine Inch Nails in the US at this point.

With what part?  NIN hasn't been relevant to the under 35 crowd in at least a decade.    Kings Of Leon have been coasting ever since 2009 (relevancy-wise).   Fall Out Boy have re-branded themselves as a hip-hop infused pop/rock act this decade and done multiple arena/ampitheater tours since 2013. 

FOB do a great job at pulling 8-13k people each show when they tour...however, when was the last time they didn't do a co-headlining tour? They've morphed into Gary Glitter/Jock Jams style pop music, complete trash and going the Twenty One Pilots live route, with more backing tracks than live instruments.

However, if you throw them at the top of a festival bill, it will fail...badly...but, if there's one festival in the US that could get away with it, it's this trash bag. Kings of Leon and NIN have much more respected back catalogs and make for a much better festival headliner.

In 2016 they toured arenas with AWOLNATION and PVRIS as openers.   I agree they aren't going to be a top draw, headliner-wise, but I think they're a nice headliner to go with the usual EDM/Pop that this festival focuses on, and probably cheaper than most headliners.  

Given the fact they haven't even announced the festival is actually taking place (even though we all know it is), does anyone have even a whisper of possible rumors for this years lineup? I have gone every year other than last years due to the heavy Rap on the lineup. Hoping for a more diverse lineup like in past years (no offense DJ Khaled)

Do they have role models?

Early bird tickets went on sale on April 15th last year, so probably won't hear anything for another few weeks.