Firefly Music Festival 2015

AXS TV ANNOUNCES FIREFLY ARTISTS AND HOSTS FOR MUSIC FESTIVAL BROADCAST JUNE 19 TO 21, STARTING AT 7 P.M. ET/4 P.M. PT EACH NIGHT

Coverage Includes Performances from:

Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, Bastille, Sublime with Rome, AWOLNATION, Cage the Elephant, Foster the People and More

Carla Marie and Anthony from ‘Elvis Duran and the Morning Show on iHeartRadio’ Serve as Hosts for the Three-Day Broadcast

LOS ANGELES – June 16, 2015 – The Firefly Music Festival makes its national television debut on AXS TV with 17 hours of coverage over three days from Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21. Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse, AWOLNATION, Bastille, Sublime with Rome, Hozier, Cage the Elephant, Foster the People, Dirty Heads and more perform as part of AXS TV’s broadcast beginning nightly at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT.

AXS TV has named Carla Marie and Anthony from the nationally syndicated “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show on iHeartRadio” and the “My Day Friday” podcast as co-hosts for the weekend’s TV festival broadcast. The pair will be on site to guide viewers through the weekend, hosting wraps and exclusive artist interviews during the Firefly broadcast.

AXS TV’s daily artist line-up for Firefly is as follows (does not reflect broadcast order, line-up subject to change):

Friday, June 19	Saturday, June 20	Sunday, June 21
Modest Mouse	Kings of Leon	Bastille
AWOLNATION	Sublime with Rome	Empire of the Sun
Cage the Elephant	Foster the People	Hozier
Walk the Moon	Spoon	Cold War Kids
Kygo	Dirty Heads	Benjamin Booker
Manchester Orchestra	Gary Clark Jr.	Bahamas
Echosmith	Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
Sylvan Esso	Sturgill Simpson

AXS TV will re-air each night’s Firefly broadcast the next day as follows:

Broadcast	Re-air
Friday, June 19 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT	Saturday, June 20 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
Saturday, June 20 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT	Sunday, June 21 at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT
Sunday, June 21 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT	Monday, June 22 at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT

In conjunction with AXS TV’s season of music festivals, Firefly viewers will be able to access special festival-specific content on an all-new interactive microsite via www.axs.tv/festival/firefly. Using a broadcast alert center, social media updates, in-depth blog posts, minute-by-minute broadcast lineups, and a social interaction page, viewers will be able to stay updated on breaking news from all of their favorite acts, ensuring they won’t miss a second of their most anticipated performances.

About the Author

Nicole DeRosa joined the All Access Music Group family in February 2012. She loves the infectious energy and enthusiasm of the music industry and she feels right at home having music compliment her every day. Nicole blends her experience and skills which she has culled from her time working in New York as a photo researcher and editor at Entertainment Weekly and Harpers Bazaar Magazine. After New York, Nicole moved to London for school and there she stood in line for hours on Oxford Street to hear Paul McCartney play an impromptu concert on a rooftop. Another notable experience while living in London was her first time ever calling into a radio station, she won an invite to a record release party with the Beastie Boys for their album 'Ill Communication'. "I love London as it has such a vibrant and diverse music scene and I couldn't help but go out every night to check out gig after gig. It was a wonderful time." Living near the notable Sherpards Bush Empire music venue one of her most favorite concerts to date was seeing Bjork. Nicole has also worked for Walt Disney World in Product Development and later went on to work at Disney's Feature Animation Archives in Florida. Nicole has a passion for travel and adventure and has always wanted to live in California so she packed up and moved four years ago to the "left coast" and has been loving it ever since.