XL Recordings

With Yeasayer, the Killers, Atmosphere and Brother Ali, Blitzen Trapper, Mates of State

The lineup for the fourth annual Stateside edition of the multi-day, multi-city Download Festival is upon us, and like a cluttered desktop folder saving the finest of the web's offerings for later, it's a little bit all over the place. But by design, of course: the Download Fest comes to San Francisco's Shoreline Amphitheatre July 19, hits L.A.'s Gibson Amphitheatre the following day, July 20, and heads to Camden, New Jersey's Susquehanna Bank Center on August 2.

Not everybody's making the long haul from the Bay all the way to New Jersey, so we've broken it down this way. The San Francisco show on July 19 features, among others, M83, Cut Copy, Yeasayer, Atmosphere and Brother Ali, Blitzen Trapper, RJD2, Mates of State, Flosstradamus, Tapes 'n Tapes, the Duke Spirit, and Datarock, among others.

They'll lose Cut Copy somewhere outside of Bakersfield, picking up Caribou, Kaki King, the Night Marchers, and, er, Ghostland Observatory just in time for the L.A. show. (M83, Yeasayer, Atmosphere and Brother Ali, Blitzen Trapper, RJD2, Mates of State, Flosstradamus, Tapes 'n Tapes, the Duke Spirit, and Datarock will all play in L.A.)

Though there's certainly some overlap, this nifty game of addition and subtraction doesn't work too well for the Camden showcase, so we'll just lay that one on you straight: Iggy and the Stooges, the Killers, Man Man, Mates of State, the Stills, the Duke Spirit, the Enemy, and, yes, Ghostland Observatory join the bill just across the river from Philadelphia.