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" Earlier this year, Governors Ball announced one of the most exciting lineups of the music festival season so far: Kanye West, The Strokes, Beck, and many more. For a mid-tier festival still in its adolescent years, this billing was a statement: A major music festival can thrive in New York. That wasn&amp;#039;t always the case.\u00A0For years, it has been damn near impossible for festival promoters to crack into\u00A0the city. In 2009, Goldenvoice and AEG Live held the second and final All Points West festival in Jersey City. The New York Times wrote in 2010: The New York market has proved particularly difficult for festival producers, who cite high costs and competition with the city&amp;#039;s rich cultural calendar as obstacles to establishing a successful event. Over the last 10 years a number of festivals have been tried in and around New York, including Field Day, Bonnaroo N.E., Across the Narrows and Vineland, but none have taken root. Space is always a challenge in this city (just ask any twentysomething living in a 4x4 closet). And fitting tens of thousands of people into one spot for an outdoor event is a total pain in the ass. Governors Ball found a spot, though:\u00A0Randall&amp;#039;s Island. It&amp;#039;s pretty much wide open, it&amp;#039;s not terribly difficult to get to, and, it&amp;#039;s in\u00A0the middle of the East River so\u00A0you can be pretty much as loud as you want. Governors Ball was thriving, and Goldenvoice/AEG live\u2014the company behind Coachella in Southern California\u2014took notice. In January, it\u00A0announced it would be bringing a major music festival to New York City. Now, after some messy turf battles between Governors Ball and Goldenvoice/AEG, the latter\u00A0is bringing Panorama Music Festival to Randall&amp;#039;s Island. Taking place on July 22-24 (a month and a half after\u00A0Governors Ball on June 3-5), Panorama will bring an equally incredible lineup, which it announced today,\u00A0\u00A0including\u00A0Arcade Fire (who headlined Coachella in 2014), Kendrick Lamar, and the newly reunited LCD Soundsystem (who is headlining Coachella in April). See the full lineup below. Cry me a river, NYC, many of you are probably saying. Fair enough. But with the successful spread of a Coachella-esque\u00A0festival here, think of where they&amp;#039;ll\u00A0go\u00A0next.\u00A0We&amp;#039;re looking at you, Topeka.\u00A0  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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