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Jan 27, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Rilo Kiley have confirmed that they are reuniting to perform at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena, CA, in the Los Angeles area. The full lineup for the festival has also been confirmed and it features Vampire Weekend, Slowdive, TV on the Radio, Courtney Barnett, Perfume Genius, Wild Nothing, Peter Bjorn and John, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Panda Bear, Toro y Moi, and more. The festival happens May 10 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl. The full lineup is below. The band have also shared a teaser trailer that implies that more shows might be announced soon. Watch that below as well.

Rilo Kiley is Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre De Reeder, and Jason Boesel. They formed in 1998 and released four full-length studio albums: Take Offs and Landings (2001), The Execution of All Things (2002), More Adventurous (2004), and Under the Blacklight (2007).

They were one of the core bands we covered in the early days of Under the Radar. We first interviewed them in Issue 3 of our print magazine for The Execution of All Things (in what was one of the band’s first magazine photo shoots) and then we had them on the cover of Issue 6 for More Adventurous. The band broke up in 2011, with Lewis going on to a successful solo career, as well as performing with The Postal Service, and the other members staying active with various other projects. Lewis has also appeared on our cover twice, once solo and once on our Best of the Decade group cover in 2009. Rilo Kiley haven’t performed as a band together since 2008.

The band collectively had this to say about their reunion in a press release: “We are so very excited to come back together for Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, California—Los Angeles. As a band, we began here, and we feel so fortunate to return among so many artists and friends, to this community we hold so dear, in such a beautiful and meaningful place.”

The festival’s lineup and the band’s reunion for it were recently leaked/teased via a billboard on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles featuring the festival’s whole lineup.

Read our 2008 cover story interview with Jenny Lewis.

Read our 2015 interview with Lewis.

Just Like Heaven 2025 Lineup:

Beach Fossils
Bloc Party
Chris Cruse
Courtney Barnett
Empire of the Sun
GROUPLOVE
Hercules & Love Affair (Live)
Panda Bear
Perfume Genius
Peter Bjorn and John
Ra Ra Riot
Rilo Kiley
Slowdive
The Drums
The Sounds
Them Jeans
Toro y Moi
TV on the Radio
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Vampire Weekend
Wild Nothing

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