The Hangout Music Festival (commonly referred to as Hangout Fest or Hangout) is an annual three-day music festival held at the public beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. It was founded by A.J. Niland and Shaul Zislin in 2012, and is produced by Huka Entertainment. The event features many genres of music, including rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic dance music. It is the first major music festival held on the beach in the city.
Line-ups All information taken from various sources."Past Lineups - Hangout Music Festival". Headline performers are listed in Boldface.
2010
The inaugural Hangout Beach Festival was held on May 14–16, 2012. The headliners were Trey Anastasio Band, Zac Brown Band, and John Legend. Other notable performers included: The Roots, Ben Harper and Relentless7, The Black Crowes, Guster, Keller Williams, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Gov’t Mule, Ray Lamontagne, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Matisyahu, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, North Mississippi Allstars Duo, Pnuma Trio ALO, Papa Mali, The Whigs, Ozomatli, OK Go, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Toubab Krewe, Needtobreathe, Jeff Austin & Friends, Moon Taxi, and Girl Talk.
2011 The 2011 Hangout Music Festival took place on May 20–22, 2011. The festival added another stage and began booking larger headlining acts. Attendance had to be capped at 35,000 per day, an unprecedented number for the second year of a music festival in the region, due to safety concerns. The 2011 event was estimated to have generated approximately $30 million for the Gulf Shores area economy.
Thursday Hangout Stage Dumpstaphunk Big Sam's Funky Nation Moon Taxi Andrew Duhon Kristy Lee and Romany Rye
Friday Hangout Stage Surf Style Stage Boom Boom Room Grooveshark Stage Shaka Island Widespread Panic Warren Haynes Band Umphrey's McGee Kristy Lee My Morning Jacket Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Brandi Carlile Bassnectar Beats Antique Karl Denson's Tiny Universe STS9 Soja Easy Star All-Stars Cas Haley Railroad Earth Greensky Bluegrass Honey Island Swamp Band Jambo The Baby Grands The Q Brothers Hangout Late-Night Tent Hangout Late-Night Stage Bassnectar with Beats Antique (DJ set) Rich Aucoin Live in 3D! with Lynx.
Saturday Hangout Stage Surf Style Stage Boom Boom Room Grooveshark Stage Shaka Island Foo Fighters The Avett Brothers Cee Lo Green (scheduled, but no-show. Foo Fighters filled in with a covers set.) Slightly Stoopid Mariachi El Bronx The Flaming Lips Primus Minus the Bear Medeski Martin & Wood Pretty Lights Big Gigantic Xavier Rudd Rich Aucoin Motörhead Khris Royal and Dark Matter Dead Confederate Civil Twilight Lennon Bus Rival Sons Jon Black The Verve Pipe School of Rock Peter D & Tor The Baby Grands Lunch Money Jambo Hangout Late-Night Tent Hangout Late-Night Stage Pretty Lights with Big Gigantic Tony Clifton & The Katrina Kiss-My-Ass Orchestra
Sunday Hangout Stage Surf Style Stage Boom Boom Room Grooveshark Stage Shaka Island Paul Simon Michael Franti & Spearhead Amos Lee Keller Williams The Black Keys Ween Matisyahu Portugal. The Man Girl Talk Drive-By Truckers Old Crow Medicine Show Jonathan Tyler and the Northern Lights Galactic Trombone Shorty & Orleans Ave JJ Grey and Mofro Truth and Salvage Co. Roman Street Justin Townes Earle A Thousand Horses The Verve Pipe Keller Williams Lunch Money Peter D & Tor The Q Brothers Michael Franti School of Rock DJ Jimmy Boom
2012 The 2012 festival took place May 18–20, 2012. Advance tickets for the 2012 event, which continued to be capped at 35,000 attendees per day, sold out within one hour. General admission tickets sold out on February 21, 2012, almost three months prior to the event.
Thursday Xbox Stage BP Kids Stage Big Gigantic BoomBox Perpetual Grooves Nobody Beats the Drum The Revivalists Zoogma Preservation Hall Jazz Band Dirty Dozen Brass Band Delta Rae The Kingston Springs Tauk
Friday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Xbox Stage "Letting Go" Stage BP Kids Stage Jack White The Avett Brothers Chris Cornell Coheed & Cambria Rebelution Wilco M. Ward Alabama Shakes Sleeper Agent STS9 Paul Oakenfold Yelawolf Rich Aucoin Hey Rosetta! Umphrey's McGee Dawes Allen Stone Switchfoot Gravity A Zoogma ZNI The School of Rock Big Bang Boom Special Guest Peter Distefano & Tor John Yost's Rhythm Revolution The Q Brothers DJ Jimmy Boom Boom
Saturday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Xbox Stage "Letting Go" Stage BP Kids Stage Red Hot Chili Peppers Dispatch Gary Clark, Jr. Julian Marley & the Uprising Givers The String Cheese Incident Gogol Bordello Randy Newman Tribal Seeds Shpongle Kaskade Skrillex Mac Miller Archnemesis Flogging Molly Dr. Dog Heartless Bastards The Devil Makes Three Future Birds Fort Atlantic Machines Are People Too Johnnie Leeds & the Nightlights Special Guest The School of Rock Peter Distefano & Tor Jim Cosgrove Big Bang Boom DJ Jimmy Boom Boom
Sunday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Xbox Stage "Letting Go" Stage BP Kids Stage Dave Matthews Band Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros Michael Franti & Spearhead The Greyboy Allstars The Flaming Lips performing The Dark Side of the Moon Steve Winwood Mavis Staples The Lumineers Zeds Dead Paper Diamond Big Freedia & the Divas Cherub G. Love & Special Sauce Cage the Elephant Young the Giant Delta Spirit Jamie Bergeron & the Kickin' Cajuns Space Capone Flannel Church Jim Cosgrove Special Guest The Q Brothers Peter Distefano & Tor Johnnie Leeds & the Nightlights The School of Rock DJ Jimmy Boom Boom
2013 The 2013 festival took place May 17–19, 2013. The 2013 festival sold out as well, but failed to meet the previous year's "rapid sellout" of general admission tickets.
Thursday Letting Go Stage Boom Boom Tent Umphrey's McGee Railroad Earth Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors Hayes Carll Johnnyswim Reptar St. Paul and The Broken Bones Benny Benassi Dillon Francis Lotus Conspirator Quixotic Wick-it the Instigator Future Rock
Friday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Letting Go Stage BMI Stage Boom Boom Tent Kings of Leon Passion Pit Jim James The Breeders Twin Sister The Shins Grizzly Bear Toots and the Maytals Lissie Ryan Bingham Big Gigantic The Sheepdogs Twenty One Pilots Anders Osbourne The Weeks Luella and the Sun Colin Lake Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Afrojack Ra Ra Riot Lance Herbstrong
Saturday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Letting Go Stage BMI Stage Boom Boom Tent Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers The Black Crowes Gov’t Mule Shovels & Rope Delta Rae Bassnectar The Roots Dirty Projectors Nick Bluhm and the Gramblers Slightly Stoopid Holy Ghost! The Bright Light Social Hour The Werks The Tontons Kingston Springs The Mowgli's Wild Cub Kendrick Lamar Wolfgang Gartner Public Enemy Brassft Punk
Sunday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Letting Go Stage BMI Stage Boom Boom Tent Stevie Wonder Yeah Yeah Yeahs Ellie Goulding Grouplove Trey Anastasio Band Imagine Dragons Galactic Best Coast Bloc Party moe. Moon Taxi The Revivalists Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit Space Capone Chancellor Warhol The Wild Feathers Steve Aoki Porter Robinson Baauer Zion I
2014 The 2014 festival took place May 16–18, 2014. 40,000 tickets were sold, up from the previous audience cap of 35,000. The 2014 festival was the first to allow access to the Gulf of Mexico, which was previously restricted to security and artists.
Thursday Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Red Bull Sound Select Stage Girl Talk Danny Brown Bonobo Wolfmother Iron & Wine Bleachers Go Down Moses Dumpstaphunk Bombay Bicycle Club Jamestown Revival Magic Man
Friday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Red Bull Sound Select Stage BMI Stage The Black Keys Gary Clark Jr. Dawes Balkan Beat Box Ozomatli Queens of the Stone Age Wiz Khalifa Ingrid Michaelson Allen Stone STS9 Childish Gambino Claude VonStroke RAC Herobust Conor Oberst The 1975 Valerie June Black Lips Gemini Club Bad Suns John and Jacob Los Colognes Wild Cub Underhill Family Orchestra Bronze Radio Return Empires
Saturday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Red Bull Sound Select Stage BMI Stage The Killers Modest Mouse Amos Lee Needtobreathe RDGLDGRN The Flaming Lips Matt & Kim Tegan and Sara Little Green Cars Pretty Lights The Bloody Beetroots Tommy Trash Robert DeLong Daedelus Fitz and the Tantrums Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Animal Liberation Orchestra Diarrhea Planet Moon Taxi Moon Taxi (as People of the Sun) The Electric Sons The Black Cadillacs Wild Belle The Lonely Biscuits Shakey Graves Desert Noises
Sunday Hangout Stage Chevrolet Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Red Bull Sound Select Stage BMI Stage OutKast The Avett Brothers Capital Cities Soja Josh Farrow Jack Johnson Portugal. The Man Bastille Blackberry Smoke Zedd Boys Noize Mimosa Caked Up Andrew W.K. Los Lobos Reignwolf Tom Odell Mystery Skulls The Tontons LE1F Wrestlers (Bagheera) St. Paul and The Broken Bones The Wans Ethan Tucker Dugas
2015 The 2015 edition took place May 15–17, 2015.
Friday Hangout Stage Surf Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Salt Life Stage BMI Stage Malibu Beach HouseFoo Fighters Spoon Jenny Lewis Trampled by Turtles Jamell RichardsonParamore Umphrey's McGee Dirty Heads Charles Bradley and His ExtraordinairesJack Ü Gramatik Lupe Fiasco Five Knives SNBRNGalactic with Macy Gray Cold War Kids Zella Day JoywaveJ Roddy Walston and the Business Roadkill Ghost Choir DJ Windows 98 Deap VallyGrizfolk Houndmouth Halsey SteelismjackLNDN Autograf Sean Glass Mija SNBRN Gibbz Spice J
Saturday Hangout Stage Surf Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Salt Life Stage BMI Stage Malibu Beach HouseZac Brown Band Drive-By Truckers Future Islands Sylvan Esso Xavier Rudd & the United NationsSkrillex Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley The Mowgli's Toro y MoiMajor Lazer Adventure Club Talib Kweli Beats Antique Skylar SpenceFather John Misty Odesza JEFF the Brotherhood Knox HamiltonSan Fermin Strand of Oaks Young Fathers Elliot RootPreservation Hall Jazz Band The Districts Elle King The SuffersAutograf Mija Jillionaire jackLNDN Sean Glass Marley Carroll Spice J
Sunday Hangout Stage Surf Stage Boom Boom Tent Palladia Stage Salt Life Stage BMI Stage Malibu Beach HouseBeck Foster the People Vance Joy Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls IrationMy Morning Jacket TV on the Radio Tove Lo MisterWivesKrewella GRiZ Robert DeLong GoldroomPhantogram Lake Street Dive St. Lucia RubblebucketMary Lambert Kopecky Preservation Hall Jazz Band Floating ActionThe Lone Bellow Colony House Natural Child FirekidMija jackLNDN Autograf Sean Glass Spice J Dino Brawl
2016 The 2016 edition took place May 19–17, 2016.
Thursday Boom Boom Tent AXS.TV Stage Mermaid StageMatt & Kim Baauer Moon Taxi as People of the SunGrouplove Lil DickyBig Freedia Seratones Samo Sound Boy
Friday Hangout Stage Surf Stage Boom Boom Tent AXS.TV Stage BMI Stage Mermaid Stage Malibu Beach HouseThe Weeknd Walk the Moon Moon Taxi Silversun PickupsAlabama Shakes Jason Isbell Big Grams PepperThe Chainsmokers Snails Alison Wonderland Hippie Sabotage Prince FoxAlessia Cara The Struts Børns PhasesThe Revivalists Daya Bully Roots of a RebellionVince Staples GIVERS Brett Dennen Meg MacJack Novak Jerry Folk Speaker of the House Spice J
Saturday Hangout Stage Surf Stage Boom Boom Tent AXS.TV Stage BMI Stage Mermaid Stage Malibu Beach HouseCalvin Harris Panic! at the Disco Portugal. The Man X Ambassadors Stick FigureCage the Elephant The Neighbourhood Bear Hands Magic ManFoals Miike Snow 3lau Tourist Jai WolfLeon Bridges Atlas Genius Kurt Vile & the Violators KaleoThe Whigs Zoogma Hardy & the Hardknocks KoaNahko and Medicine for the People The Griswolds Lizzo The Record CompanyHippie Sabotage Jack Novak Speaker of the House Jerry Folk
Sunday