CRSSD Festival Shares Fall 2025 Lineup: Darkside, Caribou, KETBOI69, Empire of the Sun, Boys Noize and More
Courtesy of CRSSD Festival // Daniela Becerra (@itskinderella)
This fall, CRSSD Festival will continue its 10th anniversary celebration with another top-tier electronic event in San Diego. Following the spring staging that aligned stars like Justice, Folamour, Jungle and SG Lewis at Waterfront Park on March 1 and 2, the festival will return to its iconic longtime venue on Sept. 27 and 28 with two more days of genre-defying dance. For their second year of twin festivals, the super-promoters at FNGRS CRSSD have assembled a roster of 43 acts that salute CRSSD’s past and look forward to its future; the program is helmed John Summit, who returns after a high-billed set in 2022, and Empire of the Sun, who led the inaugural CRSSD Festival in 2015.
The headliners and more of CRSSD Fall 2025’s biggest names will set up on the Ocean View main stage. Against that scenic backdrop, longtime favorites like Dan Snaith’s indietronica institution Caribou, a live set from German house producer Ben Böhmer and Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington and Tlacael Esparza’s experimental trio DARKSIDE will be complemented by up-and-comers like post-disco quintet Midnight Generation, indie-dance vocalist Mindchatter and quintessentially New York dance-pop duo Fcukers.
Over at The Palms, CRSSD will showcase the floor-filling talents of house sensations like Purple Disco Machine, Claude VonStroke, Cloonee, Chris Stussy and a B2B set from Jamie Jones and Adam Ten. Attendees can find the other pole of contemporary electronic on the City Steps stage, which favors the grit and fearless rhythmic innovation of techno titans like Boys Noize, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, Brutalismus 3000, Blawan and the electrifying tongue-in-cheek club anthems of Partiboi69 and KETTAMA’s KETBOI69 collaboration. Offstage, CRSSD’s immersive focus extends to eye-popping stage and lighting design, closely curated gourmet food and beverage vendors and interactive activations at the CRSSD Lab, which includes a listening lounge and vinyl market.
Tickets for CRSSD Fall 2025 will become available first through the alumni presale on May 27 at 12 p.m. PT, which is open to returning attendees from FNGRS CRSSD’s family of events. A broader presale will open on May 28 at 12 p.m. PT, and the general on-sale will follow at 2 p.m. PT. For more information, visit crssdfest.com.
Read on for the full artist lineup.
CRSSD Fall 2025 Lineup (A-Z)
Alex Wann
Bay Ledges
beginagain
Beltran
Ben Böhmer live
Blawan
Boys Noize
Brutalismus 3000
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Caribou
Cassian
ChaseWest
Chris Luno
Chris Stussy
Claude VonStroke
Cloonee
Darius
DARKSIDE
DJ Gigola B2B MCR-T
Dombresky
Elderbrook
Eli Brown
Elli Acula
Empire of the Sun
Fcukers
Jackie Hollander
Jamie Jones B2B Adam Ten
John Summit
KETBOI69
Luke Dean
Ma Sha
Maribou State
Max Dean
Max Styler
Midnight Generation
Mindchatter
OGUZ
Purple Disco Machine
Sultan + Shepard live
Swimming Paul
Tobiahs
Will Clarke
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