Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age and The National will headline the Shaky Knees Music Festival when the gathering returns to Atlanta on May 4th – 6th, 2018. The popular festival will also be relocating to Altanta’s Central Park after two years at the city’s Centennial Olympic Park.
Shaky Knees’ sixth annual iteration will showcase a wide array of indie, alternative, folk and even comedy rock acts like Tenacious D, Fleet Foxes, The War on Drugs, Vance Joy, Cake, Courtney Barnett, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Lord Huron, and Manchester Orchestra. Notably, the festival will feature a performance by former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne, marking the rock pioneer’s third scheduled American festival appearance of 2018 (after Coachella and before XPoNential Music Fest). Shaky Knees will also host the first 2018 festival set from Australian-American punk rockers The Distillers, who are reuniting after a 12-year hiatus.
Other artists on the bill include Matt and Kim, Japandroids, Franz Ferdinand, Jimmy Eat World, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels, Alvvays, Parquet Courts, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Chicano Batman, Lukas Nelson and The Promise of The Real, and many more. You can check out the full lineup below.
Tickets for Shaky Knees will go on sale at 10am ET on Tuesday, January 9. More information can be found via the festival’s website. 
[cover photo: Shaky Knees Facebook]