Duran Duran, Blondie, Interpol to play Cruel World 2024

The new wave and post-punk focused Cruel World Fest returns to Southern California in 2024. Next year’s festival is being held on Saturday, May 11 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, and will be headlined by Duran Duran, along with Interpol, Blondie and Simple Minds. Among the other artists on the Cruel World 2024 lineup are Soft Cell, Placebo, Adam Ant, Ministry performing songs from With Sympathy and Twitch, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Gary Numan performing The Pleasure Principle, Dreamcar, Tr/st, The Faint, Heaven 17, The Mission U.K., The Stranglers, French Police, Lol Tolhurst (The Cure) and Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees), Model/Actriz, The Alarm, Adult., The Motels, Nuovo Testamento, Body of Light and more. See the full lineup on the poster above, or at the festival website.

Duran Duran, Ministry and The Jesus and Mary Chain are all featured on our list of the 150 Best Albums of the 1980s.