Caterwaul 2025 is Friday, May 23rd through Monday, May 26th 2025 in Minneapolis, MN
CATERWAUL: annual festival of the noisy and iconoclastic reveals Pissed Jeans, Suckling (member of Scratch Acid), Young Widows and more for 2025 lineup; tickets on sale now
“In a world full of Coachellas, be a Caterwaul.”
With the fourth installment of Caterwaul scheduled for May 23-26th in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the festival’s organizers have revealed ten of this year’s confirmed artists. In alphabetical order:
Big’n
Buildings
The Cell Phones
Deaf Club
Elephant Rifle
Eye Flys
FACS
Fotocrime
In Lieu
Kowloon Walled City
Lung
Miracle Blood
Mr Phylzzz
Open Head
Pinko
Pissed Jeans
Suckling
Unstable Shapes
Upright Forms
Young Widows
The full lineup will be revealed in the upcoming weeks.
Tickets can be purchased now at this location: https://www.ticketstripe.com/caterwaul2025
With such greats as Brainiac, Chat Pile, Flipper, and Oxbow having graced Caterwaul’s stages in years past, the fest has come to serve as a beacon for the heavy, experimental fringes of rock. The 2025 lineup promises to cement Caterwaul’s reputation as an annual destination for the noisy and iconoclastic, with the initial announcement including the following: psychedelic punkers Elephant Rifle; noise rock beast Eye Flys; neo-grungers In Lieu; doom rock stalwarts Kowloon Walled City; cello rockers Lung; the new wave of Amphetamine Reptile, Mr Phylzzz; angular punk innovators Open Head; hardcore punk kings Pissed Jeans; Suckling, led by Brett Bradford of the legendary Scratch Acid; and post-hardcore transcenders Young Widows.
Phase 2 includes: Chicago veterans Big’n; a reunion set by Minneapolis bruisers Buildings; Southern California supergroup Deaf Club, featuring members of The Locust and ACxDC; Chicago’s FACS, who have the distinction of being the final band recorded by the late Steve Albini; Louisville unit Fotocrime, led by Ryan Patterson of Coliseum; Boston howlers Miracle Blood; San Antonio’s Pinko, Chicago eccentrics The Cell Phones; and Unstable Shapes and Upright Forms, both hailing from Minneapolis.
BrooklynVegan has described Caterwaul as a “unique mix of noise rock, punk, metal, post-punk and beyond.” New Noise Magazine has called it “a gathering of some of the best underground bands existing today.”
Beyond the curation, Caterwaul has come to represent a cooperative, familial spirit within the underground. Through their decades of work in the trenches of independent music, serving in the roles of musician, label owner, show booker, podcaster, and more, founders Conan Neutron, Rainer Fronz, and Melanie Thomas are deeply tied to the artists and fans whom Caterwaul pulls together. With its fourth installment approaching, Caterwaul is the epicenter of its own scene – not limited to any one specific genre, but dedicated to uniting all people on the loud and eccentric side of the fence.
Asked to deliver a statement about the fest, Neutron, Fronz, and Thomas offer these nine words: “In a world full of Coachellas, be a Caterwaul.”
Caterwaul 2025 logo, by Whitney Does
Photo of Pissed Jeans, by Ebru Yildiz