Shaky Knees Music Festival announces lineup

Athens-based rock band Drive-By Truckers (from left) Patterson Hood, Matt Patton and Mike Cooley, jam on the Masquerade Stage at the Shaky Knees Music Festival Sunday, May 5, 2013.

By Melissa Ruggieri

Shaky Knees Music Festival is moving to Atlantic Station in its second year, and bringing with it an arguable bigger lineup (plus an extra day of music).

The bands playing the festival, running May 9-11, include:

  • The National
  • Modest Mouse
  • Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
  • Spoon
  • Local Natives
  • The Gaslight Anthem
  • Violent Femmes
  • Cage the Elephant
  • Portugal. The Man
  • Dropkick Murphys
  • Conor Oberst
  • Iron & Wine
  • Trampled by Turtles
  • Jason Isbell
  • Jenny Lewis

...and a bunch of other bands in a similar musical vein. There's also a to-be-announced band to headline with The National and Modest Mouse.

Check out the full lineup here.