Artists booked so far include Aqualung, The Beach Boys, Beck, The Black Velvets, Cake, The Coral, Dinosaur Jr. (reportedly with all the original members), Eddi Reader, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, The Go! Team, Juliette & the Licks, Los Lobos, The Magic Numbers, Mercury Rev, The Music, The Pogues, Sigur Ros, and Steel Pulse.

Creativeman Productions has announced that this year’s Summer Sonic Festival will take place in Osaka and Tokyo the weekend of August 13-14. Acts will be announced sometime in the middle of March.