Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Unveil Inaugural Future Ruins Festival

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross announced their inaugural Future Ruins festival, promoted by Live Nation, which will take place at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Nov. 8. The lineup features a day-long event with influential film and television composers performing on stage, including Danny Elfman, John Carpenter, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, Questlove, Tamar-Kali and more.

“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” Reznor said in a statement.

The festival will feature three stages, with Reznor and Ross emphasizing each act is a headliner. View the full lineup below.

“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy,” Reznor and Ross said in a joint statement. “This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again.”

In addition to their work scoring films, Reznor and Ross are setting out on Nine Inch Nails’ “Peel It Back” tour kicking off June 15 in Dublin. The pair will play arenas and festivals across Europe and North America, wrapping up with two nights at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, on Sept. 18 and 19. Nine Inch Nails is booked by WME and managed by Sara Newkirk Management’s Sara Newkirk. With 237 headline performances reported to Pollstar’s Boxoffice dating back to 2000, Nine Inch Nails have sold 1.7 million tickets grossing $90.1 million.

Tickets for Future Ruins go on sale May 21 at 12 p.m. PT.

THE LINEUP:
Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror, Utopia (UK), Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Ponyboi, The Third Day, National Treasure (UK), The Girl With All The Gifts, Humans)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror, Devs)
Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Alice In Wonderland, Spider-Man, Milk)
Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Profondo Rosso/Deep Red, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera)
Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Women Talking, Hedda)
A performance of Howard Shore’s score of David Cronenberg’s Crash
Isobel Waller-Bridge (Munich: The Edge of War, Emma., Black Mirror, I Came By, Wicked Little Letters, Fleabag, The Lesson, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Magpie, Sweetpea)
John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York)
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Boom)
Mark Mothersbaugh (The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok)
Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Master, Telemarketers, The Color of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Power, Unvion, Seeds, Life After)
Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I am Everything)
Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Night in Miami, The Woman King, Perry Mason)Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Light, Waves, The Vietnam War, Mank, The Killer)
Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, Lion, The Amateur, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal, Hollywoodgate, Adrift, War Sailor, The Old Guard, Stowaway, Patrick Melrose)