Chicago’s ARC Music Festival Announces Sprawling 2025 Lineup: See Who’s Playing

Chicago’s ARC Music Festival has announced a sprawling 2025 lineup featuring nearly 100 artists.

The fifth edition of the house-focused festival will feature performances by Jamie xx, Amelie Lens, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, John Summit, Luciano, Fisher, Blond:ish, Eric Prydz (who will play under this name and also do sets under his Pryda and Cirez D aliases) and many more.

Additionally, the lineup features a collection powerhouse b2bs, including Boys Noize b2b VTSS, Cajmere b2b Carl Craig, Honey Dijon b2b Derrick Carter, Green Velvet b2b Skepta Más Tiempo and Skream b2b Hamdi. See the complete lineup below.

ARC Music Festival 2025 happens August 29-31 at Chicago’s Union Park. The general ticket sale begins on March 14.

ARC is produced by the Chicago-based Auris Presents, a production company launched in 2020 by partners Nick Karounos, a veteran venue owner and festival producer, Stuart Hackley, the founder of national event company Loud Crowd and John Curley, who hails from electronic promoter Paradigm Presents and who’s been a staple in the Chicago dance music scene since the early ’90s. The festival’s goal has been celebrating house music’s Chicago roots while championing artists who’ve forged the genre through the decades.

“You see a lot of festivals that incorporate legends and innovators of a scene, and they’re sometimes relegated to side stages or lower parts of a lineup — places where their impact in the culture of music is not properly reflected,” Hackley told Billboard in 2021. “That has to do with many things — artist billing, ticket sales, artist’s profile size — but part of our mission was to take all the artists that are part of the Chicago house music community through the years, people without whom this sound would not be around, and put them right next to the larger artists that are playing this music nowadays.”