C3 and Live Nation know what they’re doing. They know music and who’s hot right now, they know the music festival landscape, and they knew what our reactions would be.

The conspiracy theorist in me fears that C3 recognizes that the music festival landscape is overcrowded and oversaturated, so they’re slowly trying to kill off Voodoo Fest (similarly to how they killed off In Bloom/Free Press Summer Fest in Houston) to push everyone in the south to either Austin City Limits or Shaky Knees/Beats, the other fests produced by C3.

They know who the biggest acts are, and they know booking an act like Tame Impala or Childish Gambino would’ve been the right move that almost everyone was asking for. I can’t imagine their ticket sales making up for the amount they spent on producing this festival, and will use it as the last nail on Voodoo’s coffin.

Dramatic, huh? I’m just trying to rationalize why the lineup is the way it is... Someone help.