Pitchfork

When you refer to "Hove" in the U.S., you're using a ridiculous nickname for either Jesus or Jay-Z. (Or a highway lane.)

In Norway, you're referring to an either ridiculous or brilliant festival that takes place in Arendal from June 26-30.

It's not that we have anything against the Hove Festival, not at all. It's just that the lineup is short-circuiting our brains with its combination of incredibly awesome bands and some more, um, confusing ones.

For instance, who knew you could get Interpol, the Arcade Fire, the Hold Steady, TV on the Radio, Clipse, Mastodon, Queens of the Stone Age, Bright Eyes, Klaxons, Slayer, CSS, and Tokyo Police Club at the same festival? And why would you place them next to Incubus or Damien Rice? And where do Paul Wall and Chamillionaire fit in? And what about Me First and the Gimme Gimmes??? My Chemical Romance???? The mind boggles.

Nonetheless, this is indeed the lineup of the Hove Festival. The rest of the currently announced acts are below.

120 Days, the Killers, Kaiser Chiefs, Nellie Mckay, Lamb of God, Amy Winehouse, Oh No Ono, the 1990s, Unearth, Gojira, Chimaira, Devastations, the Noisettes, 65 Days of Static, X-queen of the Astronauts, Dimension F3H, Hatebreed, Ingrid Olava, Neurosis, Pleasure, Rockettothesky, Sivert Høyem, the Lionheart Brothers, the Presets, William Hut