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Since 2008, 80/35 has hosted hundreds of thousands of attendees, thousands of volunteers, and almost 500 bands at our festival. We’ve compiled a list of almost every band to ever play 80/35 below. Did we miss something? If so email us at info@desmoinesmc.com. PS – you can see posters from each year of the festival on our experience page.

Headliners are in bold

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28 Days Later
A Giant Dog
Aaron Earl Short
Adaline Akers
Adapt
Al Brown
All Bugs
Alyx Rush
Amasa Hines
Ancient Posse
And The Kids
Andrew Bird
Annalibera
Anni Rossi
Anthony Worden and the Illiterati
Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson
Aquamarine Dream Machine
Asphate
Atmosphere
Audrye Sessions
Avey Grouws Band
Avi Buffalo
B. Well
Baby Teeth
Bad Bad Hats
BassRaja
BBU
Bear Hands
Beati Paoli
Ben Harper and Relentless7
Best Coast
Bitch
BJ The Chicago Kid
Black Diet
Black Francis
Black Lips
Blackalicious
BLACKSTARKIDS
Boh Doran
Bonne Finken
Boy & Bear
Brad Goldman
Brazilian 2wins
Bright Giant
Broken Social Scene
Brother Ali
Brother Trucker
Bully
Cake
Califone
Canby
Car Seat Headrest
Your Smith (fka Caroline Smith)
Cashes Rivers
Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires
Charli XCX
Chicago Farmer
Chicano Batman
Christopher the Conquered & His Black Gold Brass Band
Circle of Heat
Cirrus Minor
Civil Twilight
Cleo’s Apartment
Closed Format
Closet Witch
Cloud Nothings
Cloudy with a Chance of Techno
COLDSAINT
Colleen Green
Colo Chanel
Colourmusic
Comandante
Conor Oberst
Coral Creek
Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons
Courtney Barnett
Courtney Krause
Cracker
Craig Finn
Crystal City
Cymbals Eat Guitars
Da Younger
Damon Dotson
Dan Deacon
Dan Tedesco
Dar Williams
Dat Dude Biggz
David Byrne & St. Vincent
David Zollo & The Body Electric
Dawes
DCM
Dead Larry
Deanna Devore
Death Cab for Cutie
Deerhunter
Delta Rae
Dem Boyz
Derek Lambert and the Prairie Fires
Des Moines Boyz
Dessa
Diarrhea Planet
DICKIE
Dilly Dally
Dinosaur Jr.
Diplomats of Solid Sound
Dirty Blonde
Dirty Little Rabbits
DJ Apollo
DJ Bui
DJ Chris Coffey
DJ Cosmo
DJ Diverse
DJ Eight Ten
DJ Flash
DJ G Mint
DJ Raj
DMMC Summer Camps
Dose
Dr. Dog
Dressy Bessy
Drive-By Truckers
Druids
Dumptruck Butterlips
Dustin Smith & The Sunday Silos
Dylan Sires & Neighbors
Earl Greyhound
Easy Fruit
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
El Guante
EleanorGrace
Elephant Revival
Elizabeth Moen
Elle King
Emperors Club
Empires
Escondido
Euforquestra
Evangelicals
Evann McIntosh
Extravision
Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
Family Groove Company
Father John Misty
Field Division
Fire Sale
Flatform
Floodplane
Fly Golden Eagle
Foxholes
France Camp
Freddie Gibbs
FRO
Fucked Up
Fury Things
Future Islands
Fuzzy Logic
G. Love & Special Sauce
GaiDen Gadema
Galactic
Geese
Generationals
Genome
Girl in a Coma
Girl Talk
Girls Rock! Des Moines
Glitter Density
Gold Motel
Goldblums
GoodcaT
Gorilla Stomp Squad
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Green Death
Greensky Bluegrass
Greg Grease
Greg Wheeler and the Poly Mall Cops
Grinning Match
Guided by Voices
H.D. Harmsen
Haiku Hands
Handsome Furs
Hannah Marks: Outsider, Outlier
Hanwell
Har-di-Har
Head for the Hills
Headlights
Henhouse Prowlers
Hex Girls
Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs
Holy White Hounds
Honeycreeper
Hop Along
Hot Buttered Rum
House of Large Sizes
I AM ZERO
Infantree
Ingrid Michaelson
Jackson Overton & Tyler Fraaken
Jade Reed
Jaden Carlson Band
Jaill
Jakob Dylan
James Biehn
James Tutson & the Rollback
Jamila Woods
Japanese Breakfast
Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
Jeana Calvert
Jeff Austin Band
Jeff Rosenstock
Jenny Lewis
Jesse Jamz
Jessica Lea Mayfield
John Solarz
JohnnyRAGE
Jolie Seitz
Jon Wayne & the Pain
Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal
Juliano Dock
K-Holes
KaiserCartel
Kanser
Karen Meat
Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe
Kelsie James
Ke$ha
Kind Country
King Fantastic
Kitty Pryde
Kris Adams
La Strange
Lady Revel
Land of Blood and Sunshine
LAV.ISH
Left Is West
Leftover Salmon
Leslie and the LY’s
Lettuce
Lily DeTaeye
Lissie
Little Ruckus
Liz Phair
Lizzo
Lotus
Love Songs for Lonely Monsters
Lucky Chops
M34N STR33T
Maddie Poppe
MAIDS
Man Man
Mantis Pincers
Maps And Atlases
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s
Mark Mallman
MarKaus
Matisyahu
Matthew James & The Rust Belt Union
Max Jury
Maxilla Blue
MaZoo
Meet Me @ The Altar
Menomena
Metric
MGMT
Middle Western
Mighty Shady
Mike Vallely & the Complete Disaster
Mikel Wright & The Wrongs
Miloe
Miss Derringer
MisterWives
Modern Day Satire
Modern Life Is War
Modern Skirts
Modest Mouse
MonoNeon
Mooseknuckle
Mr. Baber’s Neighbors
Mumford’s
Murder By Death
Mustafa Avdic
Naethan Apollo
Naked Giants
Nas
Natural Child
Neva Dinova
New Monsoon
NewVillager
Night Moves
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya
NOLA Jazz Band
North of Grand
Now Now
Occidental Brothers
Odd Pets
of Montreal
Okkervil River
Omega Dog,
Open Mike Eagle
Oz & Dave Leo
Pachyman
Paper Route
Parlours
Parranderos Latin Combo
Particle
Patient Zero
Pert Near Sandstone
Phantogram
Phoebe Bridgers
Pictoria Vark
Pieta Brown
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong
Pink Mink
Pink Neighbor
Plumero
Portugal. The Man
prettygirlhatemachine
Pri yon Joni
Priscilla Renea
Prissy Clerks
Psalm One
PSEUDO
Public Enemy
Public Property
Queen Kenzie
Quick Piss
Quinn Trilk
Qwel
RackCity
Radio Moscow
Railroad Earth
Raj w/ Leeman
Ramona & the Sometimes
Ratboys
Ravyn Lenae
Raz Simone
Rebel Creek
Remo Drive
Richie Daggers w/ Gadema
Rock Plaza Central
Rome Fortune
Roster McCabe
Run The Jewels
Sadat X & El w/ DJ Kaos
Sara Watkins
Sawyer Fredericks
Serenade Your Mother
Shawn Shady
Shy Boys
Sidewalk Chalk
SIRES
Slightly Stoopid
Soccer Mommy
Solid Gold
SP3
Spoon
Squirrel Flower
St. Lucia
St. Paul Slim
Starry Nights
Stars Hollow
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
Strange Names
Stutterin’ Jimmy & The Goosebumps
SUBliminal Chaos
Surfer Blood
Tajh
Talib Kweli
Tea Leaf Green
Telekinetic
Tha Füt
Thankful Dirt
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
The Autumn Project
The Avett Brothers
The Beths
The Cardinal Sound
The Chatty Cathys
The Cool Kids
The Crust Band
The Dead Line String Band
The Decemberists
The Dig Angees
The Envy Corps
The Flaming Lips
The Giving Tree Band
The Harmaleighs
The Heavy
The High Crest
The Homemade Jamz Blues Band
The Hooten Hallers
The Host Country
The Josh Davis Band
The Junkyard Orchestra
The Kickback
The Macpodz
The Maytags
The Motet
The Nadas
The Olympics
The Orwells
The Other Brothers
The Other Elements
The Pines
The Pistol Whippin Party Penguins
The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
The River Monks
The Roots
The Shins
The Smoothsayers
The Suburbs
The Sun Company
The Sundogs
The Uniphonics
The Vahnevants
The Vandon Arms
The Walkmen
The Whigs
The Workshy
The Yelps
Those Darlins
Tilly and the Wall
Tim Grimes
TimeWlkr
TIRES
Titus Andronicus
TouchNice
Traffic Death
TREE
Trevor Lambert
Trevor Sensor
Tripp Marxx
Trouble Lights
TWINS
Umphrey’s McGee
Uniphonics
Useful Jenkins
Vagabon
Vended
Vic Spencer
Volcano Boys
W.A.S.T.E.L.A.N.D.S.
Water Liars
Wavves
WebsterX
Weezer
WhiteWater Ramble
Widow7
Wilco
Wild Sweet Orange
William Elliott Whitmore
William Fitzsimmons
Wolf Parade
Wolfgang
Wolves in the Attic
Wu-Tang Clan
Xavier Rudd
Yeasayer
Yelawolf
Yo La Tengo
Yonder Mountain String Band
Younger
YUNGBLUD
Zeshan B
Zeta June
Ziggy Marley
Zola Jesus
ZULUZULU

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