Today (October 21), Cruel World revealed its 2025 lineup, date, and location. On May 17, 2025, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and New Order have been tapped as Cruel World Festival 2025’s headliners.

Cruel World Festival is set to return to Pasadena on May 17, featuring Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and New Order along with the Go-Gos and Devo.

The Cruel World festival will once again bring giants of post-punk, new wave, and goth to Southern California next spring. Taking place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on May 17, the 2025 edition of the fest will be headlined by no less than New Order and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.

Go's, Death Cult, and 'Til Tuesday are also confirmed to play the one-day Pasadena festival next May. Cruel World Reveals 2025 Lineup with New Order, Nick Cave, DEVO & Garbage

Cruel World happens on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at Brookside at The Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. The festival was launched in 2000. Tickets for the Goldenvoice event go on sale this Friday, October 25 at 11 am p.t. at Cruelworldfest.com.

The Cruel World 2025 lineup has arrived, featuring New Order, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Go-Go’s, Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Death Cult, Garbage, Madness, ‘Til Tuesday, She Wants Revenge, Alison Moyet, and many more act made to make your goth heart swoon.

Cruel World Fest is back for another year, and New Order and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will headline 2025’s festival. It’s scheduled to take place May 17 at the Rose Bowl’s Brookside in Pasadena, California.

The Australian singer with the look of a preacher is not a happy man. But, good God (present almost throughout his work), how beautiful his music is... By bringing the mythical Bad Seeds around him again,