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.

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.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Order, the Go-Go’s and a reunion of ‘Til Tuesday are among the acts atop the lineup for Cruel World Festival 2025, festival organizers announced Monday.

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.

The Cruel World Festival is set to return to Pasadena on May 17, featuring headliners Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and New Order. Goldenvoice’s one-day event will again take place at Brookside at the Rose Bowl.

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.

Cruel World festival will return in 2025 with headliners New Order and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Southern California promoter Goldenvoice (the folks behind Coachella) will head back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena,