Skrillex is joining the lineup for Ultra Music Festival 2025. The festival confirmed the news Friday (Jan. 17) by adding the artist’s name to the festival lineup poster on its website.
This news follows Skrillex and Ultra teasing the appearance on X this past Wednesday (Jan. 15), when the producer responded to a tweet from the festival’s account reading “Happy birthday Skrillex, we miss [hands raised emoji]” with a message on the platform of his own reading, “See you in March.”
The performance will mark the first time the artist, who turned 37 on Jan. 15, has played the festival as a solo act since 2015. He last appeared at Ultra Music Festival Miami in 2019 as part of Dog Blood, for which he plays alongside Boys Noize. Skrillex also played Ultra’s debut festival in Abu Dhabi in March of 2023.
Ultra Music Festival is happening at Miami’s Bayfront Park March 28-30. The previously announced lineup includes Four Tet, Gesaffelstein, Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Afrojck, Tiësto, Martin Garrix and Hardwell, along with pairings including John Summit and Dom Dolla playing as Everything Always, Anyma b2b Solomun and Knife Party playing both solo and b2b with Deadmau5, with the latter artist also performing his first ever career-spanning “retro5pective” set, which will see the producer playing his classic hits.
On Jan. 15, Skrillex also posted a note to his social accounts reading, “If you like my music leave me your email at Skrillex.com/FUS and I’ll send you some things.” The note was signed with the producer’s real name, Sonny Moore. An email submission to this address on Jan. 15 has not yet yielded a response.
Skrillex first teased new music last fall, writing on X in November that “I’ve never felt more inspired and in lockstep with my intentions as an artist. As I’m nearing completion of my next work and my final project for Atlantic Records I can’t help but feel very existential about it all… I’m thrilled to get this out and focus on more release[s] in 25 as an ‘independent’ artist. But ‘independent’ is such a strange term because I still depend on my team as well as all the other creatives and executives to do what I do.
“But now I’m able to rethink/relook at how the structures are designed,” his posts continued. “I want to find ways to simplify [disseminating] music and art.” The producer’s last albums, Quest for Fire and Don’t Get Too Close, came out within days of each other in February of 2023.
The artist, who’s originally from Los Angeles, also recently used X to respond to the ongoing fires in L.A., writing on on Jan. 10: “We’ve been devastated here in Los Angeles. My phone has been unmanageable so to all my friends, I’m safe and bless you for checking in. So many close ones have lost their homes so being there for each other has never been this critical.”
The post “Skrillex Added to Ultra Music Festival 2025 Lineup” by Katie Bain was published on 01/17/2025 by www.billboard.com