Azealia Banks exploded 2012 open with pulsating beats and melodies that hypnotically forced the masses to dancefloors around the world. Hitting high, her name found its place atop many of the to-be-watched lists. With fans such as Karl Lagerfeldt and Kanye West, as well as an ever-increasing fan base, who’s to disagree?

Her previously released 1991 EP and the mixtape Fantasea set expectations high for her soon to be released debut album, Broke with Expensive Taste. Her chameleonic evolution is further explored as we are teased with the surging song “BBD”. There are no disappointments here.

Beat infused and fast paced, her flow propels us through songs of self-decadence and the modern urban bourgeois. Her lyrical craft leaves plenty of discoveries ahead.
How soon? you cry as you feel the surge in the distance.
Real soon.

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With their two Stockholm shows both selling out in under 1 minute, we are happy to announce The Knife will be playing their only festival show in Sweden this year at Way Out West.

Way Out West has sold out every year since it began in 2007. Yesterday we were proud to announce our first artist: Solange. Later this week we will continue the announcements with more incredible acts. We look forward to another amazing festival and another amazing year!

The Knife

All three are modern classics. Contemporary heroes in each genre has established a specific and strong position in a relatively short time. They all came with strong debuts and follows up this year with a vengeance and bid on the morrow. Had music - god forbid - been a race we would have had finalists ready.

Phosphorescent
Mount Kimbie(SOW)
Mikal Cronin (SOW)

Frank Ocean has just informed us that he will be unable to perform this evening at Way Out West. Both Frank Ocean and we had hoped for the best, but unfortunately he will not be performing. The good news is that Looptroop Rockers will be filling in and performing an exclusive gig at Way Out West. They have graced festival stages all over Europe this summer and now they're coming to Gothenburg and WOW!

With 27 000 festivalgoers in Slottsskogen all three days, Way Out West is now sold-out for the 6th year in a row, and on top of that we have reached a new attendance record! No more tickets will be released. We could not be happier and hope that everybody has a great time this weekend! Thank you all!

Way Out West has always had the environment as one of our top priorities. It is something that lies close to our hearts and we are constantly striving to improve our organization to be more environmentally friendly. In the research we've done, food is the single largest variable in our environmental impact and meat is the greatest culprit. Too many people think that the problems with the meat industry are just about animals' living conditions and human health risks, when the fact is that it is just as much about the wasting of resources and environmental degradation.

The food we consume, both that we eat and the scraps that eventually end up in our waste bins, accounts for about 25% of the average Swede's climate impact. Collectively and individually we must do something.

We have therefore decided to only serve vegetarian food at Way Out West 2012. This means that all the food that is served to our staff, audience and artists will be vegetarian. If you choose to eat a bratwurst outside the festival area, it is entirely up to you. But inside the festival area it will not be an option. We are not forcing people to stop eating meat altogether, but if we can positively impact the environment, if only for a few days, we want to take the chance to do it. We want to help dispel the myths about vegetarian food being bland and non-filling, we want to challenge a norm where meat is normal and vegetarian is not.

It is important for us that the festival drives development forward. We like to push the envelope and be the first to try new things. This year's festival is truly making history and we will do it together. We do not wish to force a change of diet upon anyone; see Way Out West 2012 more as a thought-provoking three day experience that everyone is free to then let change their routines—or not.

One might think that a few days with only vegetarian food will not make much of a difference in the grand scheme of things, that it will have very little impact on global climate change. But it does; we estimate a significant emissions reduction related to the food we serve, which in turn reduces the festival's overall climate impact. Something is better than nothing. And if we can positively influence a few others among us to reduce meat consumption over the course of a year, then we have truly started to get somewhere.