Are you ready for the madcap chaos of Australia’s largest travelling music festival? Good Things season returns with a head-spinning line-up fit for a fever dream. Across three East Coast dates, this year’s Good Things Festival will deliver a trip down the rabbit hole with a stacked bill of international heavyweights, old favourites, hungry up-and-comers, and Aussie staples. And in a boon for younger attendees, Sydney’s Centennial Park festival date will be a 16+ event for the first time!
In the lead-up to Good Things 2024, HEAVY will be running a small feature on the bands playing so you can get up to speed before the big day. Today we bring you Grandson.
Grandson moulds genres, sculpting rock, hip-hop, and electronic into a vision of alternative you’ve never quite heard, seen, or felt before. Having amassed a staggering 1 billion streams and counting, the platinum-certified Canadian/American maverick flouts boundaries, only to achieve stylistic unity with alacrity. He infiltrated culture as a sonic insurgent with a pair of EPs – A Modern Tragedy Vol. 1-2 – and the 2x platinum single Blood//Water.
In 2020, he continued to engage with his epically enigmatic full-length debut, Death of An Optimist. He’s the rare outlier who can appear with Senator Bernie Sanders on a livestream and contribute two songs to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, namely Oh No!!! [with VIC MENSA & Masked Wolf] and Rain [with Jessie Reyez] – also remixed by star Idris Elba. Meanwhile, he’s impressively collaborated with everyone from Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park and Steve Aoki to Travis Barker, Kesha, K. Flay, X Ambassadors, Whethan, Two Feet, and DE’WAYNE, to name a few.
Speaking of high-powered collabs, he impressively joined forces with Tom Morello for Hold The Line and performed the latter on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with the legendary guitarist. In 2023, he released his sophomore album, I Love You, I’m Trying featuring Something To Hide, Drones, and Eulogy to critical acclaim. grandson has incited the applause of Rolling Stone, Variety, Billboard and many more as he continues to quietly reshape alternative with more music and surprises in 2024.
Focus track, Hold The Line. Get your Good Things tickets HERE
