The Rites of Spring lineup may have been mistakenly revealed on a test website on Tuesday, a week before the planned official news release.
The first test website listed Kid Cudi, The National and Sara Bareilles as the headline artists to perform in the concert weekend.
After social media circulation of the news, Dwayne Elliott, director of Student Programming, denied the validity of the lineup and stated that it was simply a test website. The lineup then changed to Cee Lo, Wiz Khalifa and Sara Bareilles as Rites of Spring test page artists.
Artist biographies on the second page were less complete, and the graph beneath the News Headline, once in Latin, then announced the page as a test site.
Later Tuesday evening, the website changed for a third time. The website now holds no artist information and the News Headline lists the official lineup to be released on Thursday, Feb. 17, five days before the previously listed lineup release date.
Elliott said via Twitter the change in announcement date was because a spot opened up in other publications for Thursday.
Rumors of the mishap spread quickly across campus.
“I don’t understand why they’d do a test page and taunt people with the lineup. I’m way too excited about Rites for that,” junior Camila Ortiz said. “I want Kid Cudi, though. He’s way more versatile than Cee Lo, and I love all his music. And The National are just amazing.”
Other students noted that Bareilles appeared on both test pages.
“Anything with Sara Bareilles would be sick,” said junior Austin Wilson.
The official lineup will be released Thursday, and tickets will go on sale a week later on Thursday, Feb. 24.
