Big Day Out 2010 announce second line-up - Jet, Sasha, Devendra Banhart, Passion Pit, Simian Mobile Disco DJs, Beenie Man, Silent Disco, Hilltop Hoods, Decoder Ring, Itch-E and Scratch-E, Maya Jupiter, Miami Horror, MDX, Sugar Army, DJ Sam La More, The Scare, The Middle East, Wagons, Phrase and Grrilla Step join Muse, Powderfinger, Lily Allen, Eskimo Joe, Groove Armada, Grinspoon, The Mars Volta, Ladyhawke, Dizzee Rascal, Karnivool, Peaches, The Temper Trap, Kasabian, Midnight Juggernauts, Rise Against, Magic Dirt, Mastodon, Lisa Mitchell, The Horrors, Bluejuice, Calvin Harris, Kisschasy, The Decemberists, Tame Impala and Girl Talk.

People lucky enough to score a ticket to Big Day Out 2010 can get excited (as if you weren't already) with the second announcement for acts heading to the festival. Check these out:

The band that rewrote the history of Oz rock and made it possible for Aussie bands to once again take on the world (and win), Jet are bringing their shaka  rock home this summer for Big Day Out. The boy’s third album is "a visceral account of what rock’n’roll should be," said ChartAttack, "chain-smoking, whisky-drinking, gritty good times". With new anthems K.I.A (Killed in Action) and She’s a Genius piled on top of the likes of Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Rip it Up and Rollover DJ, Jet are now the proud owners of one of the strongest setlists in rock. Perfectly described by the BBC as "a lot of rough fun", Jet are rough, rockin’ and ready for another Big Day Out in 2010.
 
For 20 years, Sasha hasn’t just been playing and winning the DJ game, he’s been changing it. This summer, Sasha will bring his A-game to a new playing field, Big Day Out. The last true rock star DJ, Sasha learned his craft at Manchester’s famed Hacienda in its late-80s glory days, found global club fame in the ’90s, and scored acclaim with his ’00s albums Airdrawndagger and Involver. He’s an innovator, a pioneer, and he knows how to mix it up while keeping the dancefloor moving.

Big Day Out will let its freak-folk flag fly this summer with Devendra Banhart. The people’s troubadour came to prominence with the cosmic folk and ethereal vibrato of his 2005 breakthrough, Cripple Crow. In 2009 came his sixth album, What Will We Be, which Rolling Stone calls "the best he’s ever made". In concert, this charming quirk of nature drifts from hushed to frantic, from folk to surf to reggae to heavy psychedelic rock. Call it whatever you like - pysch-folk, avant-folk.

America’s new favourite big beat soul popsters Passion Pit are led by singer/songwriter Michael Angelakos’ funk-fuelled falsetto, Passion Pit’s debut album Manners comes alive with kaleidoscopic soundscapes and plentiful ambition. On stage, they’re chaotic, oddball and impossible not to dance to.

The hardest-working men in dance music, James Ford and Jas Shaw never stop moving. And you won’t either, when Simian Mobile Disco DJs work the Boiler Room into a frenzy at Big Day Out. From the Brits who brought us We Are Your Friends, Hustler, It’s the Beat and 10,000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong, we can guarantee one thing: surprises.

From Kingston, Jamaica comes the chart-topping, Grammy-winning master of reggae evolution - Beenie Man - who during more than 20 years in the game has pumped out dancehall smashes including The Girls Dem Sugar, Who Am I, Slam and Gimme Gimme. On stage, he’s a nattily-dressed "livewire lightning rod of a man, pumping adrenaline and feeding off the beat" (OC Weekly). And if all that weren’t enough, the fastest man on earth.
 
In 2010, we welcome back Australia’s favourite hip hoppers Hilltop Hoods for a triumphant fourth go-around. Beloved by music fans of all persuasions, from rap aficionados to rock dogs and dance devotees, when the Hoods unleash the likes of Chase That Feeling and The Hard Road, entire fields turn into a united sea of waving arms, nodding heads and bouncing bodies. Since first dropping rhymes and beats in the mid-’90s, Adelaide boys Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris have grown into multiple-ARIA-winning, chart-topping superheroes.
 
An audio-visual experience beyond compare, Decoder Ring will also head to Big Day Out 2010. They describe their music as "a three-dimensional thing". And there are plenty of dimensions to be found on the AFI Award-winning Sydneysiders’ latest album, They Blind the Stars, and the Wild Team.

Paul Mac and Andy Rantzen will scratch that Big Day Out itch when their iconic Aussie electronica outfit Itch-E and Scratch-E get it together again 16 years on from their first BDO appearance. Renowned for their ’90s classic Sweetness and Light, that stir they caused at the 1995 ARIA Awards and their melodic take on techno, Itch-E and Scratch-E are now putting the finishing touches on a brand new album, their first since 2001.
 
Femcee Maya Jupiter is bringing the hip hop sunshine to Big Day Out. A former Triple J radio host, regular Channel [V] presenter and ARIA nominee (for her work with Foreign Heights), Jupiter has spent much of 2009 in Los Angeles working on her second album and injecting a healthy dose of Latin flavour to her sound.
 
Throwing electro fuel on the indie fire has made Miami Horror one of the most explosive sounds to come out of Melbourne in quite some time. They’ll go off with a bang this summer at Big Day Out in their full four-piece live formation - drums, guitar, keys and a "reverent and relevant take on dance-y synth rock" (Pitchfork). Led by production whiz and remix king Ben Vanguarde, the group have whetted appetites internationally via singles Don’t Be On With Her and Sometimes. With an album due early in the new year, now is the time to catch Miami Horror deliver a new take on the new wave.
 
The Boiler Room just went up a few degrees with the addition of DJ Mark Dynamix. MDX has been an integral cog in Australian dance since the mid-’90s, becoming the party-starter of choice for international DJs, slaying millions with his Ministry of Sound alliance and mix-CDs, touring internationally and founding a label, Long Distance Recordings, to send new Australian sounds overseas. His tight sets of techno and minimal beats have seen him regularly voted one of the country’s top DJs - but that’s where the predictability ends. As MDX told 3D World, "even I don’t know what’s gonna come out of my library until I get there!"
 
It’s not hard to find Sugar Army. Just follow the trail of praise. "Nauseatingly talented" Sugar Army will rock you" (Xpress). Starting out five years ago in WA, they quickly gained an imposing live reputation: "sensational", says Xpress. In 2009 came their debut album The Parallels Amongst Ourselves, with singles Acute and Tongues in Cheeks winning Sugar Army new enlistees across the nation.
 
Big Day Out 2010 plugs into the most electric of electro with the arrival of DJ Sam La More. Sam Littlemore is the studio mastermind behind hits and remixes from the likes of Potbelleez (Don’t Hold Back), Pnau, Gwen Stefani and Sneaky Sound System. He’s on Ministry of Sound’s speed-dial when it’s time for a fresh Clubber’s Guide. He’s helped shape Aussie electro house in collaboration with GT as Tonite Only. And he’s a dancefloor shaker in his own right, whether DJing around the world, or cranking out singles as cracking as I Wish it Could Last.

Livewire Queensland rockers The Scare, who’ve also put in the hard yards sleeping on couches and supporting big-name acts back in the mother country, made the nation stand up and listen with their second album Oozevoodoo. A visceral, cathartic blast of gritty, sleazy, groove-filled rock.
 
For the past year, whispers have been circulating about a certain Townsville six-piece. The Middle East, will take to the stage at Big Day Out 2010.The indie folksters have spawned two sublime, lilting and harmonious radio favourites In Blood and The Darkest Side. Brought to life by left-of-centre instrumentation - banjo, harmonica, accordion, glockenspiel, trumpet and mandolin.
 
Led by charismatic showman Henry, Melbourne six-piece Wagons offer an unlikely mix of grand rock, dark country, irresistible crooning and classic pop, all topped off with Henry’s engrossing storytelling. Their latest, fourth album The Rise and Fall of Goodtown has seen them nominated for best group and best album at the 2009 EG Awards, yet more proof that Wagons’ Goodtown is the place to be.
 
Aussie hip hop artist Phrase will also be taking to the stage this summer.From the youthful aggression of his debut Talk With Force to his socially aware and musically adventurous breakthrough second album Clockwork (featuring collaborations with artists as diverse as Daniel Merriweather, Kram and Wendy Matthews), Melbourne rapper Phrase is breaking the mould. Backed by DJ Flagrant and a five-piece band, Phrase’s Clockwork gigs have become more than just shows - they’ve become events.
 
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