It’s official: After weeks of online rumors and intense fan speculation, Rilo Kiley will reunite for Just Like Heaven 2025, playing their first show in nearly two decades.
The indie legends will headline the festival, which takes place in Los Angeles on May 10, alongside Vampire Weekend, TV on the Radio, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, and more (tickets go on sale on Friday). Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis appeared at the festival last year, where she performed with the Postal Service.
“We are so very excited to come back together for Just Like Heaven in Pasadena, California — Los Angeles,” the band said in a statement. “As a band, we began here, and we feel so fortunate to return among so many artists and friends, to this community we hold so dear, in such a beautiful and meaningful place.”
News of the Rilo Kiley reunion leaked earlier this month, after fans spotted a Los Angeles billboard advertising the festival. Indie sleuths were also quick to investigate the lineup for Salt Lake City’s Kilby Block Party (taking place on May 15), where a spot was mysteriously covered in question marks.
Prior to that, pre-order links for new Rilo Kiley merch appeared on Bandcamp; the group’s Instagram has also been more active than usual. In 2021, Lewis and guitarist Blake Sennett reunited on a livestream, their first time playing together in six years. A year earlier, Rilo Kiley reissued their rare self-titled 1999 debut EP, which was long out-of-print and originally released only on CD.
Rilo Kiley first formed in 1998. The current lineup — Lewis, Sennett, Pierre De Reeder, and Jason Boesel — have been inactive since 2013, and they haven’t toured since 2008. They released four full-length albums across their career: Take Offs and Landings (2001), The Execution of All Things (2002), More Adventurous (2004), and Under the Blacklight (2007).
Lewis, who has released several acclaimed solo albums in the years following Rilo Kiley, told Rolling Stone in 2023 that she was optimistic about a reunion. “I’m open to it, for sure,” she said. “It just has to be the right alchemy and the right timing. I think we owe it to each other to play those songs again, because that’s the magic of being in a band. It’s just the four people in a room and the energy that creates.”
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