The Academy Award-winning duo have curated the festival comprised of some of the greatest composers of all time
Some of the most powerful music of our time has never been heard live—until now. On Saturday, November 8, the first-ever edition of Future Ruins arrives in Los Angeles.
Future Ruins is a one-day music festival celebrating the visionary composers shaping the sound of modern cinema and television. Created and curated by Academy Award-winning artists Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross and presented by Live Nation, the festival features live performances from groundbreaking artists across three stages — with select sets accompanied by full orchestra. Taking place on November 8, 2025, at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins invites audiences to experience iconic scores not as background, but as the main event. The music tells the story.
“It’s about giving people who are, literally, the best in the world at taking audiences on an emotional ride via music the opportunity to tell new stories in an interesting live setting,” says Reznor.
Tickets for Future Ruins will be available starting Wednesday, May 21st at 12pm PT.
Set across three stages at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center, Future Ruins is designed to feel thoughtful and immersive, bringing this music to light in an environment where it has never been heard before. Every artist is a headliner, each with their own specially curated moment. Each artist is encouraged to take big swings and reimagine their work for a live audience. Ranging from electronic sets and live bands to orchestral performances, fans have the chance to experience live debuts from composers who rarely appear onstage.
“There’s no headliner. There’s no hierarchy. This is a stacked lineup of visionaries doing something you might not see again,” says Reznor and Ross.
This one-time line up is not just a music festival — it’s a cinematic ceremony, a deep dive into sound and story, and a historic first for Los Angeles.
THE LINEUP:
● Cristobal Tapia de Veer (Babygirl, Smile, The White Lotus, Black Mirror, Utopia (UK), Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams, Ponyboi, The Third Day, National Treasure (UK), The Girl With All The Gifts, Humans)
● Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (Ex Machina, Civil War, Men, Drokk, Annihilation, Luce, Free Fire, Black Mirror, Devs)
● Danny Elfman (Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Men in Black, Good Will Hunting, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Alice In Wonderland, Spider-Man, Milk)
● Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin (Suspiria, Profondo Rosso/Deep Red, Dawn of the Dead, Demons, Tenebrae, Phenomena, Opera)
● Hildur Guðnadóttir (Joker, Chernobyl, A Haunting in Venice, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, Mary Magdalene, Tár, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Women Talking, Hedda)
● A performance of Howard Shore’s score of David Cronenberg’s Crash
● Isobel Waller-Bridge (Munich: The Edge of War, Emma., Black Mirror, I Came By, Wicked Little Letters, Fleabag, The Lesson, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, Magpie, Sweetpea)
● John Carpenter (Halloween, They Live, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York)
● Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein (Stranger Things, Lost in the Night, The Hole in the Fence, Spheres, Native Son, Butterfly, Retaliators, Valley of the Boom)
● Mark Mothersbaugh (The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Rugrats, The Lego Movie, A Minecraft Movie, Cocaine Bear, Thor: Ragnarok)
● Questlove (presents the score works of Curtis Mayfield)
● Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman, Master, Telemarketers, The Color of Care, Grasshopper Republic, Power, Unvion, Seeds, Life After)
● Tamar-kali (Mudbound, Shirley, The Assistant, The Fire Inside, The Last Thing He Wanted, Come Sunday, Palmer, The Lie, Little Richard: I am Everything)
● Terence Blanchard (BlacKkKlansman, Malcolm X, Inside Man, Da 5 Bloods, When the Levees Broke, One Night in Miami, The Woman King, Perry Mason)
● Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Watchmen, Gone Girl, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Challengers, Empire of Light, Waves, The Vietnam War, Mank, The Killer)
● Volker Bertelmann AKA Hauschka (All Quiet on the Western Front, Conclave, Lion, The Amateur, Dune: Prophecy, The Day of the Jackal, Hollywoodgate, Adrift, War Sailor, The Old Guard, Stowaway, Patrick Melrose)
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are multiple Academy Award and Grammy-winning composers, producers, and longtime collaborators known for their emotionally charged and genre-defying film and television scores. Their work includes acclaimed projects such as The Social Network, Gone Girl, Watchmen, Soul, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and most recently, Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers. Ahead of Future Ruins, the upcoming feature film Tron: Ares is set to hit theaters on October 10, 2025, featuring original music by Nine Inch Nails—Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ acclaimed rock band. Tron: Arescontinues the duo’s evolution as creators shaping the future of sound and story.
Tickets will be available at FutureRuins.com