Big Day Out organisers have been slammed by music fans accusing the festival of drawing out last night's "boring" announcement for a lengthy two hours.
Online commentators were also outraged that, despite staying up until 1am to hear which bands would be performing at the January 20 festival in Auckland, headlining acts Soundgarden and Kanye West were held back to early this morning.
The line-up itself - which also includes Kasabian, My Chemical Romance, Royksopp, Odd Future and Foster the People - was greeted with more positivity.
But fans are angry about the way in which it was made.
Band names were drip-fed every 15 minutes via social media sites Twitter and Facebook over two hours from 8-10pm Australian time, meaning New Zealand fans were forced to stay up to 1am to find out some of the smaller bands on the festival bill.