Villa Aperta returns with the Electro Pop Rock Festival in the French Academy Villa Medici gardens. The festival consists of four concerts with musicians and international bands representing the most innovative trends of every possible genre of contemporary music.

The festival opens with the Parisian post-rock group That Summer (18 June), followed by French singer-songwriter Christophe and Ramona Lisa, the new stage name of singer Caroline Polachek, (19 June), then performances by all-girl American indie pop group Au revoir Simone, New Zealand musician Connan Mockasin, and the Italian debut of Jackson and his Computer Band (20 June) while the festival ends with some of the top names from the French electronic music scene such as Gesaffelstein, Brodinski, The Hacker, and current Academy fellow Laurent Durupt (21 June).