music festival

Looks like we'll be headed to another festival! Shaky Knees just announced their impressive lineup, headlined by Jack White, Queens of the Stone Age and the National. Other notable acts include Manchester Orchestra, Matt And Kim, Jimmy Eat World, All Time Low and more. Read more: 2018 Governors Ball announces massive lineup, the Gaslight Anthem reunion The […]

[Photo by: Attitude Is Everything]  Imagine not being able to go and see your favorite band because there wasn’t a toilet at the venue you could use. Imagine not feeling confident enough to attend a festival because you were worried about not being able to get around the site easily, or that you wouldn’t be […]

Watch new music videos from Too Close To Touch and Worriers—plus, don’t miss tour announcements from Passion Pit, Marilyn Manson and more. Check out the news you might have missed today below! Read more: A Day To Remember announce tour with Papa Roach, Falling In Reverse, The Devil Wears Prada 1. Too Close To Touch debut […]

First, there was Fyre Festival. Then there was Karoondinha Festival. Now Fort Fest has been canceled. (via Rock Sound)  The festival, which takes place in Bedfordshire, England, said they’ve had disappointing ticket festivals with “no prospect of us being able to deliver the festival.” Read their statement in full below. Read more: Blink-182’s Matt Skiba says […]

Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival has announced its not-to-miss 2017 lineup, which is set to feature the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the XX, Portugal. The Man, Cold War Kids, Tegan & Sara, The Front Bottoms and more. Check out the full lineup below! Read more: Third Eye Blind, Modern Baseball, Highly Suspect, PUP, more announced […]

[Photo by PG Brunelli] I guess this is what the future of live shows looks like: a hologram performed with a band for the first time at German metal festival Wacken Open Air this weekend. The late Ronnie James Dio reunited with Dio Disciples at the end of their set—the closer of the festival, which happens to […]

Photographer: Graham Fielder Photographer Graham Fielder captured performances from the entire weekend of Hangout Festival, including Panic! At The Disco, the Griswolds and Ellie Goulding. See the colorful, music-filled weekend here!

[Photo/video credit: Andrew Wendowski] Three hours north of New York City, well beyond cow farms and past the capital of Albany, is a middle-of-nowhere village called Schaghticoke. I’ll be honest, I still don’t know how to pronounce the name and neither did any of the other concertgoers who made the long pilgrimage from other far away […]

Music festival season is in full swing, and May 20-22, concertgoers will have a chance to see some awesome live bands (and so much more!) at the inaugural Rock'n Derby. This year is the first year of Rock'n Derby, a new music fest for East Coast audiences. Though Rock'n Derby is just beginning, they're starting […]

In this interview at Carolina Rebellion, Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick talks about new music technology and what it's like to play festivals. “The music equipment is better now. You hear much clearer,” he says. “It's fun to play the [older] stuff now, because we can play it as precise, and the audience can hear it with […]

The Monster Energy Welcome To Rockville Festival returns to Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1, 2016 with a lineup of over 45 bands, including Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, ZZ Top, A Day To Remember and Bring Me The Horizon! The festival, which kicks off the World's Loudest […]

After three consecutive sellouts, Monster Energy Fort Rock is expanding to two days– Saturday, April 30 and Sunday, May 1, 2016 in Fort Myers, Florida. South Florida’s Biggest Rock Festival will feature performances from Rob Zombie, the return of Disturbed (after a 4-year hiatus), Shinedown, Five Finger Death Punch, A Day To Remember, Bring Me The […]

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, Chicago's annual Lollapalooza music festival will extend to four days in 2016 from its usual three-day run. Read more: Mayhem Fest is over (for good), claims tour co-founder As if Lolla wasn't already a jam-packed weekend, next year's festival will feature an incredible 170 bands, starting Thursday, July 28 and […]

This dude just gets it. During last year's Bonnaroo music festival, he apparently enlisted some friends to bring his significant other a seemingly endless amount of flowers. She quickly became confused, but was forced to play along because the flowers just kept coming. Then, when she turned around, she saw her boy down on one […]

A new study conducted by DrugAbuse.com has revealed the most popular drugs at American music festivals. According to Consequence Of Sound, “the website collated over three million Instagram postings that mentioned 15 of the biggest musical festivals, and examined how many of them also mentioned drug use.” For example, 82 percent of Instagram postings about Marley […]

The folks at CollegeHumor have put a together a video that shows what music festivals would tell you if they were being truely honest. The clip touches on everything from outrageous heat to the seemingly endless sea of porta pottys. With weekend one of Coachella in the books and the majority of festival season looming ahead, this seems […]

Brand New recently performed a headlining gig at Michigan’s Common Ground Festival on July 7, alongside Circa Survive, the Hold Steady and more. Below, you can watch fan-shot footage of the band performing some of the classics, including “Seventy Times 7” from 2001’s Your Favorite Weapon; “Sic Transit Gloria” and “Tommy Gun” from Deja Entendu; and “Jesus […]

Go to any large music festival, and you’re bound to find an armada of public toilets. But, by the time it’s your turn to use one these fine establishments of human ingenuity, the situation inside may be less-than-ideal. Here’s how math can help ensure you get the cleanest spot when it’s your time to go. […]

Brand New performed at the Boston Calling Music Festival at City Hall Plaza over the weekend, along with Death Cab For Cutie, Modest Mouse, Bastille and more. Below, you can watch fan-shot footage of the band performing “Tommy Gun,” “Sic Transit Gloria,” “Degausser,” “Jesus Christ” and “At The Bottom.” Check out the band’s performance, and […]

It's shaping up to be another impressive festival season! In addition to previous lineup announcements from Coachella (Indio, Calif.), Firefly Music Festival (Dover, Del.), and, of course, the quintessential traveling summer fest, the Vans Warped Tour, three more major music festivals have unveiled their lineups: The Governor's Ball in New York, Hangout Music Fest in Gulf Shores, Ala., and CounterPoint Festival in Kingston Downs, Ga. […]