For five days, over 50 artists will bombard Montreal, Canada, for the 11th installment of Mutek, an international showcase of minimal electronic music. This year's event will be held June 2-6. ...(read more)
Ireland's biggest weekend of music returns this summer with Oxegen Festival 2010, a massive three-day celebration that runs from July 9-11 and features many of today's most popular rock, dance and ...(read more)
England's heaviest annual music festival returns June 11th through 13th with Download Festival 2010, a three-day celebration focusing largely on hard rock music. This year's festival will ...(read more)
With Shinedown headlining alongside Chevelle, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust, and 10 Years Its Inaugural Year, the Carnival of Madness Tour is born.
This summer, the rock bands will play 27 shows ...(read more)
Long live the revolution! Suoni Per Il Popolo (Sounds for the People, for the laymen) is a mashup of all things out of the ordinary: jazz, noise, electronica, turntable art, soundscapes, ...(read more)
Primavera Sound Festival isn't necessarily about indie rock -- it's about independent artists of any style. Pop, rock, electronic, you name it -- it's here.
Previous performers include Arcade ...(read more)
Think music festivals have lost their soul and sold out for big corporate bucks? Meet All Tomorrow's Parties, an annual event that's all about keeping it intimate. Founded in 1999 by Barry Hogan, ...(read more)
Get ready to dance your face off Down Under. Creamfields Australia 2010 will feature acts like The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77 and MSTRKRFT and hit up four cities across the continent: Sydney ...(read more)
From May 29-30, Detroit will be rocking with Movement (formerly known at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival) -- appropriate, since Detroit is generally considered to be where techno originated. ...(read more)
Indie kids, you can stop holding your breath now: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 is here!
From July 16-18, headliners Modest Mouse, LCD Soundsystem and Pavement will be rocking the stages at ...(read more)
If you love weekend music festivals but hate lining up for public showers or sleeping in a tent, London's Wireless Festival 2010 is perfect for you. Set right in the middle of the city in beautiful ...(read more)
Move over, J-Pop. For lovers of Japanese (and, yes, American and European) rock, alternative and even hip-hop music, the Summer Sonic Festival is the hot ticket. Big names like Jay-Z, Smashing ...(read more)
Started in 1980, the Montreal International Jazz Festival is now the largest jazz fest in the world, attracting over 2 million attendees in the past couple years. The city of Montreal often shuts ...(read more)
The Essence Music Festival is more than just an event celebrating African-American music and culture -- it's the largest event in the country to do so.
Sponsored by Essence magazine, the ...(read more)
The four-day Country Music Festival (or CMA) celebrates country music like no other event: with over 400 artists spread out over four days, it's no wonder that fans and big-name artists flock here ...(read more)
It's known as "The Big Gig" for a reason: Summerfest is an 11-day concert featuring over 800 bands on 11 stages, set on the 75-acre Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In fact, in ...(read more)
While most festivals are all about in-your-face music that inspires moshing and fist-pumping and screaming along at the top of your lungs, the Big Chill is the opposite: a festival comprised ...(read more)
Say what you want about this being a "grrrl power"/lesbo-themed concert, but the Lilith Fair is nothing short of all sorts of awesome female musicianship. Yes, this festival only showcases female ...(read more)
If there's one festival that can be credited with launching the careers of a bunch of singer-songwriter superstars, it's the Newport Folk Festival. The annual event gave both Joan Baez and Bob ...(read more)
Hip-hop fans may feel neglected by all the traveling summertime rock and folk shows. Enter Soundset Festival 2010, the annual indie-rap festival with big names like Atmosphere and Method Man and ...(read more)