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The 2026 iteration of Big Ears Festival, set for March 26–29 in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee, promises one of the most ambitious programs in the festival’s thirteen-year arc. Over 250 concerts, films, art installations, panels, and spontaneous pop-ups will unfold across historic theaters, churches, clubs, and public spaces downtown. Headliners and anchors include David Byrne, Robert Plant’s Saving Grace, Flying […]

Festival juggernaut Lollapalooza is returning to Chicago’s Grant Park on July 31-August 3rd for four jam-packed days of music. The top of the bill features plenty to like no matter your musical interest, whether you’re into pop, hip-hop, country, metal, or electronic. But dig more into the deep undercard and you’ll find an array of […]

Project Pabst was first launched in 2014 as a two-day ode to the favorite macro lager of hipsters and dive bar patrons across the land before being somewhat surprisingly discontinued in 2018 after the festival had expanded to other cities. Here in the craft beer mecca of Portland, Oregon, the festival had a solid little […]

Knoxville, Tennessee’s Big Ears Festival has long been a beacon for adventurous music lovers, offering a stunning blend of experimental, avant-garde, folk, jazz, and genre-defying performances. This year boasts some huge names like Beth Gibbons, Taj Mahal, Bill Frisell, Waxahatchee, and Anoushka Shankar. While the festival’s bigger names might draw plenty of attention, the lesser-known, […]

Fans of live music sometimes find themselves putting together their dream musical lineups. They imagine the guitarist from a favorite band playing with a keyboardist from a different group. And what if the rhythm section from another favorite band joined in for a jam? One music lover in the Pacific Northwest has decided to manifest […]

Austin City Limits Music Festival is making its return to Zilker Park for the event’s 21st year this weekend and the following (Oct 6-8 and 13-15). Once again, the festival will feature two weekends jam-packed with music, from huge names to rising stars. Here are five lesser-known acts and five classics you should check out: […]

This year, Outside Lands is officially celebrating 15 years since the festival’s first edition. The festival once again returns to San Francisco’s picturesque Golden Gate Park, with a wide array of major and up-and-coming artists on the bill. Here are five lesser-known acts and five classics taking place over August 11th and 13th you should […]

Since 2013, Atlanta has been the home of one of the best music festivals in the country for fans of indie rock, alternative, indie folk, and all things rock-adjacent. Since then, Shaky Knees has grown in both size and reputation. One would be hard pressed to find an attendee that isn’t awed by how well […]

Copy, paste. Copy, paste. Copy, paste. More and more music festivals seem to follow this formula in recent years. Not so for Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN, who instead start on a “blank page” and create something entirely different. Founded in 2009 by Ashley Capps, Big Ears is celebrating its tenth iteration this year […]

Now in its 11th installment, Boise’s Treefort Music Festival keeps on keepin’ on as the Northwest’s premier little festival that could. Founded in 2012 as the region’s answer to SXSW, both the festival and its host city now toe the line between low-key and loved to death. Treefort’s glory days of raucous punk shows in […]

On the cusp of the 20th Anniversary of Austin City Limits Music Festival, the city itself seems poised to recapture the pre-pandemic magic of Austin’s live music scene. Yes, the festival returned last year after a two-year hiatus but it felt different, as if live music had not fully made a comeback yet. 2022 feels […]

No one could have imagined on that stormy final day of Solid Sound Festival in 2019 that it would be three years until the next one. But here we are, finally making the much-anticipated return to MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, the museum that hosts Jeff Tweedy and Wilco every other year for three […]

When thinking of where the best music festivals are taking place today, Knoxville, TN might not be the first, or even the tenth, city to come to mind. However, in an age where festivals are ubiquitous and most seem to be a copy and paste of each other, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville dares to […]

After a pandemic-related cancellation in 2020, Outside Lands will officially return to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. For the first time in the festival’s history, the event will take place on Halloween weekend (instead of the usual August timing). With a stacked music lineup and a plethora of local food and drink options on […]

After much hand-wringing over the Delta variant COVID spike both locally and nationwide, Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL Fest) is taking place on Friday, October 1 at Zilker Park in the center of the Live Music Capital. Just last week, the City of Austin officially approved the park permit for C3 Presents to proceed […]

The 18th year of the granddaddy of Austin music fests, Austin City Limits Festival, kicks off at Zilker Park October 4th with a monster lineup of headliners, mid-tier acts and first-time festival performers. Guns N’ Roses, The Cure, and Tame Impala join Cardi B, Lizzo, and Childish Gambino (in a makeup of last year’s cancellation) […]

Some festivals have all the luck, and Sea.Hear.Now taking place this weekend (September 20th – 21st) on the Asbury Park (NJ) beach might have the best luck of all. This second-year festival organized by rock photographer and Asbury Park resident Danny Clinch, emerged from the womb fully formed 1n 2018 and hasn’t missed a beat […]

For its 5th year, Louder Than Life finds a new venue at the Highland Festival Grounds in Louisville, Kentucky with what promises to be one of their most impressive lineups yet. Headlined by Slipknot, Guns N Roses, and Disturbed, and supported by over 50 other acts including Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Godsmack this years fest […]

The fifth annual KAABOO Del Mar music and arts festival is coming to the historic Del Mar Racetrack + Fairgrounds on September 13-15, 2019  just north of San Diego on the Southern California coast. The fully immersive festival experience combines a stellar lineup of live music that runs the gamut from artists spanning different generations […]

Last week, the Lost Sierra Hoedown, announced its set times for the weekend of September 19-22, 2019. This was done with little fanfare or social media blasts, just a post that those of us in the know get incredibly excited about. The Lost Sierra Hoedown is held annually every year in Johnsville, CA (High Sierra […]