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Aug 31, 2021 · From Pitchfork and the Governors Ball to sold-out Coachella and more, these are the top music fests, plus the lineups and COVID-19 rules.
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Best Festival Overall. Empire Polo Fields in Indio, Calif. April 15-24. Website. The granddaddy of them all, Coachella is the best attended, most relevant and highest grossing music festival in the world.
- Glastonbury Festival. Best Festival Culture. Worthy Farm, Somerset, England. June 22-26. Website. No other festival or event has done more to nurture, develop and celebrate the idealist peculiarities and cultural eccentricities of modern festival culture quite like the merry men and women of Glastonbury.
- Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas. Best Community. Las Vegas Speedway, Las Vegas. May 20-22. Website. Pasquale Rotella’s annual dance festival — held each summer “beneath the Electric Sky” — has gone from quasi-legal Los Angeles rave to major Las Vegas economic engine, with tens of thousands of hotel rooms booked and nightclubs bristling with activity each year.
- Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival. Best Festival Site. Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Aug. 5-7. Website. The annual San Francisco festival might be one of the youngest fests in the top 10, but its founders’ credentials — festival gurus Superfly Entertainment and the independent Bay Area concert company Another Planet Entertainment — and its location inside Golden Gate Park, just blocks from the Pacific Ocean, give Outside Lands a level of instant credibility within the live-music space.
- Lollapalooza. Date: July 29 – August 1. Headliners: Foo Fighters, Post Malone, Miley Cyrus, Tyler, the Creator, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, and Roddy Rich.
- Summer Smash. Date: August 20 – 22. Headliners: A$AP Rocky, Lil Baby, and Lil Uzi Vert. Book tickets: thesummersmash.com. Summer Smash is arguably one of the best lyrical hip-hop music festivals in the midwest.
- Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Date: September 2 – 5. Headliners: Foo Fighters, Megan Thee Stallion, Tame Impala, Lizzo, Tyler, the Creator, and Lana Del Rey.
- Made In America Festival. Date: September 4 – 5. Headliners: Justin Bieber, Lil Baby, Dojo Cat, Tinashe, and Bobby Shmurda. Book tickets: madeinamericafest.
- Lollapalooza (Chicago, IL) Every August the city of Chicago fills with the sweet sounds of music emanating from the Lollapalooza music festival in Grant Park.
- Governors Ball Music Festival (Queens, New York) New York is truly a haven for music at all times of the year, but that energy is even more palpable during the summer months when the Governor's Ball Music Festival goes down.
- Coachella (Indio, CA) Coachella is one of the most notorious festivals in the country and there is a good reason why it's become so well-known. Though it's sometimes criticized for becoming too commercial, Coachella does provide something totally different than other events.
- Ultra Music Festival (Miami, FL) If you're looking for a place to dance to electronic dance music for days on end, you might be on the hunt for Ultra Music Festival.
- Em Casalena
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- Innings Festival. Tempe, Arizona. In 2024, the Innings Festival will light up Tempe, Arizona on February 23 and 24 at the scenic Tempe Beach Park. Unique for blending live music with baseball themes, the festival is a haven for fans of baseball and pop/rock music alike.
- Extra Innings Festival. Tempe, Arizona. Another major music festival that will kick off in Tempe, Arizona is the Extra Innings Festival. The follow-up to Innings Festival will take place in the same location on March 1 and 2 and feature more country and soft-rock performers.
- Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. Manchester, Tennessee. We can’t have a list of the best music festivals in 2024 without mentioning Bonnaroo! This music and arts festival is a classic that will start on June 13th and end on June 16th of this year at the Bonnaroo Farm in Manchester, Tennessee.
- Cruel World Fest. Pasadena, California. Cruel World Fest will be presented by Goldenvoice and FKOA and kick off on May 11. This one-day festival focuses on goth and indie rock music and will take place at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena.
Jun 17, 2024 · From highly anticipated events like Summerfest and Lollapalooza to niche gatherings like Bonnaroo and Pitchfork, these festivals feature a diverse array of genres, from rock and indie to hip-hop...
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Jun 7, 2022 · These are the best music fests in LA, NY, Miami, Chicago and more, including Coachella, Stagecoach, Lollapalooza, Rolling Loud and more.
