If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Festival season is upon us, and you know what that means: It’s time to start piecing together your desert-ready fit. Deciding what to wear to these (typically) three-day …
Read More »Walmart's Secret Festival Shop Has Everything You Need to Be the Best-Dressed In the Desert
Going to a festival can get expensive. There’s the ticket fee, room charge (and remember, don’t touch the mini bar), shuttle pass, the list goes on — no matter how frugal you try to be, you end up spending thousands of dollars on these three-day events. And that’s not even …
Read More »Blink-182, AFI, and Jawbreaker Lead 2025 Four Chord Music Fest
Punk rock is coming back to the Pittsburgh area. Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal that Blink-182, Jimmy Eat World, AFI, and Jawbreaker lead the stacked lineup for the Four Chord Music Festival, scheduled for Sept. 13 and 14 at EQT Park in Washington, Pennsylvania. The lineup features a mix of …
Read More »Jon Batiste's Jazz Festival is a Tribute to the Magic of Quincy Jones
For two weeks every summer in Switzerland, the shores of Lake Geneva metamorphosize into a stage for the Montreux Jazz Festival. Since its inception in 1967 by founder Claude Nobs, the likes of Etta James, Kendrick Lamar, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Aretha Franklin, …
Read More »Desert Daze Cancels 2024 Fest Over 'Rising Production Costs' and 'Volatile Festival Market'
Desert Daze, the independent festival in Lake Perris, California that was set to return this year with Jack White, Cigarettes After Sex, and more, has canceled its 2024 fest. In a statement shared on social media, festival organizers said “rising production costs and the current volatile festival market” had made …
Read More »Three Dead, Several Injured in Attack at Germany Festival
Three people have been killed and several others have been injured following an attack at an event celebrating 650 years of the German city of Solingen, local news reported on Friday. According to newspaper Solinger Tageblatt, people said the attacker appeared to use a knife, and one of the festival …
Read More »Severe Weather Is Threatening the Future of Outdoor Concerts
When organizers were mapping out this year’s pop-punk Summer School tour, they envisioned it as a daylong event akin to its spiritual predecessor, the Warped Tour. Although most shows on the July and August run would be indoors, a few would take place outside. But before the 25-city trek even …
Read More »Sierra Ferrell Arrives on Horseback, Jams With Billy Strings at Under the Big Sky Fest 2024
On Thursday evening, a thunder filled the Remington Bar on Central Avenue in downtown Whitefish, Montana, when raucous Nashville act Hogslop String Band took the stage at the watering hole to signal the official kickoff to Under the Big Sky festival. Since its inception five years ago, UTBS has emerged …
Read More »ATX Fest Delivers a 'Fargo' Premiere, a 'Halt and Catch Fire' Reunion, and More
The ATX TV Festival, founded by TV superfans Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland and held annually in Austin, is an intimate, enlightening, taco-adjacent celebration of all things small screen. Each year brings an eclectic mix of panels, some focused on individual series (both new and old), some on industry-wide themes, …
Read More »Andy Frasco Comes Alive at Northlands, and Other Takeaways from the Eclectic Festival
In the mountains of southern New Hampshire, mandolin virtuoso Sierra Hull weaved through a cover of Tears for Fears’ melancholic tune “Mad World,” a crowd of thousands at the Northlands festival captivated by her songbird voice: “And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad, the …
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