#music-festival

#music-festival

Downtown San Jose secured a new musical highlight for late March. Music Mania steps in as the city's first multi-genre music festival, setting up shop at the SoFA Lot from March 27 to 29. The outdoor space at 350 South First Street lines up directly with the NCAA Sweet 16 basketball action unfolding nearby at SAP Center. Friday opens with heavy electronic sets led by DJ Diesel, the alter ego of Shaquille O'Neal, supported by Whethan, Eptic, Zen Selekta, and Maneki.

Rolling Loud was sparked by a chaotic real-life moment when I briefly lost my son at a music festival - an experience that was filled with anxiety, fear, and absurdity. This became a great party story and now a fun, ridiculous comedy that we're incredibly excited to bring to theater audiences with our partners at Live Nation Studios and Ketchup Entertainment.

Portland-area festival Pickathon holds its 2026 edition on July 30-August 2 at Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, OR. Festival passes and single-day tickets are on sale and they've just announced this year's lineup. The 2026 lineup features a selection of "legends" as headliners: Steve Earle, Marcos Valle, Built to Spill, Shakey Graves, Meridian Brothers, Alela Diane, Acid King, Mexican Institute of Sound, and Clinton Fearon.

The lineup has been announced for the 2026 Rock the Country traveling festival tour, with Kid Rock, Creed, Jelly Roll, and Blake Shelton among the headlining acts playing various dates on the eight-city run. The festival will make two-day stops in Bellville, Texas (May 1-2); Bloomingdale, Georgia (May 29-30); Sioux Falls, South Dakota (June 27-28); Ashland, Kentucky (July 10-11, 2026); Anderson, South Carolina (July 25-26; Hastings, Michigan (August 8-9); Ocala, Florida (August 28-29); and Hamburg, NY (September 11-12).

Returning to Flushing Meadows Corona Park on June 5 through June 7, the musical event will feature headliners Lorde, Stray Kids and A$AP Rocky alongside a slew of other big-name artists, including Major Lazer, 2Hollis, Kali Uchis, Baby Keem and more. Presale tickets will go on sale this Thursday, January 8, at 10am EST. You can sign up for a presale passcode right here. Keep in mind that all ticket prices will increase at 11am on Thursday, when the public on-sale kicks off.

Looking to be one of the first on your block to score BottleRock Napa Valley 2026 passes? Well, here's your chance: Those BottleRock Napa Valley 20226 holiday presale tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Dec. 11, BottleRockNapaValley.com. These BottleRock Napa Valley tickets start at $455. The lineup

Outside's massive celebration of outdoor culture and community is coming back to downtown Denver for year three-and it's bigger than ever. The annual gathering, Outside Days, with presenting sponsors Capital One and REI Co-op, has added a third day of music and will feature headliners Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Cage The Elephant, Tash Sultana, Goth Babe, Japanese Breakfast, The Flaming Lips, Dawes, and more.

The weather is warm, the nights are cool, the food is unbelievable, and the passion is palpable. This is what the beloved Mexico City festival Corona Capital brings to the table each November. This year's edition, which went down November 14th through 16th, served as the festival's grand 15th anniversary celebration, and they pulled out all the stops: Foo Fighters, Chappell Roan, and Linkin Park topped the bill, with fellow headlining performances from the likes of Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Vampire Weekend, Weezer

The walls are set to shake and the earth will rumble once more as Terminal V Festivalreturns to Edinburgh's Royal Highland Centre & Showground on 18th and 19th April 2026. Marking another chapter for one of Europe's most formidable electronic events, next year's event will unfold across two epic days, with 40,000 ravers and five fully immersive stages headlined by over 100 cutting-edge artists for a weekend of unrelenting energy and precision production.

Wooooooooo, your tablehopper is set to hella turbo right now. On Monday, I was up in Geyserville at Francis Ford Coppola Winery to be a judge for the annual Perfect Your Pizzacook-off, which featured four fabulously creative pizzas and pairings, check my Instagram stories soon to see the winning pie (three words: pignoli chile crisp!). It's always a treat to have Razza's Dan Richer in town, and our Check Please! goddess Leslie Sbrocco as the emcee.

The outlet said that Young "gave a strong vocal performance but appeared flushed and emotional," during her show on Saturday. Billboard said she "powered through" four songs before "falling backwards" during the next. Young stopped to communicate with her keyboardist, per Billboard, before she collapsed. The outlet said her band, team and security rushed to help her, and that she was down for about "30-45 seconds" before being carried off the stage.

Fresh off the heels of what might have been the most spectacular edition yet, Louisville's Kentucky Exposition Center is probably still buzzing from the energy that filled every corner of the expanded festival grounds from September 11-14. As someone who's been tracking food and beverage trends for years, I can tell you that this wasn't just another music festival with some food trucks thrown in, this was a masterclass in how to blend culinary excellence, craft spirits, and world-class entertainment into something truly special.

His Saturday night slot marks Bieber's first billed Coachella set and a return to the stage; while the Canadian singer has offered occasional small sets, most recently appearing with SZA to perform a remix of Snooze in May, he has not performed a full concert since 2022, the year he canceled his Justice tour after 49 shows owing to health issues.

The confrontation happened at the Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Okla., just before Adcock stepped on stage to perform. A video, shared by Adcock on Instagram, shows Adcock and Bryan staring each other down and yelling through a chain-link fence topped with barbed wire. "Hey, you want to fight like a man?" Bryan says in the video clip, calling for someone to open the gate separating the two men.

The organizers of the Flanders Festival Ghent were open about why they decided to cancel a planned concert by the Munich Philharmonic: The reason, they said, was that its Israeli conductor, Lahav Shani, had not sufficiently distanced himself from the actions of Israel's government. By cancelling the event, the organizers claim they wanted "to maintain the serenity of our festival," and state that it is their "deepest conviction that music should be a source of connection and reconciliation."

The even better news is that KlezCalYidFest, the organization's first major live and in-person program since the advent of the pandemic, represents a torch-passing transition as a new generation of leadership emerges. With an energetic new director at the helm, 29-year-old accordionist Dmitri Gaskin, KlezCalifornia is embracing the veteran musicians who built the local klezmer scene while showcasing a younger cohort determined to take the tradition into new territory.

On Saturday, September 20, from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., the Long Island Cannabis Coalition presents Unity Fest at the scenic Estonian House Estate. Sponsored by Planet Nugg Cannabis Superstore, this event brings together music, food, art, and cannabis culture for one unforgettable day. It marks one of the region's most ambitious cultural gatherings, uniting communities through shared experiences, creativity, and wellness.