Music Festivals 2016: where ya headed

I wanted to go to the Roots Picnic but I can't get that time off..... I will probably hit up Afropunk in Brooklyn this year though

For now I've got Best Kept Secret and Le Guess Who? on schedule. Based on previous experiences I can easily buy a ticket without knowing the full line-up yet.

By Linius Go To PostFor now I've got Best Kept Secret and Le Guess Who? on schedule. Based on previous experiences I can easily buy a ticket without knowing the full line-up yet.

Explosions In The Sky...I´m so jealous. Won´t be going to any festivals this year. I´m back to Uni and money is tight.

Nothing planned yet. Usually go to either Copenhell or Roskilde Festival, but none of them got any decent band list yet. So will wait and see I guess. Although going to see Converge for the first time at Copenhell does make me kind of want to go, but want something more of interest.

Edit: was meant for the football thread.

Bonaroo lineup is out there...

LCD Soundsystem, Pearl Jam, Dead & Company (twice), Tame Impala, Death Cab for Cutie, M83, Haim, Chvrches, Miguel, Father John Misty, Tyler the Creator, Vince Staples, Kurt Vile & the Violators, Ween, Blood Orange, Shamir, Mavis Staples, J. Cole, Purity Ring, Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram), Dungen, Ellie Goulding, Kamasi Washington, Chris Stapleton, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Twin Peaks, Natalie Prass, Judd Apatow, Hundred Waters, Waxahatchee, Beach Fossils, Leon Bridges, FIDLAR.

There's some good stuff in there, but $400 good, plus the drive? I dunno. Might be tough to convince some of my friends.

Festivals in the US are crazy expensive man.

Now here's a line-up I like

By Linius Go To Post
Now here's a line-up I like

Radiohead hnnnng.

Thats a great lineup. But I ain't flying to barcelona :/

God, Explosions In The Sky in Barcelona might be an indication that they will be in Primavera Sound Porto. That would make me really think hard about a quick trip to Porto on the weekend.

Radiohead play a festival in switzerland but the other acts are straight up garbage like Mumford & Sons.
still might buy a ticket and leave after the concert.

Been going to Primavera since about 2005 I think. Great festival.

Each day of the festival kicks off around 4pm and finishes up around 7 or 8am - so we tend to just have a few hours sleep, then a big tapas for lunch, bit of time on the beach then head up to the festival.

This site is good for cheap accommodation, http://www.barcelona30.com/

By Linius Go To PostNow here's a line-up I like

Still no gbv/robert pollard. Won't be a true indie festival until he appears on stage.

Coachella is on the list for this year, as is Lollapalooza.

I'm seriously considering Primavera. The lineup is just...ungh.

By Das Go To PostBeen going to Primavera since about 2005 I think. Great festival.

Each day of the festival kicks off around 4pm and finishes up around 7 or 8am - so we tend to just have a few hours sleep, then a big tapas for lunch, bit of time on the beach then head up to the festival.

This site is good for cheap accommodation, http://www.barcelona30.com/
Still no gbv/robert pollard. Won't be a true indie festival until he appears on stage.

Went to the Porto version last year and absolutely loved it. Would love to go again this year but it will be most likely impossible.

For just 119 euros this is pretty baller

By Linius Go To Post
For just 119 euros this is pretty baller

Festival itself it's quite good. Went there in 2011 and 2012.

no idea this year. Need to wait for downloads lineup to fill out a bit more, but then i remember the campsite is always full of metal-as-fuck try-hard tough-guys who don't know how to interact with other people.

Holding out hope Sonisphere happens, the last once was cracking.

Fuck, my fears have been confirmed...Explosions In The Sky at Primavera Porto. I really want to go but it will probably be impossible for me at that time...

Bayreuth.

I wish.

By Linius Go To PostNow here's a line-up I like

I didn't even know Drive Like Jehu had reunited.

Wow, that's an amazing deal. I'd pay that much just to see Radiohead live again.

Shit isn't fair how much more these festivals cost in the US.

USA is borderline crazy with their festival prices. No idea why the difference is so huge. In Europe most countries have government money for culture though, festivals also take a share of that. Don't know if that's in the States as well?

Ne Obliviscaris is soooooooooo good and their live performances are amazing.

By Linius Go To PostUSA is borderline crazy with their festival prices. No idea why the difference is so huge. In Europe most countries have government money for culture though, festivals also take a share of that. Don't know if that's in the States as well?

It's a purely commercial endeavor in the US.

By reilo Go To PostIt's a purely commercial endeavor in the US.

This is true. The festivals they have here in Phoenix are pretty garbage. They book a few acts, maybe 1 or 2 decent ones, charge 100 bucks, cram as many people as they can into a tiny space, give the headliners an hour to play and then tell everyone to fuck off. There's no effort to give people their money's worth.

Tempting!~ I have family in NYC so I could get a free place to stay at least...

Might skip SXSW this year and do ACL and Fun Fun Fun Fest.

Free Press (Houston) announced their lineup and I actually would go but i'd be in Dallas that weekend. Not too many big people were going to be there that i care about but it would have been semi-nice to see Deadmau5 and see Zed's Dead (again)

that parorama line up suuuuucks
Madlib
Tensnake
all those other people are trash

lol Zed's Dead and Deadmau5 are good but Kendrick Lamar, Arcade Fire and Sufjan Stevens are trash.

Prototype plz.

Went to Sac Music Festival. That's the current name for the old Jazz Festival, which I have been going to since I was a kid. It's not just jazz now, but it's still mostly jazz. Saw a lot of jazz bands from around the country. Some samba styles, some swing and some dixie. Was going to stay for Big Bad Voodoo Daddies, but we needed to head home after about 8 hours there.

Doesn't seem like I will go to any festivals. Will catch the black queen in October though, what a time.

Will be going to Best Kept Secret with Faridmon in two weeks :D

Anyone going to Austin City Limits this year? Probably going to go since I have a buddy who lives in Austin even if the lineup is just so so. Free rent and board :)

By vire Go To PostAnyone going to Austin City Limits this year? Probably going to go since I have a buddy who lives in Austin even if the lineup is just so so. Free rent and board :)

Yes! Weekend 1 and the lineup is unquestionably the best of any festival I've ever been to. I am absurdly excited about it.


I wish Anderson .Paak was playing weekend 1. :(