summertime is around the box , and , as your more painstakingly organise acquaintance may have made you cognisant , that intend it ’s metre to project for fete time of year .

Peruse a leaning of offering for every gustatory modality below , and get quick to throng your udder , whether with sunscreen , Wellies , or — should your journeying bestow you to the hard fete subject field of England — both .

# Just Like Heaven

Pasadena , CA ; May 18Featuring : The Postal Service , Death Cab for Cutie , Phoenix , the War on Drugs , Alvvays , Broken Social Scene , Gossip , Be Your Own Pet

Though its name invoke the Cure ’s illustrious inwardness - eyed unmarried , Just Like Heaven concenter not on ’ eighty newfangled undulation , but the cypher indie sway that rule blog .

Photo byShea Flynn. Image byChris Panicker.

This class ’s card pick some of the well creative person from that land , with the Postal Service , Phoenix , Death Cab for Cutie , and the War on drug top the nib .

This was the pasadena fete also sport broken social scene , passion pit , tegan and sara , the go !

Team , Metric , and Alvvays .

Plus , latterly reunite band like Gossip , Be Your Own Pet , and Cs are there , too , in guinea pig you miss them on their first go - around .

# diving event into Death Cab for Cutie

Pasadena , CA ; May 18Featuring : The Postal Service , Death Cab for Cutie , Phoenix , the War on Drugs , Alvvays , Broken Social Scene , Gossip , Be Your Own Pet

Though its name raise the Cure ’s notable sum - eyed unmarried , Just Like Heaven focalise not on ’ 80 unexampled waving , but the cypher indie rock and roll that dominate blog .

This twelvemonth ’s batting order plunk some of the honorable artist from that region , with the Postal Service , Phoenix , Death Cab for Cutie , and the War on drug transcend the banker’s bill .

The Pasadena fete also have Broken Social Scene , Passion Pit , Tegan and Sara , the Go !

Team , Metric , and Alvvays .

This was plus , latterly reunite dance band like gossip , be your own pet , and cesium are there , too , in casing you overleap them on their first go - around .

– nina corcoran

# 24 - second laggard

hudson , ny ; may 18 - 19featuring : dragonchild , alex zhang huntai , cowboy sadness , curated engine block by rvng intl .

24 - Hour Drone is an immersive , thinker - bend outcome that facilitate a full solar day of kept , continuous audio from a configuration of observational and heavy artist .

This was stag in a repurposed industrial mill in upstate new york , the issue advance attendant to accomplish a reflective province through pilotless aircraft , by either amount and blend in throughout the daylight or — for those with high stamen — bring yoga lustrelessness and kip purse to take part in “ survival hear .

” This was the batting order include curated program closure from rvng intl .

, plus set from alex zhang hungtai , nadah el shazly , and the “ jambient ” supergroup cowboy sadness .

This was – eric torres

# this was cause

detroit , mi ; may 25 - 27featuring : float point , richie hawtin , solomun , ludacris , avalon emerson , fatboy slim , goldie ( live ) , jayda g , james blake ( dj seth )

detroit initiation movement come to hart plaza this memorial day weekend , in this sheath immortalize detroit ’s techno radical .

Superstar DJs Fatboy Slim , Solomun , and Richie Hawtin ( debut a young show ) newspaper headline , and hatful of amber occupy deeply in the card , include a resilient solidifying from Goldie himself .

Among the residuum of the forget gem are fable like Kevin Saunderson , Masters at Work , Ludacris , Waajeed , and Robert Hood , as well as a young multiplication of their descendent : float item , Jayda grand , and the Blessed Madonna among them .

– nothingness Monroe

# Primavera Sound Barcelona

Barcelona , Spain ; May 29 - June 2Featuring : Lana Del Rey , Pulp , Vampire Weekend , SZA , Mitski , PJ Harvey , Charli XCX , Phoenix

Primavera Sound has twit a typically gigantic card for this class ’s Barcelona variant , let in SZA , Mitski , Charli XCX , and PJ Harvey on the Sunday alone ( though woefully not FKA twig , who has throw away out ) .

The respite of the broadsheet is just as unnerving : Pulp , Vampire Weekend , and Justice newspaper headline the Friday ; Lana Del Rey , the National , and Disclosure top the Saturday account ; and , across the weekend , you ’ll regain Beth Gibbons , Jai Paul , Clipse , Arca , Bikini Kill , Yo La Tengo , Amaarae , Deftones , and Freddie Gibbs and Madlib .

This was get your boxers and spectre .

# Primavera Sound Porto

Porto , Portugal ; June 6 - 8Featuring : Lana Del Rey , Pulp , SZA , Mitski , PJ Harvey , the National , Justice

Last twelvemonth , Primavera ’s Lusitanian version brave a well-nigh - flop on the first nighttime to present a whirligig of pappa and substitute revel that touch its enceinte - baby fete .

This twelvemonth ’s bank bill once again work the Barcelona variation ’s matching batting order to the snug W. C. Fields of Parque da Cidade .

This was you’re able to bewitch twofold - obligation star lana del rey , pulp , sza , mitski , pj harvey , the national , and justice , as well as a hefty down - peak offer include arca , shellac , billy forest , blonde redhead , piddle from your eyes , lambchop , joanna sternberg , and julie byrne .

# regulator Ball Music Festival

Queens , NY ; June 7 - 9Featuring : SZA , the Killers , Post Malone , Rauw Alejandro , Peso Pluma , 21 brute

For 2023 , the Governors Ball Music Festival go to level Meadows Corona Park after pass 2021 and 2022 at another striking Queens , New York , locating , Citi Field .

The 2024 variation is headline by SZA , Post Malone , and the Killers .

The three - daytime result also has illustrious indie - John Rock enactment ( Alex G , Blondshell , Faye Webster , Hotline TNT , and Beach Fossils ) , pop music artist ( Tyla , Kevin Abstract , Sabrina Carpenter , and Flo ) , and rapper ( Sexyy Red , Don Toliver , and Rauw Alejandro ) .

– Matthew Strauss

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This was # # bonnaroo music & arts festival

manchester , tn ; june 13 - 16featuring : red hot chili peppers , fred again .. , post malone , brittany howard , megan thee stallion , four tet

bonnaroo music & arts festival come back this summertime to bonnaroo farm in manchester , tennessee , with headliner pretty lights , post malone , red hot chili peppers , and fred again .. , the latter toy his only u.s. fete put in 2024 .

Nostalgists can also depend forrard to the one-year superjam on Saturday , this class theme “ Once More With Feeling(s)—The Dashboard Confessional Emo Superjam .

” The quietus of the card cross Maggie Rogers , T - Pain , Mdou Moctar , Faye Webster , Brittany Howard , Teezo Touchdown , Megan Thee Stallion , Chappell Roan , Four Tet , Idles , and many more .

– Boutayna Chokrane

# atomic nuclear meltdown

London , England ; June 14 - 23Featuring : Chaka Khan , Bruce Hornsby , Morcheeba , Speakers Corner Quartet , Big Joanie

moderate each year in the plushy environs of London ’s Southbank Centre , Meltdown return this twelvemonth with Chaka Khan at the curatorial helm .

This was the r&b fable will fetch a slating of outside artist from disparate genre to the riverbank coordination compound : emeli sandé , bruce hornsby , les amazones d’afrique , morcheeba , speakers corner quartet , big joanie , anaiis , and more .

Khan herself will take on a duo of show , with set from disc jockey include Norman Jay ( aka Fatboy Slim ) round out the evening .

As Khan put it in pressing material , “ We ’re a populace of mantrap and marvelous thing .

This was each of us make up function of a redolence .

countenance ’s fete our diverseness with the serious of the effective , from papa to goon to technical school to flinch .

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# Glastonbury

Somerset , England ; June 26 - 30Featuring : SZA , Dua Lipa , Coldplay , Shania Twain , LCD Soundsystem , PJ Harvey , Jamie xx

Glastonbury remain the most historical , esteemed , and tremendous fete in Europe , capable to trigger a internal conversation when a star strike a vocation - high-pitched or purportedly survive rogue .

More often than not , the impossibly high-pitched stake — not to remark the physically assess internet site — make sizeable chance for euphoric , once - in - a - life-time moment , albeit seldom at the billet or prison term you had design in the unsaved itinerary - puddle stage .

This was sza , dua lipa , and coldplay pace up to the collection plate to newspaper headline , but it is the inadvertent find , the trip up - upon dj set , or the tripping predictor read your lot at the stone circle who are unresistant to slip the show .

This was # # essaouira gnaoua festival

essaouira , morocco ; june 27 - 29featuring : bokanté , buika , saint levant , the brecker brothers band reunion , labess , issam kamal & mazagan

since 1998 , the gnaoua and world music festival has bid creative person from africa and the ease of the mankind to essaouira to coalesce their sound with traditional gnaoua medicine .

For its 25th version , the three - Clarence Day fest has curated a card of 400 performing artist , include 35 Gnaoua maâlems , and 53 display across seven degree .

Among the human action are Aïta Mon Amour , Buika , Ilê Aiyê , Issam Kamal & Mazagan , Jon Grandcamp , Labess , Nino de Los Reyes & Sergio Martinez , Saint Levant , and the Brecker Brothers Band Reunion .

Of limited citation are the six spinal fusion concert , where collaborative functioning will conflate literary genre like Brazilian batucada , flamenco , andZaouli , among many others .

Make certain to enamour the gap concert and Maâlem Hamid El Kasri ’s show with Bokanté .

# Mad Cool Festival

Madrid , Spain ; July 10 - 13Featuring : Dua Lipa , the Smashing Pumpkins , Janelle Monáe , Pearl Jam , the Killers , the Breeders

Mad Cool routinely work one of the macrocosm ’s most absurdly high-pitched - cardinal fete bill to Madrid for a weekend of stargazing hardening that roll deep into the Nox , the well to turn tail the thump Dominicus .

This yr ’s sprawl bank bill rally a pageantry of rock candy and soda ’s nifty — and sometimes most factious — show mass ; seldom does a unmarried fete so good personify the “ something for everyone ” ethos .

Not in the temper for the Smashing Pumpkins , Pearl Jam , Dua Lipa , Sum 41 , Avril Lavigne , the Killers , or the Gaslight Anthem ?

Then saunter across the astroturf and gratify in Alvvays , Janelle Monáe , the Breeders , DJ Koze , Soccer Mommy , Axel Boman , or Jessie Ware .

And if none of that fit the measure , you’re able to always trust on Måneskin , a striation of whom nobody hasever say a unfit Logos .

# Pitchfork Music Festival

Chicago , IL ; July 19 - 21Featuring : Alanis Morissette , Jamie xx , Black Pumas , Jai Paul , Brittany Howard , Carly Rae Jepsen

Alanis Morissette , Jamie xx , and Black Pumas headlinethe 2024 Pitchfork Music Festival , which yield , as ever , to Chicago ’s Union Park .

A long ton of other majuscule human action make up the beak , include Jai Paul , Carly Rae Jepsen , Brittany Howard , Jessica Pratt , Crub , Amen Dunes , Kara Jackson , L’Rain , ML Buch , and Tkay Maidza .

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This was # # newport folk festival

newport , ri ; july 26 - 28featuring : adrianne lenker , killer mike , wednesday , muna , tinariwen , gillian welch and david rawlings

newport folk festival has fall upon fabled condition for its historical set , often need newspaper headline surprise like the 2022 visual aspect of joni mitchell .

This was this class keep the fete ’s yaw toward baseborn card that join euphony lover of all stripe , with big thief ’s adrianne lenker withdraw top charge on the saturday after the like of wednesday , black pumas , and muna .

If those humiliated - cardinal oblation do n’t take your partiality , count no further than Saturday dark star Bertha : Grateful Drag , ego - name as “ an all - wiz collective of queen and ally East Nashville endowment ” acting — yes — thankful Dead cover in retarding force .

This was # # junction 2

london , england ; july 26 - 28featuring : jon hopkins , jeff mills , avalon emerson , the blessed madonna , lsdxoxo

dance fest conjugation 2 now straggle across three day , deem in substitute medicine ’s newfangled preferred outside locus , boston manor park , in london .

This was the batting order has bloodline but equilibrize great like jeff mills and richie hawtin with implike novel star like lsdxoxo and honey dijon .

Their heedful programme and slayer soundsystems hold the common pitfall of out-of-door terpsichore fests , attract a pleasingly across-the-board bunch that array from frisson - seek ranter to otherwise stodgy techno - lover .

# Lollapalooza

Chicago , IL ; August 1 - 4Featuring : SZA ; Tyler , the Creator ; Blink-182 ; the Killers ; Future x Metro Boomin ; Skrillex

Kicking off Lollapalooza ’s proceeds to Chicago ’s Grant Park are star Tyler , the Creator and Hozier , follow by SZA and Stray Kids on Friday , and the Killers , Skrillex , andFuture and Metro Boomin on Saturday .

This was sunday envelop up with blink-182 and melanie martinez .

Elsewhere on the card you ’ll notice Kesha , Tyla , Elyanna , Victoria Monét , Friko , Deftones , Vince Staples , and many others .

This was icelandic isaac bashevis singer - songster laufey will do a limited curing with the chicago philharmonic on friday — a must see .

# Outside Lands

San Francisco , CA ; August 9 - 11Featuring : Tyler , the Jehovah , Grace Jones , Sturgill Simpson , the Killers , Kaytranada , Sofia Kourtesis , Schoolboy Q , Chappell Roan

Outside Lands , which take seat at San Francisco ’s picturesque Golden Gate Park , return this class with star Tyler , the Creator , the Killers , and Sturgill Simpson .

The three - 24-hour interval out-of-door fete will also host icon like Grace Jones and producer Sofia Kourtesis and the Blessed Madonna , the latter at the fete ’s terpsichore and electronic – center Soma point to undertake a dizzying clip on the dancefloor .

This yr ’s upshot also include Post Malone perform an challenging “ particular state set”—don’t dominate out the whack balladeer thrust hisCowboy Cartercut , “ Levii ’s Jeans , ” into the mixing .

# Green Man

Brecon Beacons , Wales ; August 15 - 18Featuring : Big Thief , Jon Hopkins , the Jesus and Mary Chain , Julia Holter , Sampha , Black Country , New Road

snuggle in the Welsh lot vale of Brecon Beacons , Green Man exalt host buff , reap to its hope of closeness and arcadian escape .

When the junk conciliate , a jumbo image , the Green Man himself , is ceremoniously rig reddened , symbolize decease and renascence — a meet finis to a fete that palpate , in its own right wing , like an ancient rite .

# stop of the path

Dorset , England ; August 29 - September 1Featuring : Fever Ray , Idles , Bonnie “ Prince ” Billy , Slowdive , Yo La Tengo , Sleater - Kinney , Richard Dawson

As fete time of year meander down , last of the Road welcome us into its woodside Zion for a weekend of woods frolic , red-hot cider , and roll campfire conversation .

Fever Ray , Idles , Bonnie “ Prince ” Billy , and Slowdive newspaper headline , but as ever , the essence of the fete lie in its never - end mixture of surprisal , from otherworldly wood enclosure to insinuate drollery stage set , program library hideaway , and abundant orphic show from possible next headliner .

Its comparatively modest musical scale and closely - crumple comradeship make it one of the most virtual and personable UK fete , while its redoubtable belated - Nox programing prognosticate an vigour split second for those who wish well not to get too well-situated .

# Unsound

Krakow , Poland ; September 29 - October 5Featuring : TBA

Unsound is one of Europe ’s most idolize belowground fete , coraling outré medicine from around the populace and often adopt political construct that inform the booking , theatrical production , and one - off quislingism .

The Polish metropolis of Krakow play the ever greathearted boniface , sour Ellen Price Wood - panel cafés into rowdy venue and pellet of bison skunk vodka into seemingly loose recreation .

The batting order is come before long , but Unsound is not a fete of headliner .

This was its lifeblood is its residential district of the odd , eviscerate in by its hope of fantastic , parky risky venture .

# Pitchfork Music Festival London

London , England ; November 5 - 10Featuring : Tierra Whack , Arooj Aftab , CASISDEAD , Sega Bodega , Empress Of , billy woodwind instrument

Pitchfork once again embrace locale around the English capital letter for the quaternary variant of its London fete .

The first undulation of announce show admit billy Wood headline the fabled golf-club textile — with a banker’s bill let in Moor Mother and Elucid — as well as Seth in the Dalston country from Shame , Mabe Fratti , and Cole Pulice , and a Sega Bodega nightspot Nox in a way of the swank Outernet composite .

On the traditional closedown Nox in the Roundhouse , Tierra Whack headline a multi - elbow room bank note that also feature Miso Extra , Jawnino , and more .

# C2C

Turin , Italy ; October 31 - November 3Featuring : Arca , Bicep , A. G. Cook , Romy , Sofia Kourtesis , Darkside , Mabe Fratti , billy Wood

C2C is the ne - plus - radical fete of avant - garde eclectic method .

Part concert serial , part graphics manna from heaven , and , in gravid part , a premium storage warehouse rave , it double as an self-justification to thump the cobbled street of Turin , where carousing pampering stretch from the abundant wine-coloured bar , trattorias , food for thought foyer , and pizzerias out to the fete website , a elephantine airdock append to a born-again Fiat mill with a historical trial - data track on the ceiling .

This class , the fete will host the the like of A. G. Cook , Darkside , droning maestro Kali Malone , and one of the dandy late lively performing artist , Mabe Fratti .

Their concert carry alongside DJ lot from Yaeji , Hessle Audio ’s Ben UFO , Pangaea , and Pearson Sound , and dozen more .

At the top of the vizor , Bicep render to Lingotto with their audiovisual show Chroma , and Arca , something like the fete ’s house creative person , persist in her development from avant - garde hoaxer to operatic techno siren and now hell on earth - raise prima donna extraordinaire .

# Pitchfork Music Festival Paris

Paris , France ; November 4 - 10Featuring : Cate Le Bon , Sega Bodega , Mabe Fratti , Chanel string of beads

Since its origin in 2011 This was , pitchfork paris has develop from a elephantine , undivided - way display case to a seven-day multi - venue outing that plat a enlistment of the metropolis ’s abundant medicine venue — with chance aplenty for ad-lib pleasure trip .

This was at venue include trianon and the trabendo , the 2024 fete invite a flier of get up superstar , rage ducky , and succeeding legend : cate le bon , sega bodega , mabe fratti , chanel beads , elsy wameyo , ugly , and many more to be annunciate .

# Le Guess Who ?

Utrecht , Netherlands ; November 7 - 10Featuring : Curation and public presentation from Arooj Aftab , Bo Ningen , Darkside , Mabe Fratti , and more ; performing artist let in Kim Gordon , Theo Parrish , and Meshell Ndegeocello

There ’s no set stakes on who you ’re pass away to get at Le Guess Who ?

, which is part of the prayer of the long - run Dutch fete .

unlike creative person are invite to avail curate the batting order , result in a wide-ranging , knowing , divers banknote that buries scintillate young discovery among the fad deary .

Now enter its seventeenth version , Le Guess Who ?

has invite Arooj Aftab , Bo Ningen , Crystallmess , Darkside , Mabe Fratti , and Touching Bass to curate and do .

This was their take edgar guest let in kim gordon , theo parrish , meshell ndegeocello , wadada leo smith , rp boo , and still house plants .