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SATCHMO SUMMER FEST
(Aug 1-4, New Orleans) As you might expect, the Satchmo Fest celebrates the life and music of Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong, the larger than life musician who put the spice in the gumbo of N’awlins music and culture. The fun fest features traditional and contemporary jazz, brass bands and children’s programming. This year, performers include Leroy Jones, Jeremy Davenport, Connie Jones’ Crescent City Jazz Band, The Palmetto Bug Stompers, Rebirth Brass Band, Treme Brass Band, Leah Chase, James Andrews, Lars Edegran’s New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra and many others, creating a Crescent City party that spills over from the stages into the streets.
LOLLAPALOOZA
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(Aug 2-4, Chicago’s Grant Park) After beginning the decade as one of the seminal celebrations of alternative music, Lollpalooza had become something of a joke by the late ‘90s, underlining the absurdity of turning underground culture into a massmarketed mainstream commodity. Perry Farrell’s brainchild has functioned much better under its current guise as a destination festival, attracting hundreds of thousands of fans to Chicago’s scenic Grant Park every August. This year’s lineup is as impressively well rounded as any music fan could hope for: From indie darlings like Cat Power and The Postal Service to folk-rockers like The Lumineers and Mumford & Sons, from old school icons like New Order and The Cure to new BMOCs like The National and Phoenix, the roster reads like a who’s who in alt-rock. But the big draw should be Nine Inch Nails, reforming for their first tour since 2009.
OUTSIDE LANDS
Fri, July 12 Sat, July 20 July 25 July 30 July 31 Sat, Aug 3 Sat, Aug 10
America’s Most Wanted Music Festival
Lil’ Wayne w/ T.I.
311 w/ Cypress Hill, G. Love and Special Sauce Vans Warped Tour w/ The Used, Chiodos, Motion City Soundtrack, Bring Me The Horizon, August Burns Red and many more! Rockstar Energy Drink Presents
Mayhem Festival w/ Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon, Amon Amarth and many more! Mermaids of Alcatraz Tour
Train w/ Gavin Degraw and The Script Matchbox Twenty and Goo Goo Dolls w/ Kate Earl Flashback Festival w/ Cameo, Average White Band, SWV,
Zapp and Brick
Aug 29
Blake Shelton w/ Easton Corbin and Jana Kramer
Sept 12
Depeche Mode
Sat, Sept 14 Sept 16 Sept 19 Fri, Sept 27
(Aug 9-11, San Francisco) A relatively new event, the Outside Lands Festival started in 2008 at Golden Gate Park. The first one included over 60 musical acts from around the world, in addition to a number of impressive art installations. With attendance on average of 40,000 to 60,000 a day, the event was originally geared toward the new green movement, and still includes numerous initiatives to create an ecofriendly environment, including ridesharing plans. Often broadcast as specials on the festival’s YouTube account, performers for this year’s event include a well-publicized headlining appearance by Paul McCartney. But the support acts are just as stellar, including The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine
Kid Rock w/ ZZ Top and Uncle Kracker Honda Civic Tour
Maroon 5 w/ Kelly Clarkson and PJ Morton Miranda Lambert & Dierks Bentley w/ Randy Rogers Band and The Cadillac Three
Born & Raised Tour
John Mayer w/ Phillip Phillips
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Outside Lands Festival
Inch Nails, Willie Nelson, Gary Clark, Jr., Camper Van Beethoven, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Hall & Oates.
RIOT FEST CARNIVAL
(Aug 24–25 in Toronto; Sept 13–15 in Chicago; Sept 21–22 in Denver) Started in 2005 at numerous venues across Chicago, this under-the-radar punk rock fest expanded to the East Coast in 2011, successfully staging shows in Philly which led to last year’s expansion to other cities. When the Warped Tour decided to ignore traditional punk bands and their fans (i.e. those who don’t shop at Hot Topic) in favor of courting fickle tweens, Riot Fest opened up its arms to the older punk bands. This year is no exception with a stellar lineup that includes Violent Femmes, Dinosaur Jr. Rancid, Rocket From the Crypt, some mediocre bands like Blink-182 and Fall Out Boy and in the greatest music festival booking coup to date, they have managed to reunite The Replacements. Suck it Coachella!
ROCK THE BELLS
(Sept 7-Oct 5, 4 cities) Time sure does fly when you’re having fun reciting rap songs. Rock the Bells, the undisputed king of hip-hop tours, is celebrating its 10th year with a 40-act, fourcity extravaganza (Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C. and New York) that’s nothing short of extraordinary. It doesn’t matter if you prefer your rhymes with substance (Kendrick Lamar, Common) or full of nonsense (Juicy J), Bells has somebody for you. Upstarts (Danny Brown), legends (Rakim) and even a few guests from the other side (holograms of the late Eazy E and ODB) all plan on celebrating the festive occasion.
MUSIC MIDTOWN
(Sept 20-21, The Meadow at Piedmont Park) For a few years there, it looked as if Atlanta’s signature music festival might go the way of the dodo. But the 2013 lineup, which features 30 artists on three stages (including a new The Roxy stage near the 10th Street entrance) over two days, is arguably its strongest in years. Friday night will feature performances by ATL’s own 2 Chainz and Drivin N’ Cryin as well as the North Mississippi All-Stars, Cake, Journey, Jane’s Addiction and more. Saturday’s lineup is even more stocked with talent, such as Arctic Monkeys, Kendrick Lamar, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Weezer. At just $90 for a weekend pass, it’s a helluva lot cheaper than a road trip to a destination festival.