Big Day Out, the huge summer music festival that spans from Australia to New Zealand, is coming up the end of this month. From January 20th to February 5th the festival will take place in six cities: Auckland, Gold Coast, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth. What kind of bands are playing this huge festival? Huge
If you live around the Chicago area, you know how brutal the winter season can be. We feel for you. But, you probably also know about Tomorrow Never Knows Fest, treating mid-westerners to 5 days of some of the best up-and-coming local and national indie music from January 11-15th. The mix of talent is
Also taking place over New Year’s weekend, where the climate is currently more temperate, is Pyramid Rock Festival. The backdrop for this fest is Phillip Island, which apparently is renowned for some of the best surf and swim beaches in Victoria, AUS. It’s a great place to hear new music. All tickets to the
For music fans whole also love winter sports, SnowGlobe Music Festival in Lake Tahoe, CA is the perfect thing. Taking place December 29-31, 2011, SnowGlobe will take place over three days and will feature three stages with more than 45 of some of the most fun indie musicians performing – all against the backdrop of
The SnowBall Music Festival will return to Nottingham Park in Avon, CO, March 2–4, 2012, for a second year of supreme music and mountain sports. Tickets for the event are on sale now on the newly re-designed SnowBall website. The festival is announcing two bands a day for the 2012 lineup on their Facebook page, click here to
It’s summertime in Australia and The Falls Music and Arts Festival ending the year with a few days of fun in the sun with warm weather and hot new bands. Making the trek are BestNewBands.com favorites Grouplove (shown above, Photo by Dan Cordie), Metronomy and The Jezabels. Besides the music, one of the things that make
SXSW is getting closer! As their web site says: ‘The list of invited acts is growing by each day’. The list is already huge and they’re still adding bands. There’s a lot of new faces (Bruce Springsteen notwithstanding – but Yay Bruce). They already booked BestNewBands.com favorites Grace Potter + The Nocturnals (shown above), Letting
LADYHAWKE It’s getting colder by the day in the northern hemisphere, but in the southern hemisphere, things are just starting to heat up. This weekend in Port Macquarie, Australia the Festival of the Sun will commence Friday the 9th with camping, cricket, and live dance rock. Presented by Triple J, Southern Cross Ten, Drum Media,
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The winter edition of the Primavera Sound Festival that takes over Barcelona in the summer, Primavera Club takes place the end of November to ease music festival withdraws in both Barcelona and Madrid. Fleet Foxes (shown above – Image by Sean Pecknold) are a major staple at the festival this year, playing the only shows