We’re midway through the summer, which means that several marquee music festivals have come and gone. But that also means there are plenty more to enjoy with a couple of months of summer to go, and the crisp days of autumn still to come. Below, find a number of notable upcoming festivals taking place around the globe.
Newport Folk Festival
Newport, RI; July 25-27
Featuring: Alex G, Public Enemy, Jeff Tweedy, MJ Lenderman, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jessica Pratt, the Lemonheads, Waxahatchee
Such is Newport Folk Festival’s provenance that it might as well be a UNESCO Heritage Site, but that does not stop the Rhode Island institution from racing to stay ahead of the curve. As well as playing to its cross-generational base with sets from Jeff Tweedy, Iron & Wine, Luke Combs, and Alex G, the festival invites attendees to sashay from Big Freedia to Obongjayar to Saya Gray. Most importantly, the fatigued music lover can once and for all learn the difference between Goose and Geese, who both receive premium billing on the Friday.
–Jazz Monroe
Newport Jazz Festival
Newport, RI; August 1-3
Featuring: The Roots, De La Soul, Janelle Monáe, Flying Lotus, Jorja Smith, Esperanza Spalding, Jacob Collier
The long-running Newport Jazz Festival returns this August, lighting up Newport, Rhode Island’s Fort Adams State Park with a lineup of past and recent luminaries reimagining the genre. Come well-equipped with sunscreen and hats, as there’s little coverage moving around between the festival’s various stages. (Another pro tip: Take the water shuttle to the park to take in views of the harbor before the fest and dodge the annual traffic congestion.) The lineup includes big names like Esperanza Spalding, the Roots, and De La Soul, but Newport Jazz’s far-reaching curation also ensures excellent smaller acts throughout each day, including Nubya Garcia, Sofi Tukker, and Tyshawn Sorey Trio.
–Eric Torres
Lollapalooza
Chicago, IL; July 31-August 3
Featuring: Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, A$AP Rocky, Bladee, Doechii, Clairo, Magdalena Bay
Lollapallooza is the land of contradictions, and the Chicago festival’s 2025 lineup is no exception: nu metal and Gracie Abrams; Luke Combs and K-pop. Among this year’s headliners, Korn seem the most likely to tap into the debauched legacy of founders Jane’s Addiction (in a just world, their sets wouldn’t overlap and Olivia Rodrigo could join the band for “Freak on a Leash”), though A$AP Rocky has been known to arrive at his shows in a helicopter from time to time. The rest of the bill is a sprawling choose-your-own-adventure of indie, hip-hop, R&B, and electronic music; over four days, one could catch Overmono, Nourished by Time, Xaviersobased, Bladee, Amaarae, Jane Remover, Mk.gee, and Bossman Dlow and barely be scratching the surface.
–Walden Green
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Hinterland Music Festival
Saint Charles, IA; August 1-3, 2025
Featuring: Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, Kacey Musgraves, Clairo, Bleachers, Scowl, the Marías, Remi Wolf
Tucked away in the Iowa countryside is Hinterland Music Festival, an underrated gem in the Midwest, especially considering the region’s abundant festivals. Descending on the humble city of Saint Charles are Lana Del Rey, Kacey Musgraves, Still Woozy, Sierra Ferrell, Royel Otis, Rebecca Black, Scowl, and many others. Consider it the little sibling of Lollapalooza, which takes place the same weekend, with a number of overlapping artists like Tyler, the Creator, Clairo, Bleachers, the Marias, and Remi Wolf. While most people don’t think of Iowa when they think of hot summers, Hinterland has infamously been plagued by particularly intense heat waves the past few years. For 2025, festival organizers have implemented a new 90 Degree Guarantee, which allows ticket holders the option to request admission ticket refunds for any day that’s predicted to reach 90 degrees or higher.
–Nina Corcoran
Osheaga
Montreal, Quebec; August 1-3, 2025
Featuring: Tyler, the Creator, Olivia Rodrigo, the Killers, Doechii, Jamie xx, TV on the Radio, Lucy Dacus, the Dare
There’s plenty to love about Osheaga Music and Arts Festival, and maybe nothing more than its convenience. No need to grapple with finicky camping tents or overbooked hotel rooms when the festival grounds are a short Metro ride from the scenic downtown area of Montreal. While Olivia Rodrigo, Tyler, the Creator, the Killers, Jamie xx, Doechii, and Gracie Abrams top the lineup poster, the undercard packs plenty of heat: Dua Saleh, the Dare, PyPy, Sofia Camara, and the Darcys, among others, are worth showing up early for, even if it means dragging yourself away from the rest of what the Quebec city has to offer.
–Nina Corcoran
Outside Lands
San Francisco, CA; August 8-10
Featuring: Tyler, the Creator, Doja Cat, Hozier, Anderson .Paak, Vampire Weekend, Doechii, Jamie xx, Jessica Pratt
Outside Lands is nestled amongst the coastal greenery of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. On a bill that spans from Jessica Pratt to Big Freedia, Vampire Weekend stand out for having taken up two slots. Ezra Koenig and his bandmates will open and close one of the stages on Saturday, August 9, an,d given how performing outdoors often finds them at their jammiest, there’s no telling what new expanses their encore covers medleys might reach.
–Walden Green
Green Man
Brecon Beacons, Wales; August 14-17
Featuring: TV on the Radio, Kneecap, Beth Gibbons, Perfume Genius, Underworld, MJ Lenderman, Wet Leg, Caroline
The annual pilgrimage to the sun-dappled valleys of Brecon Beacons is a reliable highlight of the UK festival calendar. With a bill of cult crowd-pleasers and indie darlings—but closer in feel to a rustic folk festival—Green Man evokes the ramshackle camaraderie of bygone Glastonburys but lowers the pace and scale to make it feel like the world’s greatest extended-family picnic. Shepherding things along are headliners TV on the Radio, Kneecap, Underworld, and Wet Leg, with a down-bill offering that spans rising stars and familiar favorites, Richard Dawson, Alan Sparhawk, and Los Campesinos! among them.
–Jazz Monroe
We Out Here
Wimborne St. Giles, UK; August 14-17, 2025
Featuring: Noname, Ben UFO, Michael Kiwanuka, Pa Salieu, Nala Sinephro, Everything Is Recorded, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Since its launch in 2019, We Out Here has become a cherished meeting point for aficionados of jazz, soul, and hip-hop, as well as offering a broad, expertly curated selection of music from the Southern hemisphere, too often marginalized on UK festival bills. Founded by DJ and Brownswood label head Gilles Peterson, the Dorset festival strikes a balance between heady grooves and body-moving fervor, with headliners Noname, Michael Kiwanuka, Carl Craig, and Rotary Connection 222 backed by the likes of Nídia & Valentina, Kokoroko, Emma-Jean Thackray, and Theo Parrish.
–Jazz Monroe
AfroFuture Detroit
Detroit, MI; August 16-17
Featuring: Asake, Davido, Kaytranada, Tee Grizzley, Ludmilla, Gims
Headliners Asake and Davido are the tip of the iceberg of this year’s inaugural edition of AfroFuture Detroit, the U.S. debut of a festival founded in Ghana in 2019. A preliminary program titled The Road to Detroit begins on August 11, with events built around African innovations in food, music, tech, cinema, and art, before the festival proper descends on the Douglass Site to round out the weeklong celebration.
–Jazz Monroe
End of the Road
Dorset, England; August 28-31
Featuring: Father John Misty, Caribou, Sharon Van Etten, Black Country, New Road, Mabe Fratti, These New Puritans, Self Esteem
As the dusty trail of festival season winds towards its conclusion, End of the Road appears like an oasis of easygoing hedonism and colloquial cheer. This highlight of the United Kingdom’s rich seam of midsize festivals specializes in folk and various strands of independent music that hew towards outsider artists and cult concerns, with just enough party-starters and rabble-rousers to keep things buzzing along. Caribou, Father John Misty, Self Esteem, and Sharon Van Etten headline, and sojourns through the charmingly decorated festival site will reward the curious with sets from Mabe Fratti, Squid, Sofia Kourtesis, and, as ever, abundant surprises.
–Jazz Monroe
Bumbershoot
Seattle, WA; August 30-31
Featuring: Weezer, Bright Eyes, Car Seat Headrest, Janelle Monáe, Digable Planets, Sylvan Esso, Indigo de Souza, Spellling
Only Seattleites would name a summer festival after a kind of umbrella. In fact: It might be the only season you’ll see any self-respecting local carry one. Bumbershoot began in the early 1970s (then dubbed the Mayor’s Arts Festival) as an attempt to cheer up residents amid mass Boeing layoffs. Decades on, it’s become a staple of Seattle’s thriving music scene, taking place at the scenic, 74-acre Seattle Center, beneath the towering Space Needle. The event spans Labor Day weekend, where bands perform on a handful of different stages dotted along the grounds. This year, attendees can watch bigger acts like Janelle Monáe, Weezer, or Bright Eyes, and also indie outfits such as the Linda Lindas, Great Grandpa, Indigo De Souza, Mega Cat, and others. Let’s all hope it doesn’t rain.
–Madison Bloom
Sound & Gravity
Chicago, IL; September 10-14
Featuring: Bill Callahan, Mdou Moctar, Helado Negro, Body/Head, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio, Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore, Irreversible Entanglements, William Tyler
The inaugural Sound & Gravity festival brings luminaries of indie, jazz, the avant-garde, and beyond to inner-city venues in Chicago, all within 15 minutes’ walk of one another. Founded by Mike Reed, a co-founder of Pitchfork Music Festival, the wide-ranging event features major draws in Bill Callahan and Mdou Moctar, as well as bounteous down-bill offerings from the likes of Mary Halvorson, Steve Gunn, and Sam Prekop—plus, surprise set curation from the late Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio.
–Jazz Monroe
The Psychic Salamander Festival
Carnation, WA; September 13-14
Featuring: Modest Mouse, the Flaming Lips, Built to Spill, Sleater‑Kinney, Yo La Tengo, Courtney Barnett
The inaugural Psychic Salamander Festival is poised to be as unusual as its name. Put together by indie-rock icons Modest Mouse ahead of their five-day cruise festival next year, Psychic Salamander will take place in the rural, bucolic town of Carnation, Washington, making for a somewhat more intimate affair than many other festivals on this list. The event will feature headlining sets by both Modest Mouse and the Flaming Lips, the latter scheduled to perform 1999’s The Soft Bulletin in full; if that isn’t enough indie-rock nostalgia for you, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, and Sleater-Kinney are also on the bill to help carry you blissfully into the past.
–Eric Torres
Shaky Knees Festival
Atlanta, GA; September 19-21
Featuring: Deftones, My Chemical Romance, Blink-182, Vampire Weekend, Pixies, Public Enemy, TV on the Radio, Devo
Now in its 12th year, Shaky Knees is one of the few large-scale American music festivals still centered on rock. While it remains in its home base of Atlanta, Georgia, the festival will change locations this year to the scenic Piedmont Park, which offers lake views and plenty of shaded trees as fall takes hold. Deftones, My Chemical Romance, and Blink-182 are this year’s headliners, with bands including Alabama Shakes and the Black Keys clocking in behind them. Promoters continue to keep their ear to the ground, too, as proven with early sets from Lambrini Girls, Junior Varsity, Fleshwater, English Teacher, and others.
–Nina Corcoran
Portola Music Festival
San Francisco, CA; September 20-21, 2025
Featuring: LCD Soundsystem, the Chemical Brothers, Caribou, Christina Aguilera, Magdalena Bay, the Dare, Marie Davidson, Zack Fox, Kelly Lee Owens
Are you trying to vibe out on a beautiful pier as some of electronic music’s most famous artists scramble your neural networks? San Francisco’s two-day Portola Music Festival has you covered. Only three years in, the event has already earned a strong reputation for drawing in both heavy-hitters and exciting upstarts from the worlds of dance, electronic, and hip-hop, and this year’s lineup is no exception: Innovators like the Chemical Brothers, Underworld, and Moby join experimental newcomers like Marie Davidson, Bolis Pupul, and Kelly Lee Owens. Plus, who isn’t morbidly curious enough to cross-compare live sets from LCD Soundsystem and the Dare on the same day?
–Eric Torres
Levitation
Austin, TX; September 25-28
Featuring: Pavement, TV on the Radio, Mastodon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Built to Spill, the Armed, Model/Actriz, Destroyer
Gentrification and the tech boom have changed Austin’s city skyline extensively over the past 15 years, but Levitation—originally dubbed Austin Psych Fest—has been holding true to the promise both to keep Austin weird and uphold its status as an in-the-know music mecca. This year’s lineup is overflowing with highlights like Blood Incantation, Built to Spill, the Armed, PUP, Wednesday, Blonde Redhead, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Destroyer, Sudan Archives, Pile, and Suicide’s Martin Rev—and that’s without even mentioning headliners Pavement, TV on the Radio, and Mastodon.
–Nina Corcoran
Austin City Limits Music Festival
Austin, TX; October 3-5 & October 10-12
Featuring: The Strokes, Sabrina Carpenter, Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, Doja Cat, Doechii, Japanese Breakfast, Car Seat Headrest, MJ Lenderman
Now in its third decade, Austin City Limits has long since grown from a relatively humble country music showcase into one of the biggest festivals in North America. This October, ACL, with its nine stages, will take over nearly 50 acres of Zilker Park. The festival extends even further into the city with ACL Fest Nights, which conscripts movie theaters, clubs, and other venues throughout the city for screenings, performances, and after-parties. Expect to see many cowboy hats.
–Walden Green
When We Were Young Festival
Las Vegas, NV; October 18-19, 2025
Featuring: Blink-182, Panic! at the Disco, Weezer, Avril Lavigne, the Offspring, Knocked Loose
American malls are dying, but the melodramatic pop-punk craze they helped bolster in the aughts is still going strong—at least in nostalgia packages. When We Were Young Festival, the Las Vegas music festival courting black eyeliner–wearing Millennials and live band emo karaoke lovers, returns this October with headliners Blink-182 and Panic! at the Disco, the latter of whom are playing A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out in full. Alongside Hot Topic’s greatest hits—Avril Lavigne, Taking Back Sunday, the Used, Alexisonfire, Yellowcard, the Story So Far—are longtime skate-punk pillars the Offspring and Bad Religion, as well as Weezer, Knocked Loose, Jack’s Mannequin, the Gaslight Anthem, Sunami, and the Starting Line.
–Nina Corcoran
Unsound
Kraków, Poland; October 7-12
Featuring: billy woods, Jim O’Rourke & Eiko Ishibashi, YHWH Nailgun, Smerz, Djrum, Caroline, Actress & Suzanne Ciani
In the era of musical globalism and internet micro-genres, future-forward sounds rarely have a unified direction of travel—let alone a pindownable, physical locus. If they did, however, it might be Unsound, the Polish festival that marks annual advances in outré music with bills that identify crests of waves and put them on display in venues around Kraków. This year’s lineup includes a smattering of legends (the likes of Jim O’Rourke, RP Boo, and A Guy Called Gerald), many rising path-breakers, and a talks program featuring Liz Pelly and Pitchfork’s own Jeremy D. Larson.
–Jazz Monroe
C2C
Turin, Italy; October 30-November 2
Featuring: Four Tet, Blood Orange, Jenny Hval, billy woods, A. G. Cook, Model/Actriz, Floating Points, Los Thuthanaka, Djrum, Nourished by Time
More than two decades since its launch as a club-hopping tour of Turin’s underground dance scene, C2C has cemented its status as one of mainland Europe’s most exciting and epicurean music festivals. Primarily housed in the Lingotto Fiere venue that helped define Italian futurism, the event plays out alongside the city’s art week with lineups plucked from an insatiably curious festivalgoer’s dreams. Marquee dance sets go cheek-to-cheek with alternative pop and rap and showcases from splashy newcomers like YHWH Nailgun, Nourished by Time, Saya Gray, Annahstasia, Los Thuthanaka, Maria Somerville, and I la Católica and Mabe Fratti’s not-to-be-missed live phenomenon Titanic. Like Unsound, this stalwart fringe festival feels like a genre unto itself—hence its self-proclaimed status as the home of “avant-pop.”
–Jazz Monroe
Pitchfork Music Festival Paris
Paris, France; November 3-9
Featuring: Blood Orange, Panda Bear, A. G. Cook, Indigo de Souza, Great Grandpa, Marie Davidson, Erika de Casier, Panda Bear, Self Esteem
Every November, Paris becomes the city of music lovers as Pitchfork programs an arrondissement-spanning selection of eclectic concerts. Blood Orange, A. G. Cook, Panda Bear, Marie Davidson, and Erika de Casier are among the headliners, with the Bastille Takeover inviting the likes of Annahstasia, Body Meat, RIP Magic, Deep Sea Diver, and Fakemink to ten venues in the historic neighborhood.
–Jazz Monroe
Pitchfork Music Festival London
London, England; November 4-8
Featuring: King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Oklou, Laurie Anderson, Los Thuthanaka, Destroyer, Unwound, Saul Williams & Carlos Niño, Kali Malone, Erika de Casier
The London live circuit once again transforms into Pitchfork’s playground this November, with events including an orchestral King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard show, at Royal Albert Hall, and Roundhouse bills topped by Oklou and Laurie Anderson. Don’t miss the array of multi-venue treats further down the bill, including the annual Dalston Takeover (this time with Jay Som, Great Grandpa, Indigo De Souza, and many others), Unwound’s first UK headline show in more than 25 years, and a showcase from MIKE’s 10k label.
–Jazz Monroe
Le Guess Who?
Utrecht, Netherlands; November 6-9
Featuring: Lonnie Holley, Lido Pimienta, Ali Sethi & Nicolás Jaar, Alabaster DePlume, the Fiery Furnaces, YHWH Nailgun, Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore, Saul Williams & Carlos Niño
The inventive and beloved Dutch festival Le Guess Who? returns this year with a bill that ranges from tectonic heavy-hitters—including Unwound and Sunn O)))—to international masters such as the Congos, Asher Gamedze, and Edna Martinez. The latter two are among the festival’s performer-curators, alongside Valentina Magaletti, Amirtha Kidambi, and Lonnie Holley, who invites Alabaster DePlume, KeiyaA, and joint shows from Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore and Saul Williams and Carlos Niño.
–Jazz Monroe
Iceland Airwaves
Reykjavík, Iceland; November 6-8
Featuring: Wu Lyf, Tunde Adebimpe, Saya Gray, Fat Dog
Iceland’s premier music festival, now more than 25 years old, takes place throughout several venues in downtown Reykjavík, with a diverse, genre-hopping lineup of local and international talent. When you’re not traipsing between churches, clubs, and other locations at night, Iceland Airwaves facilitates plenty of tourist attractions to hit earlier in the day, like soaking in a geothermal lagoon or renting a car to visit the country’s famous black sand beaches. This year’s edition also includes a partner headlining show from the 2000s Icelandic indie electronic group Múm, plus a new video series of music performances filmed in the Reykjavík tower on Lækjargata.
–Eric Torres
Future Ruins
Los Angeles, CA; November 8
Featuring: Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Claudio Simonetti’s Goblin, John Carpenter, Mark Mothersbaugh, Questlove, Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow, Danny Elfman, Hildur Guðnadóttir
Is the hair-raising Halloween theme one of your favorite songs? Do you own Goblin’s pounding, proggy score to the original Suspiria on vinyl? Then Future Ruins is for you. A new music festival spearheaded by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, this one-day event at Los Angeles’ Equestrian Center spotlights artists who have made an indelible mark on film and television music, from titans of the genre like John Carpenter and Danny Elfman to recent Oscar winners like Hildur Guðnadóttir and Volker “Hauschka” Bertelmann. There’s no shortage of interesting composers set to reimagine their own works, but further highlights include a live performance of Howard Shore’s haunting score for David Cronenberg’s Crash and the Roots’ Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson bringing Curtis Mayfield’s iconic soundtracks to life.
–Eric Torres
