Consequence of Sound‘s Festival Outlook is an online database featuring the latest news, rumors, and ticket information for the world’s many music festivals. Sometimes, though, it’s hard to keep up with everything, especially on a day like today. So, this is where our “Festivals in Brief” feature comes in.
Today brings a whole slew of lineup news, including Hangout Music Festival, KahBang Film, Music and Arts Festival, Summerfest, Flow Festival, EXIT Festival, Electric Picnic and more. Below, you can find all the pertinent information.
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BEAR CREEK MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
When/Where: November 11-13 at Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, FL
What’s New: Galactic, Big Gigantic, Chali 2Na, and Garage A Trois
Who Else is Playing: Modeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood, The Funky Meters, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Soulive, and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk
Tickets: $195 five-day tickets, $175 four-day tickets, $135 three-day tickets available now at the festival’s website.
CULTURE COLLIDE FESTIVAL
When/Where: October 5-9 in Los Angeles, California
Who’s Playing: CSS, Liam Finn, Lindstrom, Rainbow Arabia, with more to be confirmed
Tickets: $20 via Ticketweb
ELECTRIC PICNIC
When/Where: September 2-4 at Stradbally Hall Estate in Stradbally, Ireland
What’s New: Public Enemy, Sinead O’Connor, Best Coast, Blonde Redhead, Joan As Policewoman, The Walkmen, Santigold, The Drums, and Trentemoller
Who Else is Playing: Arcade Fire, Pulp, PJ Harvey, Chemical Brothers, Interpol, Beirut, Big Audio Dynamite, Lykke Li, The Go! Team, Twin Shadow, Yuck, and Mogwai
Tickets: €240 Weekend Camping Passes available here.
EXIT FESTIVAL
When/Where: July 7-10 at the Petrovardian Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia
What’s New: Bad Religion, M.I.A., and Groove Armada presents Red Light
Who Else is Performing: Arcade Fire, Pulp, Portishead, Grinderman, Underworld, Deadmau5, Jamiroquai and Beirut
Tickets: Four-day festival passes available for £89 here, VIP passes also available now
FLOW FESTIVAL
When/Where: August 12-14 in Helsinki, Finland
Who’s Playing: Kanye West, Q-Tip, Lykke Li, Mogwai, Janelle Monae, James Blake, Royksopp, Warpaint, Destroyer, Iron & Wine, Twin Shadow, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, and Midlake
Tickets: €115 three-day passes on sale now via the festival’s website.
HANGOUT MUSIC FESTIVAL
Where/When: May 20-22 in Gulf Shores, Alabama
What’s New: Motorhead, Justin Townes Earle, and Tony Clifton and the Katrina Kiss-My-Ass Orchestra
Who Else is Playing: Widespread Panic, Foo Fighters, Paul Simon, My Morning Jacket, The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys, STS9, The Avett Brothers, and Michael Franti and Spearhead
Tickets: $174 three-day passes on sale now via Front Gate Tickets.
HURRICANE & SOUTHSIDE FESTIVALS
Where/When: June 17-19 in Scheessel & Neuhausen Ob Eck, Germany
What’s New: Incubus
Who Else is Playing: Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, The Chemical Brothers, Portishead, Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, My Chemical Romance, Clueso, and The Hives
Tickets: € 120 now available here
KAHBANG MUSIC, ART & FILM FESTIVAL
When/Where: August 5-13 in Bangor, ME
Who’s Playing: My Morning Jacket, Chromeo, Lady Lamb The Beekeeper, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, Atmosphere, Surfer Blood, The Gay Blades, Blueprint, Atomic Tom, Prof, and Evidence
Tickets: Early Bird Film ($15), Music ($70), and VIP ($80) passes available now via festival’s website.
OXEGEN FESTIVAL
When/Where: July 8-11 at Punchestown Racecourse in Naas, Ireland
What’s New: Slash, Tiga, Fenech-Soler, Afrojack, and Ocean Colour Scene
Who Else is Playing: The Black Eyed Peas, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, My Chemical Romance, Brandon Flowers, The National, The Script, and Paolo Nutini
Tickets: €179.50 (No Campaign) and €199.50 (camping) passes are available via festival’s website.
SUMMERFEST
When/Where: June 29-July 10 at Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee, WI
What’s New: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Meat Puppets, Alkaline Trio, Wanda Jackson, Yonder Mountain String Band, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, The Max Weinberg Experience, and De La Soul
Who Else is Playing: Kanye West, The Black Keys, Buddy Guy, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Katy Perry, Matisyahu, Florence & the Machine, Peter Gabriel, O.A.R., Peter Frampton, Sheryl Crow, Styx, Sugarland, and Goo Goo Dolls, and 311
Tickets: GA passes and Marcus Amphitheater headlining tickets are available via Ticketmaster.
