The Download Festival is a three day rock music festival held annually at Donington Park, England (which hosted Monsters of Rock between 1980 and 1996, and 2002’s Ozzfest). It takes place at the end of spring, and is owned and managed by Live Nation.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 3 Inches of Blood
- 36 Crazyfists
- A Day To Remember
- AC/DC
- Aerosmith
- Airbourne
- Anathema
- As I Lay Dying
- Atreyu
- August Burns Red
- BREED77
- Bullet For My Valentine
- Cancer Bats
- Cinderella
- Coheed and Cambria
- Danny Vaughn
- Deftones
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
- Dommin
- Everything Burns
- Flyleaf
- Genitortures
- Glamour Of The Kill
- HIM
- Hearts Under Fire
- Heights
- Hellyeah
- Holy Grail
- Jett Black
- Job For A Cowboy
- Killing For Company
- Killswitch Engage
- Lawnmower Deth
- Megadeth
- Michael Monroe
- Morning After
- Motorhead
- My Passion
- Napalm Death
- Never Means Maybe
- No Americana
- No Mean City
- Nonpoint
- Panic Cell
- Porcupine Tree
- Rage Against the Machine
- Revoker
- Ricky Warwick
- Rise To Remain
- Rolo Tomassi
- Sacred Betrayal
- Saxon
- Senser
- Skin
- Slash
- Sondura
- Steel Panther
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Straight Lines
- Suicidal Tendencies
- Sum 41
- Switchfoot
- Sybreed
- TAB
- Taking Dawn
- Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders
- The Blackout
- The Damned Things
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- The Dirty Feel
- The Jim Jones Revue
- The More I See
- The Plight
- The Wildhearts' Ginger
- Them Crooked Vultures
- This Is Divine
- Tiger Please
- Trigger The Bloodshed
- Tyketto
- Unearth
- Volbeat
- We Are The Fallen
- White Wizzard
- Whitechapel
- Y&T
- Year Long Disaster
- You And What Army
- Young Guns
- Your Demise
- Zebrahead
Festival News and Rumors

Corona Capital 2023 Lineup Brings The Cure, Blur, and Pulp to Mexico City
Scoop Harrison June 5, 2023

Insane Clown Posse Announce Otherworldly 2023 Edition of Gathering of the Juggalos
The festival promises such such attractions as "ICP's Alien Probe Adventure"
Bryan Kress May 22, 2023

Hopscotch 2023: Pavement, Denzel Curry, Japanese Breakfast Top Lineup
Alvvays, Digable Planets, Soccer Mommy, and more will also hit the Raleigh fest this September.
Abby Jones May 19, 2023

Live Nation Offering $99 All-In Festival Tickets During Festival Weekend
Governors Ball Roots Picnic, Sound on Sound, and more are participating in the discount.
Carys Anderson May 17, 2023

The National's Homecoming 2023 Lineup Led by Patti Smith, Pavement, & The Walkmen
Weyes Blood, Snail Mail, and Bartees Strange will also play the Cincinnati festival.
Eddie Fu May 17, 2023

Riot Fest's Killer 2023 Lineup Led by Foo Fighters, The Cure & The Postal Service
Carys Anderson May 16, 2023