The twelfth round of MusicfestNW will be back in Portland, OR September 5th – September 9th, 2012.
Portland?s largest and most successful music festival is going to be bigger than ever! Produced by Willamette Week, MFNW teams up with music professionals from the local, regional, and national music scene to curate this multi-venue festival featuring bands from indie, hip hop, punk and more musical backgrounds.
Ticket Price: Multiple configurations available
Headliners
Festival lineup
- A-Trak
- Aan
- Alialujah Choir
- And And And
- Beirut
- Big Business
- Big Freedia
- Black Mountain
- Bobby Bare Jr.
- Brainstorm
- Brown Bird
- Ceremony
- Cheap Girls
- Chelsea Wolfe
- Craft Spells
- Crystal Antlers
- DIIV
- DZ Deathrays
- Danny Brown
- Dante vs. Zombies
- Daughn Gibson
- Defeater
- Dinosaur Jr.
- Evian Christ
- Flying Lotus
- Fort Lean
- Fucked Up
- Future Islands
- Gardens & Villa
- Girl Talk
- Hazel
- Hey Marseilles
- Holcombe Waller
- Hosannas
- Hot Snakes
- Hungry Ghost
- I Break Horses
- J. Mascis
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
- Joe Pug
- John Maus
- Jonathan Toubin
- Joyce Manor
- King Khan and the Shrines
- LP
- Lake
- Lightning Bolt
- Mac Demarco
- Mean Jeans
- Menomena
- Milo Greene
- Mirroring
- Moon Duo
- Moonface
- Mrs. Magician
- My Goodness
- Naytronix
- Nite Jewel
- Old 97's
- Omar Souleyman
- Onuinu
- Passion Pit
- Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings
- Pokey Lafarge and the South City Three
- Pure Bathing Culture
- Purity Ring
- Quasi
- Quest For Fire
- Radiation City
- Red Fang
- Redd Kross
- Sad Baby Wolf
- Sandpeople
- Sebadoh
- Silversun Pickups
- Sloan
- Starfucker
- Strand of Oaks
- Swans
- Tanlines
- Tender Forever
- The Builders and the Butchers
- The Curious Mystrey
- The Drowning Men
- The Growlers
- The Helio Sequence
- The Hives
- The Men
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- The People's Temple
- The Soft Moon
- The Tallest Man on Earth
- These United States
- Touche Amore
- Trampled By Turtles
- Trust
- Typhoon
- Wild Nothing
- Xiu Xiu
- Yelawolf
Festival News and Rumors

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

Guns N' Roses, Billie Eilish, and P!NK to Headline Music Midtown's 2023 Lineup
P!NK, The 1975, Flume, Incubus, and Tove Lo are also set to play the Atlanta festival.
Scoop Harrison May 16, 2023