The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-days rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and near Tokyo. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Tokyo the following day and vice versa. The line-up contains many Japanese rock musicians from both major and indie record companies, and also international acts.
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 30 Seconds to Mars
- 3OH!3
- A Tribe Called Quest
- AA=
- All Time Low
- Atari Teenage Riot
- Band Of Skulls
- Band of Horses
- Biffy Clyro
- Bigelf
- Billy Clyro
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Broadway Calls
- Brodinski
- Busy P
- Calvin Harris
- Coheed and Cambria
- Darwin Deez
- Deadmau5
- Delphic
- Die Antwoord
- Dream Theater
- Eels
- Everlast
- Everything Everything
- FACT
- Fanfarlo
- Freebass
- General Fiasco
- Girls
- Hole
- Hudson Mohawke
- Hurts
- Jason Derulo
- Jay-Z
- K'Naan
- Kreva
- Michael Monroe
- My Passion
- Nada Surf
- Nas
- Nickelback
- Orbital
- Orianthi
- Passion Pit
- Pendulum
- Pixies
- Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations of Sound
- Slash
- Steve Aoki
- Stevie Wonder
- Sum 41
- Surfer Blood
- Surkin
- Taylor Swift
- The Devil Wears Prada
- The Hiatus
- The Maccabees
- The Offspring
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Two Door Cinema Club
- Uffie
- Yes Giantess
- a-ha
Festival News and Rumors

Dethklok and Run the Jewels Top the Bill for 2022 Adult Swim Festival Block Party
The three-day fest will be staged across multiple venues August 5th-7th in Philadelphia.
Spencer Kaufman May 18, 2022

Music Midtown 2022: Jack White, MCR, Fall Out Boy, and More to Play Atlanta Fest
Alex Young May 17, 2022

Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Flume, Jamie xx to Play Inaugural Portola Music Festival in San Francisco
Alex Young May 16, 2022

Reunited Sunny Day Real Estate Added to Furnace Fest Lineup
The emo pioneers are making their first live appearances since 2010.
Jon Hadusek May 12, 2022

Riot Fest 2022 Lineup: MCR, Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Sunny Day Real Estate & More
Carys Anderson May 11, 2022