Your Unofficial Guide To Summer 2016's Music Festivals
Festival season is closer than you think. Here, BAZAAR rounds up who's playing next summer and where, so you can start your festival-hopping plans early. Stay tuned for updates on the season's hottest lineups
Photo: Diego Zuko
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Update, 1/5:
COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL
When: April 15-17, and April 22-24
Where: Indio, CA
Tickets: on sale Jan 6
Who's playing: LCD Soundsystem, Calvin Harris, Guns N' Roses, Ellie Goulding, Ice Cube, Sia, Jack Ü, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Miike Snow, James Bay, Disclosure, Zedd, A$AP Rocky, CHVRCHES, Halsey, Grimes, The 1975, Flume, Major Lazer, Run the Jewels, Courtney Barnett, M83, Foals, Of Monsters and Men, BØRNS, Robert DeLong, Years & Years, Joey Bada$, AlunaGeorge, Snakehips, SZA, Matt and Kim, Cold War Kids, The Chainsmokers, and more.
Photo: Coachella
Get more info at coachella.com.
Original post, 11/18/15:
FIREFLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
When: June 16-19, 2016
Where: The Woodlands, Dover, DE
Tickets: on sale November 20
Who's playing: Mumford & Sons, Kings of Leon, Florence & The Machine, DEADMAU5, Ellie Goulding, Disclosure, Blink-182, Death Cab for Cutie, Tame Impala, M83, A$AP Rocky, Major Lazer, The 1975, Of Monsters and Men, CHVRCHES, Two Door Cinema Club, Ludacris, The Neighborhood, Earth Wind & Fire, Grouplove, Porter Robinson, Fitz & The Tantrums, Fetty Wap, Flogging Molly, Vince Staples, MØ, Catfish & The Bottlemen, St. Lucia, Atlas Genius, Alunageorge, Guster, Elle King, The Wombats, Robert DeLong, The Staves, Wet, Moon Taxi, and more.
Photo: Firefly Music Festival
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Firefly Music Festival
Get more info at fireflyfestival.com.
HANGOUT MUSIC FESTIVAL
When: May 20-22, 2016
Where: Gulf Shores, AL
Tickets: on sale November 19
Who's playing: The Weeknd, Calvin Harris, Florence & The Machine, Alabama Shakes, Ellie Goulding, Lenny Kravitz, Flume, Haim, Cage the Elephant, Panic! At the Disco, The Chainsmokers, Grimes, Jason Isbell, Walk the Moon, Miike Snow, Leon Bridges, Big Grams, Run the Jewels, Foals, Fetty Wap, The Neighborhood, Portugal. The Man, Moon Taxi, 3Lau, X Ambassadors, BØRNS, Alessia Cara, Mayer Hawthorne, The Struts, Atlas Genius, The Griswolds, and more
See the full lineup at hangoutmusicfest.com.
SHAKY KNEES MUSIC FEST
When: May 8-10, 2016
Where: Central Park, Atlanta, GA
Tickets: on sale soon
Who's playing: The Strokes, The Avett Brothers, Tame Impala, Pixies, Ryan Adams, Wilco, Interpol, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mastodon, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Milky Chance, Flogging Molly, TV on the Radio, James Blake, Kaiser Chiefs, The Kooks, ZZ Ward, Fidlar, Zella Day, Halsey, The Mowgli's, and more
See the full lineup at shakykneesfestival.com.
MCDOWELL MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL
When: March 11-13, 2016
Where: Margaret T. Hance Park, Phoenix, AZ
Tickets: on sale now
Who's playing: Beck, Animal Collective, Big Wild, Porter Robinson, St. Lucia, Goldfish, GRiZ, The Main Squeeze, M!nt, Bird Dog, Gary Clark Jr, Kaleo and more
See the full lineup at mmmf.com.
From: Harper's BAZAAR US