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Tent Collapses at Trencin Slovakia Music Festival: 1 Dead

One person has been killed, and dozens more injured after a tent collapses at the Pohoda music festival in Trencin Slovakia. The music festival has now been canceled.  About 33,000 people were at the event that featured Patti Smith, Basement Jazz and Travis, and all have...

CMJ Music Marathon Announces Full Schedule

The 2008 CMJ Music Marathon and Film Festival will be held in New York City from October 21-25 and the full schedule of performances has finally been released. What shows will you be attending? Let us know your...

Exit Festival, Serbia: Dates for 2008

The Exit Festival in Serbia is the event on everyones lips with over 10,000 Brits making it their festival of choice in 2007 and winning ‘Best European Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards.  Set within the...

Photo Review: The Greenman Festival

Folk is the word of the day, folks. And there was everything from traditional folk to freak folk, all the way down to "Shenandoah Valley" country styles type of a folk.  We're talking about the Greenman...

"Desitively Bonnaroo": This year's festival a hit

The Police headlined this year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the four day festival held on a farm in Manchester, Tennessee.  The festival began on Thursday and wrapped up on Sunday.  Other big acts...

Mother Nature vs. Sasquatch!

The Beastie Boys headlined this year's [6 and counting] Sasquatch! Music Festival that was held over this past weekend at the Gorge. The annual festival featured not only up and coming North American musicians,...

Glastonbury fest foils scalpers

Fans that wanted to attend this year's Glastonbury Festival had to register with a passport sized photo on the website's detailed ticketing system that was designed to beat scalpers. With the new system, the...

Austin City Limits Has No Bounds

"You know an annual event is in danger of getting too big for its own good when you start to get nostalgic about 2004. [Click image for a larger version] JASON DeCROW/AP JASON DeCROW/AP Among the biggest draws:...

In Seattle its Bumbershoot Till You Drop

"Lulu Granquist — with a head of wispy blond hair and colored plugs lodged diagonally in her ears — earnestly dipped a plastic spoon into a cup of Ben & Jerry's chocolate ice cream. "The Seattlest Has...

Pearl Jam play at Leeds Festival

"With Glastonbury taking a year off, many festivals have spurned the opportunity to challenge for the title in favour of a cash-in. Hurriedly increased capacities have led many of them to feel over-full, while...

The Netherlands' Lowlands Festival

"Every year the three-day Lowlands pop festival brings around 60,000 people to the Walibi World amusement park in Biddinghuizen in the expansive lowlands of Flevopolder, within easy reach of all the major Dutch...

UK Green Man festival

"If you go down to the woods today. The witching hour, and, as The Incredible String Band close their main-stage set, in the car park a skiffle band strikes up a rousing version of I Will Survive, watched by a...

Radiohead close V Festival 2006

"Radiohead concluded the 2006 V Festival in Stafford with a brace of classics including closer 'Creep', Karma Police and 'Just' tonight (August 20). Playing the V Stage the band thrilled fans including their early...

UK's Summer Sundae

"The three-day Summer Sundae festival in Leicester has always an eclectic programme of newcomers and old timers. This its sixth year was no different with headliners Gomez finishing a day that was begun is...

24-hour daylight at Norway's Arctic rock festival

" If you were looking for the perfect blend of art and nature, then you couldn't do much better than the Bukta rock festival in Tromsø, northern Norway. Now in its third year, Bukta makes a good claim to be the...

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