The 20 Best Music Festivals of Summer 2019
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
New Orleans
April 25-May 5
Including: Katy Perry, J Balvin, Herbie Hancock
It's putting it mildly to state the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival offers a differing lineup: Do you long for the times of mid 2010s popular music? Katy Perry is here. Is it accurate to say that you are hip to reggaeton? You will be once J Balvin sets out a set. Is it accurate to say that you are dismantling up to invest energy with your individual jazz-heads? Herbie Hancock is at the keys. This 50th commemoration spread, held more than two long ends of the week, is a period for revelation and to encounter specialists that you've gone through a lifetime with; simply come arranged to be overpowered. – Alphonse Pierre
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Something in the Water
Virginia Beach, Virginia
April 26-28
Including: Pharrell, Rosalía, Travis Scott, Migos
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Ken Burns Rates Mockumentaries, Psychedelics, and "Old Town Road"
Something in the Water, held in Pharrell's main residence of Virginia Beach, should utilize the maker/artist's ability as an industry tastemaker and guardian, with sets by Travis Scott, Pusha-T, and Rosalía. The genuine article will likewise arrange a profession review of sorts in a "Pharrell and Friends" set that incorporates appearances by Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani, Usher, and that's only the tip of the iceberg. It's a champion new offering in the overstuffed celebration season. – Alphonse Pierre
Annie Mac Presents Lost and Found Festival
St. Paul's Bay, Malta
May 2-5
Including: Black Coffee, Lady Leshurr, Honey Dijon, Octavian
Lost and Found Festival is the genuine augmentation of Annie Mac's flawless move music programming for BBC Radio 1. For three days in bright Malta, she ministers an electronic music shelter with sets by Black Coffee, DJ Seinfeld, and Peggy Gou, just as a sprinkling of grime specialists like Lady Leshurr, Octavian, and AJ Tracey. The genuine distinguishing mark for this occasion may be the independently ticketed shoreline party, however, which gloats an assorted, in a split second unbelievable program of Honey Dijon, Jazzy Jeff, Koffee, and Ms. Macintosh herself. – Michelle Kim
37d03d Festival
Brooklyn
May 3-4
Including: Justin Vernon, Aaron Dessner, Boys Noize, Sinkane
Articulated "Individuals Festival"— read the celebration's name by flipping around it, similar to a brash adding machine joke—this end of the week curated by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and the National's Aaron Dessner moves to New York following two years in Berlin. Vernon and Dessner will be joined by specialists including Boys Noize, Sinkane, and Greg Fox to perform new music at the Pioneer Works craftsmanship space in Brooklyn. This is a celebration in the loosest conceivable feeling of the term, with an emphasis on the craftsmen cooperating in residency to convey exhibitions that may never happen again. – Noah Yoo
Structure Arcosanti
Arcosanti, Arizona
May 10-12
Highlighting: DJ Koze, Peggy Gou, Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals
Presently entering its 6th year, FORM Arcosanti stays one of North America's most reliably creative celebrations. Situated inside Arcosanti, a strange idealistic town planned by the Italian-American engineer Paolo Soleri, FORM centers around giving enthusiastic encounters over scene. As there are no VIP tickets or covering sets, the celebration pulls in a liberal, masterful group—just as tremendous specialists hoping to try different things with increasingly personal sets. – Quinn Moreland
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Rolling Loud
Miami
May 10-12
Highlighting: Lil Wayne, Young M.A, DMX, Lil Uzi Vert
It just took five years for Rolling Loud to turn into rap's head music celebration, a Rock the Bells for the SoundCloud age. This year, it offers its most balanced lineup yet, brimming with veterans like DMX, Rick Ross, and Gucci Mane; once and future stars like Playboi Carti and Young Thug; and energizing prospects like Lil Tjay and Polo G. After often experiencing harsh criticism for its absence of sexual orientation decent variety, its number of ladies at last hits twofold digits with Cardi B, Young M.A, Megan Thee Stallion, Saweetie, and then some. In addition, there will be over twelve "Lil"s in participation—Wayne, Uzi Vert, Baby, and Durk among them. This is such a wide-extending grouping of rappers, you'll make sure to get a couple of you adore, some you never expected to like, and a bunch you've never at any point known about. – Sheldon Pearce
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Chambord x Cercle
Chambord, France
May 11
Highlighting: Solomun, Stephan Bodzin, Polo and Pan
Cercle is a livestream stage that puts on tremendous gatherings by setting DJ stalls in amazing areas. Plunging back in their files of video film, you can imagine that you're raving in the Eiffel tower, amidst the Pacific Ocean, or in the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Cercle will have their first celebration at the lovely Château de Chambord, where enormous name DJs like Solomun and Stephan Bodzin will direction a great many individuals before the palace grounds. Ruler Francis I could have never envisioned such a festival. – Michelle Kim
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Primavera Sound
Barcelona, Spain
May 30 - June 1
Including: Erykah Badu, Rosalìa, Miley Cyrus, Danny Brown
Situated in Barcelona's beachside Parc del Fòrum, Primavera Sound will cause you to rediscover why music celebrations can be so mind boggling. Not exclusively is the setting sensational, the lineup is huge, flaunting 226 entertainers crossing adored non mainstream rockers to reggaeton saints to move floor divas. This year, Primavera propelled their "New Normal" battle, which focuses on a sex equivalent lineup; over half of the current year's entertainers are female. Additionally, Pitchfork comes back with its very own stage near the paella stand! – Quinn Moreland
Roots Picnic
Philadelphia
June 1
Highlighting: The Roots, H.E.R., 21 Savage
The Roots Picnic is cognizant that celebrations are advancing: A live session of "The Joe Budden Podcast" is charged over Raphael Saadiq versus Soulquarians, City Girls, and Blueface. Different digital broadcasts like Crissle and Kid Fury's "The Read" are getting comparative treatment, an intriguing move for these projects that regularly don't get the regard they merit. In any case, this Picnic is still about the music, as a matter of first importance: It's featured, obviously, by the Roots, will's identity playing out their acclaimed collection Things Fall Apart for its twentieth commemoration. H.E.R., 21 Savage, and Lil Baby round out the lineup. – Alphonse Pierre
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Dim Mofo
Hobart, Tasmania
June 6-23
Including: Sharon Van Etten
Finally year's Dark Mofo, hung on the tough Australian island of Tasmania, the craftsman Mike Parr went through 72 hours "buried" in a steel box covered underneath a bustling road—not bad, but at the same time not enough to blow anyone's mind for a sight and sound celebration, planned toward the Southern Hemisphere's winter solstice, that takes fate higher than ever (and profundities). The current year's occasion may not include the red neon transformed crosses that frustrated a few Christians a year ago, yet the quality of incitement should endure. The craftsman Simon Denny's Mine establishment investigates the convergence of mineral extraction, information gathering, and increased reality; the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts symposium will investigate dread, sex, race, and provincial chronicles. Sharon Van Etten is the main performer reported up until this point, yet a look finally year's lineup—Alice Glass and Zola Jesus, Electric Wizard, Einstürzende Neubauten, Tanya Tagaq—proposes a lot of rushes are coming up. – Philip Sherburne
Nature Loves Courage
Sougia, Crete
June 7-8
Highlighting: DJ Paypal, Nkisi, Juliana Huxtable
Sougia, a minor, beachside town settled against rough mountains on the southern bank of Crete, isn't commonly connected with the worldwide celebration circuit. However, that makes it the ideal cure to the vacationer crowds in Ibiza and Croatia. The debut version of Nature Loves Courage guarantees two evenings of bleeding edge move music—the profound footwork of DJ Paypal, the polyrhythmic fate techno of Nkisi, the wide-extending sets of the interactive media craftsman Juliana Huxtable—with a solid spotlight on the sorts of assorted variety and radical inclusivity to which most celebrations just pay lip administration. The occasion's name originates from a statement by the hallucinogenic pioneer Terence McKenna, who announced that enchantment is made "by throwing yourself into the void and finding it's a quill bed." For two conceivably mystical days, 350 revelers will find the opportunity to do only that. – Philip Sherburne
Superb Island
Plage de Vaires-Torcy, Paris
June 8-9
Including: Nina Kraviz, Marcel Dettmann, Âme, Loco Dice
Superb Island is a yearly electronic music social affair hung on an excellent, sandy island on the edges of Paris. The lineup is catnip for the Resident Advisor set: Berghain stalwart Marcel Dettmann features the main night, while Russian techno expert Nina Kraviz directions the second. Ravers can take move breaks on the shoreline or even voyage around in an oar pontoon. – Noah Yoo
Glastonbury
Somerset, England
June 26-30
Highlighting: Stormzy, Janet Jackson, Vampire Weekend, Low
In the wake of taking a year off to gives its fields a chance to recoup, Glastonbury comes back with a wondrous, unmistakable lineup that proceeds with its takeoff from rockist convention. This is very likely the most varied show at any point put on at Worthy Farm. Grime star Stormzy, just the third hip-bounce main event ever, joins the Cure and the Killers on the bill and leads the celebration's most complex rap determination to date (Wu-Tang Clan, Little Simz, Lizzo, Stefflon Don, Slowthai). A few ages of dark ladies stay the long end of the week—Janet Jackson, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Mavis Staples, Janelle Monáe, and Fatoumata Diawara among them—with abundant space left for a couple of huge stage staples like Tame Impala and Vampire Weekend. From inestimable jazz (Kamasi Washington) to flamenco pop (Rosalía) to marvelous automaton (Low), there is something for everybody in the revived field. – Sheldon Pearce
Kutnà Hora, Czech RDreadful Teepee epublic
July 12-14
TBD
In the event that you hadn't speculated from its name or the site—that's right, that is an insidious Gremlin blazing a toothsome smile on the first page of a year ago's lineup—Creepy Teepee has a wound comical inclination. Established in punk and the iciest edges of electronic periphery music, it's a refreshingly countercultural suggestion, a worldwide social occasion of oneself distinguished "Overall WEIRD," given to decrees like "No Nation! Free Fashion! Be Your Own Corporation!" and "Make the Fortress Europe Fall!" Artists raging the bulwarks this year presently can't seem to be reported, yet on the off chance that ongoing years' lists are anything to pass by (Iceage, Klein, Calvin Johnson, Yves Tumor, Nídia), it'll be each piece the mindfuck that their visual communication is. – Philip Sherburne
Pitchfork
Chicago
July 19-21
Including: Robyn, HAIM, The Isley Brothers, Earl Sweatshirt
Pitchfork Festival is little enough to permit you some close to home space however populated enough for you to mix in while definitely rapping along to Earl Sweatshirt and moving—all alone, by what other method?— to Robyn. At the point when it's the ideal opportunity for a break from the music, head over to the record tent and drain cash joyfully. Different spots for getaway: pizza stands, bao stands, cutting edge electronic acts at the Blue Stage. We're one-sided, sure, yet we believe it's a quite incredible time. – Matthew Strauss
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Afro Nation
Portimao, Portugal
August 1-4
Including: Wizkid, Stefflon Don, Octavian, Ms. Explosive
On the off chance that you've at any point needed to see the heavenly trinity of Afropop—Wizkid, Davido, and Burna Boy—around the same time on a sparkling shoreline, Afro Nation Portugal is your answer. The weekend praises all things Afropop, dancehall, hip-bounce, and R&B. Beside those Nigerian stars, there will likewise be diverse contributions from their diasporic siblings and sisters situated in the UK (Stefflon Don, Ms. Explosive, Octavian) and Jamaica (Busy Signal, Kranium). Come December, the celebration will make a beeline for Accra for its Ghanian portion. – Michelle Kim
Purchase tickets to Afro Nation here.
Stream Festival
Helsinki, Finland
August 9-11
Highlighting: Cardi B, Tame Impala, the Cure, Robyn
Stream Festival is becoming famous as perhaps the best celebration in Scandinavia, joining extraordinary global main events with varied, splendidly curated supporting acts (huge numbers of them from the district). This year may be its best yet: Cardi B, Tame Impala, and the Cure top the bill, joined by Robyn, Neneh Cherry, Earl Sweatshirt, Blood Orange, Mitski, and the sky is the limit from there. This year, the Finnish National Opera introduces their own slate of workmanship programming and exhibitions, and choreographer Wayne McGregor presents his piece Autobiography, with its unique score performed live by its author: Jlin. – Noah Yoo
Railbird Festival
Lexington, Kentucky
August 10-11
Including: The Raconteurs, Mavis Staples, Brandi Carlile, Tyler Childers
In case you're searching for a reason to drink your way along Kentucky's Bourbon Trail, the debut Railbird Fest is an extraordinary one. The two-day occasion happens at the memorable Keeneland steed hustling grounds and, in evident Lexington design, it offers steed wagering and drink tasting. With your highball glass and enormous floppy cap, it's an ideal minute to luxuriate in the brilliance of rulers like Mavis Staples, Lucinda Williams, and Brandi Carlile. The Raconteurs and Gary Clark Jr. give the all out destroying, there are a lot of country groups close behind, and for the full Kentucky experience, you can't miss Paintsville vocalist musician Tyler Childers. What's more, bring your folks—Hozier's featuring! – Evan Minsker
Purchase tickets to Railbird Festival here.
Mutek Montreal
Montreal
August 20-25
Highlighting: Jlin, Gaika, Call Super, Huerco S.
Mutek commends its twentieth year in Montreal with a regularly vigorously incline towards mechanical advancement and vivid encounters. The weekend will highlight A/V sets from futurists Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones, just as advanced tinkerer Ash Koosha. The lineup is balanced with craftsmen like Jlin, the dancehall experimentalist Gaika, and the overwhelming techno Call Super. Close by the seven day stretch of melodic exhibitions, Mutek likewise touts a three-day innovation meeting encompassing themes like AI, vivid media, and blockchain, so you can get genuine world mind. – Michelle Kim
Afropunk
Brooklyn
August 24-25
Highlighting: FKA twigs, Kamasi Washington, Tierra Whack, Jill Scott
Welcome to Afropunk, where you will sweat the majority of the item out of your hair, stand side by side with a huge number of outsiders similarly as sticky as you seem to be, and get caught in a flooding walkway exploring Commodore Barry Park. Afropunk can be muddled be that as it may, in any case, everybody consistently returns, since it's uncommon to discover a space this comprehensive and agent. Consistently, dark culture will be regarded and underrepresented networks will have their voice heard, with no contrivances or disingenuity—and the exhibitions by FKA twigs, Kamasi Washington, Tierra Whack, and more will mirror that. – Alphonse Pierre
