Riot Fest & Carnival 2013, the 9th Riot Fest has a crazy good and crazy diverse line-up. The announced bands are listed below. The festival takes place in Chicago's Humboldt Park September 13-15, 2013.

In addition to the music the fest will include a Ferris wheel, tilt-a-whirel, fire eaters, Lucha Libre and more.

You can get your three-day pass for $69.98 or get your three day VIP pass for $175 (VIP includes admission, access to a VIP lounge, VIP viewing areas and gets you 15 beverage tickets. VIP passes? At a PUNK ROCK festival? Things have changed!

Get your tickets HERE as of Wednesday May 15, 2013.

Bands

Fall Out Boy * Blink-182 * Violent Femmes * Motorhead * Rancid * Blondie * Sublime with Rome * AFI * Public Enemy * Brand New * Flag * Guided By Voices * Rocket From The Crypt * Bad Religion * All Time Low* Taking Back Sunday * Pierce the Veil * Atmosphere * The Dismemberment Plan * Dinosaur Jr. * Best Coast * DeVotchka * The Broadways * Screeching Weasel * Pennywise * The Lillingtons * Bob Mould * Against Me! * GWAR * Yellowcard * The Lawrence Arms * Say Anything * X * Bad Brains * Quicksand * The Selecter * Mission of Burma * Stars * Toots and the Maytals * Peter Hook (Joy Division Set) * Bad Books * The Devil Wears Prada * Saves The Day * Glassjaw * Bayside * Smoking Popes * Reggie and the Full Effect  * Attack Attack! * The Dear Hunter * Maps and Atlases * Surfer Blood * Chuck Ragan Dessa * Saul Williams * Empires * Mephiskapheles * Kitten * Peelander-Z * Touché Amoré * Masked Intruder * Deal’s Gone Bad * Twin Peaks * Flatfoot 56 * White Mystery * Environmental Encroachment * Radkey * No D’bags Allowed

Two Stones Fests are upcoming. The NYC version of the festival is May 22-23, 2013 at Bowery Ballroom and the LA version takes place May 30 at the Fonda Theater. Usually we'd list all the bands but that might just be confusing. NYC has performers like Norah Jones, Delta SPirit, Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) on the bill. LA has Phosphorescent, Juliette Lewis and many more.

GO HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.

The first (and as yet not complete) line up for the 2013 Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit has been announced. The current list is below. The festival itself takes place October 25 to 27 in Asheville, North Carolina.

More acts will be announced soon. In the end 50 or 60 artist will be on the bill. Tickets go on sale Thursday at Noon Eastern Time at www.mountainoasisfestival.com

The festival is, obviously, focused on electronic music and creative use of musical technology. There are also talks, panels and seminars which afford the audience an opportunity to interact. This is an indoor festival and all venues are nearby in Asheville.

Wicker Park Fest is one of numerous neighborhood festivals in the summer in Chicago. If you are planning to visit? It doesn't hurt to keep an eye on when these fests take place. Wicker Park Fest is July 27 and 28, 2013. Entry is a $5 suggested donation (you can actually say NO). These fests sometimes have musical acts worth seeing. You can check out the bands booked below.

In additon to music there is food and local artists--with local artists and art installations. Wicker Park Fest is also kid friendly with tons of kids programming from noon to 6 p.m. both days.

For more information and to keep up to date on new bands, kids events and more head to www.wickerparkfest.com.

Lineup

Saturday, July 27th 

North Stage @ Damen
Man Man
Bahamas

South Stage @ Paulina
Cults

Center Stage
TBA

Sunday, July 28th

North Stage @ Damen
Roky Erickson

South Stage @ Paulina
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

Center Stage
TBA

                                   

Pickathon 2013  (August 2-4) in Oregon has announced some new acts (check out the complete current list of bands below).

This is Pickathon's 15th Anniversary. The festival is the place to see divergent acts playing together. From punk rock to gospel this festival has it all.

They also have something new--Pickathon TV. You can see the first episode below. This is a collection of footage from volunteers, artists and others from the 2012 festival.
 
Tickets are limited (3500) and you can get them HERE.
 

PICKATHON 2013 LINE-UP
** recently added acts
Feist
Andrew Bird
Divine Fits
The Devil Makes Three
Ty Segall**
Kurt Vile & The Violators
Sharon Van Etten
Shabazz Palaces
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside
Vieux Farka Touré
Howe Gelb
Lady
The Felice Brothers
Tift Merritt
The Lone Bellow
Dale Watson
Foxygen
Wayne Hancock
Marco Benevento
Ginny Hawker
Parquet Courts
King Tuff
The Relatives**
Breathe Owl Breathe
Lake Street Dive
Lightning Dust
Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole
JD McPherson
White Fence
Shinyribs
Yellowbirds
Jessica Pratt**
Foghorn Stringband
Shakey Graves
Caleb Klauder Country Band
Bradford Lee Folk & The Bluegrass Playboys
I Draw Slow
Leo Rondeau
Malcolm Holcombe
Pure Bathing Culture
Sturgill Simpson
Old Light
The Cactus Blossoms
Pharis & Jason Romero
Pickathon Squaredance with Caller Caroline Oakley

PICKATHON FOR KIDS
Diane Ferlatte
Cardboard Songsters
Cat Doorman
Circus Cascadia
Trackers Earth

So what are you doing on September 27 and 28, 2013? Mark the date on your calendar because you are going to want to be in Chicago if you are a fan of Industrial rock. Tickets for Cold Waves II (at Metro in Chicago) are on sale. Part of the money goes to Chicago’s Hope for the Day an organization using music and the arts for prevention of and education about suicide.

Cold Waves 1 was a memorial for the late Jamie Duffy and Cold Waves II continues raising awareness.

Cold Waves II features a who’s who of industrial and industrial metal. Alumnus of Revolting Cocks, 16 Volt, The Clay People, Hate Dept., Iron Lung, Prong, Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas J McCarthy, Die Warzau, Skrew, Evil Mothers, En Esch, Bile, Plague Bringer, Acucrack and more.

$52 2 day passes are on sale via the metro website. One day passes and VIP passes go on sale Friday, April 19, 2013.

 For complete information head to www.coldwaves.net.

Outside Lands Festival not only takes the music seriously. They take the food seriously. The festival is in its sixth year and is billed as the "world's only gourmet music festival."

They also look to have many of the bands playing Lollapalooza BUT, as always, they also have some interesting acts not playing in Chicago. The festival takes place at Golden Gate Park August 9 through 11, 2013. Tickets go on sale at noon (PDT) at www.sfoutsidelands.com. Wonder if the scalpers buy them all up like they did for Lollapalooza? You could probably get a plane ticket and Outside Lands tickets for what you'd pay a scummy scalper here in Chicago (all scalpers, even if they call themselves brokers are scum).

A good chunk of the money goes to benefit San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department. $6 million has been raised for the department in the festival's first five years.

The festival has over 200 menue items, 30 California craft brews and, of course, wines.

THE CURRENT LINEUP
Paul McCartney
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nine Inch Nails
Phoenix
Kaskade
Vampire Weekend
Pretty Lights
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
D'Angelo
The National
Jurassic 5
Willie Nelson & Family
Grizzly Bear
Daryl Hall & John Oates
Young The Giant
Band of Horses
A-Trak
The Head and The Heart
Yeasayer
Matt & Kim
Zedd
The Tallest Man on Earth
Foals
Dawes
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Youth Lagoon
Gary Clark Jr.
Jessie Ware
Dillon Francis
Kurt Vile and the Violators
Emeli Sandé
The Mother Hips
Surfer Blood
Chromatics
The Growlers
Rudimental
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
Camper Van Beethoven
Smith Westerns
Bombino
Wavves
Fishbone
Milo Greene
Atlas Genius
Anuhea
Twenty One Pilots
The Heavy
Daughter
Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk
Wild Belle
King Tuff
The Lone Bellow
MS MR
Little Green Cars
James McCartney
The Soft White Sixties
Deap Vally
The Men
Midi Matilda
Kopecky Family Band
Houndmouth
Foy Vance
Bhi Bhiman
LoCura
Naia Kete
The Easy Leaves

A summer festival, in Detroit from Metallica and C3? Sounds like something you want to know more about? Well, the two day festival takes place at Belle Islein Detroit on June 8-9, 2013 and will feature a slew of bands (listed below...not sure if this is a complete list). The reunion show of Infectious Grooves--after 22 years--should be a highlight. The band features members of Suicidal Tendencies, Metallica, Jane's Addiction and Faith No More.

There will also be pro skating demos by Vans and food and all the other stuff you want at a festival and even more than that. A two day pass will set you back $150. You can buy them at www.orionmusicandmore.com.

Line Up

Metallica
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rise Against
Deftones
Bassnectar
Dropkick Murphys
Gogol Bordello
Infectious Grooves
Rocket from the Crypt
FLAG
Silversun Pickups
Foals
Tomahawk
Destroid (Excision + KJ Sawka + Downlink)
The Joy Formidable
Datsik
Borgore
Japandroids
Dillon Francis
Adventure Club
12th Planet
Death Grips
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Vista Chino
Dirtyphonics
The Dirtbombs
DEATH
Fu Manchu
Dead Sara
The Bronx
FIDLAR
The Orwells
All Shall Perish
BATTLECROSS
Cauldron
Matt Clarke
Calico

GoogaMooga 2013 takes place in Brooklyn May 17 to 19. Let's just say, right up front, that there is a lot going on here--the band schedule is listed below but the list of participating restaurants, breweries, wineries and more is far too massive to list (100 wines, 85 restaurants and 75 beers).

Tickets to the Friday concert and the VIP Cocktail Experience on May 18 and 19 go on sale Thursday March 28 at Noon EST. Complimentary general admission tickets for Saturday and Sunday will be available in an online giveaway April 1 through April 3. These tickets are given at random and guests will get an email before April 10.

Tickets are available via www.googamooga.com.

Bands

Friday, May 17, 2013
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Flaming Lips
The Darkness

Saturday, May 18, 2013
Matt & Kim
Jovanotti
Father John Misty
Sharon Van Etten
Lee Fields & the Expressions
Red Baraat
Pearl and The Beard
Jonathan Batiste
Lady Rizo
Banda de los Muertos

Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
De La Soul
Cults
The Soul Rebels
Delicate Steve
M.A.K.U SoundSystem
The Hot Sardines
Marcelle Davies Lashley

The 2013 Ponderosa Stomp Festival takes place October 3 through 5 in New Orleans. The festival includes concert, music history conference, hip drop and record show. The event takes place at Rock ‘n’ Bowl and includes a bevy or artists that you may have no opportunity to see elsewhere.

A list of currently confirmed artists—many truly architects of American music—is below. From the country-soul of George Perkins to rockers like Eddie Daniels and beyond this is a show to not miss if you are in the area.

For more info, tickets and packages head to www.ponderosastomp.com.

Current Line Up

Maxine Brown, Baby Washington, Chris Clark, Richard Caiton, Charles Brimmer, James Alexander, Lynn August, George Perkins, The Sloths, The Standells, Guanga Dyns, Ty Wagner, Gino Parks, Spencer Wiggins, Sonny Green, Bobby Parker, Bobby Crown, Eddie Daniels, Charlie Gracie and Boogaloo