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Looking for rock festivals with classic lineups
I’ve been thinking about my college days when me and my buddies would road trip to at least a couple rock and metal festivals every summer across different US cities. Saw so many legends back then, from Slayer to Pantera and everything in between. This summer I wanna relive those days and hit up a fest where some of those old school bands are still playing. Obviously a lot of them are gone now and plenty of groups broke up, but there’s still some out there who can bring the heat on stage. Where can I check out what festivals are happening and who’s actually performing at them?
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College festival trips were the best man, cramming into someone’s beat up car with way too many people and driving hours just to stand in a muddy field. You didn’t care about the conditions or the terrible porta potties, you were there for the music. Those lineups back then had serious weight to them, bands that actually earned their spot through decades of solid albums. Now you can find festival info scattered all over the place, Pollstar usually has decent listings and Bandsintown tracks tours pretty well.
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Man I remember refreshing websites every day waiting for lineup drops, then getting hyped when they’d finally announce the headliners. Half the fun was planning which fests to hit based on who was gonna be there. You can look at rock festival lineups in the USA here: https://myrockshows.com/fests/69-usa/genre-rock/ . Saves you from digging through fifty different sites trying to find out who’s actually touring. Just pull up the list, see who’s playing, and start mapping out your summer.