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Festival Spotlight: Radio 1 Hackney Weekend (One Big Weekend)
THE STATS Location: The UK (different location each year) Dates: Middle of June Number of Days: 2 Crowds: 50,000 Music Genre: Everything Alumni: Foo Fighters, The Black Eyed Peas, Vampire Weekend, Snow Patrol Official Site: Hackney Weekend THE SCENE Known
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Surviving Cabin Fever: The Bests Fests of Winter
At MFJ headquarters in chilly Montana, the thought of warm summer nights is a distant memory. Music festivals typically hibernate during the colder months, but for those brave souls that don’t know the meaning
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Top 5 Quirky UK Music Festivals
No other part of the world can compare to the sheer number and diversity of music festivals that take place in the UK each summer. If you have become bored with the standard festival,
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Festival Spotlight: Coachella’s Desert Party
THE STATS Location: Indio, CA Dates: Typically held middle of April Number of Days: 3 Crowds: 225,000 Music Genre: Everything Alumni: Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Björk, Paul McCartney, The Cure Official Site: Coachella.com
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Festival Spotlight: The Original Farm Fest of Glastonbury
Before Bonnaroo there was Glastonbury. Started on the day after Jimi Hendrix died on 1970 Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world. With a perimeter of eight and half miles and enough
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Festival Spotlight: Party in a Castle at EXIT Fest
There’s no venue quite like this in the United States. Serbia’s EXIT Festival takes place in a 17th century Petrovaradin fortress. If your idea of a good time is grooving to tunes in an
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Festival Spotlight: The Island Bash of Sziget
Festival Spotlight is a column devoted to introducing our fans to festivals around the world. We cover everything from large multi-day monster concerts to indie fringe fests. Click here to see the full list
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