American Music Festivals

Welcome to The Riff Report American Music Festivals — where the stages are enormous, the line-ups are ridiculous and apparently travelling several thousand miles for a weekend of riffs now counts as a perfectly sensible life decision. 🇺🇸🤘🔥

This is your home for everything happening across the American rock, metal, punk and alternative festival scene, from gigantic destination festivals to legendary gatherings and independent events making serious noise across the United States.

We’ll bring you festival announcements, full line-ups, daily schedules, stage splits, ticket information, VIP packages, camping details, travel advice, food and drink updates and everything else you need to know before the gates open. 🎟️🎪

Expect coverage of festivals across the country — from huge weekends packed with international headliners to specialist metal gatherings, punk festivals, alternative events and those brilliantly chaotic American festivals where the poster contains enough bands to wallpaper your living room. 😂🎸

We’ll also keep an eye on the artists flying across the Atlantic, especially British and Welsh bands heading Stateside to show American crowds exactly what our side of the pond can do. 🐉🇬🇧🔥

And because planning an American festival adventure from the UK involves slightly more preparation than chucking a tent into the car and heading up the motorway, we’ll dig into the useful stuff too.

Where is it? How do you get there? Is there camping? What’s included with VIP? How much are tickets? What’s the weather likely to do? And exactly how financially irresponsible would flying over from Britain actually be? ✈️😂💷

We’ll celebrate the huge headline moments, discover rising bands, explore legendary American festival history and keep you updated as new events, artists and dates are announced.

Because sometimes you’ve already conquered the muddy British festival field and start looking across the Atlantic thinking…

“Go on then. One more festival won’t hurt.”

Famous last words, butt. 😂🤘

So grab the passport, pack the battle jacket and prepare for some Stateside festival madness.

Big stages. Bigger riffs. American-sized chaos. 🇺🇸🤘🔥

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