Festivals

Make it to all, make it to some.

Something In The Way

2025: 2/1-2

Run For Cover showcases its artists, plus some red hot “extended indie rock world” action. Slowdive, bitches!

New Colossus Festival

2025: 3/4-9

Bouncing between bars on New York City’s Lower East Side for indie acts taking a pitstop before SXSW.

Boston Bitdown

2025: 3/6-8

Three days, three venues, over 30 artists for a chiptune extravaganza. Bring your Yoshi underpants!

The Town and The City Festival

2025: 4/25-26

You’ve never read the novel, but neither has anyone else in Mill Town. Come for the music.

Boston Calling

2025: 5/23-5/25

Boston’s homegrown fest is a catch-all, multi-day banger with international headliners and lovable local acts alike.

Green River Festival

2025: 6/20-6/22

The annual rock n folk mixer in the tranquil hillscapes of woodsy Pioneer Valley. West Mass is the best Mass.

Montreal Jazz Fest

2025: 6/26-7/5

A teeming jazz mecca north of the border, Montreal showcases the old guard and new sounds alike.

Past Fests

Fuzzstival

2024: 10/18-19

Two days of three-eyed cats, plus indie rock and some heavy experimental, from Illegally Blind.

Moon Over Salem

2024: 9/14

Moon Over Salem reinvents last year’s Hope Fest with a witchy lineup of indie rock.

JP Music Fest

2024: 9/7

The annual shindig in Jamaica Plain, now featuring music acts from all over. Free!

Campfire Festival

2024: 8/30-9/2

A folk fest supreme in the comfy confines of Club Passim. Local favorites and new acts on the rise.

RPM Festival

2024: 8/30-9/1

Heavy music, camping, headbanging. It’s a party for the loud crowd in western Mass.

Newport Jazz Festival

2024: 8/2-8/4

The jazz festival mixes the cool classics of the genre with the next big things. Life is good at Fort Adams.

Newport Folk Festival

2024: 7/26-7/28

A living legend of a festival that’s always looking to make folk history anew with a mix of new and established artists.

Nice, A Fest

2024: 7/25-7/28

Questionable syntax, but you won’t find a fest that stacks more local indie acts under a single banner. Be nice.

Wilco’s Solid Sound Fest

2024: 6/28-6/30

An amble through indie rock for young and old. Come for Wilco, stay for the rest of the bill in idyllic North Adams.