On Friday morning at Parc Jean-Drapeau, somebody will inflate a very large board and write the day’s set times on it by hand. Until that moment, nobody attending Vans Warped Tour knows who plays when. That is not a logistics failure. It is the oldest working idea in the festival and the reason the thing […]
Ask a touring guitar band to name the best room they have ever played and a startling number of them, from every scene and every decade, land on the same answer: a former dancehall on Glasgow’s Gallowgate that was never designed for rock music at all. The Barrowland Ballroom was engineered in the 1930s for […]
How a sealed bank vault under no-man's-land became the room that carried Detroit techno into reunified Berlin.
How Brixton’s Windmill, a flat-roofed council-estate pub, became the incubator of South London’s guitar scene, from black midi to Black Country, New Road.
On this day in 1973, the largest paying rock audience ever assembled walked into a Grand Prix racetrack in upstate New York, and rock history has spent the last five decades pretending it barely happened. The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen drew roughly 600,000 people on July 28, 1973, a figure that held the Guinness […]
Dubstep was not born on a record but in a dark Shoreditch basement. How FWD>> and Plastic People's soundsystem forged a genre Thursday by Thursday.
Most festivals ask the same question every year: who is available, and who will sell tickets. Roadburn asks a stranger one. What music does not exist yet, and what would it take to make it exist for one night in Tilburg? That question is the whole thing. It explains why a festival built by two […]
Music can turn a stadium into a single voice, but only a handful of bands ever reach that altitude. Here is what separates the few who move millions from everyone else.
From SummerStage and Celebrate Brooklyn to Pier 17 and Hudson Yards, the 2026 summer rock and indie festival calendar across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
From Verboden in May to Khatsahlano in July, the Vancouver festival calendar for rock and indie in 2026.
