Many of the 2010 festivals are weekend-long events or longer so, if you’re thinking of ideas for a short getaway, consider a music-themed trip and have a look through our listing below before you decide.





Solid Sound Festival
August 13-15, 2010
North Adams, MA
[website]

COST: $91 for access to all MASS MoCA galleries and exhibits and parking

A festival of music and arts curated by WILCO.

Partial Line-up:
*The Books
Pronto
Deep Blue Organ Trio
WILCO
Mavis Staples
The Baseball Project
Bread & Puppet
Mountain Man
*Vetiver
Jeff Tweedy Solo +
Avi Buffalo
The Nels Cline Singers
The Autumn Defense







Outside Lands
August 14-15, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Golden Gate Park
[website]

COST: $140.00 for Regular 2-Day Ticket; $75.00 for Single Day Ticket + VIP packages

Partial Line-up:
The Strokes
My Morning Jacket
Cat Power
Wolfmother
Bassnectar
*Tokyo Police Club
Wild Beasts
Langhorne Slim
Electric Six
*Dawes
Kings of Leon
*Phoenix
Social Distortion
Al Green
Slightly
Chromeo
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
Janelle Monáe
Amos Lee
*Vieux Farka Touré







Lou Fest
August 28-29, 2010
St. Louis, MO
[website]

COST: $64 for 2-day pass; $38 per day

Line-up:
Bottle Rockets
Stephaniesid
So Many Dynamos
Adam Reichman
Titus Andronicus
Lucero
Airborne Toxic Event
Built to Spill
*Broken Social Scene
Kim Massie
Magnolia Summer
Carolina Chocolate Drops
Gentleman Auction House
Cory Chisel
Fruit Bats
Alejandro Escovedo
Jeff Tweedy
*She & Him







ATP New York - (Curated by Jim Jarmusch & ATP)
September 3-5, 2010
Kutsher's Country Club
Monticello, New York, USA
[website]

The three-day festival will have performances starting every day at mid-afternoon. Approximately 35+ acts are set to play live across the weekend with DJ sets until late at night, comedy, movies and more! There are dining, bars and other amenities on-site. This year, the bars, food vendors and DJs will continue until 6pm on Monday 6th September so that all guests can enjoy a later check-out and a more relaxing start to their post-ATP week!

COST: $250/ 3-day pass; $110 for Friday, $120 for Saturday and Sunday

Partial line-up:
Iggy and the Stooges (Performing Raw Power)
Mudhoney (Performing Superfuzz Bigmuff + Early Singles)
The Scientists (Performing Blood Red River)
Sonic Youth
Explosions In The Sky
The Breeders
Fuck Buttons
*Hallogallo 2010 (Michael Rother & Friends Present NEU! Music)
Tortoise
*The Books
BEAK>
Sleepy Sun
Avi Buffalo
Sunn 0))) and Boris present Altar
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Raekwon
*Girls
*Fucked Up
The Black Angels
*Vivian Girls
*White Hills
GZA
Kurt Vile







FYF Fest
September 4, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles State Historic Park
[website]

COST: $25/day; $65/day for VIP pass

Line-up:
The Rapture
Panda Bear
Unbroken
Sleep
Dead Man's Bones
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
!!!
Local Natives
Man Man
The Mountain Goats
*Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Delorean
Cold Cave
7seconds
Thee Oh Sees
*Washed Out
Davila 666
*School of Seven Bells
Aa Bondy
The Blow
*Best Coast
*Titus Andronicus
*Wavves
Vetiver
The Soft Pack
Abe Vigoda
Warpaint
Off!
Ceremony
Big Freedia
Cults
Screaming Females
Magic Kids
The Growlers
Lower Dens
Let's Wrestle
Dublab Soundsystem







Bumbershoot
September 4-6, 2010
Seattle, WA
[website]

Check out Groovemine’s coverage of this annual music and arts festival held at Seattle Center.

COST: $40/day; Gold & Platinum packages for $250-$450

Partial line-up:
Plants and Animals
Health
Wheedle’s Groove
Atlas Sound
Feral Children
Jamie Lidell
See Me River
Neko Case
*The Maldives
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros
*Balkan Beat Box
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra
*The Raveonettes
The Decemberists
*Horsefeathers
Hey Marseilles
*Ra Ra Riot
James Cotton
Fences
Delorean
*The Clientele
Greg Laswell
The Moondoggies
*Japandroids
Surfer Blood
Laura Veirs & The Hall of Flames
*The Thermals







Electric Zoo
September 4-5, 2010
Randall’s Island
New York, NY
[website]

COST: $142 for 2-day pass

Partial line-up:
A-Trak
Aeroplane
Armin van Buuren
Axwell
Bassnectar
Benny Benassi
Boris
Boys Noize
The Chemical Brothers
Chris Lake
Chuckie
Claude VonStroke
Diplo
Dirty South
Dixon
Erol Alkan
Fake Blood
Fedde Le Grand
Flying Lotus
John Digweed
Jon Hopkins
Joris Voorn
Laidback Luke
Major Lazer
Moby
Paul Kalkbrenner
Pete Tong
Richie Hawtin
Steve Bug
The Glitch Mob
Tom Middleton







Music Fest NW
September 8-12, 2010
Portland, OR
(various venues)
[website]

COST: wristbands range available at 3 different levels of access: $60, $90, and $175...check site for details.

Partial line-up:
The Decemberists
Panda Bear
Sleep (performing Holy Mountain)
Menomena
The Thermals
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Man Man
The Walkmen
Black Lips
The Dodos
*The Tallest Man on Earth
NoMeansNo
Laura Veirs
Surfer Blood
Crooked Fingers
Shonen Knife
The Builders & The Butchers
A.A. Bondy
*Male Bonding
The Cave Singers
Thee Oh Sees
Abe Vigoda
BOAT
Past Lives
*Typhoon
Tu Fawning
Animal Farm
Nice Nice
Reporter
Sistafist
The Slants
Mogwai’s Burning
*The National
The Smashing Pumpkins
Wiz Khalifa
Okkervil River
Major Lazer
*Ra Ra Riot
The Helio Sequence
Baroness
Justin Townes Earle
The Gories
Frank Turner
Bobby Bare Jr.
Akron/Family
Cold Cave
*Japandroids
*Phantogram
*Titus Andronicus
*Washed Out
David Bazan
Big Freedia
Rocky Votolato
Dan Mangan
*Free Energy
White Hinterland
The Zeros
Garotas Suecas
Portland Cello Project
The Minus 5
Magic Kids
Dangerous Boys Club
Debaser
Lovers
Past Lives
Permanent Wave
Shabazz Palaces
*The Head and The Heart








The Hopscotch Music Festival
September 9-11, 2010
Raliegh, NC
[website]

COST: ???

Partial line-up:
Active Child
Akron/Family
All Tiny Creatures
Aminal
Atlas Sound
*Balmorhea
Bear in Heaven
*Best Coast
Black Congo NC
*Bowerbirds
*Broken Social Scene
Deakin
*Double Dagger
*Fucked Up
*Harlem
*Javelin
Lucero
Megafaun
No Age
NOMO
Panda Bear
Pictureplane
*Pontiak
Public Enemy
Raekwon
The War on Drugs
Tortoise
Treasure Fingers
Woods