Festival Noize: Loudwire, North Coast, Telluride Blues & Brews, Outside Lands, ACL

Weezer, Linkin Park and Rob Zombie headline the first Loudwire Music Festival.  Happening June 26-28 at the Jam Ranch in Grand Junction, Colo., the hard-rockin’ event has also laid out its daily schedules, showing the days and times Theory Of A Deadman, In This Moment, Chevelle and other bands will play.

Here’s the plan:

Friday, June 26
Main Stage
3:30 p.m. – ONE – The Only Tribute To Metallica
5:00 p.m. – In This Moment
7:15 p.m. – Theory Of A Deadman
9:30 p.m. – Weezer

B Stage
6:10 p.m. – Vajra
11:15 p.m. – 3 Pill Morning

C Stage
4:30 p.m. – Zamtrip
8:30 p.m. – The Blackfires

Saturday, June 27
Main Stage
1:00 p.m. – The Comedown
2:00 p.m. – The Chimpz
3:30 p.m. – Nothing More
5:00 p.m. – Chevelle
7:15 p.m. – A Day To Remember
9:30 p.m. – Linkin Park

B Stage
6:10 p.m. – The Chimpz
11:15 p.m. – Wayland

C Stage
4:30 p.m. – Splitfist
8:30 p.m. – Otherwise

Sunday, June 28
Main Stage
12:15 p.m. – Bobaflex
1:00 p.m. – Hoobastank
2:30 p.m. – All That Remains
4:30 p.m. – Hinder
6:30 p.m. – Halestorm
8:30 p.m. – Rob Zombie

B Stage
5:30 p.m. – Bobaflex
10:00 p.m. – Righteous Vendetta

C Stage
3:30 p.m. – Menew
7:30 p.m. – Scarlet & The Harlots

Loudwire also announced its June 25  Campgrounds Party kicking off at 5:30 p.m. and running until 10 p.m.  The pre-festival shindig will feature entertainment by We Are Harlot, Fit For Rivals and Dead Cowboyz.

The campgrounds will open June 25 at 7 a.m. for early entry.  Check out LoudwireMusicFestival.com for more info.

And watch for Pollstar’s interview with Townsquare Media’s VP of Live Events Matt LaRose, one of the minds behind Loudwire, posting Friday afternoon.

Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival announced that Widespread Panic will be its surprise headliner.  Presenting a lineup that includes The Chemical Brothers and D’Angelo & The Vanguard along with Atmosphere, Chromeo, Knife Party, Porter Robinson (live), Portugal. The Man, Steve Aoki, Disco Biscuits, The Glitch Mob, The Roots, Tycho, Wale and others, North Coast will take over Union Park Sept. 4-6.

Organizers also released video that, depending on where you place your nose to the grindstone, might be NSFW. 

Visit the North Coast via this link.

The Telluride Blues & Brews Festival scheduled for Sept. 18-20 in Telluride, Colo., has unveiled its lineup, listing ZZ Top, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, and Gregg Allman as headliners along with Taj Mahal Trio, John Hiatt, Anders Osborne, Leo “Bud” Welch, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, Blackberry Smoke and others.  The festival will also host performance painter Scramble Campbell and comedians Troy Walker, Brent Gill and Stephen Agyei.

Three-day, Juke Joint (late night shows) and camping passes are on sale now.  Single tickets go on sale June 17.  Follow this link for more details.

Ever since its debut in 2008, San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has prided itself on all the tasty goodies offered at the three-day event.  Scheduled for Aug. 7-9 at Golden Gate Park, the festival has revealed its food and drink lineup for this year, boasting that it will feature 79 restaurants, 37 wineries and 32 breweries. 

What’s on the menu?  How do bourbon coke floats, donut cheeseburgers, Japanese fried chicken, porky fries and korritos sound?

With plenty of farm-fresh produce in the mix, the festival will present more than 200 options located in six areas: A Taste Of The Bay Area, Wine Lands, Beer Lands, Choco Lands, Cheese Land and GastroMagic.

The Outside Lands lineup includes Mumford & Sons, The Black Keys, Elton John, Wilco, Kendrick Lamar, Sam Smith and others.  Click here for everything you need to know.

Those who still planned on buying three-day passes for Weekend One of this year’s Austin City Limits Music Festival have sat on the fence way too long. Organizers say those passes are sold out, but still have three-day tickets for Weekend Two.  That is, while supplies last.

Planned for Oct. 4-6 and Oct. 9-11 at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas, the lineup includes Foo Fighters, Drake, The Strokes, Florence & The Machine (Weekend Two only) , The Weeknd, Disclosure, Deadmau5, Bassnectar, Alt-J, Hozier, Alabama Shakes (Weekend One only) and many others.  Head over to ACLFestival.com for more information.