Music Festivals

Music fans, be on the alert. Portugal. The Man’s van was stolen from Lollapalooza Sunday night. The 15-passenger red Ford 350 van was swiped from a parking lot near Grant Park. It was stacked to the brim with lots of the band’s gear. The band has asked on Twitter for fans to be on the lookout for the red van...

Charley Rogulewski for AOL "We're the Arctic Monkeys from High Green, Sheffield, Australia," frontman Alex Turner announced from the Lollapalooza main stage Sunday evening. No, the Arctic Monkeys are not from Australia, and on Sunday the four-piece brought their native, bleak British weather to Lollapalooza 2011. A torrential downpour blew over the festival grounds just before sunset flooding fields and...

The sixth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, to be held November 4th through 6th in Austin, Texas, will include headliners Slayer, Danzig Legacy, Public Enemy, Major Lazer, Passion Pit, Odd Future, the Damned and Henry Rollins – which fans learned this week by visiting the festival's "room" on popular new streaming music social network Turntable.fm. Two hours before the full...

Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick stands in front of the stage that had collapsed from beneath Cheap Trick's concert at the Ottawa Bluesfest. The stage collapsed from beneath Cheap Trick during a concert yesterday at the Ottawa Bluesfest. A severe windstorm struck during the power pop group's set, resulting in the stage to fall apart just after they performed their...

Controversial hip-hop group Odd Future and punk legends X are among the first bands confirmed for the sixth annual Fun Fun Fun Fest, to be held November 4th through 6th at Auditorium Shores in Austin, Texas. Also confirmed are French dream-pop act M83, critically acclaimed folk rock band Okkervil River and comedian Brian Posehn. The artists were revealed through the...