In 2019, Download Festival returns to Melbourne, Australia on March 11th and will also head north to serve up a mammoth lineup of sonic brutality and great times to Sydneysiders for the very first time on March 9th.

Red Bull Music will launch the latest installment of their critically acclaimed international music series in Chicago this November, bringing with it a month-long slate of expertly curated original programming spanning the city’s diverse music genres. Red Bull Music Festival Chicago will explore and celebrate Chicago’s rich cultural heritage while spotlighting its modern music landscape. Red Bull Music Festival (RBMF) makes its midwest debut after six acclaimed installments in New York City and a 2017 Los Angeles festival, and will feature live performances, club nights and lectures at some of Chicago’s most unique venues.

Riptide Music Festival, powered by Ford, launched in 2016, is centrally located on Fort Lauderdale Beach (1100 Seabreeze Blvd) making this weekend event the ultimate beach party experience. The 2018 edition goes down November 30th – December 2nd.

J. Cole, in partnership with his own Dreamville Records and the Texas-based ScoreMore Shows, has announced the Dreamville Festival. The one-day festival is slated to make its debut on Saturday, September 15 at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, which is roughly a one-hour drive from his hometown in Fayetteville, NC.

The festival looks to offer attendees a special celebration of local music, culture, food and art, along with a highly-curated selection of music performers from J. Cole himself that blends together some of today’s biggest national acts with exciting up-and-comers.

Astroworld Festival is a one-day festival curated by Travis Scott and taking place at NRG Park in Houston, Texas on November 17th.

Taking place once again at Atlanta’s 787 Windsor complex, AFROPUNK Presents the Carnival of Consciousness is as much a festival as a blank space to be communally created, where a variety of like-minded people come together to put forth process and exchange innovative ideas, forming a new type of immersive gathering

LOCKN’ Festival was born in 2013, and will celebrate its sixth year in 2018. Located in Central Virginia, amidst the natural beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Arrington is halfway between Charlottesville and Lynchburg and close to Washington, DC and Richmond. The festival is staged by a group of dedicated music fans aspiring to provide the ultimate atmosphere for live music and community.

Produced in collaboration with Goldenvoice, Tyler the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival will return to Los Angeles on November 10th and 11th. The seventh edition of the festival will be held on the Dodger Stadium grounds, with all of the Carnival’s festivities set to take place in the areas outside of the ballpark itself.

Music Tastes Good, the mammoth two-day music, food, and arts festival, returns to Marina Green Park, along the picturesque Downtown Long Beach shoreline, on September 29 and 30th, and will be headlined by none other than iconic British New Wave legends New Order (Saturday) making their only west coast appearance this year, and Grammy-nominated and Mercury Prize-winning English singer-songwriter James Blake (Sunday).

Tropicalia is a new two-day music and taco festival taking place in Long Beach, California on November 3rd and 4th, 2018. The event is produced by Goldenvoice.