Sweetwater 420 is a three-day festival taking place in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 festival goes down April 24th-26th at Centennial Olympic Park. The event is put on by Sweetwater Brewery.

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I recently told a friend of mine that I had made her a playlist. “It’s jazz,” I said. I may as well have told her that I had gone full death metal, so horrified was she at the thought of having my carefully curated playlist pollute her speakers. To her, jazz was smug old boys sipping something from the cellar while pontificating about privilege, or Homeland’s Carrie Mathieson guzzling white wine to intense saxophone solos. Cardigans, slippers and a degree in elitism.



But UK jazz in 2019 is something entirely different. Whether it’s the buzz around the jazz acts nominated for the Hyundai Mercury prize (in the form of Sons of Kemet last year and Seed Ensemble this year) or jazz stars such as the…

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The audience at the AMC Loews Freehold Metroplex Cinema got a special introduction to a screening of Bruce Springsteen's “Western Stars” from the Boss himself on Saturday.


Springsteen introduced two showings of "Western Stars" at the multiplex.

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On Saturday, guitarist Warren Haynes, pianist John Medeski, bassist George Porter Jr., drummer Joe Russo, and saxophonist Karl Denson teamed up for a benefit concert at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY.

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Neil Young is back with his old band Crazy Horse in all their ragged glory with “Colorado,” a beautiful, rambling, chaotic howl against climate change, division and hate.

It’s one of Young’s best record in years, reminiscent of 1989′s triumphant “Ragged Glory,” and his first with Crazy Horse since 2012.


The sweetly melodic three-minute opening track “Think of Me” could easily fit on Young’s 1992 “Harvest Moon.” But in a sharp left turn, Young follows it up with a shambolic 13-minute jam — “She Showed Me Love” — with echoes of earlier Crazy Horse adventures like 1969′s “Down by the River.”

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iHeartRadio will stage the third annual ALTer Ego Fest at the Forum in Los Angeles on January 18th, 2020.

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Glastonbury Festival returns to Pilton, UK from June 24th-28th, 2020. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Glastonbury is now attended by around 200,000 people.

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Taking place March 26th-29th, 2020 in Knoxville, TN, Big Ears is a singular festival experience that explores connections between musicians and artists, effortlessly crossing the boundaries of musical genres as well as artistic disciplines. Big Ears is a weekend of world-class musical performances that celebrates Knoxville’s historic theaters, nightclubs, churches, museums, and outdoor spaces with concerts, discussions, interactive workshops, installations, film screenings, surprise collaborations and unexpected artistic collisions. It celebrates the never-ending adventure of artistic creation and exploration.

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Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, taking place March 5th-8th, 2020 in Okeechobee, Florida, is a four-day surreal experience, filled with multi-genre music, immersive art and transformative events, deep in the heart of Florida’s wild wilderness.

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Northside Festival returns to Aarhus, Denmark from June 4th-6th, 2020. NorthSide aims to be Denmark’s best and most sustainable music festival and as a city festival, we wish to influence how our guests act in a social and cultural setting.

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M3F is a 100% nonprofit music festival taking place in downtown Phoenix from March 6th-8th, 2020.

M3F (McDowell Mountain Music Festival) 2020
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