Those attending Portugal's NOS Alive can buy hotel or camping packages with tickets. Acts include Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Foals and Tame Impala.
Those attending Portugal's NOS Alive can buy hotel or camping packages with tickets. Acts include Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Pixies, Foals and Tame Impala.
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Music festivals are as much a part of summer as being eaten by insects. Some of the best include Germany's Melt!, held July 15-17 in the dystopian Ferropolis industrial museum between Leipzig and Berlin.
Melt! (Ferropolis, Germany) —
Music festivals are as much a part of summer as being eaten by insects. Some of the best include Germany's Melt!, held July 15-17 in the dystopian Ferropolis industrial museum between Leipzig and Berlin.
Stephan Flad
Iggy Pop and Sigur Ros are among the acts playing the August 26-28 event in the stunning Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in west Paris.
Rock en Seine (Paris) —
Iggy Pop and Sigur Ros are among the acts playing the August 26-28 event in the stunning Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in west Paris.
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Set in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens in southern England, this boutique festival is considered the UK's best live music and comedy weekend.
End of the Road (Dorset, England) —
Set in the beautiful Larmer Tree Gardens in southern England, this boutique festival is considered the UK's best live music and comedy weekend.
Sonny Malhotra
A welcoming vibe and late-night partying make Exit unlike any other festival. This year there are dance and pop acts including Ellie Goulding and Bastille.
Exit (Novi Sad, Serbia) —
A welcoming vibe and late-night partying make Exit unlike any other festival. This year there are dance and pop acts including Ellie Goulding and Bastille.
Bernard Bodo
This three-dayer held in the city's Parc del Forum has a focus on cutting-edge alternative acts. Tickets are relatively cheap, but there's no accommodation.
Primavera Sound (Barcelona, Spain) —
This three-dayer held in the city's Parc del Forum has a focus on cutting-edge alternative acts. Tickets are relatively cheap, but there's no accommodation.
Dani Canto
As would be expected from a website which has defined music over the past decade, Pitchfork fields some of the coolest acts out there. 2014's lineup included electronic act Grimes, pictured.
Pitchfork (Chicago) —
As would be expected from a website which has defined music over the past decade, Pitchfork fields some of the coolest acts out there. 2014's lineup included electronic act Grimes, pictured.
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Spread over five stages at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau, Osheaga is now in its 11th year, booming from a small indie event into Canada's best-loved festival.
Osheaga (Montreal) —
Spread over five stages at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau, Osheaga is now in its 11th year, booming from a small indie event into Canada's best-loved festival.
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Fuji Rock, with seven music stages in the shadows of Mount Fuji, is where Japan lets its hair down.
Fuji Rock (Naeba Ski Resort, Japan) —
Fuji Rock, with seven music stages in the shadows of Mount Fuji, is where Japan lets its hair down.
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The lineup this year is first-rate, with New Order, PJ Harvey and LCD Soundsystem all booked.<br />
Roskilde (Denmark) —
The lineup this year is first-rate, with New Order, PJ Harvey and LCD Soundsystem all booked.
Simon Frøsig Christensen