PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL
Chicago, IL, July 13-15
Scheduled performers include: Dirty Projectors, Japandroids, Chromatics, Sleigh Bells, Flying Lotus, Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip and Purity Ring. pitchforkmusicfestival.com

RIOT FEST EAST
Philadelphia, PA, July 19-21
Scheduled to appear: The Promise Ring, Refused, August Burns Red, Off!, Gameface, Boy Sets Fire and Hirs. riotfest.org

GATHERING OF THE VIBES
Bridgeport, CT, July 19-22
Scheduled performers include: The Avett Brothers, Primus, the Yonder Mountain String Band, Zappa Plays Zappa, the Dark Star Orchestra, the Greyboy Allstars, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Deep Banana Blackout and former Grateful Dead members Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart. govibes.com

CATALPA FESTIVAL
New York, NY, July 28-29
Scheduled performers include: The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg, TV on the Radio, City and Colour, Umphrey’s McGee, the Big Pink, AraabMuzik, Felix Da Housecat, Fort Atlantic, Matisyahu, Dirty Heads, Girl Talk, Matt & Kim and the Cold War Kids. catalpanyc.com

HARD SUMMER
Los Angeles, CA, August 3-4
Scheduled performers include: Skrillex, Bloc Party, Little Dragon, Magnetic Man, Bloody Beetroots, Squarepusher, A-Trak, Bootsy Collins & the Funk Unity Band, Zombie Disco Squad and Destructo. hardfest.com

LOLLAPALOOZA
Chicago, IL, August 3-5
Scheduled performers include: Sigur Ros, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Metric, the Temper Trap, Amadou & Mariam, Florence + the Machine, the Shins, Black Sabbath, At the Drive In, Jack White, the Afghan Whigs and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. lollapalooza.com

PICKATHON 2012
Portland, OR, August 3-5
Scheduled performers include: The War on Drugs, Thee Oh Sees, THEESatisfaction, Neko Case, Blitzen Trapper, Dr. Dog, Vieux Farka Toure, Kitty, Daisy & Lewis and Cardboard Songsters. pickathon.com

SUNSET STRIP MUSIC FESTIVAL
Los Angeles, CA, August 16-18
Scheduled performers include: Marilyn Manson, the Offspring, Steve Aoki, Bad Religion, Black Label Society, Far East Movement, De La Soul, Dead Sara, Das Racist and the Mowgli’s. sunsetstripmusicfestival.com

GWAR-B-Q
Richmond, VA, August 18
Scheduled performers include: GWAR, the Casualties, GHOUL, Valient Thorr, Occultist, Lionize, Highness, Antietam 1862, MUTWAWA and Black Naked Wings. gwar.net

PICKIN’ IN THE PANHANDLE
Martinsburg, WV, September 7-9
Scheduled performers include: Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Kentucky Headhunters, Appalachian Flyer, Cumberland River, Jett’s Creek, Lonesome Highway, Wildfire, the Crowe Brothers, the Bluegrass Brothers and James Reams & the Barnstormers. panhandlepickin.com

DELUNA FEST
Pensacola Beach, FL, September 21-23
Scheduled performers include: Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Florence + the Machine, Band of Horses, Dwight Yoakam, Ben Folds Five, Guided by Voices, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Band of Skulls, Bad Brains, Fishbone, Superchunk, the Parlotones, the Gaslight Anthem and Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers. delunafest.com

COUNTERPOINT MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL
Atlanta, GA, September 27-29
Scheduled performers include: Bassnectar, Skrillex, Pretty Lights, AVICII, Big Boi, M83, Laidback Luke, Toro y Moi, Lotus, Crystal Castles, Wale, Ghostland Observatory, Big Gigantic, Com Truise and Theophilus London. counterpointfestival.com

PYGMALION MUSIC FESTIVAL
Champaign-Urbana, IL, September 27-29
Scheduled performers include: Grizzly Bear, Dinosaur Jr., Cloud Nothings, Tennis, Hospitality, Willis Earl Beal, Frankie Rose, Big Freedia and the Divas, Lord Huron, Julia Holter and Zeus. pygmaionmusicfestival.com