Summer Music Festivals

This isn't all of them...but it is a start for anyone that wants to get away from it all and catch some live music as well:

Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, Indio, CA
April 29-30
Tool (!), Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Franz Ferdinand, My Morning Jacket, TV On The Radio, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Animal Collective, Cat Power, The Walkmen, Hard-Fi, Eagles of Death Metal, Madonna, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, White Rose Movement, Living Things, Wolfmother, Wolf Parade, Nine Black Alps, James Blunt, Sleater-Kinney, Mogwai, Coheed & Cambria, Editors, stellastar*, Art Brut, The Subways, Youth Group, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Bloc Party, Matisyahu, & more...
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Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, Manchester, TN
June 16-18
Radiohead (!), Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Phil Lesh & Friends, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Oysterhead, Death Cab For Cutie, moe., Bright Eyes, The Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Buddy Guy, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley, Ben Folds, Common, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Dr. John, Sonic Youth, Les Claypool, Matisyahu, G. Love & Special Sauce, Umphrey's McGee, My Morning Jacket, Cat Power, Medeski Martin & Wood, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, & more...
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All Good Music Festival, Marvin's Mountaintop Masontown, WV
July 14-16 2006
The Black Crowes, Ween, Les Claypool, The Greyboy Allstars, The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, Donavan Frankenreiter, Railroad Earth, Southern Culture on the Skids, Rebirth Brass Band, Bob Schneider, Hackensaw Boys, Animal Liberation Orchestra, Oteil & the Peacemakers, Tea Leaf Green, Split Lip Rayfield, Daniela Cotton, The Bridge, Soldiers of Jah Army, & more...
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Pitchfork Music Festival, Union Square, Chicago, IL
July 29-30
Spoon, Silver Jews, Yo La Tengo, Devendra Banhard Band, Mission of Burma, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Aesop Rock, The National (!), Destroyer, Jens Lekman, Band of Horses, Tapes 'n Tapes, Man Man, Hot Machines, & more...
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Street Scene, San Diego, CA
August 4-5
The Killers, Pixies, The White Stripes, Social Distortion, Snoop Dogg, 311, Black Eyed Peas, Garbage, Flaming Lips, Unwritten Law, Dashboard Confessional, The Used, Death Cab For Cutie, Flogging Molly, Method Man, Rise Against, Louis XIV, Kasabian (!), Hot Hot Heat, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Von Bondies, Mixmaster Mike, Spoon, Autolux, & more...
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Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
August 4-6
Red Hot Chili Peppers (!), Kanye West, Manu Chao, Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, The Raconteurs, The Flaming Lips, Ween, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, Ryan Adams, Sonic Youth (!), Sleater-Kinney, Common, Matisyahu, Ryan Adams, Theivery Corporation, Nickel Creek, Blues Traveler, Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Gnarls Barkley, Blackalicious, Hard-Fi, The Hold Steady, Nada Surf, Sparta, Wolfmother, Living Things, & more...
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