For a festival that began as a celebration of a beloved Salt Lake City DIY venue, 2026 felt like the year Kilby Block Party fully settled into its identity as one of the most thoughtfully curated festivals in the country. The weekend never chased scale for its own sake. Instead, Kilby succeeded by understanding the increasingly rare art of pacing: massive headliners, cult favorites, reunion-adjacent nostalgia, and emerging acts all woven together without ever feeling algorith

The second you stepped into Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Festival , it felt like downtown Austin had been gently reshaped rather than overtaken. The footprint wasn’t sprawling in the way so many city festivals try to be. Instead, it moved with the natural rhythm of the streets around it, folding stages, food stands, and open-air bars into a layout that encouraged wandering without ever feeling aimless. You could hear a bassline echo off nearby buildings and follow it, knowin

Every February, while much of the country is still thawing out, Innings Festival transforms Tempe Beach Park into a sun-bleached collision of pop-punk nostalgia and indie earnestness. Expanded to three days, the 2026 edition shed any lingering sense of novelty and operated as a full-fledged music summit, where dads in vintage tour tees, college kids chasing their first festival high, and MLB diehards all sweated it out together beneath the Arizona sky. Mumford and Sons by Ch