Festivals
Pilgrimage Festival Announce 2025 Lineup Feat. John Mayer, Kings Of Leon, Turnpike Troubadours, And More
Pilgrimage Music & Cultural Festival is back for its 11th year with a stacked 2025 lineup. The two-day event returns to The Park at Harlinsdale Farm in Franklin, Tennessee—just outside Nashville—on September 27 and 28. This year’s headliners are John Mayer (with a full band) and Kings of Leon.
Tickets go on sale Tuesday, April 17 at 10 a.m. CT here.
The lineup brings together a wide range of genres—rock, country, pop, indie, Americana, and blues. Alongside Mayer and Kings of Leon, the bill includes Turnpike Troubadours, Young The Giant, Father John Misty, Sam Fender, Grace Potter, Better Than Ezra, Colony House, Maggie Rose, The Heavy Heavy, American Aquarium, Taylor Hunnicutt, Eddie 9V, Angel White, and verygently.
The Americana Music Triangle returns too, with special programming like Ben Chapman’s Peach Jam featuring JD Clayton and Meg McRee, plus sets from Will McFarlane, Sam Grisman Project featuring Vince Herman (Leftover Salmon), Lindsay Lou, and Cristina Vane.
Tickets come in a bunch of flavors: 2-Day GA, GA+, VIP, and single-day passes for each tier. Parking passes are available, and layaway plans start at $25. Full details are on the festival’s website.
This one’s shaping up to be one of the best Pilgrimage lineups yet, so get ready for a weekend of sunshine, stacked sets, and serious Southern vibes.
Festivals
All Things Go 2026 Returns To Toronto June 6 & 7
All Things Go Festival today announced new dates for its Toronto 2026 edition, moving to summer dates June 6th and 7th at its iconic downtown waterfront venue RBC Amphitheatre (formerly Budweiser Stage).
Expect another lineup true to All Things Go’s core identity, highlighting female and LGBTQ+ artists; the lineup will be revealed soon. The inaugural 2025 festival featured iconic sets from Reneé Rapp, Kacey Musgraves, Role Model, Charlotte Cardin, and many more… Head here to read our review of Day 1 and 2 of the the 2025 edition.
All Things Go will once again partner with Live Nation Women to deliver the best possible festival experience for fans.
All Things Go 2026 editions in the DC area at Merriweather Post Pavilion and New York’s Forest Hills Stadium will return this year, with more information to come soon.
Late last year, All Things Go proudly released the benefit compilation All Things Go: 10 Years, with 100% of the proceeds going to their longtime collaborators at The Ally Coalition (TAC), a leading nonprofit dedicated to supporting LGBTQ+ youth, founded by Jack and Rachel Antonoff. The track, “Jesus and John Wayne,” a poignant collaboration between googly eyes, Joy Oladokun, and August Ponthier, was named one of the best songs in 2025 by NPR. The compilation featured a diverse lineup of special original songs and collaborations from artists in the All Things Go community, such as Kesha, Hudson Mohawke, Maren Morris (prod. Jack Antonoff), Rachel Chinouriri, Bartees Strangem etc.
Find more information on the festival website or on their social channels: Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok
Festivals
Rolling Loud Announce Move To Orlando For 2026
Rolling Loud will stage its only U.S. festival of 2026 in Orlando, Florida, marking a notable shift for the long-running hip-hop event. Organizers announced that Rolling Loud Orlando will take place May 8–10 at Camping World Stadium, ending a decade-long tradition that kept the festival anchored in Miami.
The lineup has not been revealed, but the festival is promising a full week of “exclusive events and experiences” tied to the main weekend. Presale tickets go on sale Thursday, January 8, at 10 a.m. ET through Rolling Loud’s website, with prices starting at $249. A layaway option will be offered with a $9.99 deposit.
The Orlando dates come after years of Rolling Loud operating multiple U.S. festivals in cities such as Miami, Los Angeles, and New York. That approach has now been scaled back. Outside the U.S., Rolling Loud will still host events in Sydney and Melbourne on March 7 and 8, following recent global expansions that included the brand’s first festival in India last November. Organizers have already confirmed a return to India in November 2026.
Festival co-founder and co-CEO Matt Zingler said the move reflects a broader reset for the brand. In a statement shared via Billboard, Zingler explained that the goal was to bring Rolling Loud back to a summer schedule and build a single U.S. event without trade-offs. He pointed to Orlando’s accessibility and infrastructure as key reasons for the decision, adding that the festival aims to follow where hip-hop culture is headed, not where it has already been.
Rolling Loud began in Miami in 2015, founded by Florida natives Zingler and Tariq Cherif. What started as a one-day event in Wynwood quickly grew into a major destination festival, moving through larger venues before landing at Hard Rock Stadium by 2018. By the end of the decade, Rolling Loud Miami regularly drew crowds exceeding 200,000, becoming one of the city’s biggest music events and a major economic driver.
Over the years, the festival has hosted performances from artists such as Travis Scott, Future, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, A$AP Rocky, 21 Savage, Latto, and Kodak Black, while building a reputation for spotlighting rising artists alongside established stars. The brand later expanded across North America and overseas, helping solidify hip-hop’s place at the center of the global festival circuit.
News of the move to Orlando has drawn mixed reactions online, particularly from South Florida fans who viewed Rolling Loud as a fixture of Miami’s cultural calendar. The change signals a clear new chapter for the festival as it enters its second decade, with organizers betting on a leaner U.S. footprint and a broader international focus.