Festivals
Rifflandia 2025 Lineup Packs a Punch With Public Enemy, Alessia Cara, Maribou State, NxWorries & More
Rifflandia is back for 2025, and it’s stretching its legs. The Victoria-based music festival just dropped a sprawling, genre-jumping lineup for this year’s edition, set to run September 11–14 at the Matullia Lands in Rock Bay.
This year’s bill has serious range: Alessia Cara, Public Enemy, Descendents, Sleater-Kinney, NxWorries (Anderson .Paak + Knxwledge), Charlotte Cardin, Walk Off The Earth, The Dead South, Maribou State, and TroyBoi are all confirmed. Not bad for a festival that’s still evolving its shape.
“If you look at some of the programming choices, we try to build these line-ups with a through-line so there’s something for every fan on every day, and that’s quite hard to do,” said Nick Blasko, CEO of Rifflandia Entertainment Co.
There’s a lot more where that came from: JP Saxe, William Prince, Macy Gray, Shakey Graves, The Funk Hunters with Chali 2na, and Whipped Cream are just a few more names on the loaded poster.
Rifflandia has been in reinvention mode for a while now. After going city-wide for years and bouncing between multiple venues, the fest switched things up in 2023 by centralizing at Matullia Lands. That format is sticking, but this time, they’re stretching it to four days, the longest it’s run since 2022.
This year, there’s no Phillips Backyard stage, but the new layout brings in extra stage setups at Matullia, bumping the total to five.
“That will be a really cool feature, I think,” Blasko said.
He’s also pumped about having a full extra day to play with. “We analyzed how things went last year, and given how much effort it took to set up the site and get it loaded in and ready to go, the opportunity is too great to not do it… The three days went too quick last year. And it’s an advantage when you’re programming to have four days to work with.”
The most out-of-left-field booking would probably be the Victoria Symphony performing Daft Punk. Not a remix. Not a DJ set. A full symphonic tribute to the legendary French duo. That one’s been on the wish list for a while.
“We’re thrilled to do something different and present different music under different contexts on our stage,” Blasko said.
Other standout moments to watch for: Public Enemy’s return to Victoria for the first time since 2010, and Sleater-Kinney’s first-ever local set. NxWorries, Maribou State, and Descendents also make their Victoria debuts. The latter keeps Rifflandia’s streak of hard-edged bookings alive, following recent appearances from Iggy Pop, Cro-Mags, Bikini Kill, and Suicidal Tendencies.
“Every year we try and do a little more punk and hardcore and offer something in that realm,” said Blasko. “It’s been really fun to include more of that this year.”
The lineup came together slowly, with some puzzle pieces still moving. “It’s not getting any easier, from a booking standpoint. You’ve got to be really strategic and purposeful with almost every slot. And stuff changes constantly,” he added.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 9 at 8 a.m. via rifflandia.com.
Thursday, Sept. 11
- Maribou State
- TroyBoi
- The Victoria Symphony plays Daft Punk
- AHEE
- Mary Droppinz
- Mat The Alien
- Pigeon Hole
- Abstrakt Sonance
- Prayer Handz
- Dust Cwaine
Friday, Sept. 12
- Public Enemy
- Descendents
- The Funk Hunters feat. Chali 2na
- Shakey Graves
- Macy Gray
- WHIPPED CREAM
- Hollow Coves
- ProbCause (DJ Set)
- OMBIIGIZI
- Handsome Tiger
- Thomas Anthony
- Return Of The Jaded
- Canadian Beauty
Saturday, Sept. 13
- NxWorries (Anderson .Paak & Knxwledge)
- Sleater-Kinney
- The Dead South
- JP Saxe
- Billianne
- Phibes
- TVBOO
- Krafty Kuts
- Fort Knox Five
- Mood Swing & Chevy Bass
- Wyatt C. Louis
- Westwood In The Dome
- Control Room
- The Choirs YYJ does Radiohead
- Frog Eyes
- Stund
- Naturalist
- T3MPR
- S@M I @M b2b Steph Tsunami
Sunday, Sept. 13
- Alessia Cara
- Charlotte Cardin
- Walk Off The Earth
- William Prince
- Taiki Nulight
- Dirtwire
- Honeycomb
- Hoang
- Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys
- Cadence Weapon (DJ Set)
- The Choirs YYJ does Divas
- oncor
- GRIIMM
- DJ Boitano
- DJ Dabbler
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.