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The Music Festival Bucket List — 50 Unforgettable Experiences You’ll Want To Have This Summer

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Summer is the happiest time of the year. The weather is warm and everyone is home for summer break. Over the next few months, you might even stack some extra cash from working odd jobs. Having time and money is satisfying. The nice weather just provides more opportunities to blow it all.

Instead of blowing it all on movies and ugly clothes, invest in memories that will last you a lifetime by catching your favorite artists at an amazing music festival. You have the tools to travel, so go enjoy the biggest parties of the year. Roll with friends, tailgate with some cold Bud Lights, and spend an entire day basking in the music that makes this life so worth living.

For example, rage your face off at one of Diplo’s Mad Decent Block Parties. Gather good friends and road trip to Georgia for the EDM festival, TomorrowWorld. Be at Lollapalooza for all the legendary performances. You wait all year for summer, and it’s the peak season for music festivals, so do something epic in the next few months.

Here’s a handy bucket list to help you narrow down some plans. These will be the 50 unforgettable moments to check out at 9 music festivals this summer.

Enjoy!

  1. Being able to tell people in 20 years that you “were there.”
  2. Take a selfie when Alabama Shakes are on stage with the band in the background.
  3. Hear Sam Smith at Lollapalooza play his four Grammy winning songs.
  4. Snapchat your girl a video of Sam Smith performing his Grammy winning songs.
  5. See Sam Smith two weekends in a row at Lollapalooza then Outside Lands.
  6. Hold an American flag at TomorrowWorld all weekend just to be on the live stream.
  7. Put a girl on your shoulders at TomorrowWorld before Martin Garrix drops “Animals.”
  8. Roll up to Dreamville at TomorrowWorld with a case of Bud Light.
  9. Find a Tinder match at TomorrowWorld because your default picture is you ready to rage.
  10. Attend all 18 of Diplo’s Mad Decent Block Parties.
  11. Start a mosh pit during Flosstradamus.
  12. Instagram video of Mad Decent Block Party twerk contests during Jack Ü.
  13. Wonder “Where Is Justin Bieber?” when Jack Ü plays “Where Are Ü Now” featuring Justin Bieber.
  14. Be the first person in line for the CMA music festival.
  15. Throw back a cold Bud Light during Thomas Rhett’s performance.
  16. Play the air guitar to Darius Rucker’s “Wagon Wheel” and then throwback another Bud Light.
  17. Purchase a Florida Georgia Line t-shirt so girls back home know you listen to country music.
  18. Crush as much deep dish pizza as possible between sets at Lollapalooza’s Chowtown.
  19. Get ready for Kid Cudi to drop fire from his new album at Lollapalooza.
  20. Photobomb as many people with selfie sticks as possible at TomorrowWorld.
  21. Point out any artists hanging out in the crowd and tweet a picture with them.
  22. Crowd surf for Bassnectar at Lollapooza
  23. Climb in Steve Aoki’s rave raft at Creamfields.
  24. Hear Kendrick Lamar perform the rap song of the year “Alright” at Outside Lands.
  25. Buy a Metallica poster at Lollapooza.
  26. Pitch a tent your friends at Camp Bisco in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
  27. See Pretty Lights at Camp Bisco.
  28. See Pretty Lights again at Electric Adventure.
  29. ILoveMakonnen “Likes Tuh…” Find out at Camp Bisco:
  30. Crowd surf for Bassnectar at Camp Bisco.
  31. These Things Happen with G-Eazy at Electric Adventure.
  32. Ask Machine Gun Kelly why Kevin Owens power bombed him at Electric Adventure.
  33. Make a ridiculous totem of your friend’s face. Rage with it all day and freak people out when they recognize it’s the person you’re with.
  34. Hear Dillon Francis play “This Mixtape Is Fire” first at Lollapalooza and Electric Adventure.
  35. Catch Mike Stud play his first music festival at Electric Adventure.
  36. After Electric Adventure hit the casinos with Ty Dolla $ign and Bingo Players.
  37. Snapchat video Galantis’s ‘Gold Dust’ at Lollapalooza and Electric Zoo
  38. Book a flight/train so you can see Philadelphia’s Made In America and New York City’s Electric Zoo in the same day.
  39. Instagram Alesso’s Electric Zoo fireworks in New York City.
  40. Hear NERVO DJ at Electric Zoo better than the boys.
  41. Snapchat NERVO at Electric Zoo DJing better than the boys.
  42. See Bassnectar again at Made In America
  43. Geo-tag Instagram pictures of Bassnectar at Lollapalooza, Camp Bisco and Made In America.
  44. Memorize “The Hills” by The Weeknd and sing it back at Lollapalooza.
  45. Make a totem of the other Jonas brothers at Nick Jonas’s Made In America show.
  46. Hear Meek Mill perform Dreamchasers Intro at Made In America because it’s in Philadelphia.
  47. Text your friends Electric Zoo pictures of The Chemical Brothers and The Martinez Brothers.
  48. Work all the connections you have to get Made In America VIP tickets for Future.
  49. Lose your mind at Made in America when Big Sean performs “Blessings.”
  50. Cross “seeing Elton John live” off your bucket list after Outside Lands.