X-Fest
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| X-Fest | |
| Location(s) | San Diego, California,Noblesville, Indiana, Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Huntington, West Virginia |
| Years active | 1995 - present |
| Date(s) | Various |
| Genre(s) | Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Industrial Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge |
X-Fest is an annual music festival held each year in various venues throughout the U.S. by Clear Channel Communications radio stations. It features alternative rock, hard rock, heavy metal, grunge, and industrial rock bands.
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[edit] San Diego, California
Hosted by XTRA in the Coors Amphitheater.
[edit] Lineups
2006 (June 9): The Cult, Dashboard Confessional, Franz Ferdinand, Panic! At The Disco, Echo & The Bunnymen, She Wants Revenge, HARD-Fi, The Sounds, Reeve Oliver, The Stranger's Six, Ok Go
[edit] Noblesville, Indiana
The local event is the hosted by radio station WRZX and has been held at the Verizon Wireless Music Center, formerly known as the Deer Creek Music Center, since 1995. Since its inception, the Noblesville X-Fest has drawn nearly a quarter million people.[1]
[edit] Lineups
1995: Bush, Weezer, Fig Dish, Neena Foundry, Teenage Fanclub, Toadies, Quicksand, Birdmen of Alcatraz, Johnny Socko, Sponge, Letters to Cleo, Sugar Ray, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Material Issue, 15 Minutes
1996: Super 8, Reacharound, Goldfinger, The Nixons, Prong, Spacehog, Seven Mary Three, Everclear, The Why Store, No Doubt, The Verve Pipe
1997: Bloodhound Gang, Matchbox Twenty, Sugar Ray, The Vents, Artificial Joy Club, Local H, Gravity Kills, Wilco, The Why Store, Better Than Ezra, Reel Big Fish
1998: Our Lady Peace, Limp Bizkit, Marcy Playground, Stabbing Westward, Third Eye Blind, Creed, Athenaeum, Eve 6, Black Lab, Sprung Monkey
1999: Kid Rock, Everclear, Powerman 5000, Fear Factory, Oleander, The Verve Pipe, Buckcherry, Loudmouth, Pennywise, Push Down & Turn
2000: Papa Roach, Wheatus, Fuel, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, Kottonmouth Kings, Disturbed, P.O.D., Kittie, Vallejo
2001: Rammstein, Live, Days of the New, Better Than Ezra, Lifehouse, Zoo Story, Linkin Park, Static-X, Mudvayne, Toadies
2002: Kid Rock, Stone Temple Pilots, Earshot, Uncle Kracker, Trust Company, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Extra Blue Kind, Birdmen of Alcatraz, Saliva
2003: Godsmack, Seether, Alien Ant Farm, Violent Femmes, Eve 6, Mudvayne, Powerman 5000, Smile Empty Soul, Ill Niño
2004: Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg, The Used, Less Than Jake, Ghostface, M.O.P., Funeral for a Friend, Downset, SR-71
2005: Disturbed, Fuel, Shinedown, Smile Empty Soul, Cold, Ill Niño, 10 Years, Megan McCauley
2006 (September 16): Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Buckcherry, Bullet For My Valentine, Alien Ant Farm, Eighteen Visions, The Classic Crime
[edit] Dayton, Ohio
Held on the Montgomery County Fairgrounds by WXEG.
[edit] Lineups
2006 (September 17): Staind, Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Buckcherry, Hinder, Bullet For My Valentine, Hurt, Damone, Black Stone Cherry, 18 Visions.
[edit] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The event has, historically, been held at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in late May, hosted by WXDX. However, a recent decline in the Pittsburgh concert market has forced the festival's format to change yearly.
[edit] Lineups
1998 (partial list): Green Day, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Scott Weiland, The Clarks, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Fuel, Deftones, God Lives Underwater, The Urge (Stabbing Westward were forced to cancel on the day of the show]])
1999 (partial list): The Offspring, Orgy, Live, Lit, Fuel, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sponge
2000 (partial list): Stone Temple Pilots, Everclear, Eve 6, Stroke 9, Cypress Hill, Staind, The Flys, 8stops7, Grapevine, 7th House, The Distractions
2001 (partial list): Staind, Fuel, Our Lady Peace, The Clarks, Crazy Town, Dope, The Buzz Poets
2002 (partial list): Tenacious D, Puddle of Mudd, Rob Zombie, The Clarks
2003 (partial list): Staind, Evanescence, Godsmack
2004 (partial list): The Offspring, Cypress Hill, A New Found Glory
The initial 2005 festival was to be held May 27 at the Chevrolet Ampitheater. This would be the first year that the festival was not held at the Post-Gazette Pavilion. However, the event, which featured Social Distortion, My Chemical Romance, Sum 41, Unwritten Law, and 30 Seconds to Mars, was not given the X-Fest name. The festival occurred later in the year at the Post-Gazette Pavilion.
2005 (September 9): Disturbed, Our Lady Peace, Megan McCauley, Bloodhound Gang, Cold, Ill Nino, 30 Seconds To Mars, 10 Years.
In 2006, the festival was changed to a concert series, with multiple (smaller) concerts throughout the summer.
2006 (May 29, Chevrolet Ampitheater): Staind, Three Days Grace, Blue October, People in Planes, Hurt
2006 (June 27, Chevrolet Ampitheater): Taking Back Sunday, Angels And Airwaves, Head Automatica, The Subways, and Punchline.
2006 (July 18, Chevrolet Ampitheater): Panic! At the Disco, The Dresden Dolls, The Hush Sound
[edit] Huntington, West Virginia
Held at Harris Riverfront Park by WAMX.
[edit] Lineups
2006: Swamp Jeuce, Black Stone Cherry, Stone Buddha, Evans Blue, Zeroking, Three Days Grace, Byzantine, Staind
