Music festivals are a well-favored way for indie acts to manufacture links with their people, and to network with those who share the same principles about commercial exposure. Here, we'll provide a run-down on some of the biggest festivals around.
Festivals are our last remaining link to a grand and gregarious form of existence enjoyed by early humans in static communities. The camp-fires, the aromas of smoke and incense, the summer dresses and creative hairstyles, the impromptu singalongs with guitar-strumming hipsters, all these ingredients form the festival experience.

Among the biggest indie festivals in the USA are Austin City Limits, SXSW, The Bamboozle, Pitchfork, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, and Sasquatch.
Many festivals are famous not just for the philosophy of the organizers, but the geological, cultural, and climatic environment in which the festival occurs, too.