X-Fest
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| X-Fest | |
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| Location(s) | San Diego, California, Noblesville, Indiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Huntington, West Virginia, Cleveland, Ohio, Fayetteville, Arkansas |
| Years active | 1995 - present |
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| Date(s) | Various |
| Genre(s) | Alternative rock, Hard rock, Industrial rock, Heavy metal, Grunge |
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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] Noblesville, Indiana
The event is 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][dead link]
[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, Nonpoint, Saliva
Toadies were originally scheduled to play 2nd on the second stage, but they broke up days before the concert, therefore Nonpoint stepped in and took their place.
2002: Kid Rock, Stone Temple Pilots, Earshot, Uncle Kracker, Trust Company, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Extra Blue Kind, Birdmen of Alcatraz,
2003: Godsmack, Seether, Alien Ant Farm, Violent Femmes, Eve 6, Mudvayne, Powerman 5000, Smile Empty Soul, Ill Niño, SR-71
2004: Linkin Park, Korn, Snoop Dogg, The Used, Less Than Jake, Ghostface Killah, M.O.P., Funeral for a Friend, downset.,
2005: Disturbed, Fuel, Shinedown, Smile Empty Soul, Cold, Ill Niño, 10 Years, Megan McCauley
2006: Godsmack, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Buckcherry, Bullet for My Valentine, Alien Ant Farm, Eighteen Visions, The Classic Crime
2007: The Smashing Pumpkins, Fuel, Hurt, Alter Bridge, Another Animal, Black Light Burns, Sick Puppies, A Band Called Pain, The Bravery
[edit] Dayton, Ohio
Formerly known as "Edge-Fest" when 103.9 was "The Edge". Became X-Fest in 1997 when 103.9 became "The X". Held at The University of Dayton Arena in 1998 and 1999. Held at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds by WXEG since 2000.
[edit] Lineups
1996: Seven Mary Three, Poe, Guided by Voices, The Verve Pipe, Howlin Maggie, A Flock of Seagulls, Magnapop, Van Gogh's Daughter
1997: Matthew Sweet, Veruca Salt, The Refreshments, Kara's Flowers, Sponge, Jars of Clay, K's Choice, Plumb
1998: The Fixx, Better Than Ezra, Everything, Reel Big Fish, Agents Of Good Roots, Candlebox, K's Choice, The Urge
1999: Citizen King, Joydrop, Men at Work, Marcy Playground, Guided by Voices, Fuel, The Verve Pipe, Fastball
2000: Due to birthday bash there was no X-Fest
2001: Stroke 9, Transmatic, Jettingham, 8stops7, Tantric, Stroke 9, American Hi-Fi, The Calling, Leo
2002: (September 15): Chevelle, Sinch, Goldfinger, Sevendust, Audiovent, Seether, Switched, The Union Underground, Stroke 9, Filter, and Jeremiah Freed
2003: Mudvayne, Powerman 5000, Cold, Seether, Eve 6, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, Sloth, Smile Empty Soul, V Shape Mind
2004: Puddle of Mudd, Saliva, Shinedown, Smile Empty Soul, Breaking Benjamin,Future Leaders of the World, Crossfade, Finger Eleven, Sivertide, and Earshot
2005: Seether, Papa Roach, Cold, Crossfade, Dark New Day, Theory of a Deadman, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights, Day of Fire, and 30 Seconds to Mars
2006: Staind, Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Buckcherry, Hinder, Bullet for My Valentine, Hurt, Damone, Black Stone Cherry, Eighteen Visions.
2007: Three Days Grace, Chevelle, Breaking Benjamin, Sum 41, Seether, Flyleaf, Finger Eleven, Sick Puppies, Evans Blue, Fair to Midland.
[edit] San Diego, California
Hosted by XTRA in the Qualcomm Stadium.
[edit] Lineups
2006: The Cult, Dashboard Confessional, Franz Ferdinand, Panic at the Disco, Echo & the Bunnymen, She Wants Revenge, Hard-Fi, the noise, Reeve Oliver, Rob Zombie, Avenged Sevenfold
2008: The Offspring, Pennywise, Jimmy Eat World, MGMT, Ludo, My American Heart, The Material, Weatherbox, The Burning of Rome, The Sess, Shark Attack
[edit] Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The event has, historically, been held at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in late May, hosted by WXDX-FM. 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: The Offspring, Orgy, Live, Lit, Fuel, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Sponge, Citizen King, The Flys, Staind, Videodrone, The Living End, Liars Inc., The Ike McCoy Band, Grapevine, The Distractions, The Buddy Brown Show
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, Disturbed
2002 (partial list): Tenacious D, Puddle of Mudd, Rob Zombie, The Clarks
2003 Staind, Evanescence, Godsmack, Punchline, Cold (cancelled the day of the show), The Donnas, The Juliana Theory, Seether, The Used, Breaking Benjamin, Eve 6, 12 Stones, Taproot, Trapt, Smile Empty Soul
2004 (partial list): The Offspring, Cypress Hill, New Found Glory, Drowning Pool, Switchfoot, Story of the Year, Punchline, Finger Eleven
The initial 2005 festival was to be held May 27 at the Chevrolet Amphitheater. 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 Niño, 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 Amphitheater): Staind, Three Days Grace, Blue October, People in Planes, Hurt
2006 (June 27, Chevrolet Amphitheater): Taking Back Sunday, Angels & Airwaves, Head Automatica, The Subways, and Punchline.
2006 (July 18, Chevrolet Amphitheater): Panic at the Disco, The Dresden Dolls, The Hush Sound
[edit] Huntington, West Virginia
Held at Harris Riverfront Park by WAMX.
[edit] Lineups
2003: Type O Negative Shinedown Ra Soil doubleDrive Lacuna Coil
2004: Sevendust Monster Magnet Earshot Bobaflex Soundevice
2005: Seether Crossfade Dark New Day Cold Smile Empty Soul
2006: Swamp Jeuce, Black Stone Cherry, Stone Buddha, Evans Blue, Zeroking, Three Days Grace, Byzantine, Staind
2007: Hinder, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Black Stone Cherry, Revelation Theory, Stereoside, Cinder Road, War Creek Mafia
Note: A-1 Security ejected more than 400 people for "being too loud", having beach balls and moshing. They also caused at least 14 known injuries by pulling girls down off of shoulders and to the ground, at which the girl and the persons whose shoulders she was on was ejected without warning.[citation needed]
[edit] Cleveland, Ohio
Held at Tower City Amphitheater by WXRK.
[edit] Lineups
2003: Staind, Cold, Trapt, Hed PE, Ra, Seether
2004: Godsmack, Cypress Hill, New Found Glory, Fuel, Dropbox, Breaking Benjamin
[edit] Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Held at the Baton Rouge River Center. Hosted by 104.5/104.9 The X radio station.
[edit] Lineups
2007: Saosin, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Papa Roach, Jet, AFI, The Killers
2008: My Chemical Romance, Puddle of Mudd, Finger Eleven, Atreyu, Story of the Year, Billy Talent, Meriwether
[edit] Fayetteville, Arkansas
Held at Randall Tyson Indoor Track Center by KXNA.
[edit] Lineups
2007: Saliva, Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, Three Days Grace
2008: 3 Doors Down, Chevelle, Hurt, Sick Puppies, Benjamin Del Shreve
- Metal band 12 Stones was originally booked but dropped the show and was replaced by the Sick Puppies.
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