Festivals near New York

No city wears its relationship with music quite like New York. The Bronx gave the world hip-hop; the grimy sidewalk of the Bowery gave punk and indie rock their temple at CBGB; the SoHo lofts and Brooklyn warehouses gave house and techno their longest nights. Festivals here look like nowhere else, because they don't unfold in a field but in the fabric of the city itself. Every spring on Randall's Island, The Governors Ball Music Festival stakes out the big all-genres gathering against the skyline, where pop, rap and rock headliners trade places across three days.

The rest of the year, the scene lives club by club, neighborhood by neighborhood. On the Lower East Side, New Colossus Festival turns a dozen venues into a discovery trail for emerging bands from around the world, in the spirit of the rooms that made the area legendary. In Brooklyn, We Belong Here brings the electro community together on the banks of the East River, while Reggae Fest is a reminder of how deeply the city breathes through its Caribbean diasporas. And when the CBGB Festival comes back around, the whole punk legacy of 315 Bowery speaks up again. FestT computes your FestiScore — how well a lineup matches your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date.