By Sunday, the final day of the 2025 Ohana Festival, Doheny State Beach was both calm and wild. The salty Pacific breeze echoed with surfboards and amplifiers as the weekend’s most intense lineup played under an orange sky. If Friday evoked nostalgia and Saturday leaned soulful, Sunday unleashed raw punk energy—a celebration of purpose and persistence.

Aftershock 2025, the West Coast’s ultimate rock, punk, and metal destination, reached new heights this year—drawing more than 164,000 fans from all 50 states and over 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park for four unforgettable days of music, community, and chaos. Produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, the event generated an estimated $35 million in local economic impact and capped off a record-breaking 2025 festival season.

The 2025 Lineup & Highlights

Thursday

The venerable Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival (HSB) celebrated its 25th anniversary last weekend with three days of free music on six stages in Golden Gate Park. Sunny weather and friendly fans cooperated to manifest merriment worthy of the magnificent musical lineup.

Friday, September 27th, dawned bright and sunny. Tropical clouds from Hurricane Narda dissipated along the Southern California coast as the second day of the Ohana Festival began. On Doheny Beach below the festival, surfers gathered, ready for the new swell spawned by Narda’s remnants.

The celebrated West Coast music gathering Wintergrass returns to the Hyatt Regency Bellevue from February 19-22, 2026, unveiling its official lineup and embracing a “Rad Trad” vision that celebrates both the roots and evolution of traditional music.

The 80’s New Wave tour TOTALLY TUBULAR FESTIVAL has announced four East Coast shows to close out 2025. Running December 27–31, the tour will stop in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, featuring such artists as A Flock Of Seagulls, Men Without Hats, Thomas Dolby, The Motels, Bow Wow Wow, Tommy Tutone, The Romantics, and Animotion (original members). One highlight is a free New Year’s Eve show in Niagara Falls, New York at Seneca Niagara Resort and Casino.

“We’re playing acoustic music in the middle of winter on top of a mountain. It’s a little nuts, but it brings people together. The most important things are the people, the memories, and the connections we make. That’s the true fabric of everything.”

There comes a time when everyone needs a fearless escape, a moment to say yes to, an opportunity to revive your soul in a magical place. That time is nearing, because Suwannee Roots Revival is just around the bend, happening October 9–12 at The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida.

The sound of banjos, fiddles, and mandolins will once again fill the air as the Hatchie Bottom Bluegrass Jamboree returns for its eighth year on Saturday, October 11, 2025, at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., audiences will experience a full day of music honoring the region’s long-standing bluegrass traditions.

The relaxed, beachfront gathering that is the Ohana Festival once again rolled into Dana Point, California, on September 26, 2025, bringing three days of music and community to the sand-lined shoreline of Doheny State Beach. Now in its ninth year, the event has earned a reputation as both a labor of love and a personal calling card for its founder and spiritual anchor, Eddie Vedder.