How to Find Music Festivals That Match Your Taste

The music festival industry is growing rapidly, with festivals popping up around the world catering to every setting and genre imaginable.

But finding the right festival for you can be tough. There are hundreds of festivals out there, and the artists you care about are often buried in the tiny undercard font of lineup posters. Maybe you’re flexible on where and when you’re willing to travel for the right show. You know about Coachella and Tomorrowland, but what about smaller festivals across the country with lineups stacked with smaller artists you love? How would you even find them?

Concert Map is a brand-new tool designed to help with exactly this. It’s an interactive world map with over 100,000 live music events, helping you find shows and festivals that match your music taste and travel plans.

You can check out a live preview below (festivals only). Pan around them map, zoom in on an area, and click on events to learn more:

In this article, we’ll walk through how Concert Map works and how you can use it to find a music festival that’s perfect for you.

How the Map Works

The map is designed to be powerful yet simple:

• Smart Clustering: The map avoids overwhelming you with hundreds of pins by intelligently grouping nearby events together. As you zoom into an area, these clusters break apart to reveal more individual festivals and concerts. Each cluster is represented by its most relevant event—either the most popular festival in the area, or, once you personalize the map, the one that best matches your musical taste.
• Simple Filters: You can easily filter by event type (festivals or concerts), genre, and date range to narrow down the options.
• Instant Lineup Previews: For festivals, you can select “Expand Lineups” to see a preview of the artists.
• Detailed Info: Click on any event to see the full lineup, ticket links, venue information, and location.

Personalize Your Map

The map gets even better when you personalize it with your listening history. Connect your Last.fm account or upload your Spotify Extended Streaming History, and the map highlights events featuring artists you actually listen to.

Once you’ve imported your artists, festival lineups become instantly more useful. Artists you love are marked with gold, silver, and bronze plaques, showing if they’re in your top 10%, 25%, or 50% of most-listened-to artists.

Example: Planning an EDM Ski Trip

Let’s walk through a real example. Imagine you and your friends want to plan a ski trip to Europe this winter, and you’d love to hit an EDM festival while you’re there.

Instead of Googling “EDM ski festivals Europe” and hoping for the best, you head to Concert Map.

1. You set the filters:
   • Event Type → Festivals
   • Genre → EDM
   • Date → December–March
2. You pan the map over to the Alps in Europe.

3. Instantly, you see a few promising options. One that catches your eye is Snowboxx in Avoriaz, France—a festival right in the mountains. Click on it to see the full lineup, ticket links, and venue details.

Just like that, you’ve found the perfect anchor for your trip. No endless searching, no missed opportunities. This works for any combination of destination, genre, and dates you can dream of.

Find Your Next Festival

Finding your next festival shouldn’t be a chore. Concert Map makes festival discovery easy and personalized, so you can spend less time searching and more time planning.

Check out the interactive map, import your listening history, and see what you find. Your perfect festival is out there.