X-Fest

X-Fest
Genre	Alternative rock, Hard rock, Industrial rock, Heavy metal, Grunge
Dates	Various
Location(s)	San Diego, California, Noblesville, Indiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Dayton, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Huntington, West Virginia, Cleveland, Ohio, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Duluth, Minnesota
Years active	1995 - present

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.

Noblesville (Indianapolis), Indiana

The event is hosted by radio station WRZX of Indianapolis and has been held at the Verizon Wireless Music Center, formerly known as the Deer Creek Music Center, since 1995. Since its inception, the Indianapolis-Noblesville X-Fest has drawn nearly a quarter million people.[1]

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: Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, Fuel, Wheatus, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Disturbed, Kittie, Kottonmouth Kings, 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

2008: Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, Candlebox, Bullet for My Valentine, Apocalyptica, Trapt,

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.

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, Silvertide, 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.

2008: Avenged Sevenfold, Puddle Of Mudd, Buckcherry, 10 Years, Shinedown, Candlebox, Saving Abel, Five Finger Death Punch, Black Tide, Red, plus Battle for X-Fest 13 winners Chapter Of Progress, Hollows End, Seconds Fall, and Felix Tucker.

San Diego, California

Hosted by XTRA in the Qualcomm Stadium.

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

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.

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

Huntington, West Virginia

Held at Harris Riverfront Park by WAMX.

Lineups

2000: Disturbed, Union Underground, Bobaflex

2001: Nickelback, Rollins Band, Soil, Lifer

2002: SR-71, Clutch, Hatebreed, Flaw, 3rd Strike

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.[

2008: Avenged Sevenfold, Shadows Fall, Eygpt Central, Midnight to Twelve XII, Another Black Day, Pop Evil, Downtrend, Stitch Rivet, XFactor1

Cleveland, Ohio

Held at Tower City Amphitheater by WXRK.

Lineups

2003: Staind, Cold, Trapt, Hed PE, Ra, Smile Empty Soul, Seether, Dirt, The Used were booked but canceled due to an illness

2004: Godsmack, Cypress Hill, New Found Glory, Fuel, Dropbox, Breaking Benjamin

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Held at the Baton Rouge River Center. Hosted by 104.5/104.9 The X radio station.

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

Fayetteville, Arkansas

Held at Randall Tyson Indoor Track Center by KXNA.

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.

Duluth, Minnesota

Held at Bayfront Festival Park by KZIO 94X.[2].

Lineups

2008: The bands 3 Doors Down, Staind, Filter, Hurt, 12 Stones, and Sick Puppies were scheduled to appear for an August 3rd concert, but the show was abruptly canceled on July 30th. The 2008 X Fest for Duluth was canceled for reasons unknown to the public

External links

• KXNA - Fayetteville
• WAMX - Huntington
• WRZX - Indianapolis
• WXDX- Pittsburgh
• WXEG - Dayton
• XTRA - San Diego
• KZIO - Duluth