Top Las Vegas Music Festivals For 2022

Spend three days seeing some of country’s biggest stars at Night in The Country Nevada. The three-day camping event at Lyon County Fairgrounds features headliners Tracy Lawrence, Dustin Lynch, and Chris Young who will appear alongside The Cadillac Three, Lily Rose, Granger Smith, Randall King, and others.

The Lake Tahoe Bluegrass and Beyond Festival takes place at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena. Filling the bluegrass category are the likes of Leftover Salmon, Dead Winter Carpenters and The Lil Smokies, while the beyond part of the lineup includes Achilles Wheel, Boot Juice, GrooveSession and headliners Phil Lesh & Friends.

Bass Camp V descends upon Hard Rock Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena for a day and night dedicated to electronic dance music. Among the over 40 artists coming from around the globe include Adventure Club, Flux Pavilion, KJ Sawka, Wolfgang Gartner, Jack Beats, Cam Girl, Liquid Todd, Esper and Fluencee.

See some of the biggest current names in reggae music like Slightly Stoopid, Dirty Heads, SOJA, Tribal Seeds, Common Kings and Fortunate Youth will perform at the Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival. The fifth annual, single-day event will once again be held at Hard Rock Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena.

Exodus Festival Las Vegas kicks off with Summer Love Weekend at MGM Grand. Spend five nights dancing in Sin City with the top EDM DJs and producers including The Chainsmokers, NGHTMRE, Kat Nova, Yo Yolie, Loud Luxury, Alesso, RL Grime and Gryffin.

Desert Drip presents Let’s Get Drippy at MGM Grand. Music happens day and night with performances by Lil Jon, Ja Rule, Mike Attack, Tyga, Yo Yolie and more.

Adventure-travel brand Fort Desolation brings back its Fort Desolation Fest with a lineup that includes Amos Lee, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Elle King, Band Of Heathens, Rayland Baxter, Heartless Bastards, Elizabeth Cook and more. The second annual event featuring adventures by day and music at night will take place at Cougar Ridge Resort.

American rock ‘n’ roll bacchanal Psycho Las Vegas takes over Resorts World Las Vegas for three days. This year’s lineup features the likes of Suicidal Tendencies, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, Warpaint, Bone Thugs n Harmony, GZA, Inspectah Deck, The Black Angels, Ulver, Twin Tribes, Boris, Paradise Lost, Katatonia, Amenra and Samael, among dozens more.

Spend four days at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino for this year’s Big Blues Bender. Catch blues legends like Buddy Guy, rock icons like Little Feat and many others such as Larkin Poe, Tab Benoit, Shemekia Copeland, One For The Queens, Mike Zito, Victor Wainwright and The Train, Jimmy Hall, Blood Brothers, Albert Castiglia, Southern Avenue, and many more.

Exodus Festival Las Vegas picks back up over Labor Day Weekend. Dance the days and nights away with popular DJs and producers from across the EDM world.

Desert Drip resumes Labor Day Weekend for more fun filled dancing. Head to MGM Grand for near non-stop music happening from day into night.

Same Same But Different features three days of music, yoga, floatopia day parties, arts & crafts, educational workshops, swimming, waterside camping, beachside bars, late-night beach parties and other activities. Taking place at Lake Perris State Park’s Moreno Beach, performers include Vulfpeck, Chromeo, Tipper, The Glitch Mob, Washed Out, Poolside, Emancipator, Lettuce, The Brothers Macklovitch, Neil Frances, Beats Antique, The Polish Ambassador, The California Honeydrops, The Floozies, Moon Boots, and many others.

Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, Gorillaz, Calvin Harris and Jack Harlow headline the Life Is Beautiful 2022 lineup. The three-day event in Downtown Vegas will also present performances by Kygo, Migos, Cage the Elephant, Beach House, Sylvan Esso, Marc Rebillet, Gryffin, and dozens more.

The annual Desert Daze music festival will be held at Lake Perris State Recreational Area. Tame Impala, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and Iggy Pop (playing his only North American concert of 2022) headline the event’s 10th installment that will also see appearances by Chicano Batman, Sky Ferreira, BADBADNOTGOOD, Perfume Genius, Reggie Watts, Aldous Harding, Cymande, Shannon and the Clams, Nilüfer Yanya, Daniel Rossen Of Grizzly Bear, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, and more.

Acclaimed reggae and roots rock performers from around the globe will come to Downtown Las Vegas Events Center for the three-day Reggae Rise Up Las Vegas music fest. This year’s lineup includes Rebelution, Slightly Stoopid, Stick Figure, Atmosphere, Iration, Trevor Hall, and many more.

When We Were Young returns for its second year at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Each day will feature the same lineup of performers, with appearances by My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, The Used, Taking Back Sunday, Avril Lavigne, Bright Eyes, Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World, Alkaline Trio, The Story So Far, The All-American Rejects, PVRIS, Ice Nine Kills, Sleeping With Sirens, Neck Deep, The Maine, Mayday Parade, Wolf Alice, AFI and Manchester Orchestra, among several others.