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Luke Combs, Jelly Roll and Zach Bryan will headline the 2025 edition of the Stagecoach Festival, taking place April 25-27 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. It will mark the first time that Bryan (April 25) and Jelly Roll (April 26) have served as headliners on the Mane Stage, while Combs returns for the first time to headline since 2022. 
Lana Del Rey — who is working on a country album titled Lasso, as she revealed at the Billboard x NMPA Songwriter Awards in February — will also appear at the festival. She joined Paul Cauthen at this year’s event for a duet of “Unchained Melody,” and headlined both weekends of Coachella earlier that month.

“Super pumped to be coming back to headline Stagecoach,” said Combs, in a statement. “It was one of the most memorable parts of the year when we did it in 2022, so really glad they’re having us back for round 2. We’re gonna have a blast.” 

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Jelly Roll added, “Last year I got to play Stagecoach for the first time and it was incredible. And I didn’t just get to play. I got to hang out as a fan of artists I love and take my daughter to see some of the best entertainers in our format. Coming back to headline Stagecoach this year is a dream-but I’ll be attending as a fan this year as well, so get ready. See you in April.”

STAGECOACH 2025

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The festival announced its lineup as country music continues to experience a surge in popularity. “Country music is in a golden moment right now. The genre is hotter than it has ever been, and we are enjoying every moment of it,” Stacy Vee, vp of festival talent for Goldenvoice, told Billboard in an email interview. “It has been incredibly satisfying to be in a festival where so many different voices and styles of music are welcome. The world has been delivering us an abundance of phenomenal talent and the hardest part is having to choose who gets the slot.”

Two of this year’s hottest acts, Bryan and Shaboozey, have worked their way up to the Mane Stage, which is always a pleasure to see, Vee says: “Zach Bryan’s set at the Palomino Stage in 2022 was legendary and now he is headlining the Mane Stage. Shaboozey was such an exciting special guest last year and we’ll see him for a full set on Mane Stage.”

As usual, Stagecoach, which started in 2007, will feature a number of other non-country acts, including Backstreet Boys, T-Pain, Goo Goo Dolls, gospel singer Blessing Offor, Creed, Jewel, Nelly, Sammy Hagar, The Bacon Brothers and Tommy James & the Shondells (who also performed at the fest in 2017).

The Backstreet Boys have long been on Vee’s wish list. “I have literally dreamed of bringing them to the show for so long, I think it is going to hit so hard,” she says.

Among those also on the bill are Brothers Osborne, Chayce Beckham, Dylan Gossett, Flatland Cavalry, Koe Wetzel, Midland, Nico Moon, Scotty McCreery, Sturgill Simpson, Whiskey Myers and Tucker Wetmore.

Vee declined to answer a question about the continued paucity of country women available for top spots. Miranda Lambert headlined this year, Carrie Underwood in 2022, and Shania Twain in 2017. Lainey Wilson, who has not headlined the festival, last played in 2023. There are around 20 women playing among the 65 acts in 2025, including Ashley McBryde, Carly Pearce, Anne Wilson, Crystal Gayle, Dasha, Alana Springsteen, Anna Avery, Nikki Lane and The Castellows.

General admission passes start at $579, while Corral Standing Pit passes that provide access to the standing room only pit area in front of Mane Stage start at $1,899. Corral Reserved Seating, which is for a seated area behind the Corral Standing Pit and other amenities, including access to the Corral Saloon and air-conditioned bathrooms, start at $2,299. Tickets go on sale Sept. 13.

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Grab your festival gear, as the All Things Go festival is here, featuring the “Pink Pony Club” singer as well as Hozier, Reneé Rapp, Maren Morris, Bleachers, Janelle Monáe, Conan Gray and others. You’ll have double the opportunities to attend the music festival, as All Things Go will be hosted in NYC for the first time ever in addition to Columbia, Maryland.

Tickets for the Maryland and NYC editions initially went on sale through Ticketmaster and the festival’s website. While tickets are now sold out, there are some cheap ticket options including resale sites that will let you see all the headliners.

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Keep reading to learn more about the festival and where to find tickets for All Things Go in Maryland and NYC.

How to Get All Things Go Festival 2024 Tickets

If you can’t find the number of tickets you want or purchase, you might be able to buy All Things Go 2024 festival tickets through resale sites. Below, ShopBillboard put together a list to shop from along with promo codes and discounts to get the best prices.

StubHub

StubHub has one-day passes to All Things Go starting at $112 (at the time of writing) as well as two-day passes for as low as $479. You can sort options base on price and hottest deals, and the site will also tell you how many tickets are remaining for each event. Purchases are also backed by the site’s FanProtect, which you can learn more about here.

Vivid Seats

Another affordable option is Vivid Seats, which has one-day passes from $109 and two-day passes beginning at $409. Your orders will also be covered by their Buyer Guarantee that’s broken down here. Bonus offer: Get $20 off purchases of $200 or more when you use the code BB2024 at checkout.

Seat Geek

Seat Geek isn’t a stranger to providing cheaper ticket options including to All Things Go. Right now, you can find one-day passes starting at $165 and two-day passes from $321. The site also uses a ranking system of 1-10 to tell you how good of a deal you’re getting with offers labeled a one the worst deal and tickets ranked a 10 the best. For more savings, first purchases can get $10 off orders of $250+ with the code BILLBOARD10 at checkout.

Gametime

Gametime is perfect for grabbing last-minute cheap tickets including to All Things Go 2024. Right now, one-day passes start at $109 and two-day passes go for as low as $586. Plus, if it’s your first time using the seller, you can get $20 off purchases of $150+ when you enter the code SAVE20 at checkout.

All Things Go 2024 Maryland Lineup

Check out below to see all the artists taking over the Maryland edition of All Things Go festival.

Saturday (Sept. 28):

Laufey with the Kennedy Center Orchestra

Bleachers

Janelle Monáe

Remi Wolf

Ethel Cain

Julien Baker

Michael Kiwanuka

Maisie Peters

Briston Maroney

Sammy Rae & The Friends

Mannequin Pussy

Indigo de Souza

Grentperez

Rachel Chinouriri

Wasia Project

Annie Dirusso

Allison Pontheir

Oliver Malcolm

Sunday (Sept. 29)

Hozier

Reneé Rapp

Conan Gray

Chappell Roan

Maren Morris

The Japanese House

Holly Humberstone

David Kushner

Del Water Gap

Flipturn

Soccer Mommy

Medium Build

Blondshell

Lola Young

Infinity Song

Towa Bird

Sadurn

Abby Roberts

All Things Go 2024 NYC Lineup

You can see NYC’s inaugural lineup below to plan out what artists you want to see.

Saturday (Sept. 28):

Reneé Rapp

Chappell Roan

Muna

Holly Humberstone

Del Water Gap

Soccer Mommy

Coco & Clair Clair

Towa Bird

Sunday (Sept. 29):

Janelle Monáe

Ethel Cain

Julien Baker

Maisie Peters

Samia

Mannequin Pussy

Indigo de Souza

Annie Dirusso

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The year may have just begun, but it’s already time to start thinking about the 2024 music festival season. Boston Calling announced its 2024 lineup via their official Instagram page on Tuesday (Jan. 9), with Ed Sheeran, The Killers, Hozier and Tyler Childers set to headline. This year’s edition of Boston Calling — which launched […]

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Anyone who has attended a music festival has experienced the frustration of attempting to send and receive calls and texts amid tens of thousands of other phone-wielding fans. Messages often don’t go through, arrive an hour after being sent or show up en masse when the night is over, creating confusion and leaving meet-ups unmet.

Anyone who has attended many of the leading U.S. music festivals over the past few years has likely noticed improvements, however, with cell service approaching real-time efficiency. This isn’t a fluke, but the result of focused improvements in how service is provided both generally and at music-related mass gatherings specifically.

“Frankly, I consider phone conductivity kind of like running water these days. Venues have to have it,” says Matthew Pasco, who as vp of information for the Las Vegas Raiders oversaw construction of the distributed antenna system (DAS) at Allegiant Stadium, which has hosted major tours from Taylor Swift, Metallica, The Rolling Stones and Garth Brooks since opening in summer 2021.

That’s because while cellphones used to just be a way of connecting with (or trying to connect with) friends at shows, they’re now seen as part of the concert and festival experience, with mobile ticketing, venue apps and digital payment systems demanding fully functional coverage. Connectivity also fosters greater safety, allowing fans in need of assistance to dial out during emergencies. Social media is another important consideration, with coverage at events now expected to keep up with the ballooning data demands of TikTok, Instagram and even fans livestreaming entire shows, as has happened recently on tours by Swift and Bruce Springsteen. According to Verizon, at Governors Ball 2022, its subscribers alone used roughly 14.5 terabytes of data, which equates to one person streaming 3 million songs continually for over 10 years. So, too, do fans arrive with phones, Apple Watches and iPads ­— and the expectation all of them will work.

Until recently, cell coverage has been wonky at big events as the demands of smartphones collided with networks designed before devices burned through so much data. With upwards of 125,000 people squeezed into a square mile (the size of Coachella’s site), all of whom texting and posting simultaneously, carriers — primarily AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile in the United States — would often overload. Event organizers, who sought to solve this by providing Wi-Fi, found those networks crashed easily due to high volume.

Enter Irvine, Calif.-based tech company MatSing. Founded in 2005, the company builds antennas that, instead of reflecting signals like a traditional antenna, refracts them, creating multiple independent signals beamed in multiple directions. Instead of implementing 10 individual antennas, an event can then employ one ­MatSing lens antenna that creates 10 separate coverage sectors and allows multiple carriers to utilize it.

“Festivals are the hardest thing to create coverage capacity for,” says MatSing executive vp Leo Matytsine. “That was our best way of getting a foot in the door.”

The first music carrier to use MatSing’s technology at a festival was AT&T at Coachella in 2014. “People actually got connectivity that year,” says Matytsine. “After that, Verizon and T-Mobile saw what was deployed, and it started to snowball because the technology worked.” Indeed, it’s how networks function — or don’t — in high-demand settings like festivals that typically cause carriers to lose subscribers, making performance at mass gatherings crucial to customer retention.

MatSing sells its 150-plus antenna models directly to carriers, and they are now permanently installed at 32 U.S. stadiums, arenas, raceways and venues including the Hollywood Bowl, with temporary deployments at myriad Super Bowls, presidential inaugurations and festivals including South by Southwest, Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Burning Man. The lattermost employs one antenna — incorporated by law enforcement as a safety measure, but which provides many attendees with service — while Coachella uses a few to cover its entire festival grounds. Prices vary depending on size and range from a couple of thousand for smaller models to tens of thousands of dollars for larger ones.

Carriers have also caught up with demand. While companies previously deployed mobile cell towers (along with MatSing tech) at mass gatherings to supplement coverage, Verizon representative Karen Schulz notes that “the network has evolved significantly over the past several years.” Improvements include fiber network expansion, carrier aggregation (which lets data flow freely across multiple spectrum bands) and U.S. deployments of high-speed 5G networks starting around 2019.

Unsurprisingly, venues themselves are now building and retrofitting to suit coverage requirements. Allegiant paid for the venue’s eight-figure DAS to maintain ownership over this asset, which the three major carriers rent out. (“I don’t want to sign away all the plumbing in my building so every time someone flushes the toilet, someone else gets paid,” says Pasco.) This DAS system also utilizes 28 MatSing antennas that hang from the roof around the ring of the stadium and service the 60,000-capacity bowl. (This option was chosen over deploying mini antennas under every seat, an option Los Angeles’ 3-year-old SoFi Stadium went with for its DAS.) At Allegiant, traditional cellular antennas have been installed in walkways, VIP suites and other areas MatSing antenna signals can’t reach. The stadium also offers Wi-Fi that has a 60% to 70% adoption rate among fans.

Some older stadiums and arenas, which are often “cement monstrosities,” says Pasco, “really struggle with deploying premium DAS systems because they don’t have the pathway to run cabling.” When such retrofits happen, they’re often “a little bit ugly,” he says.

However this coverage is implemented, its evolution is fostering increased connectedness among individuals in massive crowds, between attendees and venues themselves and with audiences well outside the confines of a show. This festival season, attendees might not even have to ask, “Hey, U there?”

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