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Sziget 20 – a comprehensive intro

Sziget is the place to be in the middle of August. Europe’s Best Major Festival is celebrating its 20th edition, promising not just great programs, but also a new visual concept. | more

Main Stage programs on Sziget

The program of the Pop-Rock Main Stage is almost ready, but we proudly present a new venue called OTP World Music Party Stage that is replacing the Wold Music stage this year. Also A38 has some news, but read the whole article to get yourself in.

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Smaller venues - a.k.a. the soul of Sziget

What is worth to visit on the festival apart from the crowded main stages? And what cultural programs can Sziget offer after the great night parties? Click here and read the activities of small venues like Roma Tent, Culture Zone, Street Theaters...

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CITYPASS: Your key to the city

Sziget Festival is renown all around the world for its great island venue on river Danube. Besides this, you just can’t miss the chance to discover the surroundings and check out the beautiful and historic city of Budapest. Now you have the best tool to do so!

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Breaking: The Killers will be the final act

America's most exciting contemporary rock band will perform the final act on the Main Stage at the last day of Sziget Festival. Recently a solid electro-package also arrived at the A38 stage, but the best news is that we need only 100 nights of sleep before the start of the 20th Sziget.

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The Vaccines - new album

"Our new album is a lot more intimate than the previous one" - said Justin Young, frontman of NME-awarded Vaccines in an interview to NME with Árni Hjörvar who is the bassist of the British band playing at this year's Sziget.

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Korn - 'Skrillex is fantastic'

Perhaps the most important band of the modern metal culture, the one re-defining the genre in the mid-90's and receiving a number of Grammy-awards, namely Korn have finally released their latest video to the song with Skrillex called Chaos Lives In Everything.

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Crystal Fighters - Sounds of the Earth

Five-piece Crystal Fighters released a new song these days. The band famous for its eclectic music program this time decided to spice up their latest material Earth Island with a bit up dubstep - you can listen to the entire song here.

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How to get the whole world dancing?

Easy answer: just make sure everyone spends time at the World Music Party Stage of Sziget Festival, between 6-13 August in Budapest. The program of the stage is complete and means 120% of dance and fun.

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Spring arrives with fresh new acts for Sziget

Sziget Festival happily announces a new bunch of confirmed acts, amongst them LMFAO, The xx, Paolo Nutini, Glasvegas, Ting Tings, Katzenjammer, Flying Lotus, Fink and the one and only Anna Calvi.

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11 new acts for Sziget

And great acts indeed: Korn – metal icons, presenting their newest album; The Vaccines – maybe the coolest indie invention of last year; Magnetic Man – legendary rulers of dubstep; Two Door Cinema Club ... you name it.

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Nostalgia stays home, cool bands come instead

2012 will once again see some of the hottest new bands in the festival’s line-up, including synthpop phenomenon, Hurts and UK rock scene’s finest ambassadors, The Horrors and just to keep the right mixture of new and iconic, Placebo.

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Sziget Festival: the best of the biggest

Sziget Festival won the Best European Major Festival title at the European Festival Awards. A joint effort of the festival’s organizing team and the votes of a devoted fan base in over 60 countries resulted in the best possible news to start up the year.

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The Stone Roses play at Sziget!

After a long period of gossips now it’s a fact that Manchester’s legendary The Stone Roses is reunited, following 15 years of silence. How to make this sound even better? Yes, they are also playing at Sziget Festival nr. 20!

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Sziget for Christmas

Tickets for the 20th Sziget Festival are already available in our webshop and now you can get them for early bird prices.

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Give us your dream line-up!

Who would you like to see at Sziget nr. 20? Try to be creative and original, but also think about bands that would really boost the Sziget atmosphere. And help us booking them by voting on Sziget at the European Festival Awards.
 

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