music festivals

Summer music festivals offer a fun way to hear the country's best bands, but between tickets, travel, food and accommodations, they aren't cheap. So we asked directors and promoters of some of the summer's top events for their favorite penny-pinching tips for festival-goers.

For a music lover, it's perhaps the quintessential summer experience: sharing sweat, heat stroke and generational anthems with 200,000 of your shirtless, screaming peers at an outdoor music festival. But with ticket prices at the likes of Bonaroo and Lollapalooza soaring into the $300 range, what...

Buying stuff on layaway has been around for a long time for buying such things as a TV, patio set and Christmas gifts. Now music fans can do it with concert tickets, too. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., is selling a $269 three-day pass on layaway -- in either two...