The sun is beating down in Louisiana, and it’s hard to get away from work, but what’s more perfect than a cold beer and live music? Coachella and Jazz Fest are over, but there are more music festivals to come.Some of the popular music festivals taking place this summer around the country include Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork Music Festival and All Points West and Austin City Limits, which will take place in October.Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival takes place June 11-14 on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn.At Bonnaroo, festival goers camp out in tents or an RV if they prefer. This year’s headliners include Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Phish, Beastie Boys, Nine Inch Nails and Wilco. Other artists playing include The Mars Volta, TV on the Radio, Andrew Bird, Snoop Dogg, Santigold, Coheed and Cambria, Allen Toussaint and The Decemberists, along with dozens more.Bonnaroo will cost $249.50, but the four days in a hippy daze and amazing live bands is well worth the money. Just be prepared for a weekend in the sun without a proper shower.Lollapalooza will take place August 7-9 at Grant Park in Chicago.This three-day festival boasts headliners like Depeche Mode, Tool, The Killers, Jane’s Addiction, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Lou Reed and Ben Harper and Relentless7. Additional artists include many that are playing at Bonnaroo, as well as Vampire Weekend, Thievery Corporation, Neko Case, Animal Collective and Of Montreal.There will also be Perry’s, a place where DJs spin; Lederhosen’s Biergarten, which boasts ice cold craft beers and plenty of shade; and an Art Market, where people can purchase eco-friendly products for themselves or their home, at Lollapalooza in addition to all the live music.Tickets are on sale now for $190 per three-day pass.Pitchfork Music Festival takes place July 17-19 at Union Park in Chicago.According to their Web site, as a smaller music festival, it promises to be a “reasonably priced summer music festival” unlike its more popular festival counterparts.Pitchfork features more than 40 of “independent music’s best bands and artists” including The Flaming Lips, The National, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo, Blitzen Trapper, Yeasayer and Matt & Kim.A three-day pass to Pitchfork Music Festival costs $75.All Points West Music and Arts Festival takes place July 31-August 2 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J.This is the second year of the festival, and it already has headliners including Beastie Boys, Tool, Coldplay, Gogol Bordello, MGMT and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Additional artists playing at the festival include The Black Keys, Tokyo Police Club, MSTRKRFT, Echo and the Bunnymen and My Bloody Valentine.Three-day passes for All Points West are available for a limited time for $199 and single day passes can be purchased for $89.While Austin City Limits isn’t during the summer, it’s still a festival to consider.Austin City Limits Music Festival occurs October 2-4 in Walker Park in Austin, Texas.The eighth annual festival’s lineup features Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Beastie Boys, Kings of Leon, Ben Harper and Relentless7, Thievery Corporation and John Legend. Some additional artists who are playing at ACL include Ghostland Observatory, Mos Def, Flogging Molly, Lily Allen, Girl Talk and Arctic Monkeys.Three-day passes for Austin City Limits are $185.Because of the variety of music festivals and locations available, many University students have already decided which events they are going to see.Garrett Johnson, communication studies senior, said he plans on going to Austin City Limits for a third year because of the location and atmosphere with “terrific music.”Johnson said he always wanted to go to Bonnaroo. Even though he claims it has the “best lineups of any festival this summer season,” he said he’ll be busy and not able to go.Megan Burgess, psychology senior, said she’s torn between Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza this year because of the lineups.”I definitely will be attending ACL this year. The lineup is too good to pass up for the price, not to mention how convenient it is,” Burgess said.Although she felt the other festivals had good lineups, they were too far away to consider.”All in all,” Burgess said, “it’s a good year for festival going.”—-Contact Catie Vogels at [email protected]