If you were a music fan in the DMV in the 90s, you eagerly awaited the annual reveal of the lineup for the HFStival, a music event held at RFK Stadium each summer from 1993 to 2004. Sponsored by the late, lamented WHFS, which carried the banner for alternative rock in the Nation's Capital until it abruptly changed formats to Latino music, the HFStival rapidly became a must-play stop on the summer schedules of some of the biggest bands of the era. Everyone from Foo Fighters to Green Day to INXS to The Ramones to Run D.M.C. to Eminem to The Roots to Tony Freaking Bennett took the RFK stage.
And now, courtesy of 9:30 Club owner I.M.P., 90s kids are gonna get a chance to relive some of the great musical memories of their teens and twenties, right down to appearances by Violent Femmes, Bush, Jimmy Eat World, and Garbage. On September 21, HFStival 2024 rises like Gutter on a weed high and returns triumphantly at Nationals Park.
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