Buzzfest

Buzzfest
Genre	Houston: Alternative rock, Grunge, Pop punk, Post-grunge, Punk rock, Rap rock, Rock; Nashville: Alternative rock, Grunge, Pop punk, Post-grunge, Punk rock, Rock, Metal, Hard Rock,
Location(s)	Nashville, Tennessee, US; Houston, Texas, US
Years active	Houston: 1995 - present; Nashville: ? - present

Buzzfest is the name of two unrelated music festivals held in Houston and Nashville. The Buzzfest in Houston is a bi-annual show hosted by the radio station 94.5 The Buzz while the Buzzfest in Nashville is an annual show (usually in the late summer) hosted by the radio station 102.9 The Buzz.

Buzzfest in Nashville

Past events

Buzzfest 2010 September 10, 2010
'LP Field
Shinedown, Seether, Papa Roach, Sick Puppies, Janus (Cancelled), November, Manic Bloom, Adalene, Forgotten Fable, Voodoo Prophet
This was the first time any metal band has performed at LP Field. Those bands were Forgotten Fable & Voodoo Prophet, Tosh.0, both are based out of Nashville, TN. Forgotten Fable took the stage at 2010 Buzzfest shortly after the band was awarded a NIMA (Nashville Independent Music Awards) for "2010 Best Hard Rock Band", which is a prestigious award in Music City.^[1]

Buzzfest in Houston

Past events

Buzzfest I 1995
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Bush, Face to Face, Our Lady Peace, Maids of Gravity, Matthew Sweet, Modern English, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Nixons, No Use for a Name, Phunk Junkeez, POL^[2]

Buzzfest II 1996
?
Gravity Kills, 22 Brides, Atticus Finch, God Lives Under Water, The Hunger, Lush, Modern English, The Nixons, Poe, Toadies, Too Much Joy

Buzzfest III 1997
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Abra Moore, Artificial Joy Club, Buck O' Nine, Cowboy Mouth, Matchbox Twenty, Old 97's, Seven Mary Three, Silverchair

Buzzfest IV 1998
?
Athenaeum, Big Wreck, Black Lab, Bluebird, Cool 4 August, Creed, Face Plan, Foo Fighters, Mighty Joe Plumb, Our Lady Peace, RiverFenix, Los Skarnales, Spacehog, The Hunger, Train in Vain

Buzzfest V 1999
?
Better Than Ezra, Chlorine, Collective Soul, Eve 6, The Flys, GPR, Jude, Lit, My Friend Steve, Soul Coughing, Sponge, Tin Star, Tommy Henrickson, Train

Buzzfest VI 2000
?
The Flys, Frankie Machine, Joe 90, Lit, Mars Electric, Oleander, Owlsley, Papa Roach, Peter Searcy, Radford, Stir, Stroke 9, Third Eye Blind, Tonic

Buzzfest VII April 22, 2001
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Color,^{[citation needed]} Dexter Freebish, Dust for Life, Electracy, Eve 6, Linkin Park, Lucky Boys Confusion, The Offspring, Oleander, Orgy, Spacehog, Train

Buzzfest VIII November 17, 2001
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
8stops7, Alien Ant Farm, The Apex Theory, Bliss 66, The Calling, Default, Fuel, Joydrop, Nickelback, Pressure 4-5, Remy Zero, Saliva, Tantric, Transmatic

Buzzfest IX April 21, 2002
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Thirty Seconds to Mars, Abandoned Pools, Adema, Course of Nature, Drowning Pool, Earshot, Gravity Kills, Mest, P.O.D., Pressure 4-5, Puddle of Mudd, Sum 41, Trik Turner, Unwritten Law

Buzzfest X October 27, 2002
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Audiovent, Box Car Racer, Earshot, Everclear, The Exies, Filter (did not play), Greenwheel, H2O, Home Town Hero, Hoobastank, OK Go, Saliva, Seether, Sugarcult, The Used

Buzzfest XI May 10, 2003
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
The All-American Rejects, Breaking Benjamin, Evanescence, The Exies, Godsmack, Maroon 5, Off by One, Powerman 5000, RA,^[2] Seether, Skrape, Systematic, Stone Sour, Taproot, Trapt, The Used

Buzzfest XII October 11, 2003
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Alien Ant Farm, The Ataris, Billy Talent, Eve 6, Fountains of Wayne, Fuel, Staind, Static-X, Smile Empty Soul, Socialburn, Switchfoot, Three Days Grace, Trapt, Vendetta Red, Yellowcard

Buzzfest XIII April 17, 2004
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Cold, Drowning Pool, Everlast, Finger Eleven, Hoobastank, Ima Robot, Lo Pro, Lostprophets, Marcy Playground, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust, Smile Empty Soul, Strata, Three Days Grace, Thornley, Thrice, Trapt

Buzzfest XIV October 30, 2004
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Authority Zero, Breaking Benjamin, Burden Brothers, Chevelle, Earshot, The Exies, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Riddlin Kids, Seether, Shinedown, Skindred, Story of the Year, The Vanished, Velvet Revolver

Buzzfest XV April 23, 2005
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
3 Doors Down, Alter Bridge, Breaking Benjamin, The Exies, Glass Intrepid, Mudvayne, No Address, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Sum 41, Theory of a Deadman, Trust Company, Unwritten Law, The Used, Wakefield

Buzzfest XVI October 22, 2005
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion (originally scheduled to take place at Minute Maid Park^[3] but moved due to the Houston Astros reaching the World Series)
10 Years, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Audioslave, Bloodhound Gang, Boys Night Out, Coheed and Cambria, Cold, Dredg, Fall Out Boy, Hinder, Institute, Motion City Soundtrack, Nickelback, Our Lady Peace,^{[citation needed]} Panic at the Disco, Seether, The Starting Line, Vaux, Yellowcard

Buzzfest XVII June 17, 2006
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
10 Years, Blue October, Buckcherry, Brill and Hurt, Candlebox, Evans Blue, Hinder, Hoobastank, Huck Johns, Hurt,^{[citation needed]} People in Planes, Shinedown, Staind, Three Days Grace, Trapt

Buzzfest XVIII October 8, 2006
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Alice in Chains, Avenged Sevenfold, Boys Like Girls, Breaking Benjamin, Crossfade, Eighteen Visions, Evans Blue, Everclear, Hurt, Lostprophets, OK Go, Panic Channel, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Stone Sour

Buzzfest XIX April 21, 2007
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Autovein, Blue October, Buckcherry, Chevelle, The Exies, Finger Eleven, Hinder, Jet, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Saosin, Seether, Smile Empty Soul, Three Days Grace, The Vanished
The show sold-out within two hours.

Buzzfest XX October 28, 2007
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Alter Bridge, Another Animal,^{[citation needed]} The Bravery, Chris Cornell, Earshot, Evanescence, Evans Blue, Fair to Midland, Finger Eleven, Fuel, Glass Intrepid,^{[citation needed]} Sick Puppies, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Starting Line, Sum 41

Buzzfest XXI April 26, 2008
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
3 Doors Down, 10 Years, Atreyu, Billy Talent, Chevelle, Filter, Finger Eleven, My Chemical Romance, Puddle of Mudd, Red, Seether, Sick Puppies, Story of the Year, Theory of a Deadman

Buzzfest XXII May 10, 2009
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Buzzfest XXII was originally scheduled for October 26, 2008 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion but extensive damage from Hurricane Ike forced its cancellation. The event was subsequently rescheduled for the same day at the Verizon Wireless Theater as The Buzz 94.5's First Annual Better Than Nothing Show. Appearing from the original Buzzfest XXII lineup were: 10 Years, Earshot, Hawthorne Heights, Merriwether, The Offspring, and Saving Abel. (The cancelled lineup from the Woodlands was 10 Years, Drive A, Earshot, Hawthorne Heights, Ludo, Merriwether, The Offspring, Papa Roach, Puddle of Mudd, Saving Abel, Seether, Staind, and The Toadies.)

Due to the cancellation of the Fall 2008 show, the Spring 2009 show was called Buzzfest XXII (instead of Buzzfest XXIII). It was scheduled for Sunday May 10, 2009 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. A line-up and announcement party was scheduled for Thursday March 12, 2009 during a live broadcast with Dan Jantzen from 3 pm to 7 pm at House of Blues in Downtown Houston.

The line-up was Korn, Shinedown, 311, The Red Jumpsuit Apperatus, Papa Roach, 10 Years, Blue October, Hoobastank, Theory of a Deadman, Anberlin, The Toadies, Framing Hanley, Electric touch, Aranda^[4]