Are you finding yourself anxious about those inevitable summer doldrums? Are you looking for the adventure of a lifetime to spice up the monotony of a summer job or internship? Then consider going all in and attending a summer music festival. Here are six enticing events occurring all across the country: pick and choose and have a blast!

1.   Lilith Fair

Created by singers Sarah McLachlan and Paula Cole in 1997, the Lilith Fair Music Festival Tour showcases the talents of some of the biggest female performers of the day.  McLachlan, disgruntled at the music establishment’s trend of never booking or playing two major female performers back to back, founded the event in order to draw attention to women in the industry and to provide a venue with loads of great artists. Although the festival petered out before the dawn of the 21st century, Lilith Fair has come back for a 2010 revival. Featuring artists like Erykah Badu, Heart, Rihanna, Queen Latifah, Sheryl Crow and Norah Jones, you’d be hard put to miss Lilith Fair on its summer-long tour of the United States and Canada.

2.   Sasquatch

And of course, there’s always the darling of the Pacific Northwest summer music scene, the Sasquatch Music Festival. The brainchild of Seattle-based concert promoter Adam Zacks, Sasquatch picked up the latest wave of regional music festivals when it first started coming to the beautiful and awe-inspiring Gorge Amphitheater in 2002. The gorgeous views of the Columbia River aren’t the only reason to make the two and half hour drive from Walla Walla: This year’s lineup of Vampire Weekend, OK Go, Kid Cudi, Passion Pit, MGMT and a whole lot more offer an amazing musical mélange this coming Memorial Day Weekend.

3. Free Press Summerfest

While a lot of these music festivals seem to cluster around the West Coast and Midwest, the South manages to carve out its own niche for a great music venue with the Free Press Summerfest in Houston, Texas. Organized by Free Press Houston, a local independent newspaper, Summerfest is a recent member of the national summer festival scene. From June 5-6, Houston’s Eleanor Tinsley Park will be the venue for acts like the Flaming Lips, Girl Talk and the wonderfully named Municipal Waste. For only $30, too, this two-day event is a steal for seeing great local and national artists.

4.   Bonnaroo

Bonnaroo has provided one of the premier music festivals east of the Mississippi ever since it popped up in 2002. Located on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, Tenn., this year’s music and arts festival not only is hosting a wide variety of groups like Kings of Leon, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, the Flaming Lips, Weezer  and Dave Matthews Band. There’s also independent cinema, comedians like Conan O’Brien and Aziz Ansari and loads of events and activities like the Silent Disco, where participants all receive a set of headphones that wirelessly sync with a live DJ, allowing tuckered out festival-goers some peace and quiet and giving the eerie appearance of a bunch of people seemingly dancing to no music at all. This rocking festival’s dates are fast approaching (June 10-13), but it isn’t too late to head to the Volunteer State for some musical action.

5.   High Sierra

For all of you Whitties from the Golden State who lamented the conflict between attending school and missing out on the Treasure Island Music Festival and Coachella, there still remains a glimmer of hope. This Fourth of July weekend will mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the High Sierra Music Festival. Originally conceived of by a group of guys and gals looking for a good summer music venue in Northern California, way back when nearly all of us students were still in swaddling clothes, High Sierra’s rural location in Quincy, Calif. still attracts quite the bevy of quality artists. The Avett Brothers, Ozomatli, Blitzen Trapper and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, to name a few, will all be trekking to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada to make an appearance. There are certainly few better ways to celebrate the birth of the United States than listening to some of the grooviest up-and-coming bands American culture has to offer.

6.   Lollapalooza

The juggernaut of music festivals this summer undoubtedly remains Lollapalooza. Originally conceived of as a farewell tour for the band Jane’s Addiction, Lollapalooza has morphed into a nationally touring festival showcasing alternative music and media and, in its latest incarnation, into a three-day blitzkrieg of phenomenal music on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago’s Grant Park. Presenting a dizzying array of artists ranging from the Strokes, Phoenix, Arcade Fire and Devo to Grizzly Bear, Gogol Bordello and Lady Gaga, not to mention the dozens of other bands and performers, this year’s Lollapalooza is certainly an experience and a half. If you ever find yourself in the Windy City on the weekend of August 6-8, don’t hesitate for a second to participate in this gargantuan event.