5 European Music Festivals Worth Getting Felt Up By The TSA For (PHOTOS)

You missed Coachella. Or you didn't, and now you've got "music festival fever"― a warm weather specific craving for surrounding yourself with music-obsessed strangers from all over the world, the year's hottest acts from every possible genre and 3-days of a guilt free hot dogs and beer diet. Why not combine two of humankind's most exhiliarating, life-changing endeavors: music and travel? The ease of travel between countries means European festivals really combine many nations under one groove. Score a cheap international flight and you could be among us, discovering new music and enjoying established favorites, while in an exciting new place, doing what normal people do. Not to mention, the requisite sexual charge, copious amounts of 'spirits' and lowering of inhibitions that comes with rock and roll...

Normally, I'd say head to England's mammoth Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts where the cross-genre beef between Jay Z and Liam Gallagher of Britpop group, Oasis, all started. Gallagher said Jay Z headlining in 2008 was "not what Glastonbury was about." Jay opened his set crooning "Wonderwall" with a guitar strapped to his chest. So far, Gallagher has had no comment on the fact that along with U2 and Coldplay, Beyonce is headlining. Alas, this 'proper' English festival is so standard that 2011 has been sold out since October 2010. Re-sale tickets (returned or cancelled) go on sale on April 17th; still the chances are so slim you'll score any, I've compiled a list of my favorite European festivals, so you don't miss your chance to get lost in the Europe's small cobblestone streets by day and party with your favorite bands by night.