Every year, for the months of April through August, the world's biggest and best music festivals bring the best in music to millions of adoring fans. This year's music festival season has finally come to a close and it's a bit sad because there's been so many great performances.

Though I wasn't able to attend any music festivals this year, I still managed to catch a lot of performances live online. I watched as Catfish And The Bottlemen crushed it at Governors Ball in New York with so many young fans belting out the words. I caught The Last Shadow Puppets who made the crowd swoon at Chicago's Lollapalooza. Also at Lollapalooza was Wolf Alice, who are still trying to get their name out in the states, but still were great and they even managed to get a mosh pit of glitter-throwing fans at the front, which looked like a blast. I watched some of Reading And Leeds and Glastonbury (the UK's two biggest music festivals), as well, and saw great sets from the likes of Blossoms (pictured above), Rat Boy, Sundara Karma and more.

Now, although there has been so much great music at this year's music festivals, one thing has become increasingly evident and frustrating and it isn't exactly a new phenomenon. There has been a huge lack of new bands headlining these big festivals festivals for the past several years. There once was a time when new bands (bands who were on their first or second albums) were headlining the world's biggest music festivals. Glastobury booked Oasis in 1995, Coldplay in 2002 and Arctic Monkeys in 2007, when all these bands had only just released their second album in the same year.

Reading and Leeds booked The Strokes in 2002, when they only had one album out and Linkin Park in 2003 (who I wouldn't want to see headline any festival, but I digress) when they just released their second album. Reading and Leeds also booked Stereophonics (2000), Nirvana (1992) and Garbage (1998) when they only had two albums out, not to mention Inspiral Carpets in 1990, the same year their first album came out. In regards to US festivals like Coachella and Lollapalooza, they pretty much never let new bands headline their festivals and it was hard to find even a single example, which is quite sad.

Need proof that big music festivals have been snubbing young bands from their headlining slots? Look at the rock bands who headlined the US and the UK's two biggest music festivals (Glastobury, Reading And Leeds, Coachella and Lollapalooza) in the last six years. There are quite a few repeat bands among these festivals and what's even more glaring is the fact that not a single one of these bands (except those who went on long hiatuses and didn't release a lot of music like The Stone Roses or The Libertines) had less than four albums out prior to headlining. In fact, a lot of these bands released a double digit amount of albums before performing these headline slots. Take a look below:

Glastonbury (2011-2016): Muse, Coldplay (x2), The Who, Arcade Fire, Metallica, Kasabian, The Rolling Stones, Arctic Monkeys, U2

Reading And Leeds (2011-2016): Red Hot Chili Peppers, Biffy Clyro (x2), Fall Out Boy, Foals, Metallica, The Libertines, Blink 182, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of The Stone Age, Paramore, Green Day, The Cure, Kasabian, Foo Fighters, My Chemical Romance, The Strokes, Pulp, Muse

Coachella (2011-2016): Kings Of Leon, Arcade Fire (x2), The Strokes, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Blur, The Stone Roses, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Muse, AC/DC, Jack White, Guns N' Roses, LCD Soundsystem

Lollapalooza (2011-2016): Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, Red Hot Chili Peppers (x2), Jack White, The Black Keys, Black Sabbath, The Cure, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Kings Of Leon, Paul McCartney, Metallica, Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem

Let me set the record straight first. Of course, most of these bands are fantastic and I would've loved to see them headline a festival. I would've died to see sets like Arctic Monkeys at Glasto 2013 after their smash hit, AM, or The Strokes at Reading And Leeds 2011, in support of Angles, or The Stone Roses at Coachella 2013, performing their first US show since the 90's. However, I think it's fair to say that these big festivals don't need to give all three or four headlining slots to bands who are all that far into their career, especially ones like Metallica, Paul McCartney, Guns N' Roses, The Who and The Rolling Stones, who, at this point, have been headlining festivals for decades.

The only problem is that it may not be the music festivals, themselves, who are completely at fault for not booking new bands. Think about it. Since albums like The Strokes' Is This It (2001), The White Stripes' Elephant (2003), The Killers' Hot Fuss (2004) and Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006), what huge, groundbreaking rock albums (that had both US and worldwide success) have come out from new bands?

You could definitely make the argument for bands like Vampire Weekend, The Vaccines, Tame Impala and The 1975, but I'm not sure they had quite the cultural impact or sales of bands that preceded them. However, I think Tame Impala, particularly, deserve to be in the same sentence as those great bands of the 00's. I think the problem is that people are still waiting for that earth-shattering new album from a new band that will take the world by storm and it just hasn't happened yet. I also must point out that I don't consider bands like Mumford And Sons or Bastille to be rock bands. In the words of Jake Bugg, Mumford And Sons "look like posh farmers with banjos" and in the words of Noel Gallagher, "I'd have eaten Bastille alive in an afternoon in the 90's."

Of course, new bands headline smaller festivals all the time, which is great, but it would be nice to see big festivals take a chance of bands who are just breaking through, which would help them get more exposure and sell more records. It almost seems like a vicious cycle where festivals have been a bit apprehensive about booking new bands as headliners, but if they don't book them to headline big festivals, how are they going to become rock juggernauts. I mean, it's not like there's a lack of great, new bands or a lack of demand for new rock bands. After all, three new rock bands, Blossoms, Catfish And The Bottlemen and The 1975 scored #1 UK albums this year. And for God's sake, not that I'm a huge fan of their music, but The 1975 are playing arena shows, and festivals still won't let them headline?!? Rock isn't dead and it never was dead. Stop spreading around that myth. If you can't find any good, new bands, you're clearly not looking very hard because they're everywhere.

However, I must applaud Reading and Leeds Festival this year for letting Foals headline. Though Foals are four albums deep, it's the first time they've a headlined a big festival like this and it was good to see the festival have the confidence to promote them to headliner status when no other festivals were willing to. The thing that really grinds my gears are reunited bands like AC/DC and Guns N' Roses headlining these festivals. Bands like The Who and The Rolling Stones should really just stop touring altogether as their lead singers hopelessly fail to sing half or even a quarter as well as they used to. However some guys like Paul McCartney and The Stone Roses still sound amazing and I think it's great if you give them a headline slot, but festivals should leave the other two or three slots open for some young guns to change the face of rock and roll like they did in the early 00's.