the nova rock festival, also just nova rock, is an austrian music festival, that has existed since 2005 and takes place each year in june. it is located in burgenland, the easternmost federal state of austria, near nickelsdorf and the hungarian and slovak borders. it is organized by nova music entertainment, a cooperation between musicnet, fkp scorpio and several former employees/bookers of wiesen, who left wiesen in 2004.