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HARD Summer 2021: Here are the Highlights of the SoCal Music Festival’s Return
After two years, HARD Summer brought over 160,000 ravers back together for a weekend full of electronic music and long-awaited fun. With over six stages, dazzling light displays, and a giant glowing ferris wheel, the festival felt like a smaller EDC. Fans gathered like moths to the bright and vibrant lights, and the energy was palpable after over a year in isolation for most. San Bernardino temperatures hovered around 100°, but thankfully Insomniac provided copious free water stations, shady, grassy areas and misting stations for their festival-goers to cool down. The hydrating drink of the weekend was Liquid Death. Contrary to its aggressive name, it was just water, the idea being to “murder your thirst” and save the earth with their plastic-free recyclable cans. Stages: Pyrotechnics...
HARD Summer Shares 2021 Set Times and Festival Map
It’s HARD Summer week, and the organizers of the famed SoCal festival have announced its set times and festival map. Standing out on the festival map are the ample misting stations and shaded, grassy areas to keep revelers cool throughout the day, as temperatures are expected to reach around 100°. With four open air stages (the Pink Stage will be tented) and multiple walkways, the spacious venue should give attendees plenty of room to dance and stay cool. Fans can have some extra fun at the Corona Electric Beach tent, Red Bull tent, ferris wheel, and even some pools in the VIP section at the Hard Stage. Check out the festival map below. The set times have been released and as always, that comes with stressful conflicts of favorite artists playing at the same time. How will you choose betwe...
EDC Orlando Shares Star-Studded Lineup for 10th Anniversary With Kaskade, Excision, More
When Insomniac has something to celebrate, they pull out all the stops. For the 10th anniversary of EDC Orlando, they’ve announced one of their biggest lineups yet. Featured on the bill are some of the most popular electronic music artists in the world, such as Kaskade, Excision, Zedd, Galantis, and Kygo, among many others. Insomniac Records, Factory 93, Dreamstate, Basscon, and Bassrush will all be curating their own time-slots, making this edition of EDC Orlando an absolute treat. Attendees will also be excited to see Dimension, Hot Since 82, Said The Sky, Dom Dolla, Shaquille O’Neal (a.k.a DJ Diesel), and more. Coming off a full year’s delay, this lineup is more than enough to keep fans happy. The festival is set to take place November 12th through 14th at Tinker...
“We Back, Baby”: Inside Day Trip, the First Post-Pandemic Music Festival in Southern California
Peppered with confusion, bewilderment, and apologies, the road to Day Trip was a windy one. But Insomniac delivered. Marking the return of music festivals in Southern California, the event was pure bliss—a stark contrast to the troubling week leading up to it. After an unprecedented two venue changes in the weeks prior to Day Trip, the fabled promoter pulled a rabbit out of its hat and hosted a radiant masterstroke of a music fest. Keiki-Lani Knudsen/Insomniac Events Venue switcheroo In the aftermath of the explosive EDC Las Vegas postponement debacle, all eyes were on Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella ahead of Day Trip. In late June Rotella moved the house music-focused fest from the LA Waterfront to The Lot at Hollywood Park to allow for a more spacious la...
Insomniac Announces Escape Halloween 2021 Lineup
Insomniac is on a roll now that restrictions have been lifted, and that means it’s time to start preparing for their beloved annual Escape Halloween festival. North America’s largest Halloween dance music festival is returning for its 10th year at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California on October 29th and 30th. As is tradition, the lineup is stacked with over 65 dance music titans, including DJ Snake, Gryffin, The Chainsmokers, Zedd, Eric Prydz, Zomboy, Benny Benassi, and many more. Insomniac has some treats up their sleeves for Escape Halloween 2021. For the first time ever, Adam Beyer Presents Drumcode will host Cirez D, Ben Klock, Ida Engberg, and Layton Giordani on a special curated stage. In other exciting news, Insomniac’s largest megastructure s...
Insomniac’s Day Trip Festival Moves Venues for Second Time, Refunds All Ticket-Holders
In an unprecedented turn of events, the organizers of Insomniac’s Day Trip Festival have announced that they have switched the event’s venue a second time, less than a week before the festival. In an apologetic message shared by Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella, festival-goers learned that Day Trip will now take place at San Bernardino’s NOS Events Center, about 80 miles from the original location. Rotella has also extended an olive branch to prospective attendees, offering all ticket-holders full automatic refunds and free tickets to the inaugural Day Trip festival, full reimbursement for non-refundable flights and hotels, and free tickets to any Insomniac event of their choice that is not sold out and scheduled to take place before the end of 2021. “Unf...
Insomniac’s First-Ever Day Trip Festival Relocates to The Lot at Hollywood Park
Insomniac‘s inaugural Day Trip music festival, which was originally scheduled to take place at the Los Angeles Waterfront, has been relocated to The Lot at Hollywood Park. After Insomniac announced they had added a second day, tickets to Day Trip sold out quickly and they opted to move to the venue, which is bigger and adjacent to the all-new SoFi Stadium. “This change will allow us to have a more spacious, improved layout, as well as release a limited amount of additional tickets,” reads a press statement from Insomniac. The newly released passes will go on sale at 12PM PT this Friday, June 25th. Prospective attendees can purchase them here. The lineup for the house music-focused festival features Claptone, SOFI TUKKER, AC Slater, Diplo, and Yola...
Listen to Nero’s Riveting Guest Mix for Insomniac’s Night Owl Radio
For the past few months the legendary electronic trio Nero have been delighting fans with a number of remixes on Audius. They’ve now hit the airwaves with Insomniac‘s Pasquale Rotella for a recent episode of Night Owl Radio. They laid down a 30-minute guest mix featuring many of these new releases alongside tracks from their electronic music contemporaries. Included in the mix are many of the recent remixes, like their takes on Daft Punk, Genesis, Tame Impala, and Frankie Goes To Hollywood. For good measure, Nero also sprinkled in tracks from RL Grime and ISOxo, Papa Khan, Boys Noize, Justice’s Gaspard Augé, and more. The final product is a nimble journey through multiple genres in the electronic world mixed in such a way that tells a nostalg...
Insomniac Announces Lineup for First-Ever Lost In Dreams Music Festival in Las Vegas
Earlier this year, EDC promoter Insomniac debuted its new electronic music record label and festival experience, Lost In Dreams. The brand launched as a dedicated one-stop-shop for all things future bass, melodic dubstep, and electronic-pop music with music from from Kaivon, Crystal Skies, and Haywyre, among others. Lost In Dreams will now go from URL to IRL after announcing its inaugural music festival, which will take over the Downtown Las Vegas Center this fall across two days, September 4th and 5th. The event will feature performances from Gryffin, Seven Lions, Manila Killa B2B Chet Porter, Yung Bae, K?D, Moore Kismet, and many more. Check out the full lineup below. Flyer for Insomniac Events’ first-ever Lost In Dreams Music Festival in Las Vegas. Insomniac E...
DC’s Echostage Returning This Summer With Zedd, David Guetta, Tiësto
Just last week word broke that Washington, D.C. would be lifting capacity restrictions for nightlife venues this summer. Local nightlife staple Echostage wasted no time revealing an all-star lineup for the club’s triumphant return. June is going to be stacked with performances from some of the most popular artists in EDM, appearing at what organizers have dubbed “Echothon.” Kicking things off on June 11th will be Zedd, followed by David Guetta on the 17th and Tiësto on the 18th. D.C. venue Echostage is set to return in June 2021 with Zedd, David Guetta, and Tiësto. Echostage (via Facebook) Just last year it was announced that Insomniac had acquired the beloved club, which opened in 2012 and was the largest nightlife venue in D.C. until 2017. With Pasquale ...
Paul Oakenfold, Cosmic Gate, More to Perform at Dreamstate Las Vegas
Insomniac has unveiled that Dreamstate will be returning to Las Vegas for the festival’s largest standalone event to date. Gareth Emery, Cosmic Gate, Gabriel & Dresden, Paul Oakenfold, HALIENE, and Jerome Isma-Ae will take the stage at Downtown Las Vegas Events Center on Friday, May 28th, 2021. Considering the fact that trance fans have only able to experience the magic of Dreamstate through Insomniac’s “Park ‘N Rave” events—thanks to COVID-19—the excitement surrounding this fest is palpable. Paul Oakenfold, Gareth Emery, Cosmic Gate, and more announced on the lineup for Dreamstate Las Vegas Dreamstate Las Vegas Both the promoter and venue are working with Clark County and the state of Nevada to ensure the safety of attendees via a set of...
Alison Wonderland, Subtronics, More to Perform at Beyond Wonderland 2021: See the Full Lineup
Insomniac has officially confirmed that Beyond Wonderland is returning to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California on Friday, August 27th and Saturday, August 28th. It’s been a long and rocky road to the return of live events, but it seems like Headliners will finally be able to rejoice in the fact that the two-day dance music wonderland is right around the corner. This trip down the rabbit hole will be one for the books and will feature more than 80 top-tier artists. Alison Wonderland, Flosstradamus, Tiësto, Dillon Francis, Deorro, Kayzo, Subtronics, Gryffin, and many more have all been confirmed for this summer’s event. Tickets for Beyond Wonderland SoCal go on sale Thursday, May 13th at 12PM PT here. Check out the full lineup below. Insomniac ...
