Lightning In A Bottle
Rezz, Tale of Us, ZHU, More Confirmed for Lightning in a Bottle’s 20th Anniversary Festival
This year brings the 20th anniversary of SoCal’s Lightning in a Bottle festival, and its organizers have spared no expense. This week brought the release of a star-studded Phase 1 lineup poster, revealing Rezz, Diplo, ZHU, Tale of Us and The Glitch Mob as headliners. Taking place at Buena Vista Lake in Bakersfield, from May 24-29, the fest will host more than 60 artists via this first wave of announcements. Longstanding summertime favorites like Phantogram, Caribou and The Floozies join surging trendsetters like Desiree, Canabliss, Sam Shure and Deer Jade. A host of bass music acts—from Liquid Stranger and LSDream to Moore Kismet and Mersiv—rounds out the expansive bill of music-makers handpicked for the iconic event’s milestone. Rezz, Diplo, ZHU and The Gl...
Lightning in a Bottle Announces Compass Music, Learning and Culture Programming Ahead of 2022 Festival
Back in November, the hotly anticipated reveal of Lightning in a Bottle‘s expansive 2022 lineup certainly impressed. Featuring the likes of GRiZ, Kaytranada, Glass Animals and Black Coffee, among many others, the docket has something to offer every dance music fanatic. Taking the offerings of the weekend even further, Do LaB, the event’s organizers, have now announced its Compass music, learning and culture programming for the Memorial Day Weekend festival. The progam aligns with the core principles of Lightning in a Bottle: connection, expression, and community. The motive of Compass is to present unique opportunities for its attendees to take in potentially life-changing lessons that they can carry with them in their day-to-day lives. Through a serie...
GRiZ, Glass Animals, Kaytranada, More Set to Perform at Lightning in a Bottle 2022
The weather in the states is cooling down, but Lightning in a Bottle just gave us something hot to look forward to. After being forced to postpone both their 2020 and 2021 festivals, Lightning in a Bottle announced their grand return would be in 2022. The event’s organizers, Do LaB, have now shared the slate of artists scheduled to take the stage at next year’s hotly anticipated fest. The full lineup was showcased across their social media, revealing GRiZ, Kaytranada, and Glass Animals as the headliners. Next year’s lineup spans a wide number of genres both in and out of the electronic music sphere. Fans are in for sets from Black Coffee, Four Tet, Jon Hopkins, Of The Trees, CloZee, Big Freedia, and many more. Bass music fans can also look forward to ...
EPROM and G Jones are Going B2B at Upcoming Lighting in a Bottle Stream: See the Full Lineup
As long as EPROM and G Jones keep collaborating, the electronic music community is in good hands. The esteemed producers, who are widely considered to be among the most gifted sound designers in electronic music, are once again set to join forces for a collaborative DJ set after throwing down at Lollapalooza’s 2020 virtual edition. This time around the longtime collaborators will be appearing at Do LaB‘s “DGTL LIB 2″—the second digital installment of Lighting in a Bottle—over Memorial Day Weekend, May 29th to 30th. The 24-hour streaming spectacular will also feature performances by Moby, SOFI TUKKER, Aluna, Purple Disco Machine, and TSHA, among other major dance music artists. They will perform in digitally-rendered fan-favorite LIB stages, ...
Lightning in a Bottle Reschedules Next In-Person Event to 2022
Despite promising COVID-19 vaccine news, the organizers behind Lightning in a Bottle have decided to reschedule their next in-person event to 2022. The West Coast-based festival is the latest to take such action, following the lead of similarly high-profile events such as Ultra Music Fesitval, and Hangout Music Festival. In a statement shared via social media, organizers suggested that while this year shows some promise for events potentially being able to proceed in general, they feel continuing forward with Lightning in a Bottle amid the current regulatory environment would compromise the experience. “The experience of Lightning in a Bottle has always been about exploration, discovery, and connection. It’s about being socially close, not distanced,” the statement r...
Do LaB’s Virtual Lightning In a Bottle Fest, DGTL LIB, Is Now Live
Do LaB’s virtual edition of Lightning in a Bottle, DGTL LIB, is now live! Day 1 of the festival is set to be a killer concert experience, with performances from Justin Jay, Beats Antique, Shiba San, The Funk Hunters, and more. Over the course of the festival, viewers will be able to witness many of its artists perform on the signature stages of Lightning In a Bottle, which are being digitally rendered in real-time by Vita Motus Design Studio. “For the first time ever, a branded festival environment has been recreated in a gaming engine to be used for live broadcast,” said Heather Shaw, CEO of Vita Motus Design Studio. “We at Vita Motus think that Lightning in a Bottle is an ideal environment to showcase our realtime rendering capabilities because of its...
Do LaB Announces DGTL LIB Virtual Festival Featuring Kaytranada, The Glitch Mob, TOKiMONSTA, and More
Do LaB’s Lightning in a Bottle announced today that it’s returning for Memorial Day Weekend to deliver its notoriously impeccable vibes to its largest audience yet. Albeit in a digital livestream format, the event arrives just in time to breathe life back into the end of May for dance music fans. The popular Southern California gathering was canceled earlier this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving many fans to wonder if the festival would return at all. For the Do LaB to drop a doozy of a lineup like this one now gives the many who love this event to hold onto hope for its future. Producers representing the upper echelon of today’s hottest dance music will be showcased May 22nd to May 24th alongside world-class yogis, kundalini instructors, cooking lessons, cultural teachin...
