Music Festival
Photos: Look Inside the Rainy Techno Utopia of Seismic Dance Event 2021
Austin’s Seismic Dance Event returned for its third edition last weekend in what was a rainy utopia of house and techno music. A slew of dance music’s finest performed at Seismic Dance Event 3.3, such as Bob Moses, Claude VonStroke, Nicole Moudaber, Phantoms, Richie Hawtin, Sacha Robotti, Tchami, The Martinez Brothers, and Walker & Royce, among others. Check out the gallery below. All photos by Jason Myers/Memorandum Media for EDM.com. SEISMIC DANCE EVENT 2021 Photo from Seismic Dance Event’s 2021 edition in Austin from May 21-23. Jason Myers/Memorandum Media for EDM.com Photo from Seismic Dance Event’s 2021 edition in Austin from May 21-23. Jason Myers/Memorandum Media for EDM.com Photo from Seismic Dance Event’s 2021 edition in Austin from...
Lollapalooza 2021 Returning To Chicago With Tyler, The Creator, Post Malone As Headliners
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Barry Brecheisen / Getty Chicago is taking a giant step toward pre-pandemic normalcy by announcing the return of the famed music festival Lollapalooza. With a loaded star-studded lineup hitting the stage, the event is expected to draw tens of thousands of fans this summer. According to Vulture, the event will take place at Grant Park from July 29th to August 1st and will operate at full capacity while complying with local health rules. Attendees are to arrive fully vaccinated or have a negative COVID-19 test within 24 hours of arriving each day of the event. The strict guidelines haven’t deterred fans from buying passage to the event. Immediately after tickets went on sale Wednesday at noon, all four-day passes had sold out by even...
Serbia’s EXIT Festival Now Accepts Bitcoin as Payment for Tickets
Serbia’s EXIT Festival—scheduled for July 8th to the 11th—is set to be one of the first major international music festivals to take place this year. In celebration of the event’s 20th anniversary a number of world-renowned artists have been confirmed for performances, such as David Guetta, DJ Snake, and Eric Prydz, among many others. With just under two months out, the organizers of the Novi Sad fest have announced that they will now accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for tickets, embracing the 2021 crypto boom. While it is not the first to offer such an alternative, EXIT is among the festival scene’s earliest adopters of cryptocurrency. When selecting a payment type at checkout, fans now have the option to purchase tickets using Bitcoin. Custome...
Lyrical Lemonade x SPKRBX’s Summer Smash Festival Returns To Chicago This Summer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Summer Smash Festival 2019 / Summer Smash Festival Slowly but surely, music festivals are roaring back this year with some exciting events already announced. Adding to the growing tally, Lyrical Lemonade and SPKRBX’s Summer Smash Festival will make its return to Chicago with a three-day event featuring some of Hip-Hop music’s established giants alongside rising stars. This summer in the Windy City, fans will be able to take in a full weekend of hits, slaps, anthems, and chants with headliners A$AP Rocky, Lil Baby, and Lil Uzi Vert all commanding and closing the stages respectively between Friday and Sunday. On Friday, August 20, the A$AP Mob honcho will share the stage with Swae Lee, Lil Skies, Yung Bans, Mulatto, and more. On Saturday, August 21, Lil Bab...
Travis Scott Announces Return Of Astroworld Festival On 29th Birthday
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Gonzales Photo/Avalon / WENN Travis Scott has kept a lower profile of late after last dropping a project in 2019 with the collaboration album JackBoys. While he preps his latest studio album in Utopia for a 2021 release, the raging star announced the return of his Astroworld Festival for this coming November in Houston. On Friday (April 30), which also happens to be Cactus Jack’s 29th birthday, Scott shared that the festival is on its way back with an expanded two-day format. The event will hit H-Town’s NRG Park in the fall on November 5 through November 6, kicking off a weekend that will leave lasting memories for Scott’s legion of fans and for any concertgoers who miss the feel and energy of the live show due to the pandemic robbing many of that outlet ...
Bass Coast Music Festival Officially Postponed to Summer 2022
The beloved Canadian boutique festival Bass Coast has announced the postponement of its 2021 event. Bass Coast is the latest music festival forced to make the difficult decision to postpone due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an official statement, organizers explained that “without knowing what public health measures will be in place this July, we lack the critical information necessary to contract infrastructure, book artists and secure vendors.” Originally scheduled for July, the festival’s 12th edition is now tentatively set for July 8th to 11th, 2022. Organizers indicated that all current ticket-holders will have their 2021 passes automatically transferred to 2022 and that “subsequent years will [also] be bump...
GRiZ, Ganja White Night, More to Perform At Elements Music & Arts Festival 2021
The organizers of Elements Music & Arts Festival have announced the final lineup of artists for its Labor Day Weekend celebration. After postponing its 2020 event to Memorial Day Weekend, the festival ultimately announced a move to its traditional Labor Day Weekend to ensure health and safety protocols are upheld and most of the headliners are able to attend. Slated for September 3rd to 6th in Lakewood, Pennsylvania, the festival features an expansive lineup of artists, including GRiZ, Ganja White Night, Bob Moses, Claude VonStoke, Diplo, CloZee, Yotto, TOKiMONSTA, Rusko, Chris Lake, Bonobo, and Manic Focus. Based on the original four elements of Water, Earth, Fire, and Air with corresponding stages, the festival incorporates the fifth element of “you” to bring the community ...
