Music festivals
BUKU Music + Art Project Announces Planet B Lineup With ILLENIUM, Alison Wonderland, More
New Orleans’ premier music and arts festival, BUKU Music + Art Project, has unveiled a genre-defying lineup for its one-time-only fall edition. Dubbed Planet B, the two-day event maintains BUKU’s boutique curation, offering a roster of 52 performers. ILLENIUM, Zeds Dead, and Alison Wonderland top the bill on the EDM spectrum, set to bring forth their signature sets brimming with emotive melodies alongside explosive bass. For those looking to indulge in unfettered trap and dubstep, there’s Subtronics, SVDDEN DEATH‘s VOYD, LSDREAM, Chee, and EDM.com Class of 2021 artists Moore Kismet and Lucii, among others. Chris Lake, VNSSA, and Purple Disco Machine round out the undercard’s house music artists while those looking for a subtle blends of electronic music can look forward to...
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Relive Sunset Music Festival’s Dazzling 2021 Return [Recap + Gallery]
This past weekend Sunset Music Festival came back to life as the first normalized fest to return in Florida after the pandemic, an emotional billet-doux straight to the heart of fans. Based in the bustling cultural hub of Tampa, Florida, the two-day festival took place on May 29th and 30th, hosting 64,000 fans and 74 different artists from around the country. With the city quickly filling up with patrons for the festival, SMF kicked the weekend off with a sold-out pre-party. Hundreds and hundreds of music fans made their way to the venue in hopes of arriving early for free entry. Held at the historic The Ritz Ybor in Ybor City, the pre-party boasted a talented lineup of some of Florida’s local best artists. Dazy opened up the night with a riveting set, followed by Cel...
Tomorrowland 2021 Green-Lit By Belgian Government—But Questions Still Remain
The Belgian government has made a pivotal decision to green-light festivals of up to 75,000 attendees. The new provision goes into effect on the August 13th, effectively allowing Tomorrowland to move forward with their originally planned dates over two weekends: August 27-29 and September 3-5, respectively. As IQ notes, the motion also paves the way for Pukkelpop and the Formula 1 Grand Prix race, among other events scheduled to take place this year. “We are very happy to receive this news, but we will wait for the conditions and rules before we will communicate about the organization of the festival,” a Tomorrowland spokesperson said. “We are very positive, and we look forward to organizing a festival at the end of August.” The mainstage at Tomorrowland 2...
EDC Las Vegas 2021 Lineup Revealed
At long last, the 2021 EDC Las Vegas lineup has been revealed. Alison Wonderland, Knife Party, Martin Garrix, DJ Snake, The Chainsmokers, deadmau5, REZZ, Seven Lions, Kaskade, and many more are primed for performances at the festival at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, scheduled for October 22-24. Insomniac is set to debut a new stage at their flagship music festival this year, the kineticZEN themed stage at kineticFIELD, which will feature a performance from Kygo as well as a hotly anticipated collaborative DJ set from SLANDER and Said The Sky. ZHU and Zedd will throw down at cosmicMEADOW, among others, while Testpilot (deadmau5’s techno alter alias), Patrick Topping, and Eric Prydz, are set to rock circuitGROUNDS. neonGARDEN will offer immersive live art installations to g...
Did Elon Musk Just Back a Dogecoin Music Festival?
With three simple words, Elon Musk lit a fuse in the crypto community that could eventually lead to a Dogecoin-themed music festival: “Sounds kinda fun.” The comment came in response to a popular Dogecoin fan account who tweeted about the fictitious DogeFest, using a photo of a music festival stage edited with the token’s viral Shiba Inu meme imagery. He then started a thread to suggest what the festival would entail if it were real, such as a DJ set from Musk himself, who has long championed EDM and recently teased the sale of an NFT techno song. The page also suggested that DogeFest would require Dogecoin “as payment for everything.” Once Musk chimed in, legions of crypto supporters joined the conversation to conceptualize the fest. One said that t...
Excision, Kaskade, More to Perform at Global Dance Festival 2021: See the Full Lineup
Denver’s fan-favorite Global Dance Festival has received the green light to move forward with its 2021 event. Attendees can prepare to return to Empower Field at Mile High, home of the Denver Broncos, for the carnival-themed dance music extravaganza. Since the festival’s inception in the early 2000s the team has worked tirelessly to bring the best and brightest artists in the electronic music space to its stages, and their triumphant return features one of its best lineups yet. Excision, Claptone, Claude VonStroke, Deorro, Eli & Fur, Getter, Gryffin, Kaskade, Riot Ten, Sullivan King, Tchami, Tiësto, Tritonal, and many more are primed for performances at Global, which is scheduled for July 23rd and 24th. There are also two massive B2B DJ sets that fans simply can&#...
The Chainsmokers Set to Headline San Diego’s Blended Festival, a Hybrid Music and Wine Fest
The organizers of San Diego’s Blended Festival have announced the return of the unique hybrid wine and music fest, which is scheduled for October 15th and 16th. The festival premiered as an instant hit, selling out its inaugural event back in 2019. They now hope lightning will strike twice after announcing a stellar lineup brimming with major artists in the worlds of electronic, hip-hop, pop, and country music. Headlining the wine-centric festival will be Grammy Award-winning duo The Chainsmokers, who will be joined by Deorro, Nelly, Loud Luxury, and more. The two-day event will also feature a stage with notable chefs as well as popular food vendors offering culinary experiences, such as celebrity sommelier Matthew-Lorèn. “We’re thrilled to present this unique mi...
Coachella Announces 2022 Festival Dates
After multiple postponements due to the impact of COVID-19, Coachella will officially make its return to California in 2022. Organizers shared the news on Instagram today, announcing that Coachella has now been scheduled over two weekends next year: April 15-17 and 22-24. The announcement arrives after a tumultuous period for the iconic Indio music and arts festival, whose organizers were forced to cancel outright for the first time in 20 years back in June 2020. Citing the uncertainty of the pandemic, they eventually abandoned the fest’s planned October 2021 dates, marking its fourth postponement due to the impact of the virus. Fans can register to access the event’s 2022 pre-sale starting Friday, June 4th at 10AM PT (1PM ET). Check out the announcement below. FOLLOW...
SLANDER Announce New Curated Music Festival, Starbase
SLANDER returned to the festival circuit with a triumphant DJ set at Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival over the weekend. And while their performance—rife with soaring future bass and dubstep—was one of the event’s highlights, it was a different drop that sent ripples through the EDM community. The famed electronic duo took time during their Sunset performance to formally announce Starbase, a curated melodic bass music festival they had first teased in summer 2020. According to an attendee, whose initial tweet has been circulated widely on social media since SLANDER’s set, the fest will go down in October 2021 in Charleston, South Carolina. SLANDER revealed the event back in June 2020, when the duo announced that they were planning an outer space-themed ...
UK Festival Season Facing ‘Make Or Break Moment’
“The vast majority of music festivals do not have the financial resilience to cover the costs of another year of late-notice cancellations,” said committee chair Julian Knight in announcing the inquiry’s findings. “If the commercial insurance market won’t step in, Ministers must, and urgently.” Similar government-backed insurance schemes exist in the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark, and, after months of delays, were recently finalized in Germany. They provide a much-needed safety net for promoters committing non-recoupable upfront costs for future events amid the uncertainty of a pandemic. The committee’s inquiry into the future of U.K. music festivals began on Nov. 6, with Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja, Paul Reed, chief executive at the Association of Independent Festivals, a...
An Urgent Call for Harm Reduction in EDM: How to Keep You and the Rave Alive Post-Pandemic
“Nightlife always survives.” “It survived the great depression, and it survived the AIDs pandemic in the 80s,” Joseph J. Palamar, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at New York University Langone Medical Center, tells EDM.com. “Nightlife will always come back.” The terms of the world opening up after more than a year of isolation, loneliness, and tragedy are uncertain. But there’s something we know for sure: we love to dance with our friends. And for the first time in more than a year, that feels like a genuine—and imminent—possibility. As we write this piece, 39% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. It feels a bit easier every day to imagine that someday soon some of us will once again be sa...
A New LGBTQ+ Festival Celebrating Queer Club Culture is Launching in London
East London is receiving its first queer dance music festival, Body Movements. Attendees can expect a multi-venue rave that will span across 16 spaces in Hackney Wick on September 10th, 2021. DJ Saoirse Ryan and Little Gay Brother’s Clayton Wright are behind the fest, which aims to unite the LGBTQ+ dance music scene through an eclectic day and night of programming. The full lineup is currently yet to be announced, but the Evening Standard has reported confirmed acts and clubs nights from Bitch, Please!, High Hoops, Let’s Have a KiKi, Chapter 10, Koodetta, Pxssy Palace presents The Sanctuary, Bonzai Bonner, Anna Gram’s Lezzer Quest, Fèmmme Fraîche, and Little Gay Brother. “The queer clubbing scene has always been renowned for some of the best par...
