Interview: Effin On The Art Of Reinvention, Sampling & The Love Behind ‘Heartbeats’

Effin lets his heart do the sampling. Three years ago, the now-30-year-old bass artist—real name JD Bowden—was struggling to find his place in electronic music. After launching his career with a slew of heavy dubstep and trap hits, the Nashville-based producer and DJ committed to a new sound: his own sample-heavy strain of bass music, […]

Festival Report Card: Lost Lands 2026

Neither rain nor mud came between headbangers and their annual trek to Lost Lands. Last month, Excision’s flagship festival returned to Thornville’s Legend Valley Campground for its ninth edition, welcoming more 150,000 attendees for three days of earth-shaking bass, dinosaur-sized production and camping chaos. While the festival officially ran from September 18-20, some campers arrived […]

Wasteland’s Hard Dance Battlefield: Classic & Emerging Sounds Clash

Wasteland is back for its eleventh edition, and hard dance is showing up in all its twisted forms. For more than a decade, the beloved West Coast festival has been a cornerstone of Insomniac’s Basscon brand and a destination for devoted hard dance heads. It was a pure hardstyle affair when the event debuted at […]

Liquid Stranger’s WAKAAN Music Festival Drops 2026 Lineup

Liquid Stranger’s WAKAAN Music Festival just dropped its 2026 lineup. The three-night camping festival from the experimental bass maestro’s famed label will return to Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas, with a massive lineup spanning top genre names and sounds on the outer reaches of bass music from October 1-3, along with a pre-party kicking off […]

Festival Report Card: Tomorrowland Belgium 2026 (Weekend One)

Few festivals in the world have built a universe around electronic music like Tomorrowland.  Since its debut in 2005, the Belgian festival has grown into one of the most recognizable names in global festival culture, drawing hundreds of thousands of people from more than 200 countries to De Schorre Park in Boom each summer. This […]

Missing Shambhala Attendee Kayla Boisvert Found Safe

Kayla Boisvert’s family has confirmed she has been found safe after she was reported missing following Canada’s Shambhala Music Festival. The announcement shared yesterday on @kaylaboisvertismissing, a since-deleted Instagram page created by her twin sister Dianna, followed several days of coordinated search efforts involving family members, volunteers, festival staff, law enforcement, and Salmo Search and […]