Festival Report Card: Kappa FuturFestival 2026
Known for blending cutting-edge electronic music with Turin’s striking post-industrial architecture, Italy’s Kappa FuturFestival is a top destination on Europe’s electronic festival circuit. Ravers from all over the world come together to create a multi-cultural celebration of music and dance at the city’s iconic Parco Dora, a former steel factory turned creative playground famous for […]
Festival Report Card: Electric Forest 2026
Electric Forest remains one of the American festival scene’s most impressive event production feats. Each June, up to 70,000 people gather in western Michigan to dance, mingle, and trip out inside the four-day camping festival’s famous maze of light, color, sound, and experiential art, masterfully constructed in and around the towering white pine trees of […]
Festival Report Card: Bonnaroo 2026
In New Orleans French Creole slang, the word Bonnaroo roughly translates to “best on the street.” That aura is what pulls tens of thousands of music lovers to Manchester, Tennessee, each summer for Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. Since the festival began under its famous moniker—also inspired by New Orleans blues legend Dr. John’s Desitively Bonnaroo—in […]
Festival Report Card: Movement Music Festival 2026
In Detroit, Memorial Day isn’t the only holiday that comes on the last weekend in May. Each spring, thumping electronic beats and shouts of “Happy Techno Christmas!” flood the streets surrounding downtown Detroit’s Hart Plaza, where Movement Music Festival (and before it, Detroit Electronic Music Festival) honors the city’s legacy as the birthplace of techno […]
Festival Report Card: Lightning In A Bottle 2026
If it’s a sidequest you desire, a sidequest you shall receive. In an era of electronic music festivals competing to be the most eye-catching on the planet, Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) looks inward, offering attendees far more than its commercial counterparts ever could. At LIB, music is only the entry point. Beneath the festival’s […]
Festival Report Card: EDC Las Vegas 2026
Size matters. In a sea of changes that Electric Daisy Carnival has undergone since Insomniac Events took the helm 30 years ago, scale is the festival’s most defining trait. Now almost entirely unrecognizable from its humble (licensed) beginnings as a 5,000-capacity rave at Los Angeles’ Shrine Expo Hall, the three-day massive corrals 16 stages and […]