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 […]
Festival Report Card: Forbidden Kingdom 2026
Back at the Central Florida Fairgrounds on April 25-26, Forbidden Kingdom‘s eighth edition showed significant improvements that have brought the bass festival a long way from its start as a small event in 2019. Growing crowds and stage improvements made their way from Boca Raton to Orlando in 2021, where the festival has found enough […]
Festival Report Card: Coachella 2026 (Weekend 2)
As the saying goes, if it’s nice, play it twice. For two weekends each April, millions of eyes and algorithms turn to the desert of Indio, California, for Coachella, arguably the world’s most famous music festival. Over 25 editions, the three-day event has morphed from a grassroots rock concert into an axis around which the […]