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 […]
Festival Report Card: Ultra Miami 2026
There are few trips in dance music that carry the same weight as heading to Ultra Music Festival in downtown Miami. From March 26 to 28, Bayfront Park filled with more than 165,000 ravers from around the world, drawn to the party by expertly curated bookings and show production that continue to set the standard […]
Festival Report Card: Skyline Festival 2026
When it comes to scale, Los Angeles may just be the techno capital of the United States (taking nothing away from Detroit, of course). But in the first four years since the region’s leading electronic promoter launched its flagship genre event in LA, Skyline Festival struggled to serve its community with a venue capable of […]