Festival Report Card: Outside Lands 2023

Outside Lands

​​Imagine one giant picnic in the park with some of the best music in the entire world. That’s essentially Outside Lands. Every August (except in October one year because of the pandemic) San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is transformed for three days of stellar music, food, various libations, art, and more.  Celebrating 15 years, the […]

Festival Report Card: Sziget Festival 2023

Sziget Music and Arts Festival, held in Budapest, Hungary has quickly become known as one of Europe’s most acclaimed music festivals.  Sziget, nicknamed “The Island of Freedom,” presents a type of enchanting energy that draws in crowds of nearly 500,000 attendees from all over the world throughout the six-day event. The 2023 edition of the […]

Festival Report Card: HARD Summer 2023

HARD Summer 2023

The return of HARD Summer to the Los Angeles Coliseum was a hot one. Amidst a heat wave and multiple coinciding events happening in the LA area, people walking the streets were divided between those attending HARD Summer and those heading to see Taylor Swift. Talk about quite the contrast. Here’s what we have to […]

Festival Report Card: Electric Forest 2023

Each year, tens of thousands of people descend upon Rothbury, Michigan for Electric Forest. Crowds travel from far and wide, attracted by the festival’s diverse lineup, magical art installations, and immersive experiences.  Electric Forest’s attention to detail and well-crafted stories connect people from all walks of life to a childlike sense of wonderment. This is […]

Festival Report Card: Primavera Sound Madrid 2023

Primavera Sound Madrid

Over the course of its 22-year history, Primavera Sound has reached many milestones since its early days as a local festival in Barcelona, becoming one of the largest festivals in Europe, and expanding to host events on three continents. Primavera Sound 2023 marked another milestone for the festival, its first excursion to the Spanish capital […]

Festival Report Card: RE/FORM Spring 2023

Since 2019, the Los Angeles-based house and techno communities of 6AM, Synthetik Minds, and Dirty Epic join forces two times a year for their festival RE/FORM. RE/FORM is a day into night festival that takes place at Optimist Studios on the westside of Los Angeles.   What draws one into RE/FORM is their goal is to […]