EVENTS
îLESONIQ Reveals Set Times for 2022 Festival With Eric Prydz, Swedish House Mafia, More
îLESONIQ 2022 presented by Bell is returning to Montreal for a jam-packed weekend of electronic dance music, celebrating its 7th edition in a big way with a staggering lineup. Held at the stunning Parc Jean-Drapeau from August 5-7, îLESONIQ is slated to bring its most impressive lineup to date this year. It’s crystal clear that the festival’s organizers are looking to make this year’s experience an unforgettable one, extending it to three days while making the Bell OASIS Mainstage 2.5 times bigger, cementing it as one of the biggest mobile stages in North America. As the exciting festival is approaching faster than ever, its set times and daily schedule have been revealed, showcasing unmatched taste and curation between its three stages. On August 5th, îLESONIQ will welcom...
Umbrella Weekend Lands Successful Return to SoCal With Unforgettable Festival Experience
Following a two-year hiatus, Umbrella Weekend has officially made its return, positioning itself as one of the most exciting dance music festivals out of San Diego. Organized by the Afternoon Umbrella Friends, a group who shares the same values and love for festivals and the electronic music community, Umbrella Weekend was held March 24-28 in a stunning valley near Yucaipa, California. The event featured three days of immaculate music curation and activities. It is widely known that Umbrella Weekend doesn’t only stand for great music. Throughout the event’s duration, attendees were able to participate in a bevy of wellness experiences and educational activities, as well as enjoy multiple interactive art installations that were sprinkled throughout the festival grounds. Umbrella Weeke...
Eric Prydz, Solomun, Jamie Jones, More to Headline Amsterdam’s 2022 Loveland Festival
Loveland Festival, a techno music enthusiast’s paradise in Amsterdam, is gearing up for one of its biggest events yet. Since its inception in 1995, Loveland has been taking over Amsterdam every summer, enchanting attendees with some of dance music’s most exciting sounds. Celebrating its 25th edition this year, the two-day fest is returning to the lush Sloterpark grounds from August 13-14 while also debuting a special hotel takeover with exclusive afterparties, rooftop BBQs, loaded brunches and much more. This year’s festival will feature a jaw-dropping lineup of artists who are bound to satisfy even the most veteran techno and house music fans. More than 75 artists are slated to perform at Loveland 2022 in a well-balanced lineup that—according to the event’s organizers...
Here’s the Schedule and Set Times for Lollapalooza 2022
Chicago’s largest music festival is back—and arguably bigger than ever. Lollapalooza returns to Grant Park this weekend, when hundreds of thousands of people will gather for one of the year’s most anticipated fests. Electronic dance music fans, in particular, have a lot to look forward to thanks to performances by a slew of superstar DJs such as Black Coffee, Kaskade, REZZ, Duke Dumont, SIDEPIECE, Liquid Stranger, ZHU and CloZee, among many others. This year’s headlining slate is also massive, featuring sets by Metallica, Dua Lipa, J. Cole, Green Day, Doja Cat, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby and Kygo. Lollapalooza will kick off on Thursday, July 28th before concluding on Sunday the 31st. Check out the schedule and set times for each day below. Lollapalooz...
Gryffin, Louis The Child, More to Play Breakaway Festival’s Inaugural NorCal Edition
Breakaway Music Festival organizers Prime Social Group announced a new edition of the multi-city EDM event this week, bringing the fest to Northern California for the first time in its history. Scheduled for October 14-15th in Oakland, the Breakaway’s first-ever NorCal edition features headliners Gryffin, Louis The Child, Big Wild and Said The Sky, with additional performances from Aluna, Austin Millz, Snakehips and more. Brownies & Lemonade, an event organizer known for secret renegade warehouse shows and popular pop-up concerts on the West Coast, will also be curating their own stage “with so many icons and friends,” they wrote on social media. “We’re thrilled to announce the fifth and final festival for Breakaway in California,” said Za...
Bass Coast Makes Triumphant Return With Immersive 2022 Festival
Following a two-year, COVID-19-enforced hiatus, Bass Coast finally returned to Merritt, B.C. this year, bringing together thousands of attendees to celebrate music, art and the dance music community. Bass Coast 2022 attendees. Banana Cam Photo Held on the shared traditional territories on the Nłeʔkepmx and Syilx nations, Bass Coast took its promise of a “thoughtfully curated boutique music and arts festival” to a whole new level from July 8-11, successfully landing its biggest edition to date. Featuring five main audiovisual stages as well as The Brain, an additional workshop stage, Bass Coast was an astonishing journey of music and creative expression. While it featured over 57 art installations—many of which were interactive—and performance artists, something which made ...
Airbeat One Makes Explosive 2022 Return As Germany’s Premier Dance Music Festival
The verdict is in: Airbeat One is a bona fide dance music lover’s paradise. The colossal festival successfully celebrated its 19th edition this year, following a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus. Returning to its airfield near Neustadt-Glewe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Airbeat One 2022 united over 200,000 attendees from over 50 countries through a shared love of EDM. With over 300 international DJs and performers across six stages, as well as a plethora of activities and vendors, this year’s Airbeat One 2022 offered an escape from reality unlike any other. Taking attendees to a different destination around the world in each edition with its curated, thematic designs, the 2022 fest was inspired by the country of Italy, with four of its six stages being redesigned to reflect ...
Nickelodeon Is Throwing a Family-Friendly Music Festival With San Holo, LP Giobbi, More
Get ready to see some of EDM, pop and hip-hop’s biggest stars share the stage with… SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon has announced NickFest, a family-friendly music festival coming this fall to Southern California. In an effort to cultivate an experience that highlights the lighthearted nature of the brand, every aspect of the fest will be inspired by the iconic children’s cable channel’s programming. Organizers promise food from star chefs inspired by their programs, activities based on fan-favorite Nickelodeon show moments and special appearances from some of the brand’s notable characters like Arnold from Hey Arnold, Tommy and Chuckie from Rugrats, Blue from Blue’s Clues and Bikini Bottom’s SpongeBob and Patrick. And, of course, plen...
How Northern Nights Music Festival Stays True to Its Roots
It’s only natural that music festivals would hold music as a central priority, but at Northern Nights, it’s not quite so simple. That’s mostly because as many come to the Humboldt-Mendocino county-line-straddling event for cannabis as they do for music, so attention gets split between the productions onstage and the many varied cannabis offerings at the festival. 2022’s iteration was no exception either. In fact, last weekend the kaleidoscopic forest rave used the very same two-pronged approach to throw its most evolved and integrated event to date. By making more than a few major strides from past editions of the now-paradigmatic music fest, 2022 wasn’t just a triumphant post-pandemic return. For the ragtag band of dance music-loving misfits turned world-class event producers ...
“Music Meets Imagination”: Pop Art-Inspired Heatwave Festival Burns Bright In Chicago Debut
Like its pop art inspirations, Chicago’s Heatwave Music Festival was an immediate attention-grabber. The Douglass Park-based event made the most of its sizzling summer debut, where there was certainly no shortage of options for avid festival attendees. Chicagoans know full well how summer in the Windy City is all too short, and with Pitchfork Music Festival, Mas Flow Reggaeton Fest, Heatwave and more happening in the same weekend, fans were eager to capitalize on the fleeting hours. Despite the heavy competition, electronic dance music fans showed up en masse for what could be the next staple of the midwest’s summer festival scene. The vote of confidence from the electronic music community certainly didn’t arise randomly out of thin air. The effort was ba...
Surging House Music Producer Ekonovah Announces Debut Tour
Ekonovah has come a long way since his first piano recital at the age of two. The surging DJ and electronic music producer has announced his first-ever tour, taking to social media to reveal its first phase. “The Discovery Tour” will hit a bevy of major North American cities, like Denver, Las Vegas and Nashville, with special guest Saint Punk in tow. “Feels like Christmas Eve knowing what’s coming tomorrow,” Ekonovah exulted in a tweet published prior to the announcement. “Filled with so much gratitude right now.” The tour’s mantra, “Cultivating a New Sound,” is fitting. Known for his unique take on house music, Ekonovah has made some serious noise in the EDM space. His hypnotic yet gritty sound can be heard via releases on a slew of re...
20 Photos That Capture the Astounding EXIT Festival 2022
Numbers don’t lie: with over 200,000 festival-goers passing through its gates and over 1,000 artists performing across a staggering 40 stages, EXIT Festival is celebrating one of the most unforgettable years in its history. Taking place in the beautiful countryside landscape of Novi Sad, Serbia, EXIT 2022 was a diverse nexus of music, arts and people. The true spirit of the festival was palpable all weekend long as fans danced from sundown to sunrise each night. There’s an immense scale to EXIT not easily seen at first glance. The massive Petrovaradin Fortress offers one of the world’s best festival grounds thanks to its sheer size and capability to house an enormous amount of production. The towering Mainstage saw massive performances from the likes o...
