'Not At My Fucking Show': Singer Calls Out Man Who Groped Female Fan At Concert
The singer of the UK band The Architects called out a fan in the crowd during a show last week after he saw him grab a woman’s breast while she crowd surfed.
GIRLCULT Festival Founders Call It the 'Lilith Fair for Generation Z'
GIRLCULT is yet another festival that’s being launched, in celebration of the young women of “Generation Z.”
Wildly Expensive Music Festivals Keep Getting Canceled
Ever since the nightmare that was Fyre Festival, promoters and concert attendees have wondered how sustainable the current landscape of music festivals really is. With more and more festivals popping up with an increasingly similar group of headliners, trying to be the next Coachella or Bonnaroo right out the gate,…
FEMA Tents, Government Cheese, and Feral Dogs: Ja Rule’s Luxury Fyre Music Festival Descends Into Total Chaos
The Fyre Festival, a fancy multi-day music event in the Bahamas that promised an experience fit for a king or queen, turned into what attendees called a wretched “dystopian” debacle that makes Gilligan’s Island seem like a cool vacation destination.
Are You Old?
Rat Boy, Oh Wonder and Prose have been announced as acts on the lineup for the U.K.’s Reading and Leeds Festival in August. Also, You Me at Six, Angel, Avelino, Bear’s Den, the Amity Affliction and Giggs. And DAVE. Everything Everything. Billy Talent. Marshmello! Camelphat! Wiley! James Organ. In addition, Picture…
Coachella Is Coming Up Beyoncé
Truly, it was only a matter of time. Seeing as how Beyoncé has fully nailed Coachella fashion, it makes sense that she’ll now dive all the way in joining Kendrick Lamar and Radiohead as headline acts for the 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Paris Hilton Goes to Burning Man
This morning, Paris Hilton tweeted that she will be attending this year’s Burning Man festival. Below is an imagined retelling of her arrival in Black Rock City.
Lifehack: Only Wear Your Festival Wristband During the Festival
Festival wristbands are those circular rubbery bands designed to be worn around the wrist during a festival to get entry and for things like access to restricted areas. Don’t wear them before the festival starts. Trust us!
What Will You Wear to the 'Imminent' Fall Edition Of Coachella?
All the leaves are brown, and they will be used for crowns.
Governors Ball Organizers Have Started a Petition to Veto Coachella in NYC
Organizers of New York’s ever-popular Governors Ball festival have started a petition to stop the people behind Coachella from taking over its territory.
Woman Accidentally Forklifted Across a Festival Site in a Port-a-Potty
Port-a-potties are a nasty fact of civilized life—must we make them worse? A woman at the Newlyn Fish Festival in Cornwall (“The best and biggest celebration of the sea, seafood and fishing in the UK”) was minding her own damn business in a portable toilet when she found herself lifted up into the air and transported…
A Chat With Savages' Jehnny Beth on Festival Etiquette, Flash Tats & Feminism
The best description I can conjure for the music of post-punk revival band Savages is what my four-year-old niece said while thrashing along to their first (and only) album, 2013’s Silence Yourself. As she flung her body around my living room, both violently and joyously, she yelled “What this makes me feel is…
A Day Inside the Cult of the Flower Crown
This weekend, I attended Governors Ball with a few of my coworkers. I wore jean shorts, a weird floral shirt, a soft blue sweatshirt that said “Atlantic City,” and several gold bracelets. I felt fine about this outfit choice. I felt comfortable with this outfit choice. There was nothing this outfit needed less than a…
Real Tales from Real People at a Local Music Festival
The Governors Ball Music Festival goes down in New York every June, one of the local festivals that marks the start of summer. Jezebel staff attended this weekend, and had many emotions.
Beyoncé Has Been Coachella-fied
#Coachella fashion has officially become its own aesthetic. The millions of marketing dollars spent convincing the Youth of America that “festival” is a season and comes with its own dress code actually worked and Beyoncé, who would ideally be impervious to this corporate deception, has been bitten by the Coachella…
What We're Really Packing for Coachella
We (Jane Marie and Kara) are headed to Coachella. Free from the burden of packing like sensible adults, we're loading up our bags to hang out with all the cool kids and social media influencers out in the desert. Here's what we're bringing.
Awesome Pop Star Robyn Is Starting a Women's Tech Festival
Robyn is launching a tech festival for young women called Tekla. The only problem is that it's happening in Sweden, so book your flight now.
Cops Have Shut Down the Road to Burning Man
Grover Norquist and the rest of the unruly drug addled anarchists who planned on descending on the annual debauchathon known as Burning Man will have to hold off for at least another 24 hours — rain has made the road to the Nevada desert fest unpassable.
Chainsaws, Costumes, & Skinny Dipping: Weirdest Winter Fests
Winter festivals are in full swing! Get ready to strip down to your birthday suit and dive into a half frozen creek just for the fun of it. Here's a hand-picked list of the weirdest winter festivals in North America.
