Mumford and Sons has refused to play future gigs at Bravalla, a huge music festival in Sweden where, over the weekend, 17 women were reported victims of sexual assault.
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!
Driving east on the 10 from Los Angeles to Indio, the views change slowly, shifting from less-than-scenic strip malls before eventually settling on huge open skies, mountains every which way, bright, bright sunlight, the heat seeping into the car. Once you arrive at the home shared by the Coachella Valley Music and…
Coachella—the annual gathering of the ugh-galos in Indio, California—is scheduled for April 15-17 and April 22-24. Rumors are already swirling about two major band reunions during the 2016 festival and if they prove true (they’ve been all but officially verified by the New York Times), music fans—specifically…
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.
Frank Ocean’s absence at this weekend’s FYF Fest in Los Angeles was felt a little less thanks to help from Yeezus.
It’s obvious just by looking at the lineups for any given music festival lately that dudes make up the majority of performances.
Accompanying our festival fashion fatigue is the exhausting proliferation of street style photos that accompany/perpetuate it: endless galleries of conventionally pretty, skinny girls clad in similar fringe or slides or whatever else happens to be on trend that season. With few exceptions—Bill Cunningham at the Times,…
British quartet Clean Bandit played a rain-soaked set on day 2 of BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend festival in Norwich, UK this weekend, and their performance of “Stronger,” from last year’s debut full-length New Eyes, was diiiivine.
For better or worse, it’s festival season, which is why we’re using this week’s Pissing Contest to talk about our most memorable concert experiences!
#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…
Rejoice, for there is a God: "narcissistic" selfie sticks just got their dumb asses banned from Coachella and Lollapalooza.
Anyone who was at Lollapalooza 2012, when a massive storm shut the festival down for hours and people dangerously flooded into the streets of downtown Chicago with no direction or purpose, knows life doesn't get much worse than that when it comes to music festivals. But for the average Lollapalooza attendee, the…
In today's Tweet Beat, Patrick Stewart discovers the pains of treading through a muddy field as girls in flower crowns and the men that love them pop Molly, Josh Duhamel gets a wonderful or terrible gift—depending on how you look at it and Nick Jonas plays coy.
A Canadian music festival is asking attendees to please, for the love of God, not wear any Native American headdresses. Save the clueless cultural appropriation for another day. "Feathered war bonnets" and anything that looks like one are now banned. Security will be enforcing the rule.
Music festivals used to be a place for people to gather to listen to their favorite bands, make some love in the mud and maybe get stabbed to death by the Hells Angels, but sadly, those wholesome days are over. These days, festivals (and their attendees) are less focused on enjoying music in a communal space and more…
So you're going to Coachella this weekend, next weekend or some hypothetical weekend in the future. (Remember, Coachella is a state of mind so one could potentially go to Coachella any time.) Music festivals, especially when they are as big and trendy as this one, are a tough landscape to navigate etiquette and…
• Ann Coulter says she plans to file a complaint with the Human Rights Commission regarding an email she received from the VP of the University of Ottawa asking her to weigh her words with "respect and civility in mind."
