It’s the season of music festivals, plein air drug markets with bands. But go easy on the hippies. Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music Festival habitually has drug-related deaths–at least 13 since a 22-year-old reportedly intoxicated man was run over and killed while trying to cross the highway last year.
Fyre Festival, the “luxury” music festival hosted by Ja Rule that turned out to be a terrifying empty Bahamian beach covered in unbuilt furniture and wild dogs, already has several lawsuits stacked against it for fraud. And now, just when you thought it could not get any worse, the festival is reportedly being…
Instead of a fun weekend of music and luxury, the inaugural year of the Fyre Festival turned into hours of torment for hundreds of music fans. Co-created by Ja Rule, the festival was originally billed as an experiential event, complete with fine dining and perks, but guests soon realized the odds were not in their…
Ja Rule has finally commented on his nightmare Fyre Festival, insisting that this was “NOT A SCAM” and “NOT MY FAULT” and that his priority is getting people off the island.
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.
Coachella is better known for its #corporate #sponsorships than its barrier-breaking celebrity fashion, but this year the relentless boho vibe seems to have been shaken off somewhat and replaced by something... not bad, overall? Like, some of it was cute. In my opinion.
Global warming! Fingers typing! Fast traffic! Wind and rain! Eyeballs! We’re all going to die, VERY soon—unless you attend the Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas. There, you will be spared from fear, loss, and the inevitable wrath of Kim Jong Un, protected by an incredible technicolor force field of rave sweat and…
Festival fashion —with its fringe and floppy hats and Stevie-Nicks-would-never floaty dresses—will probably never die. But if you’re going to Coachella this year and feel compelled to participate in the gross sartorial tradition of dressing like you spent your gap year learning macrame and doing yoga on an Indonesian…
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…
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.
The busiest time at Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago isn’t Halloween or the Fourth of July. It’s the weekend of Lollapalooza, when teen festival goers—rather than chilling out to some Radiohead—are getting so fucked up on drugs or booze that they’re brought to the hospital in droves.
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.
