The Music Festival Blog
What Sunglasses Suit Your Face Shape? The Complete 2026 Guide
I have a confession: I spent years buying sunglasses based entirely on whether they looked good on the display stand. Round ones, square ones, tiny nineties frames that were having...
UNTOLD Festival 2026: Complete Guide to Romania's Largest Festival
Cluj-Napoca is a university city in Transylvania with about 300,000 residents, a strong tech economy, and one of Romania’s most active cultural scenes. For the first week of August it...
Electric Zoo 2026: Complete Guide to NYC's Electronic Music Festival
Electric Zoo is New York City’s festival — which is a more complicated status than it sounds. New York does not have a natural festival habitat. There is no field,...
Caribana Toronto 2026: Complete Guide to North America's Largest Caribbean Carnival
The Grand Parade at Toronto Caribbean Carnival does not begin gradually. One moment you are standing on Lakeshore Boulevard watching the empty road, and the next moment there is a...
Notting Hill Carnival 2026: Complete Guide to Europe's Largest Street Festival
Ladbroke Grove at carnival time smells of jerk chicken before you can see anything. The smoke from the oil drum barbecues that line the pavements is the first signal that...
Oktoberfest 2026: Complete Guide to the Munich Beer Festival
The first thing you notice at the Theresienwiese is the sound. Before you enter the tent, before you lift a Stein, before the oompah band launches into its third consecutive...
HARD Summer 2026: Complete Guide to LA's Biggest Electronic Festival
Hollywood Park is not a traditional festival venue. It is a 300-acre entertainment complex built around SoFi Stadium in Inglewood — flat, urban, surrounded by the Los Angeles freeway infrastructure...
Dekmantel 2026: Complete Guide to Amsterdam's Underground Electronic Festival
There is a particular quality to Dekmantel that becomes clear only after you have been once. It is not the lineup — although the lineup is extraordinary. It is not...
Burning Man 2026: Complete Guide to Black Rock City Axis Mundi
The Black Rock Desert is not a festival venue. It is a playa — an ancient dry lakebed in the high desert of northwestern Nevada, flat and white and cracked...
Lollapalooza Chicago 2026: Complete Guide to Grant Park July 30-August 2
Grant Park sits between the Chicago Loop and Lake Michigan, which is one of the great urban accidents in American geography. A city that could have turned its back to...
WorldPride Amsterdam 2026: Complete Guide to Canal Parade & Events
On April 1, 2001, the Netherlands became the first country on earth to legalise same-sex marriage. The ceremony took place in Amsterdam at midnight, presided over by the city’s mayor,...
Sensation Amsterdam 2026: Complete Guide to the White Dress Code Festival
The dress code is the first thing anyone tells you about Sensation: everyone wears white. Not festival-white, not off-white, not “I found a white shirt.” White. The Johan Cruijff Arena...
