The Music Festival Blog
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...
Comic-Con San Diego 2026: Complete Guide to SDCC July 23-26
The first thing that hits you at San Diego Comic-Con is not the scale of the convention centre or the length of the Hall H queue. It is the cosplay...
Tomorrowland 2026: Complete Guide to Belgium's CONSCIENCIA Festival
De Schorre is a recreation area in the municipality of Boom, roughly 25 kilometres south of Antwerp, and for fifty weeks of the year it is a forest and parkland...
Electric Castle 2026: Complete Guide to Romania's Banffy Castle Festival
The Bánffy Castle sits in the village of Bonþida, 27 kilometres north of Cluj-Napoca, and it is genuinely crumbling in places. The 15th-century Transylvanian castle has been under restoration for...
Electric Love Festival 2026: Complete Guide to Austria's Salzburgring Festival
The Salzburgring is a race track. A proper one — built in 1969, 4.2 kilometres of tarmac pressed into the valley east of Salzburg between Koppl and Plainfeld, with a...
Ultra Europe 2026: Complete Guide to Split Croatia's Biggest Festival
Split does not ease you in. You land at a small airport, take a taxi through the coastal scrub, and then the old town appears and you understand that you...
Kappa FuturFestival 2026: Complete Guide to Turin's Sold-Out Techno Festival
Parco Dora used to be a Fiat factory. The buildings that now frame the main stages were assembly lines for the cars that built Turin’s 20th-century industrial identity. The factory...












