The Music Festival Blog

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Petrovaradin Fortress sits on a limestone cliff above the Danube in Novi Sad, Serbia, and looks exactly like a fortress should look — ramparts, towers, tunnels carved into the...

Every Pride in the world has a parade. Madrid Pride, which the Spanish call Orgullo and which the organisers brand as MADO, is the only one where the city genuinely...

Sherwood Forest at night is not a metaphor. It is a specific section of the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan — a stand of mature trees on a working...

CORE began as a stage inside Tomorrowland’s Belgian fields — a forest clearing with a split-face sculptural design that Tomorrowland’s in-house creative team built entirely themselves, and which became one...

When the world’s oldest dance music festival announces it is taking a year off, you pay attention to the reason. Mysteryland did not cancel 2026 because of poor ticket sales...

Most people who have never been to Defqon.1 assume it is simply a louder version of a normal festival. They are wrong in a specific and important way. The hardstyle...