The Music Festival Blog
EXIT Festival 2026: Complete Guide to the Global Tour After Novi Sad
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...
Madrid Pride 2026: Complete Guide to Europe's Largest Pride Celebration
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...
Electric Forest 2026: Complete Guide to Rothbury Michigan's Magical Festival
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 Festival Los Angeles 2026: Complete Guide to Tomorrowland's US Debut
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...
Mysteryland 2027: Complete Guide to the World's Oldest Dance Music Festival
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...
Defqon.1 2026: Complete Guide to the World's Largest Hardstyle Festival
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...
Carolina Country Music Fest 2026: Complete Guide to CCMF Myrtle Beach
There is something specific that happens when a country headliner hits the stage at Myrtle Beach just as the sun is going down over the Atlantic. The sky turns that...
Ibiza Club Season 2026: Complete Guide to Opening Parties, Clubs and Residencies
The first time I landed in Ibiza for the season opening weekend, it was Friday afternoon and the island felt like it was holding its breath. The roads were clear,...
Sónar 2026: Complete Guide to Barcelona's Electronic Music Festival
The first thing that happens when you walk into Fira Gran Via for Sónar is the sound — not the music from a specific stage, but the ambient hum of...
São Paulo Pride 2026: Complete Guide to the World's Largest Pride Parade
Nothing in the European or North American festival calendar prepares you for Avenida Paulista on São Paulo Pride Sunday. The avenue is eight lanes wide and nearly three kilometres long,...
Windy City Smokeout 2026: Complete Guide to Chicago's Country BBQ Festival
The United Center sits on the west side of Chicago, in the shadow of the Eisenhower Expressway, in a neighbourhood that is not a neighbourhood for tourists. It is a...
Country Thunder Wisconsin 2026: Complete Guide to Twin Lakes Country Festival
Shadow Hill Ranch sits in Kenosha County, about as far south in Wisconsin as you can get before you are technically in Illinois. The lake is nearby — Lake Geneva,...












