Category: Festival Coverage

Festival Coverage

Wind Rider Music Festival: Where Music, Culture, BBQ & Recreation Meet for Memorial Day in New Mexico! [Event Preview]

  Within the homeland of the Mescalero Apache lie four sacred mountains.  These four mountains represent the direction of everyday life for the Apache people. Tribal elders would often speak of a sacred place called Sierra Blanca. It was there that the creator gave life to the Apache Peoples. It was on Sierra Blanca, according […]

May 10, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Old Settlers Music Festival Celebrates 30 Years In Grand Style [Festival Review]

Old Settlers Music Festival celebrated 30 years of good times with a weekend unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. Old Settlers offers a gourmet samplings of the best singer songwriters, jam bands, bluegrass and Americana you can find – bringing in Grammy winning Los Lobos from LA to headline along with locally grown Austin heroes like […]

May 7, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Gorillaz Invade Austin City Limits 2017: Lineup drop includes Red Hot Chili Peppers, Chance the Rapper, Vulfpeck and more [#DroolMode]

Austin City Limits has been a big deal for a while now, bringing out the big guns year after year for the fall concert event at Austin’s Zilker Park. But late last night, I heard some serious news:     ACL announced the 2017 lineup – and Gorillaz have top billing. Having recently dropped their newest album, […]

May 4, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

California Roots Music and Arts Festival Expands 2017 Greening Efforts; Dive Deep Into Sustainability Efforts Here [Event Preview]

One of California’s leading music and arts festivals, California Roots Music and Arts Festival, is taking initiatives to expand its greening efforts for the upcoming 2017 festival taking place the weekend of May 26th-28th, 2017, in the lovely Monterey, CA. The festival brings top tier reggae and roots music to the area’s deeply rooted music […]

May 3, 2017 Read →

East Coast

Disc Jam Music Festival 2017… It just keeps getting better! Lineup additions + ticket details | June 8th -11th, 2017 [#DroolMode]

Recently added to Disc Jam Music Festival, jamtronica experts G-Nome Project and Wobblesauce are great additions to what is undoubtedly one of the best lineups this festival season! Hailing from Israel, G-Nome Project combines psychedelic electronica with catchy melodies and chugging beats, lacing in gut busting solos along the way.  In a very natural rhythm they […]

May 1, 2017 Read →

East Coast

DelFest: All you need to know & more for the 10th year of this Maryland festival May 25-28 [Event Preview]

Memorial Day weekend typically kicks off the beginning of summer. More importantly, Memorial Day weekend signals the start of festival season. If you’re a bluegrass or progressive string music fan that can only mean one thing: DelFest! DelFest is a four-day, medium sized, traditional bluegrass and progressive string music festival set in the beautiful Allegany […]

Apr 28, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

See you in Mexico for Strings & Sol with Yonder Mountain, Railroad Earth, Fruition, Leftover Salmon & More Dec. 8-12 [Event Preview]

Four days of bluegrass on the beach returns to Puerto Morelos, Mexico, December 8th-12th, 2017. Strings & Sol, back for its fifth installment, brings the best in bluegrass to paradise near Cancun for an intimate tropical slice of string heaven right in time for that holiday vacation. Guests stay at either the Now Sapphire or Dreams Riviera […]

Apr 27, 2017 Read →

Electronic

Not for the faint of (Desert) Heart(s) | March 31st – April 3, 2017 [Photo Gallery + Festival Review]

    As the sun went down on Friday, my crew and I approached Los Coyotes Indian Reservation and the night started to show its cold, brisk smile. Traffic had been hellish getting out of San Diego and LA—which is where our two cars had respectively left from—but by the time we reached the gate, the […]

Apr 26, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Phunkberry Music Festival announces talent stacked live artist bill; ONLY TEN DAYS until we are on The Farm [Event Preview]

Only ten short days until we are basking the warm Arkansas sun, surrounded by the Ozarks and our closest Phunky phamily. Deadhead Productions is taking Phunk to a whole nother level with the the inaugural Phunkberry Music Festival. Taking place the weekend of May 4th-6th at The Farm in Eureka Spring, Arkansas, Phunkberry aims to […]

Apr 24, 2017 Read →

Festival Coverage

Three Rappers Who Are Going To Blow You Away At Middlelands [Festival Preview]

Middlelands, the second festival to come to the Texas Renaissance Fairgrounds this year, has a stacked lineup of EDM brought to you  courtesy of C3 Events and Insomniac. But don’t let the focus fool you – there are some stellar rappers on the lineup. In case you missed it, here are my top three rappers performing at […]

Apr 19, 2017 Read →