The Werks House Party This years Werk Out Music and Arts Festival was another amazing weekend and a very different experience from my first two Werk Out’s for a number of reasons. For starters the attendance was a lot lower this weekend compared to my first two Werk Out’s (2015, 2016). This could have been […]
Written by Jillian Love As the electric current continues to surge through Salt Lake City and we all excitedly count down the final days until we are reunited on Energi Field for the fifth year, we also anticipate the return of one of EDM’s biggest breakthrough names to Salt Lake City–Slushii. A short two years […]
Yesterday, the family at Shambhala Music Festival in B.C. Canada was extremely disappointed to learn that on its 20th anniversary, the festival would close one day early. The festival issued an official announcement stating that due to multiple wildfire breakouts, it was too dangerous to keep the attendees on site. Over the course of the […]
Written by Mia Nissen It was the day of Vertex, and my 3 ½ hour drive to Buena Vista, CO was looming. With no idea what to expect for my first solo festival adventure, and my only companion being the Vertex Spotify playlist I had been incessantly listening to for the last month- I was […]
By Harrison Comfort Return of The Kid I never thought I’d go back to Indio, California. Coachella 2014, my first and only music festival, resulted in a feature-length screenplay about eight strangers in the desert. For research, I spent the weekend wandering from stage to stage attempting to understand why hundreds of thousands of people […]
Written by Jillian Love I spent several days shopping and then another day packing my van; now, I’m embarking on another two days driving from Woodside, California to Tidewater, Oregon to attend Beloved Festival. With so many festivals available, multiple festivals each weekend sometimes-you may ask “What drives me to travel 1300 miles round trip […]
Shambhala Music Festival issues fire warning UpNorth Music Festival cancelled Insomniac releases Escape lineup Rezz releases album Mass Manipulation Avicii releases EP Rezz hops on Deadmau5’s BBC 1 Guest Mix Destructo brings on multiple guests to his last set at Hard Summer Alice Glass releases first song in two years New Pendulum album in the […]
Photo by Sage Thomas Phoenix- the heat of summer is almost over and more importantly, fall festival season is quickly approaching! Superfly Presents is creating a never before seen festival for the people of the Valley this October and we, at Festival Squad, can’t wait to see what unfolds! From the makers of the iconic festivals of Bonnaroo […]
Photo from CBC Yesterday, Canadian festival Shambhala reported that it was taking a proactive step to inform patrons about a possible evacuation from the British Columbia site. Today, the festival took to the public to let them know that smoke should be the only concert of the weekend. The fire seems to be far enough […]
Its never a good day in the festie world when a music festival is cancelled. Today, UpNorth Music & Arts Festival, held in Northern Michigan, took to its social accounts and website to let its fans know that the festival will not taking place in 2017. The festival explains the complications behind the sudden announcement, […]