#Music Festivals

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PLAYING THE BAYTwin Peaks Promoters Expand Community With Two-Day Twin Shrieks Fest

Twin Peaks Sessions organizers Jonathan Abrams, Rianne Garrido and Michael Donnelly. Photo by Trevor Skinner. While ascending the steps to the upper level at Twin Shrieks fest, I almost knocked over someone's plate of watermelon. "Sorry!" I mouthed into the dark, settling down to watch the next set...

Sophia Vaccaro

HIGH NOTESHow to Return to Your Life After a Wild Festival Weekend

A weekend of partying at a music festival may leave you feeling like the human equivalent of these overflowing Glastonbury trash cans. Most people don’t spend music festivals worrying about how they’ll feel after all the shouting, head-banging, and (if you're into that sort of thing) drug use is...

Annie White

HIGH NOTESWhy Drug Testing Works — and Why More Festivals Don't Do It

An at-home drug testing kit available via DanceSafe If you grew up in the US, you probably heard “say no to drugs” in middle school health class, but you probably didn’t learn how to reduce harm if you did use drugs. And, chances are, you didn’t follow DARE’s advice. The majority of American adults...

Annie White

NEWS ROUNDUPSt. Vincent Producing Sleater-Kinney LP, Woodstock Returns, and More

sleater-kinney and st. vincent, hollywood, ca, jan 2019. photograph by jonny cournoyer New Year, New Music By Lindsey Rhoades Sleater-Kinney is in the Studio... Producing an Album with St. Vincent If this tweet didn't warm your riot grrl heart, we don't know what will. Though details are scant (no...

Lindsey Rhoades

How the #MeToo Movement Could Make Music Festival Season Safer

When I was 16 my most essential possession was a small backpack. It was made of a simple worn-in cloth, the fabric comprised of a colorful rainbow of stripes. The colors weren’t overtly vibrant, instead dulled, to give the desired vintage effect. It was a small bag and would fit no more than a cell...

Desdemona Dallas

HIGH NOTES6 Ways to Make a Music Festival Exciting Without Drugs

When I first started going to music festivals, drugs were among their main appeal. Then, my body started telling me it couldn’t handle drugs like it used to, so I had to get creative. Over several sober weekends, I developed methods to preserve festivals’ excitement without the illicit substances....

Annie White

HIGH NOTESMy Struggle to Get Through a Music Festival Drug-Free

“I’ve been microdosing Mali all day.” For some reason, when someone told me this at EDC Vegas last year, I pictured it spelled like the country. I only knew three things about pure MDMA, otherwise known as "Molly": that it had been used to treat PTSD, that an OKCupid date in San Francisco who said...

Annie White

NEWS ROUNDUPFyre Festival Debacle, Grandaddy Cancels Tour and More

This Fyre Festival Situation Keeps Getting Weirder First came the memes, then the first-hand accounts from attendees and former staff. Then came the offer to give guests VIP tickets for next year in lieu of a refund - an offer that people are actually taking them up on, even though the organizers...

Emily Daly

NEWS ROUNDUPMusic Festivals, YACHT, and Other Music Closure

[Insert Joke About YACHT’s PR Stunt Sinking Like The Titanic] Earlier this week, you may have seen some hasty news reports about YACHT taking to Facebook to ask fans not to watch a sex tape of the couple that was leaked by a third party. They received an outpouring of sympathy, and a few hours...

Emily Daly

PREVIEWWho to Catch at Governor's Ball

Governor's Ball is New York's rain or shine music festival that is the official kick off of the summer. We all love to hate it, and hate to love it. There's twelve dollar Foster beers, long-ass ferry lines, and kids on weird drugs. Most importantly though, there is always an awesome bill . I think...

Megan Huffman