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2027 Music Festival Calendar: Dates, Night Temperatures and What to Pack for 66 Festivals
Twelve empty squares and a whole year of dance floors to fill. Our 2027 music festival calendar lists 66 festivals month by month, with every official date we could confirm,... Read more...
Missed Connection on Deck Twelve: A Festival Cruise Love Story
Miami let go of the ship one channel marker at a time. Read more...
The Beetle Who Rolls the Sun: The Story Behind Golden Scarab
Every festival has a moment the veterans call church: the last set before dawn, when the whole dance floor turns to face east. The ancient Egyptians had a god for... Read more...
Who Moved the Scarab? A Desert Burn Mockumentary From Southern Jordan
Rust-and-honey sandstone mountains, four hundred campers, house and bass rolling until dawn. Then a three-meter golden scarab vanished from the center of camp. Read more...
Bonnaroo Outfits: What to Wear on the Farm in Manchester, Tennessee (and the 2027 Rest Year)
Numbered balloons over the plazas, tapestries swaying from shade canopies and a hoodie waiting in the tent. Here's what to wear to Bonnaroo on The Farm. Read more...
Coachella Outfits 2027: What to Wear From Desert Heat to Indio's Chilly Nights
Palm-lined polo fields, a desert afternoon and a night that cools fast. Here's what to wear to Coachella 2027 in Indio: one statement piece for the sun and one warm... Read more...
Chakra Colors and Meanings: The Seven Chakras in Art (and on a Festival Cloak)
Seven wheels of color climb the back of a cloak on the dance floor. Here's where the chakras come from, why their colors became a rainbow, and how the art... Read more...
One Long Note: A Venice Acqua Alta DJ Story
He had brought her a pair of boots. Read more...
Item Thirty: A Baja Gray Whale Lagoon Love Story
At dusk the lagoon went violet, then pewter, then gold, and somewhere out on it a whale breathed. Read more...
Dye Sublimation on Cotton: Why It's a Breakthrough for All-Over-Print Festival Clothing
For years, all-over-print festival clothing meant polyester, because the dye behind it only bonds to synthetic fibers. Here's the chemistry in plain words, and what 100% cotton dye sublimation means... Read more...
Sacred Grounds: A Dawn Coffee Camp Story From a Desert Burn in Spain
The rule was painted on the lid of a white bucket, in Spanish and then in English: NOT ONE GROUND ON THE GROUND. Read more...
What to Wear to Glastonbury 2027: Mud, Sun and Arcadia After Dark
Four seasons, one farm, five days. Here's what to wear to Glastonbury 2027, from the first welly in the mud to the last song at the Stone Circle. Read more...
The Ring of Headlights: An Underground Desert Rave Story
The kick drum stops halfway through a bar. Ines knows every kind of techno silence. This is none of them. Read more...
Under One Hood: A Lightning-Storm Festival Love Story at a Mountain Burn
The first bolt hit the ridge in the middle of the breakdown. For one white second I could see every face in the meadow, tipped back toward the sky. Read more...
Dreamstate SoCal Outfits 2027: Trance Family Looks for the Queen Mary Waterfront
Flags up for the breakdown, kandi changing hands and the Queen Mary glowing over the water. Here's how to dress your trance family for Dreamstate SoCal 2027. Read more...
Gottwood Outfits 2027: What to Wear to Anglesey's Barn, Forest and Lake Weekend
Island woods, a lake with a stage on its shore and a barn that turns into a club. Here's what to wear to Gottwood 2027, from the Lawn in the... Read more...
O.Z.O.R.A. Festival Outfits 2027: What to Wear in the Hungarian Valley
Painted canopies, golden grass and a valley that cools fast after dark. Here's what to wear to O.Z.O.R.A. 2027, from the warm afternoons at Dádpuszta to the hood-up hours before... Read more...
T-10, Buddy: A Space Coast Rocket Launch Beach Party Story
At sunset the Atlantic turned the gray-violet of a mussel shell, and twelve miles up the shore a white tower stood lit on the horizon like a pin. Read more...
Bass Coast Outfits 2027: What to Wear in Merritt's River Valley (Heat, Dust and 3 a.m.)
Hot grass, a cool river and a bass line rolling down the valley. Here's what to wear to Bass Coast 2027, from the dusty afternoon to the hood-up hours by... Read more...
Northeast Music Festivals 2027: Pocono Forests, Vermont Burns and New York Warehouses
Hemlock smoke over a Vermont meadow, lasers in the Pocono pines and a Brooklyn courtyard under the stars. Here are the Northeast music festivals to plan for in 2027, with... Read more...
Desert Hearts Festival Outfits: One Stage, 72 Hours and Cold Nights in the Pines
Thunder rolls somewhere past the ponderosas, the kick drum answers, and nobody on the dance floor moves an inch. Desert Hearts outfits for one stage, 72 hours and monsoon nights... Read more...
Dirtybird Campout Outfits 2027: What to Wear in the Redwoods by the Eel River
Flamingo floats on the Eel River, field-day games in the meadow and a redwood night that drops into the low 50s. Here's what to wear to Dirtybird Campout x Northern... Read more...
What to Wear to a Jungle Festival in Costa Rica: Heat, Rain and Rainforest Nights
A river the temperature of your skin, a kimono on a branch and a cloak saved for the mountain road. What to wear to a jungle festival in Costa Rica,... Read more...
Clear at Both Ends: A Mother and Daughter Dig for Arkansas Quartz
The clay at the bottom of the pit is barn red and slick as frosting, and it keeps whatever you give it. Read more...
Fake Boyfriend, Real Fire: A Beach Regional Burn Love Story
Marco has twenty-nine hours to be my boyfriend. Read more...
Two for the Moon: A Renaissance Faire Rave Story of Rival Magicians
At a quarter to eleven the jousting field smelled of horse, kettle corn and pine sap, and two thousand people were dancing where knights had charged at noon. Read more...
Dreamstate Outfits 2026: What to Wear to a Trance Festival on the Long Beach Harbor
The sun has already set behind the harbor cranes, and the air tastes of salt. Dreamstate outfits for a damp Long Beach night, a flag on your shoulders and a... Read more...
Midwest Music Festivals 2027: Electric Forest, Lost Lands and Lakeside Bass
Corn rows, county roads and a bassline rolling out of the pines. Here are the Midwest music festivals worth the drive in 2027, from Minnesota soundsystems to Detroit techno and... Read more...
Burning Flipside Outfits 2027: What to Wear to Texas's Regional Burn
A showtune under the pecan trees, a river at the bottom of the hill and a storm deciding on its entrance. Here's what to wear to Burning Flipside 2027. Read more...
The Last Yes: A Galentine's Day Story From a Nashville Warehouse Party
Rain ticked on Darcy's kitchen window, and the oven clock rolled over to Saturday, February 13. Galentine's Day. Read more...
The 7:04 to Porto: A Lisbon All-Night Walk Love Story
Niamh always left at one. Read more...
The Strawberry on the Wrong Hood: A Spring House Music Festival Love Story
At nine in the morning the park was still wearing the ocean. Read more...
Hold the Line: A Cave Rave Story About a Knight, His Sister and a Night of Bass
The hill was breathing. A limestone mouth in a frozen hillside, exhaling a long white plume into the January dark. Read more...
Wheels Within Wheels: A Desert Festival Train Love Story
The train left the coast at sunset, eleven silver cars long, and by the time it reached the Sierra every window held a dancer. Read more...
The Biggest Tree on the Hill: A Forest Festival Story of Light Under the Moss
At 8:14 p.m. the forest floor woke up, and Hedda's radio woke up with it. Read more...
Hold the Sunrise: A Burner Wedding Story Told in Voicemails
Ione, it's your mother. I'm at the little airport. Don't make a thing of it. Read more...
Facing the Wrong Way: A Best-Friend Psytrance Festival Story From the Australian Bush
The departures board at LAX turned my Melbourne flight from white to red at 10:52 p.m., and I watched its lights lift off the far runway without me. Read more...
Meet Me Under the Salmon: A Big Sister's Family Festival Story
"One hour," Mom said, and dropped her old phone into Hazel's palm like a set of car keys. Read more...
Thirty Lights: A Techno Festival Story From a German Airfield
Jonas always counted the doors first. Fourteen addresses before his eighteenth birthday will teach you that. Read more...
Four Fingers of Sun: A House Music Festival Proposal Story
Nadia held her arm out straight, closed one eye, and stacked her fingers between the sun and the long dark ridge of Point Loma. Four fingers. An hour, give or... Read more...
The Weekend Fiancé: A Provence Lavender Harvest Love Story
The road climbed out of the valley, and then there was only lavender: rows combed violet to the edge of the sky. Read more...
One Night Only: A Queen of the Night Cactus Bloom Story
"No light on her." Read more...
Forty-Two Characters: A Budapest Thermal Bath Party Love Story
At thirty degrees the hot pool smoked like a kettle the size of a ballroom, and somewhere in the steam was the woman Ábel had been writing love notes to... Read more...
An Eye for the Sea: A Malta Harbor Festival Story
At five to seven I laid the back of my hand on the new plank, and it came away wet. Read more...
One Light Between Us: A Carpathian Night Trail Race Love Story
Sixty-one headlamps came on at once, and the beech forest stepped out of the dark to meet us. Read more...
Fixed or Floating: A Drone Show Love Story at a Harbor Techno Festival
The cranes stood along the quay with their booms raised, twelve rust-blue giants caught in the middle of a salute. Read more...
Everything Blue: A Festival Whodunit in the Byron Hinterland
The first thing to go was forty blue cable ties, and I blamed lighting. Read more...
The Sparrow on the Cuff: A Colorado Mountain Festival Story About a Tattoo Artist and a Fine-Line Mandala
The drop hit at 9:52 p.m., and every ink cap on Mireya Vigil's tray trembled like rain in a puddle. Read more...
Four Bars Late: A Circus Family Festival Story of a Teen Aerialist's First Solo
The tent breathed. That's what a big top does at dusk, when the fields give back the day's heat and the canvas lifts and settles on its lines like something... Read more...
The Stars Underground: A New Zealand Glowworm Cave Story
The stream runs straight at the hill and disappears. Read more...