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20 Years of Lightning

20 Years of Lightning – Do LaB Announces Lineup for Lightning in a Bottle 2023

Do LaB have announced the musical lineup for the 20th anniversary of Lightning in a Bottle, North America’s original boutique festival taking place Memorial Day Weekend at Buena Vista Lake in Southern California this May 24-29, 2023. LIB will present an array of top-tier music curation, creative art and immersive environments, and educational classes and workshops — a furthering of its 20 year mission to inspire creativity and foster interconnection. Read more

Renegade Party Guide 101: Everything You’ll Need to Know Off the Grid

In the realm of raves, we all know the typical locations most dance floors tend to gather on. You have your established club venues, massively scaled festivals, the underground warehouse parties, and a plethora of other places around the city and surrounding areas to dance at. Those are good and fun as they are pretty standard these days, but they’re not the only places to party. What about for those who are tired of the city vibes? For those adventurous ones that like to blaze the unbeaten path? For those that want to get away from the typical routine of societal living in general? If you find yourself feeling like that, have no fear; you may just be a renegade, and in that case it’s about time you get yourself to a renegade party. Read more

illegal rave

Man Hiking in the Yorkshire Moors Accidentally Ends up at Illegal Rave

A man who went on a solo adventure through the Yorkshire Moors over the weekend said that he accidentally ended up at an illegal rave.

Leeds-born Oliver Broome was hiking on Saturday, April 2, after solo camping in Bradford, Yorkshire Live reports.

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Elements Music Festival

Elements Music Festival Announces Its 2022 Lineup

On August 19-22, 2022, Elements Festival announces its biggest lineup for phase one that they have ever booked to celebrate their fifth anniversary. With amplified stage production spanning every genre in electronic music, the final lineup will feature over 100+ roster of artists at a scenic and new location in the tranquil fields of Long Pond, Pennsylvania. This new site provides built-in food, water, parking, car camping, and safety infrastructure.

As always, the festival will have a unique aesthetic of equal parts perfect production, and a psychedelic neon jungle filled with art installations that can be comparable to that of a fever dream. Of course, a festival that is a spectacle is one that is most unforgettable.

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A Guide to Music Festival Packing

Music festivals are an experience in themselves. It’s not just the performances that makes them memorable, it is also about being there in the venue and relishing the atmosphere these festivals provide, whether you are there by yourself or sharing the experience with friends,

One important key element in having such a memorable music festival experience is making sure you have everything you need. As anything can happen, especially the unexpected, it is important to be at least prepared and know what to do given any circumstance that could arise. It is thus important to pack smart whenever you attend a music festival.

One of the challenges of packing for a music festival is that there are so many things to bring that it can be easy to forget the true essentials. Below is a list of items we suggest you always bring with you:

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The Only Tent You Will Ever Need For Burning Man, And Every Other Camping Festival After

Ten days of beautiful and unforgettable memories. Ten days of unimaginable art and mesmerizing music. Ten days of new friendships, random encounters and rollercoaster ups-and-downs. Ten days of sunshine, blue skies and sudden dust storms. Ten days of scorching desert heat and ten nights of freezing-cold temperatures.

Burning Man is all of that and more: one of the most extreme festival experiences with changes so acute it’s known to be a ten-day test of the body, the spirit and the mind, which is why people walk away from Burning Man with renewed spirit, newfound purpose and memories to last a lifetime.

How you choose to live Burning Man, or any other camping festival for that matter, can have a large say in how you walk away from the experience. Camping at Burning Man, or other music and arts festivals, doesn’t have to be painful and full of sacrifices. How? With the SHIFTPOD, voted the number one best innovation for Black Rock Desert camping. Awarded several design and materials patents for their award winning products, the SHIFTPOD 2017 line provides more headroom, black out flies, door screens, military grade Kevlar stitching, and new double-sealed seam system for the best weather protection available, no matter the temperature or conditions. Light weight yet heavy duty, the SHIFTPOD is the most reliable shelter for the worst conditions imaginable, no matter whether you use it as a disaster shelter, on extreme camping trips or for you festival needs.

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