Last year, Billboard reported that 32 million people attend at least one music festival per year, and that 51 percent of Americans attended a live music event in 2015. That’s almost 164 million ticket sales in the United States alone. It’s gargantuan business, and major players like Ticketmaster, Ticketfly, and LiveNation face competition in plucky …
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Production While lineups have stayed largely stagnant in many areas of the scene, the production standards have been continuously growing and evolving, transforming the look, feel and vibe of festivals. EDM’s meteoric rise imposed levels of terrifying grandiosity on the audience. These days people are yearning to see something more organic and human. The Do …
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Anyone that has ever come through the tunnel and onto the Las Vegas Speedway during Electric Daisy Carnival will attest, there’s no festival in the world that can match it for decadence. With twelve stages, eighteen fairground rides, and about 450,000 people, it’s one of the world’s biggest dance music festivals and celebrated its 21st …
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Rock am Ring was actually the result of a simple typo, police revealed in a recent statement. German police ordered a full evacuation of Rock am Ring, one of the biggest music festivals in Germany, on its opening night causing more than 87,000 visitors to leave the festival grounds. “After a threat could not be …
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