15 tips to maximize your festival experience
Music festivals are a world of fun but require a little planning if you want the experience to run as smoothly as possible. We've compiled a list of useful tips drawn from our own exposure with these events -- in hopes that you can learn from the mistakes we've seen and made ourselves. Festivals are unpredictable and inevitably something will go wrong, but we think these tips will help reduce potential setbacks.
DA’s Ultimate Guide to Festival season 2012: tickets, lineups, dates, and locations
There is no shortage of festivals to attend this summer, and we have a roundup of all the biggest ones set to take place in North America — and the world! Shows like EDC Las Vegas, Spring Awakening Music Festival, Lollapallooza, Electric Forest, Boonstock, Camp Bisco, IDentity, and many many more, it looks like there has never been a better summer if you're into all things EDM.
Spring Awakening Festival to hit Chicago in June: Skrillex and Afrojack, but no Daft Punk
There have been rumors of an EDM-oriented festival hitting Chicago's Soldier Field this summer; now we can confirm that the Spring Awakening Festival will take place on June 16th and 17th with Afrojack and Skrillex topping the bill.