When Live Music Goes Viral: How’s Everybody Feeling Out There?
As the music industry's biggest festivals cancel their summer plans, here are three great events with relatively moderate crowd sizes that are very much still on the books.
Sea.Hear.Now Is The Festival That Could Only Happen In Asbury Park
Sea Hear Now isn't just an instant success. It's also the only festival where you can hear Joan Jett shred a guitar while watching Quincy Davis shred the gnar.
Going Solo: Hit That Big Faraway Music Festival All On Your Own
So your friends all bailed? Well, maybe you don't have to eat that ticket. How to get out of your comfort zone and hit that faraway music fest all by yourself.
Third Eye Blind’s Stephan Jenkins: Inspired And Provoked, Right Now
Stephan Jenkins is one of the last genuine rock stars: multi-talented, multi-platinum, passionate, charismatic, outspoken.
Sea.Hear.Now and the Ascent of Asbury Park
Sea Hear Now is not just another upstart music festival, it might as well be the Official Comeback Party of Asbury Park.
Danny Clinch: The Harder I Worked, The Luckier I Got
Danny Clinch is a Grammy-nominated photographer, filmmaker, and musician. We caught up with him prior to the Sea.Hear.Now festival in Asbury Park.
Rockin’ In The Free World: Live Music in an Age of Uncertainty
Voodoo Fest has emerged as one of the biggest events in the industry, drawing huge lineups to beautiful, sprawling City Park.
Resorts May Vary: Hangout Thrives While Fyre Fest Dives
Music festivals don’t just happen out of nowhere, the way they did back in 1969. High-priced models might sell tickets, but actually putting on a show requires respect and understanding of the local community.
Voodoo Fest 2016: The Party After the Storm
Voodoo Fest has renewed and cemented its status as a festival giant, surpassing pre-Katrina sales records and spiking tourism in mid-city New Orleans.
New Orleans Jazz Fest 2016: Not Always Easy, But Bigger Than Ever
Over the past 46 years, Jazz Fest has ballooned into a rollicking seven-day monster, with a huge musical bill that stacks rock giants alongside legions of lesser-known local artists.
Firefly 2015: Mother Nature Imposes Crowd Control
The Firefly Music Festival drew 90,000 people this year- that's 200 percent growth in just three years. But on Saturday night, Mother Nature blessedly thinned the crowd.
Hangout Festival 2015: Rocking Gulf Coast Recovery
Back in 2010, the Hangout Music Festival, along with the entire Gulf of Mexico, was on life support. Five years later, it's one of the best music festivals in America.