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“Just vibes curated for influencer culture”: Reggie Watts just summed up everyone's Coachella experience
By Daniel Griffiths published
As we head into Coachella 2025’s second weekend the festival's naysayers are only getting louder

Fyre is extinguished: Billy McFarland’s ‘luxury’ festival is postponed indefinitely
By Will Simpson published
‘The Greatest Party That Never Happened’ never happened again

“Almost inhumane and a form of torture": Psytrance festival is cancelled after just 11 complaints
By Will Simpson published
But organisers hadn’t monitored sound levels properly

The Curse of Coachella: Bad sound, bad gigs and even worse audiences
By Daniel Griffiths published
As the big gig in the middle of nowhere wraps with the usual storm of complaints and controversy, we take a look at why it's become the place where gigs go wrong

More fees and spiralling ticket prices: When you buy a gig ticket, where does your money really go?
By Daniel Griffiths published
With the LiveNation and Ticketmaster merger under legal threat in the U.S. a new report has broken down each dollar of an average gig ticket

“Such a raging asshole”: Which one time Lollapalooza headliner could Wayne Coyne be talking about?
By Will Simpson published
Beef dates back to Smashing Pumpkins man being "just horrible" during Lollapalooza in '94

“KIKI BOY 2025”: Frank Ocean appears to be teasing something...or other
By Will Simpson published
Billboard with those words has appeared on the road to Coachella

Has Fyre really gone out?: Billy McFarland’s festival will be limited to just 250 guests and just 12 hours of music
By Will Simpson published
That’s if it even happens at all
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