From someone who has gone to a festival (*cough* *cough* 2018 Coachella), I strongly suggest adding it to your bucket list. For starters, you’d have the opportunity to plan outfits; tailor your friend group so that you won’t have to be with people you don’t really fuck with; and overall, trust me, you’d have a ball! Also, what’s not to love about a good-ass festival with good-ass as music. Granted, you’d have to do a lot of walking (at least that’s what it was like at Coachella) and spend a shit ton of money on food (sorry, it’s the truth!). But hey, who cares? As long as you’re with your friends, nothing else would matter!
Published a year ago, August 12, 2020, thissongissick.com released 10 festivals that will be happening, guess what, this year! I don’t know if it’s just me but I’ve been dying to get outside the house. If you’re like me, then music is what keeps me going: good music (I prefer EDM)! So, here are three things you must do! 1: Start saving up your money! 2: start planning outfits! I know it sounds silly, but because this world has been on mute for a whole year, I’m sure people aren’t coming to slay! And three, which is the most important: Figure out who’d you want to spend your time with for three consecutive days! After you’re done doing that, begin sending out group messages to those core group of friends because once again, it’s go time! 2021 is a new year, which means nothing is off-limits.
1. Outside Lands
Date: August 6-8, 2021
Location: San Francisco, California
Most excited for: “The City by the Bay will be hosting some of our favorites such as Tame Impala, Tyler, The Creator, ZHU, Khruangbin, and Polo & Pan.”
2. Primavera Sound
Date: June 2-6, 2021
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Most excited for: “Gorillaz, Jamie xx, Disclosure… just to name a few. This is one easily worth traveling overseas for and is considered by many to be one of the best music festivals in the world.”
3. Summer Camp
Date: May 29-31, 2021
Location: Chillicothe, Illinois
Most excited for: “The one festival where you can enjoy jam bands, bass-heavy DJs, and hip-hop legends Three 6 Mafia. Yeah, count us in. There will not be a single dull moment at Summer Camp next year.”
4. Riot Fest
Date: September 17-19, 2021
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Most excited for: “With My Chemical Romance confirmed, along with Lupe Fiasco performing 2007’s The Cool, Riot Fest is gearing up to be a full-on nostalgia overload. These are some rare performances that we are NOT going to miss.”
5. Imagine Festival
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6. Buku
Date: March 19-20, 2021
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Most excited for: “Buku has the opportunity of being one of the first festivals to take place in 2021. If they’re able to move forward, it would be a glorious celebration of our return to music festivals. We have seven months to conquer this pandemic so we can all go party in New Orleans.”
7. Hangout Fest
Date: May 15-17, 2021
Location: Gulf Shores, Alabama
Most excited for: “Does anything sound better than hanging out on the beach with your friends while some of the biggest names in music play on a massive stage in front of you? That’s all we want right now.”
8. EDC Las Vegas
Date: May 21-23, 2021
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Most excited for: “All levels of PLUR will be exponentially amplified when over 100,000 of the world’s happiest ravers come together in Las Vegas again. A festival that radiates positivity will be taken to levels in 2021.”
9. Ultra
Date: March 26-28, 2021
Location: Miami, Florida
Most excited for: “With Ultra and WMC being music mecca at the beginning of each spring, you can bet that Miami is going to absolutely explode once it’s time to reconvene in 2021. We want to be there for every second of Miami Music Week next year.”
10. Electric Forest
Date: TBA (estimated late June 2021)
Location: Rothbury, Michigan
Most excited for: “Forest was getting ready to deliver their highly-anticipated Decade One celebration for 2020 after 10 wildly successful years. With a full year off, you can bet the folks at Forest HQ are going to put everything they got into 2021, making this edition one of the most epic festivals in their history.”
Finally, here are my last words: be safe, and don’t do anything you know your mom wouldn’t approve of!
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