festivals 2016
Faces of the Gathering of the Juggalos
At the 17th annual Gathering, we captured the make up and glory of the Juggalos and Juggalettes in Ohio.
Lord Have Merci: How I Ended up in Quebec Wearing a Red Hot Chili Peppers Fedora
I partied with Flo Rida's agent and watched a ton of French rap at the Festival d'Eté.
Pitchfork Music Festival: The Pokémon Go Scouting Report
Pokémon Go, as it already has with so many other aspects of reality, quickly threw the entire enterprise of music festivals into existential peril.
Forget Crappy Sex in a Tent... Can You Find True Love at a Music Festival?
Away from Tinder's glacier of dick pics, could these outdoor conventions be the last hope in switching off and finding true love? I went to a festival's "Cupid's Singles Club" to find out.
"No Assholes Allowed:" Iceland's Eistnaflug Fest Is the Most Fun a Metalhead Can Have This Side of Hell
We spent a weekend way up North worshipping black metal and dancing to Perturbator beneath the midnight sun.
A 24-Hour Portrait of a Man at Glastonbury
We followed the same guy around the festival with a camera for 24 hours to document his search for hedonistic enlightenment. Here's what happened...
Hangin' with the Heavy Metal Party People of Hellfest
We went all the way to Hellfest, and all we got were a bunch of hilarious photos of metalheads behaving badly.
Here's All the Weird Shit We Saw at Glastonbury
A visual dispatch from the festival where weird shit goes to die, only to be reborn again as even weirder shit.
Do We Need a Women’s Only Venue at Glastonbury?
"It’s not easy for girls to go out at night and feel entirely comfortable the whole time, which is a shame. A place like this is a short-term solution but it’s a solution nonetheless."
Stop, Sit, and Witness All the Highlights from Glastonbury 2016
To bring some efficiency to your FOMO, here are all the festival's greatest moments in one place—from David Bowie sing alongs to BBK storming the Pyramid Stage on mountain bikes.
Here's a Video of Adele Making Every Single Person at Glastonbury Cry
“I’ll start with a few upbeat songs, but from then it’s just gonna get a bit miserable I’m afraid!”
Four Days and No Nights: A Bleary-Eyed Journey to Iceland's Secret Solstice Festival
Twenty-four-hour sun's out, guns out.