festivals 2016
Me, My Mom, and Paul McCartney: From the Iron Curtain to the California Desert
Fifty years after she discovered The Beatles at secret listening parties in Communist Hungary, I took my mom to her first music festival at Desert Trip.
Desert Daze Is a Strange Trip of a Festival, and It Kicks Ass
The weekender is a mental and physical escapade to the sand-y confines of a prehistoric enclave.
We Reminisced About Music and Drugs with Baby Boomers at Oldchella
Rock n roll's original fans share their first times, weird times, and some choice words of advice at Desert Trip 2016.
People Try to Put Us Down: The Who Fight Fading Away at Desert Trip
The Who merely remain a very good rock n’ roll band, slightly slower and stiff, sweating hard but intractable and powerful enough.
How Neil Young Became the Greatest Old Man in Rock
In his Desert Trip performance he showed the virtues aging and the value of never trying to be cool.
At Desert Trip, The Rolling Stones Continue to Cheat Death
At a festival dubbed "Oldchella," there was something life affirming in watching a band scoff at their expiration date.
Teens, J Cole, Half of Kanye: A Diary of The Meadows (in a Parking Lot)
Like a tailgate, but different.
Reintroducing Preoccupations
After a name change and personal turmoil, the post-punks formerly known as Viet Cong tells us how starting over made them a better band and a better new album.
Here's Why Desert Stars Is the Chill Antithesis of Every Other Festival in America
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Dinosaur Jr., Sloan, and a few 1000 music fans decamped the Joshua Tree for some good times.
Wonderful, Everyday: Scenes from Chance the Rapper's Magnificent Coloring Day
Photographer Bryan Allen Lamb was there for performances from Kanye West, 2 Chainz, Lil Wayne, and Chance himself.
Desert Daze Add King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, METZ, and More to Their Already Stellar Bill
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, METZ, Al Lover's Dronal Dissonance, and Les Sins join the lineup for the Joshua Tree party.
Is K Road the Best Damn Street In New Zealand?
We went to the Others Way Festival to find out what people think of Auckland’s most notorious street.