RIOT FEST 2025: THE WORLD’S LARGEST GROUP THERAPY SESSION, SPONSORED BY EVERYONE WHO STILL OWES STUDENT LOANS By Luka Varga, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Chicago, Illinois – In a year when half the planet’s coastlines are negotiating new real-estate deals with the ocean, Riot Fest 2025 arrived like a three-day ransom note written in distortion…
Download Festival 2026: The Planet’s Loudest Apocalypse Rehearsal Byline: From a muddy field somewhere in the East Midlands and, regrettably, everywhere else. If the Doomsday Clock ever strikes midnight, the planet will probably be too busy queuing for £14 pints to notice. That, at least, is the working hypothesis behind Download Festival 2026, the annual…
Innings Festival 2026: The United States Invents a Five-Day Vacation from Reality, and the Rest of the World Watches with Envy and Mild Disgust Tempe, Arizona—While half the planet toggles between wildfire alerts and flood warnings, the United States has once again solved the global crisis of general malaise by flying in thirty-five rock bands,…
