BY: CHARLIE FINGER What is it with Riot Fest booking all these bands at these specific times on this specific weekend?  It’s ridiculous.  Unrelated, but I FULLY blamed the guy who ran the Riot Fest Twitter account for the rain …

Music Director Amany goes over the top 10 things that she experienced during days 2 & 3 of SXSW Music Festival.

Author: WSUM Staff   This weekend, Pitchfork Music Festival 2018 went down at Union Park in Chicago. A few of us from WSUM headed down there to check out one of the most interesting and diverse festival lineups of the …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich What a year for Lollapalooza. 26 years in, this festival knows what it’s doing. For the most part, Lollapalooza has remained consistent from year to year, but it turns more into …

Authors: David Heinrich & Jake Walczyk This year marks the 26th Lollapalooza in Chicago. The fest has expanded to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Germany, and most recently France. However, like a delicious Portillo’s hot dog, it all started …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich On its 50th anniversary, Summerfest made the world’s largest music festival into even more of a spectacle this year. Expectations were high, but they certainly did not disappoint. Boasting arguably their …

Author: Brittany Moreno & Maureen Duthie Excited “happy forest” proclamations dance in the air. A dangling fan-fare of umbrellas draw Electric Forest attendees into the welcoming arms of the forest and the gigantic wooden mother nature statue …

Author: Izzy Fradin With Pitchfork just a few weeks away, WSUM is getting geared up for our long weekend in Chicago. This year is an especially exciting lineup featuring old school classics like Parliment Funkadelic and the Feelies, along with …

Authors: Jake Walczyk & David Heinrich For 11 days during the transition starting June 28th, over 900,000 people will walk the grounds of Henry Maier Festival Park in Milwaukee to celebrate summer with cold beer, delicious food, …

Author: Maureen Duthie Festivals stand alone from the daily on goings of life—a reprieve, a separate world—and Electric Forest stands as one of the most surreal. Eight days, two weekends of electronic, jam-bands, and sprinkles of drum …

Author: Jake Walczyk On June 7, 2017, I took a 9 hour car ride to another world. As I entered through the gates into this foreign land, a sea of tents stretched as far as one’s eye could …

Author: Jake Walczyk Bonnaroo is creole for “best on the street”, and on Music Festival Avenue, it makes a strong argument for it. For four days in June, a desolate farm in Manchester, Tennessee turns into a …