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The winter edition of Belgian dance mega-festival Tomorrowland has announced a sprawling lineup for its event this March in the French Alps. The bill includes Tomorrowland regulars Afrojack, Amelie Lens, Steve Aoki, Axwell, Nervo, Armin van Buuren and Kolsch, along with a flurry of acts including Agents of Time, Joris Voorn, LP Giobbi, Hugel, Nina […]
Ultra Music Festival has added more than 50 artists to the lineup for its 2025 event this March in Miami.
New to the bill are techno legend Dubfire, who’ll be performing his 2022 album Evolv, melodic house star Gryffin, bass mainstays Knife Party, Claude VonStroke performing as his Barclay Crenshaw bass project, mainstage regulars Steve Aoki and Timmy Trumpet, along with Nico Morena, Stephan Bodzin, Joris Voorn, Kshmr, Tokimonsta, Odd Mob, Peekaboo, Said the Sky and many more.
Additionallly, Australian producer Partiboi69 will bring his Area 69 party to Ultra for the first time, with this stage takeover lineup including debut Ultra performance from Partiboi69 and KETTAMA’s Ketboi69 project, along with Partiboi69 b2b Juicy Romance and Skream playing b2b with Interplanetary Criminal.
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These artists join a previously announced lineup featuring Ultra regulars Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Afrojck, Tiësto, Martin Garrix and Hardwell, along with pairings including Anyma b2b Solomun and Knife Party alias Pendulum playing both solo and back to back with Deadmau5. This latter artist will also perform his first ever career-spanning “retro5pective” set, which will see the producer playing his classic hits.
Meanwhile, Swedish House Mafia’s Axwell will perform his first ever solo headlining set on the mainstage, Dom Dolla and John Summit will play for the first time in Miami with a mainstage set under their Everything Always name, and Above & Beyond will play the fest for the first time in six years. Richie Hawtin will also debut his DEX EFX X0X show at the event. Gesaffelstein will play Ultra for the first time in a decade.
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Ultra 2025 will also feature Zedd, Nero, Charlotte de Witte, Four Tet, Lsdream, Miss Monique, Subtronics, Mau P, Eli Brown, Artbat and many more.
Next year will mark the 25th edition of the festival, which returns to downtown Miami’s Bayfront Park on March 28-30. Tickets are on sale now.
See the lineup for Ultra Music Festival 2025 below:
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The second day of the 2024 Corona Capital Festival on Saturday (Nov. 16) turned into a multi-generational party that pleased the younger crowd with the high energy of Shawn Mendes, and the contemporary adult audience with the post-punk and Britpop of New Order and Travis. Amidst this, American singer-songwriter St. Vincent settled an old debt […]
San Diego’s CRSSD Festival will feature a cavalcade of artists at its spring 2025 edition, with the event announcing a lineup featuring French titans Justice, a DJ set from Jungle, elusive French maestro Kavinsky, Australian behemoth Fisher, masked producer Claptone, legends Sasha and Digweed, a b2b from Nicole Moudaber and Anfisa Letyago and a variety of other big and rising names in the global house and techno scene.
The lineup also includes SG Lewis, LP Giobbi, Busy P b2b Braxe & Falcon, Flight Facilities, Ben UFO, Monolink, Hayden James, Kita Alexander, Poolside, Joy (Anoymous), Cassius and more. See the complete lineup below.
General tickets for CRSSD Spring 2025 go on sale Nov. 20, after a pair of preceding presales open to longstanding attendees of the festival and fans who opt in through this link. The festival is a 21 and over event.
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The biannual festival, which also hosts a fall edition each year, will happen March 1-2, 2025, at its longstanding home in San Diego’s Waterfront Park. 2025 marks the 10-year anniversary of CRSSD, which launched amid the EDM boom as a boutique destination for house and techno fans in Southern Callifornia, a market then dominated by dance megafestivals like EDC and HARD. The festival is produced by FNGRS CRSSD.
In addition to the festival, the event’s CRSSD After Dark afterparty series will take place across clubs, venues, and converted spaces throughout San Diego. These events will feature artists from the lineup, in addition to other acts, with lineups for the party series to be announced in the coming months.
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Kid Rock is bringing back his cross-country Rock the Country music festival. The “All Summer Long” singer took to X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday (Nov. 12) to announce the second iteration of the festival, which he will headline alongside Nickelback, Hank Williams Jr. and Lynyrd Skynyrd. “JOIN THE MOVEMENT,” he captioned the event poster. “Rock […]
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The festival is set to return to Worthy Farm next year.
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SXM Music Festival will bring a sprawling crew of artists back to the beaches and hilltops of Saint Martin for the festival’s eighth edition in March.
The lineup for the 2025 fest includes house music pioneer Danny Tenaglia, techno globetrotter Nicole Moudaber, Afrohouse phenom Francis Mercier, U.K. progressive house stars CamelPhat, German house/techno legend Amê, house producer Layla Benitez and a crew of other house and techno artists from around the world, with additional artists to be announced in the coming months.
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The five-day fest, happening March 12-16, will also feature showcases from Defected Records, Israeli label Frau Blau and the New York label Indo Warehouse.
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Presale tickets for SXM 2025 go on sale Nov. 14, with general tickets going on sale the following day.
Founded by Julian Prince, SXM has happened on St. Martin since 2016 and typically draws attendees from more then 35 countries. The 2025 edition of the festival will once again take place in locations around the island, including a private villa, a Sunday morning sunrise party on the beach, and the annual Panorama Party that happens on the island’s highest hilltop. The event will also offer day trips including hikes and cultural excursions.
In 2017, after the island was devastated by Hurricane Irma — which left an estimated 95% of the French side of the island destroyed — SXM organizers collected more than $38,000 for the relief effort. The event was one of the few festivals to happen in 2020 before the pandemic shut down the live events space, and after a postponed 2021 event also due to the pandemic, returned to Saint Martin in 2022.
Along with music and partying, SXM focuses on leaving a small footprint and helping replenish the area’s natural environments via initiatives that include going paperless, saving energy with LED and solar lights, and eliminating plastic waste throughout the festival.
See the phase one lineup below:
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Seventeen years before Justice brought a boundary-smashing stage setup to the Outdoor Stage at Coachella 2024, they were just two young producers from France wondering if their work would ever translate into a real career in live music.
For the duo — Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé — the answer became a definitive oui after their 2007 debut performance at Coachella, which was also their first ever live performance.
Now, the two are looking back on their four Coachella performances — which happened at the fest in 2007, 2012, 2017 and 2024 — in new mini-documentary produced by the festival. The eight-minute visual, titled …And Justice for All: Coachella Edition, is comprised of archival footage and new interviews with Justice, their team and a few of the many people who helped put the show together at Coachella 2024 this past April.
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“I remember after we played our first set we felt so relieved,” de Rosnay says of the duo’s 2007 set in the doc, “because we had spent the four previous years thinking, ‘Maybe we are just meant to make remixes and not even albums,’ and then here we were in the desert thinking, ‘Well, maybe we are actually a real band.’”
The doc puts a special focus on duo’s 2024 performance on Coachella’s Outdoor Stage. Justice and their creative team spent six months working with seven computer scientists to make the show, which they’ve toured the world with over the last six months. The doc features an interview with the group’s longtime technical director Manu Mouton.
The documentary was directed by photographer and filmmaker Connor Brashier, who’s worked on projects with artists including Shawn Mendes, Niall Horan and Kygo. The film was produced by Goldenvoice’s Ike Adler, Mikhail Mehra and David Prince as part of a new initiative at Coachella focused on creating original content.
“As this piece became to come together, I quickly realized I was making this for my younger, nerdy self, who dug for hours and hours trying to find out more about the people and processes behind the iconic Justice shows both past and present,” Brashier tells Billboard. “I hope someone out there is as giddy as I was to see a few of these monumental Coachella performances in HD and meet a small portion of the magician-like talents who played a part in putting them all on.”
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Decentralized Music Festival is returning next month, with the virtual event focusing entirely on electronic music for the first time in its four year history.
Happening Nov. 20-23, the lineup for the free event features future bass star San Holo, experimental artist Mat Zo, Canadian bass producer Whipped Cream and fellow bass mainstay Nghtmre along with a flurry of rising producers, including many from the global Decentralized community. See the complete 2024 lineup below.
Decentralized Music Festival is a product of Decentralized, an immersive digital world built using blockchain technology and owned and operated by its users through crypto technology, which differentiates it from corporate metaverses like Fortnite.
Decentralized launched its music festival in 2021 amid the pandemic. Originally called Metaverse Music Festival, in its first three years the event hosted artists including Deadmau5, 3LAU, RAC, Alison Wonderland, Ozzy Osbourne, Dillon Francis and Soulja Boy. A representative for the event says that the event drew roughly 50,000 unique attendees in 2021 and 2022. (In 2023, a smaller version of the event focusing on Decentraland community-based artists took place while the platform was being revamped.)
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“Our theme this year, ‘space traveler,’ speaks to this sense of discovery and exploration,” head producer at Decentralized and Decentralized Music Festival Bay Backner tells Billboard. “We also see Decentraland as a “third space” for music experience. It bridges the community fans find at live EDM festivals, like Tomorrowland and Ultra, with the accessibility and immediacy of streaming music at home. It is as easy to enter from your computer, but you’re simultaneously sharing an important, creative, transient experience with others from around the world. And importantly, Decentraland Music Festival is free and open to all.”
Decentralized has users in 159 countries, who, in addition to the music, can check out Decentralized Music Festival offerings like live talks on AI, the future of electronic music and “label round tables” hosted by dance imprints including Monstercat, Coop Records, Hospital Records and more.
“During the pandemic, I started a virtual events company where we were fortunate enough to put on shows with a relatively high degree of production value, and miraculously we were able to provide fees to the artists and staff involved,” Mat Zo tells Billboard. “After the pandemic ended, that fizzled out and I thought virtual events were a thing of the past. So when I was asked to perform at a virtual event this year, I was pleasantly surprised to say the least. I’m glad someone managed to take the concept further and make it work in a post pandemic context. I have a deep appreciation for the amount of work that goes into these events, and I’m extremely grateful to be a part of one.”
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Cruel World festival will return in 2025 with headliners New Order and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Southern California promoter Goldenvoice (the folks behind Coachella) will head back to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday, May 17, with additional performances from legendary acts Devo, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Death Cult, Garbage, […]