BY: JESSICA BEUKER Last July, the summer music festival, Secret Garden Party, became the first ever UK festival to offer its attendees a somewhat controversial service – drug testing. Festival goers were given the opportunity to take their drugs to a…
Music festival culture and the rebirth of the hippie generation
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Photos: Eric Zdancewicz Among a field of colourful, bohemian-style umbrellas, hundreds of people are gathered idly around the Bollywood Stage – where DJ Lee Foss sits on a throne surrounded by giant pillars, pink elephants and the…
These crazy statistics prove that Woodstock was just as weird as you imagined
BY: DANIEL WATERBOURNE What occurred in 1969 on a dairy farm in the Catskills of Bethel, New York will forever be the subject of rebellious imagination and acid flashbacks. Woodstock would be an event that would define a generation, and…
Bestival is an island paradise of hippies, nudists and lucid dreams (Video)
BY: CONNOR BRIAN, TYLER FYFE, ROB HOFFMAN AND MELISSA GONZALEZ If Salvador Dali and Dr. Seuss had a child born out of wedlock, it would have been conceived at Bestival. On the Toronto Islands, a nature sanctuary and nude beach…
This 26-year-old snuck into over 50 major music festivals and made a movie about it (Video)
By: Daniel Korn It’s that time of year where the excitement for the summer’s music festivals has started to mount, and with it the disappointing realization that life might keep you from seeing all the bands you want to see.…