At two o’clock, the campground was still busy, and I wondered who in their right mind would pay four hundred dollars for a ticket to a music festival to sit at a crowded, sweaty campsite all day.
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Welcome to the Far Side: Day 1 At Firefly
A group of college girls had been camped out on the side of the traffic jam giving cornrows to her friends, and as they sped away from Neon Hat Power-Trip Guy, they screamed “Fuck you!” out the window. I hate to say it, but, well, he had it coming.
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The Definitive Who’s Who of Firefly 2016
On Thursday, a pilgrimage will take place. 70,000 music fans from around the country (but mostly the east coast) will flock to the Dover Speedway to experience all that is the Firefly Music Festival: over a hundred artists from a variety of genres, brought together in the Woodlands for a long weekend of dancing, imbibing, and outdoor fun.
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In Defense of Crunkcore: Breathe Carolina’s Savages
It takes balls to lose half of your duo and then make the move into EDM, an area that’s sonically similar yet so unlike their beginnings in MySpace-era crunkcore.
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Collegiate Culture Shock Or, How I Learned to Listen to Rap and Like It
Although Ruby did her best to stay true her XxHardxCorexX roots, she succumbed to the gravitational pull of iLoveMakonnen her freshman year of college.
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The Definitive Who’s Who of Warped Tour 2016
Ruby distills the massive Warped Tour lineup into a short list of who she’ll be watching this summer.
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What Makes Scandinavian Women So Metal?
Why are the vast majority of successful, female-fronted metal acts Scandinavian?
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No One Hates Warped Tour Like Its Fans
How dare a festival change its lineup? How dare they book the biggest bands for the mainstage?! Remember when Guttermouth played in 1995? Those were the days, man. Those were the days.