CRSSD is returning to San Diego’s idyllic Waterfront Park September 27-28 with an electric lineup to celebrate the festival’s 10-year anniversary.
Known as the crown jewel of techno and house music in Southern California, CRSSD’s fall edition features global superstars, genre-spanning innovators and rare B2Bs. Headliners include John Summit, Claude VonStroke, Cloonee and Empire of the Sun.
The Palms Stage will host house music favorites like Purple Disco Machine, Dombresky and Chris Stussy, along with a b2b between Jamie Jones and Adam Ten. Techno fans can gather at the City Steps Stage for sets from Boys Noize, Brutalismus 3000, Eli Brown and KETBOI69, the high-energy alias of KETTAMA and Partiboi69.
Other can’t-miss highlights on the lineup include Cassian, Ben Böhmer, Elderbrook, Sultan + Shepherd and EDM.com Class of 2025 inductees Beltran and Max Styler.
You can check out the lineup below and purchase tickets via the festival’s website.
What does over half a million dollars buy you in a place where kandi-trades and cheap White Claws are the cultural currency? At EDC Las Vegas 2025, it apparently yields an alcohol arsenal so opulent it could toast the entire “Forbes 30 Under 30” list twice over.
For those who found Ultra’s $425,000 champagne-fueled VIP fantasy just a touch too humble, EDC returned this past weekend with a jaw-dropping rebuttal. The festival’s menu options featured “The Notorious,” a bottle service experience that stretches the definition of “splurge” to a new fiscal altitude: $575,000.
According to an image shared on social media by Las Vegas Locally, the package includes 125 bottles of Dom Pérignon Brut, 125 bottles of Dom Pérignon Rosé and 10 bottles of Clase Azul Ultra Tequila for a 260-bottle flex of financial bravado.
The rest of the menu doesn’t shy away from indulgence either. A six-pack of Bud Light would’ve set you back $150 while a single 6L Methuselah of Armand de Brignac Rosé topped out at $63,000. Even the lower-tier champagne packages boast names like “Supernova Pop” ($105,000) and “You, Me, & Everyone We Know” ($140,000), proving once again that the sky is the starting point at North America’s largest EDM festival.
EDC returned to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway May 16-18, 2025.
In a world inching toward dystopia, EDC returned to Las Vegas over the weekend and once again offered a welcome escape under the electric sky.
Those who have attended North America’s largest EDM event in the past know it’s much more than just a festival. It’s more of a temporary civilization with its own language, laws and gravitational pull. And in 2025, this rave utopia on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway was as inviting and colorful as ever.
From trance to techno to trap and every genre in-between, the weekend reminded us that dance is still the universal language, even when you’ve been awake for 72 hours straight and think the totem next to you is giving good life advice. But as we all know, EDC’s neon-drenched playground of bass drops and questionable fashion choices is all worth it.
Continue on to watch EDC Las Vegas 2025 live sets by Alesso, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, ISOKNOCK and more. This article will be updated as more performances are uploaded.
Motor City’s storied Movement Electronic Music Festival is getting a boost of endorphins over Memorial Day Weekend with the launch of the “Detroit Techno 5k,” a new event blending running with techno.
Scheduled for Sunday, May 25th, the 75-minute run will take participants along the scenic Detroit River and through the historic grounds of Fort Wayne. As the first-ever fitness-focused event tied to Movement, it’s both a race and a celebration of techno culture in the genre’s birthplace.
The event is being organized by longtime runners and friends Harrison Diskin and Zac Berlin, who worked closely with Movement and the city of Detroit to secure permits, according to The Jewish News. Diskin, a veteran event producer in Detroit and Chicago, is also an avid runner who found that staying out late for shows began to take a toll on his body.
“When we take care of our bodies and our minds, it makes a lot of the late nights more enjoyable and a lot more accessible,” he said. “As attendees are maturing, there’s a growing interest in health and wellness that’s really starting to resonate.”
That mind-body connection is at the heart of the race, which invites participants of all skill levels to run, walk or just warm up ahead of a long day at Movement, the nation’s leading techno festival. Open to all fitness levels, the 3.1-mile course will conclude with an afterparty featuring a DJ set by renowned house music producer Will Clarke. After crossing the finish line, participants can refuel with local favorites like Dutch Girl Donuts and The Schvitz before heading straight to Movement.
Tickets to the “Detroit Techno 5K” are on sale now. Movement is scheduled for May 25–27 at Detroit’s Hart Plaza with a lineup featuring Charlotte de Witte, Jamie xx, Sara Landry, Nina Kraviz and more.
Bringing the mainstage action to mobile screens globally, Insomniac has officially launched its Insomniac Radio app, a free 24/7 streaming platform. The app offers wall-to-wall coverage of all things EDM, including exclusive artist shows and live broadcasts from some of the world’s biggest festivals.
Landing just ahead of EDC Las Vegas 2025, Insomniac Radio aims to deliver an always-on soundtrack to the global dance music community. With no subscription fees and no barriers to entry, the app is poised to replicate the euphoric energy of Insomniac’s festivals with four curated genre channels: “ONE,” “ANALOG,” “IMPACT” and “LUCID.”
Whether it’s the booming anthems of kineticFIELD or the entrancing grooves of Factory 93, the platform is rooted in Insomniac’s sprawling event universe. Channel-to-stage pairings will bring real-time soundtracks to fans around the world: “ONE” features mainstage-ready heat from the likes of cosmicMEADOW and circuitGROUNDS, “ANALOG” dials into house and techno from stereoBLOOM, “IMPACT” blasts bass from wasteLAND and “LUCID” floats through trance and melodic techno straight from quantumVALLEY.
Beyond the music, the app boasts over 120 weekly shows, many led by the world’s biggest DJs including featured hosts Amelie Lens, Martin Garrix, ILLENIUM, Purple Disco Machine, Hardwell, John Summit and Zeds Dead, to name a few.
As fans plan their descent on Las Vegas for EDC from May 16-18, the app will go into overdrive as Insomniac Radio streams curated programming from a number of stages that will not be represented on the live feed, including stereoBLOOM wasteLAND and quantumVALLEY.
For more information and scheduled programming, download the new Insomniac Radio app here.
EDC, one of the world’s most prominent EDM festivals, will launch in Colombia in October 2026, its organizer Insomniac Events announced today.
Transforming Medellín’s Unidad Deportiva Atanasio Girardot sports complex, the festival is primed to continue EDC’s global growth following successful editions across Asia, Europe and the Americas. The city offers what Insomniac founder and CEO Pasquale Rotella described as the perfect backdrop for EDC’s blend of dance music, art and community engagement.
“We’re committed to growing this global community and sharing the magic of EDC with the world,” Rotella said in a statement. “Choosing a new location for EDC is never random. It comes down to a few key factors. First, we look for a local partner who shares our values, understands the spirit of EDC, and has the vision and dedication to help bring it to life.”
The inaugural EDC Colombia represents a partnership between Insomniac and Páramo Presenta, part of Latin American entertainment powerhouse OCESA. The company, with whom Insomniac has long collaborated to produce EDC Mexico, is “an incredible team that fits that perfectly,” Rotella said.
“We are very proud to bring to Colombia such a major brand with so much history, and one that has been fundamental to the growth of electronic dance music worldwide, like EDC,” added Páramo Presenta’s Santiago Vélez. “Medellín will become the center of the electronic world in October 2026, and we hope to reveal more details soon about this festival that is returning to South America.”
The festival will feature “a massive lineup of world-renowned electronic artists” as well as multiple stage designs, large-scale art installations and carnival rides while incorporating local cultural influences, according to a press release shared with EDM.com.
Additional details, including lineup, dates and ticketing information will be announced in the months ahead. Fans can register for updates on the festival via its official website.
Planet 13, the world’s largest cannabis dispensary, is poised for what its executives are calling the busiest weekend of the year: not New Year’s Eve and not 4/20, but EDC.
The cannabis giant is celebrating the festival’s return to Las Vegas by giving away 20 three-day passes to lucky visitors as it launches a slate of EDC-themed offerings in collaboration with RNBW, the Insomniac Events-affiliated cannabis brand.
“EDC has become the busiest weekend of the year at Planet 13 Las Vegas,” said Bryant Ison, Planet 13’s Vice President of Marketing. “It’s our Black Friday, busier than 4/20, Super Bowl and New Year’s Eve. We see a 40% increase in revenues and close to a 30% increase in customer traffic at our flagship Vegas SuperStore during EDC.”
The promotion, part of the dispensary’s “Daisy Daze” weekend, features a full-scale retail activation with live vendor pop-ups, food trucks, limited-edition merch and specially curated cannabis bundles. Hopeful festivalgoers receive raffle entries for every bundle purchased and winners will walk away with passes to EDC, North America’s largest EDM festival.
The connection between Planet 13 and EDC Las Vegas runs deeper than seasonal marketing, however. RNBW is a luxury cannabis label co-developed through a strategic partnership between EDC’s organizer, Insomniac, and industry stakeholders. RNBW’s “Dark Rainbow” strain, available exclusively at Planet 13, is the dispensary’s featured drop this year.
Pasquale Rotella, Insomniac founder and CEO, has championed RNBW as part of a broader initiative “intersecting live music and cannabis culture,” he said in a 2021 statement.
EDC returns to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway this weekend from May 16-18 with Martin Garrix, Alesso, Tiësto, REZZ and many more. You can find the festival’s full lineup and read more about its 2025 edition here.
If you’ve ever been to Lightning in a Bottle, you know it’s just as much a festival as it is an adult playground disguised as one. The team behind Do LaB continues to treat staging like sorcery.
The genius of their curation lies not just in their genre-spanning lineups, but in their understanding that context transforms sound. Watching a DJ spin beneath intricate geometric structures as desert winds carry notes across the water creates memories that streaming services could never replicate.
Lightning in a Bottle will once again guide attendees through its whimsical core stages, Lightning, Woogie and Thunder, onwards to its community-driven programming at The Stacks, The Junkyard and The Grand Artique. Each environment features its own unique aesthetic, vision and sound.
This year’s lineup is a genre-fluid dream, dipping into indietronica, skittering across UKG and plunging headfirst into dubstep swamps and house grooves. Read on to discover a handful of performances you simply cannot miss in 2025.
Lightning in a Bottle returns over Memorial Day Weekend from May 21-25, 2025. Tickets are on sale via the festival’s website.
Tape B
Tape B, who was recently named to the EDM.com Class of 2025, is one today’s most sought-after dubstep and bass music producers. Nostalgia is his love language, threading hip-hop throwbacks with growling beats while dusty vinyl crackles ripple through with analog warmth.
Girl Math is the formidable duo of Nala and VNSSA, who joined forces to infuse a punk edge into their hip-shaking house beats. The former brings Riot grrrl-influenced vocals to the table while the latter smashes it with metal-infused drums.
“I thought being a drummer in a metal band was the coolest thing you could ever do prior to being a DJ,” Nala told EDM.com in a late-2024 interview. “So I was like, we need to incorporate this history on both sides and turn this into something that’s rowdy and fun and chaotic.”
Dirtybird founder Claude VonStroke recently took flight on a comeback tour following a two-year hiatus that saw him sell his prized record label. After dropping a stunning EP, he’s now heading to Lightning in a Bottle for the tour’s first festival performance, which is officially billed as “The Return of Claude VonStroke.”
Few duos in electronic music have stood the test of time quite like Sultan + Shepard, whose emotionally charged sound blends textured synths with pulsating rhythms. Whether they’re producing generational progressive house anthems like “Walls” or aching deep house tracks like “Under The Surface,” they thread nostalgia and wonder through every release.
Mary Droppinz’s music is a kaleidoscope of genre-defying sounds, fusing house, breakbeat, dubstep and drum & bass under one electrifying umbrella. She’s also known to bring unbridled energy to the stage, and with upcoming performances at Lollapalooza, Red Rocks and many more, she’s rising at a breakneck pace.
Portola, which is quickly establishing itself as the Bay Area’s premier electronic music festival, returns to San Francisco’s Pier 80 this September with an electrifying 2025 lineup and a wave of rare performances.
Presented by Goldenvoice, the two-day fest from September 20-21 follows a sold-out 2024 edition and promises a genre-spanning bill that includes dance-punk icons LCD Soundsystem and Australian house music superstar Dom Dolla in headlining slots.
In one of the festival’s most surprising bookings, Christina Aguilera is set to bring her pop prowess to the electronic stage. Elsewhere on Portola’s 2025 lineup are The Chemical Brothers, closing Saturday’s Warehouse with their only West Coast DJ set of the year; Moby, performing live in San Francisco for the first time in over a decade; and Anti Up, the formidable house duo of Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo.
This year also marks the San Francisco debut of “DESPACIO,” the vinyl-only, audiophile dancefloor environment co-created by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, the Dewaele brothers of 2ManyDJs/Soulwax, and sound engineer John Klett. The trio will curate all-weekend DJ sets inside the “immersive audio experience,” according to a press release.
Loyalty passes go on sale Wednesday, May 14th at 12pm PT before the general on-sale begins the following day at the same time. 2-day GA starts at $399.95 and 2-day VIP starts at $649.95, while single-day GA starts at $279.95 and single-day VIP starts at $399.95.
You can check out the full lineup below and purchase tickets here.
What more can we say about Breakaway Festival? The barnstorming brand, the nation’s fastest-growing traveling music festival, has been unstoppable.
Organizers have now revealed their latest high-profile lineup. Breakaway, which in late-2024 was named by EDM.com as the year’s top event organizer, is heading back to Charlotte this year for its Carolina edition and bringing along a slew of electronic heavy-hitters.
True to form, the Breakaway team brought the heat with the headliners. Dance music superstar John Summit tops the bill along with the Grammy-winning electronic music virtuoso Kaytranada as well as techno breakout Eli Brown and chart-topping duo Louis The Child.
The flyer’s undercard is no less impressive, with a melting pot of house, indie-dance, bass music and more. Fans can catch performances by PEEKABOO, Disco Lines, Wuki, Jake Shore, me n ü, Surf Mesa and EDM.com Class of 2025 star Max Styler, among others.
Breakaway Carolina is scheduled to return to zMAX Dragway at Charlotte Motor Speedway from September 26-27. Tickets are on sale now, including two-day GA, VIP, Ultimate VIP and Space Deck passes as well as Space Deck tables.
