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.
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.
