The Magical Wonderland of Music

Austin City Limits. 2 weekends in mid October. This is the most attended music festival in the US wrangling in around 450,000 people between both weekends. This festival wasn't always this way. In years prior, the festival was mostly supporting the folk rock and alt-country genre. But as the years progressed it started to change its lineup to involve alt rock singers leading to now, where there are numerous EDM shows. This change has brought a younger crowd to the festival which contributed to the burst in attendees in the past years. The dynamics and feel of the festival is really similar to Lollapalooza in Chicago because they are both organized by the same promoter. It is spread out throughout a park and has some festive decorations everywhere. The festival is hosted in Zilker Park right in the middle of Austin, Texas. From ACL Festival Austin City Limits, or ACL, hosts eight different stages. Like Lolla, every stage is likely to host one kind of genre for a day in order...

From Coachella Coachella. 3 days, 2 weekends, and thousands of people. This is one of the most talked about festivals across the US mostly due to the high attendance of A-list celebrities. This festival takes place every year in late April at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. These grounds, in the Colorado Desert, host other festivals as well like Stagecoach and Desert Tip. The grounds are roughly two hours from LA which is were a lot of people come from. But there is a large majority of people that fly into LAX in order to experience this beautiful place for themselves. I have heard from many people that entering the festival on day 1 is the  worst. Everyone enters at around the same time so the security lines are insanely long. The two days after that aren't as crazy because people are entering at their own times. The security inside the festival is a lot more intense than entering because they are genuinely concerned about people's safety, and for the celebrities of ...