• Eric Prydz, Deadmau5 Named First Tomorrowland 2016 Headliners

    To kick off their string of announcements, Tomorrowland has gone big with a stage and artist announcement. The growing relationship between Eric Prydz and deadmau5 will be shown again as they have a Mau5trap vs Pryda stage and headline the first night, Friday July 22.

  • Tomorrowland Releases Official 77-Minute Movie 'This Was Tomorrow'

    Tomorrowland is no stranger to lengthy visual pieces. It helped bring about the gratuitously long aftermovie, which have in recent years pushed 30 minutes long of big firework displays, attractive festival goers smiling and overhead shots. Now organizers ID&T have unveiled their biggest vanity project yet, This Was Tomorrow, the festival's official motion picture.

  • Robert Sillerman's SFX Entertainment Privatization Plan Fails

    In the past few weeks, things have started to look bleak for Robert F.X. Sillerman in his big to try and take dance music conglomerate SFX Entertainment private. He had been struggling to find the financing from investors to begin an aggressive share buyback plan at the agreed price in May of $5.25 per share. Now that the company's share are valued at $1.39, that initial offer has become untenable and SFX is now exploring other options.

  • Tomorrowland 2015 Live Stream Details Unveiled

    ID&T's flagship festival, Tomorrowland, will kick off its music in 12 hours and with that comes the live stream that excites fans all over the world who were unable to score tickets or don't have the funds to travel to Boom, Belgium for one of the meccas of electronic music.

  • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Praises Tomorrowland "Dignity"

    Tomorrowland is one of the most global festivals in the world. Individuals from over 214 countries requested tickets in 2014, the highest number ever for a music festival according to the Huffington Post. Attendees are known for bringing their flags to the event and representing their country in harmony with the tens of thousands of other people surrounding them. That ability to unite people from many different races, ethnicities, religions and nationalities under one common purpose - music - has caught the eye of the United Nations and its Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon who has praised the festival's efforts for "dignity."

  • Most Popular Drugs At Music Festivals Study: What People Take At EDC, Burning Man, Ultra & More

    Drugs and music go hand in hand. Drugs at music festivals are ubiquitous and available in all shapes and sizes. A new study attempted to quantify the levels of drug use going on 15 of the major festivals in the United States and Europe. Drugabuse.com looked at 3,622,365 Instagram posts mentioning festivals and linked them to possible language relating to drug use and the results aren't that surprising. Some of the major EDM festivals like EDC and Ultra Music Festival reference Molly/ MDMA the most, while Marley Fest has the highest total for marijuana. Burning Man features the best variation of drugs including DMT, mushrooms and LSD.

  • UK Labour Party Hopeful Jailed For $150,000 Tomorrowland Ticket Fraud

    The UK will head to the polls on Thursday, May 7 to vote in the 56th parliament and thus decide who will lead the country for the next four years - David Cameron of the incumbent Conservative Party or Ed Milibrand of the Labour Party. Local elections will take place on the same day across most of England and one Labour Party hopeful who had originally hoped to rise up the ranks in the Labour Party is headed to jail for an extensive fraud she committed with her mother in 2013. According to court documents, 23-year-old Charmaine Bowers, created a grand scheme where she was able to scam more than $150,000 out of fans expecting to purchase tickets to the popular EDM festival Tomorrowland, which takes place in Boom, Belgium.
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