Locals Only Festival Brings Arizona’s Underground Together
For promoter Vince S., the blueprint for Locals Only Festival came from the hardcore shows he went to growing up. “I remember going to shows, hanging out with the homies, smoking in the back between sets and just being completely immersed in that whole environment,” he says. Locals Only, the 21+ festival Vince founded, is […]
Terp Basel Is Half Festival, Half Trade Show
Five years in, the Miami gathering shows what happens when cannabis sesh culture grows into something bigger without entirely leaving its roots behind. Terp Basel is entering its fifth year in Miami, and this December, the event is leveling up. Visual art is at the center of this year’s experience, with large-scale installations and interactive […]
CBGB Festival Returns to Brooklyn With a Cannabis Tie-In
Morrissey, Patti Smith, Interpol, Sex Pistols and generations of punk descend on Brooklyn September 26 as Woodstock Cannabis joins the festival and High Times gets in on the action. CBGB and Woodstock came out of very different versions of American counterculture. One grew from a cramped Bowery club where punk bands learned how loud they […]
Submersion Knows a Festival Lives or Dies in the Details
A good festival reveals itself long before the first bass drop. You feel it at the gate, where somebody knows where to send you. You see it in the signage, the bathroom placement, the route back to camp, and the places built for people who need to sit down, regroup, or find their friends. Those […]