How To Dominate This Summer’s Three Biggest Music Festivals — TomorrowWorld, Lollapalooza, And Mad Decent Block Party

Summer is the best time of the year. For the next few months, people let their hair down. The days ahead are terrific opportunities to reunite with friends, earn extra cash from working summer jobs, and travel. It is also festival season, which creates choices, conflicts, and hard decisions for music fans. On our calendar this year?  TomorrowWorld, Lollapalooza, and the Mad Decent Block Party, all going down in the next three months.

There’s nothing better than enjoying a festival with your best friends, ice cold Bud Light in hand. These three festivals are some of the biggest parties of the summer. And you need to be able to dominate them.

Here are our keys for dominating TomorrowWorld, Lollapalooza, and the Mad Decent Block Party. Grab some brews and enjoy the summer.

TomorrowWorld — September 25, 26, and 27th.
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The massive EDM festival TomorrowWorld 2015 is its third year. Its Phase One lineup features DJs like Hardwell, Tiësto, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Adventure Club, and more TBA. The festival takes place in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia and you camp all weekend. An EDM festival, TomorrowWorld attracts an international audience. You can expect fans to wear lots of bandanas, neon color outfits and dancing shoes.

Lineup

The number one DJ in the world, Hardwell, leads this crop of EDM performers. Other artists like Tiësto, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Adventure Club round out this lineup, along with a bunch of up-and-coming artists. Still, dance music audiences will enjoy the heavy rotation of club banging music from the world’s top DJs.

Camping Experience

TomorrowWorld takes place in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. The festival calls their camping area Dreamville. You can’t walk into the TomorrowWorld festival itself with your own booze, but you can bring a couple cases of Bud Light for the campground. Also: Bring lots of snacks and waters when you get hungry. For the most part overnight camping at most music festivals is delightful, except when you need to charge your cell phone.

Attire (Dancing shoes)

TomorrowWorld is an EDM festival. It attracts an international dance music audience. Most people that attend wear raver gear. Neon colored hats and shirts are normal as well as colorful bandanas. Girls sometimes wear fluffy neon colored boots, but your footwear shouldn’t be anything important. After all, TomorrowWorld does take place in the woods.

21+, legal drinking age only

TomorrowWorld is a 21+ event. All people that attend are of legal drinking age. You can bring your own Bud Lights to the Dreamville camping area, but everyone must bring cash inside the festival to buy booze.

Lollapalooza — July 31, August 1st, and August 2nd
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The Lollapalooza lineup announcement is an annual highlight. This year their selections include legendary Paul McCartney and superstar Sam Smith. It also features Florence & The Machine, The Weeknd, Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Bassnectar, Nicky Romero, and more. Held at Chicago’s Grant Park location, this is one of the most varied festival lineups existing. For tickets costing $275, one can get enormous value crashing on a good friend’s couch. Advance tickets are sold out, but the after-parties are in-demand.

Lineup

Lovers of live music will appreciate this eclectic Lollapalooza lineup. It is one of the most thorough and open lineups this entire summer: The legendary Paul McCartney and superstar Sam Smith both headline. It also features Florence & The Machine, The Weeknd, Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Bassnectar, Nicky Romero, Alesso, The Chainsmokers, G-Eazy, 21 Pilots, FKA Twigs, Tove Lo and more.

Location

Lollapalozza has a lineup that features music for everyone. It’s only right that the festival is set up in a massive public park. Each year Grant Park fits 300,000 people into eight stages. There is no camping, but being in a city makes it easy to pre-game. If you aren’t from Chicago just make sure a friend lets your crash on the couch. The entire city welcomes out-of-towners for Lollapalooza.

Value

Most festivals cost substantial amounts of money, but Lollapalooza costs $275. Not to mention there is no need for camping options that cost extra money. Over 140 artists will be playing. Summer time Chicago is a great scene. For three days if you can find a ticket and someone’s couch to crash on, you definitely will get your money’s worth.

After Parties

Lollapalooza’s Chicago location is great for partying all night. Every dance club and concert hall hosts an afterparty. The afterparties aren’t only with DJs, though there are some events with headlining DJs. There are several after party events that feature musicians and rappers too. Lollapalooza recognizes most after party events to be an official extension of the festivals. If you are unable to buy a Lollapalooza ticket for the 140 + performers luckily the city still rocks out all weekend long.

Mad Decent Block Party — July 31st to September 26th
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The Mad Decent Block Party is the leading festival for club, trap, and hip-hop music. Unlike most festivals, the Mad Decent Block Party comes to a city near you. It is an 18-city tour planned by Diplo. The lineup features his experimental projects Jack Ü with Skrillex and Major Lazer. Headliners also includes Tyler The Creator, T-Pain, RiFF RAFF, Porter Robinson, Flosstradamus, Cashmere Cat, and more. Some locations exclude certain artists, but there are several underground EDM artists to discover. Not to mention advance tickets cost less than $100 theirs is enormous value for this one day event. The Mad Decent Block Party hits the road from July 31st in Atlanta until September 26th in Chicago.

Multi-city

The Mad Decent Block Party is the first of its kind. It is an 18-city North American festival. Organized by Diplo, The Mad Decent Block Party comes to a city near you. Most of these events are within driving distance, usually at big outdoor concert venues and amphitheaters. Hits major markets like New York City (Brooklyn), LA, Chicago, Philadelphia, Nashville, Denver, parts of Canada and more.

Lineup

The Mad Decent Block party stands out because Diplo plans it. He created the Mad Decent Block party in 2008 and after he had his own record label. This event features several artists that Diplo has signed to Mad Decent. For example,RiFF RAFF, Flosstradamus, Grandtheft, Swizzymack, TWRK, Trippy Turtle, Zeds Dead and others. Besides Mad Decent artists, the block party also features several other club, trap, and urban artists. Names like Tyler The Creator, Porter Robinson, Vic Mensa, RL Grime, Thomas Jack and Cashmere Cat are some of the event’s big names. Diplo and Skrillex’s experimental project Jack Ü will headline. Also Diplo’s Major Lazer group with Walshy Fire, and Jillionaire.

Discovery

The Mad Decent Block party has a reputation for drawing legitimate underground music and club music acts. This niche group of artists are less commercial than typical festival lineups. Discovering the different sub-genre’s of music is a fun part of the experience. It’s also great when you can dance along to a song without even hearing before.

Value

The Mad Decent Block Party is a one day event. It is an 18-city tour bringing select acts to a city near you. For less than $100 you can attend a Mad Decent Block party, which is way cheaper than a lot of other festivals this summer. It doesn’t break the bank and sells out most venues. Also since its local, there are no exorbitant travel or camping costs. This is an all day event featuring several notable artists. Even for Jack Ü and Major Lazer, the price tag is affordable and you will find out who are some of the best underground DJs.