Author: Lin Ying
Lin Ying is an EDM Journalist for Night Streak.
Lin’s been an EDM enthusiast since 2011.
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Opening night sets are almost always cautious. The artist maps the room. The crowd figures out whether they’re allowed to let go yet. FISHER’S May 15 performance at Omnia Day Club — the venue’s first-ever public set, full stop — lasted about four minutes before all of that dissolved. By the time the second track…
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4:30 AM. The sky over Las Vegas Motor Speedway is still the color of an unlit highway, and Circuit Grounds is technically about to close. The word “technically” is doing a lot of work there. Lilly Palmer walked up and played for an hour. What happened next is the kind of thing festival-goers spend years…
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Opening slots don’t build reputations. Usually. The crowd is still scattered, the bars are doing their first rush, and anyone with real festival stamina is conserving it for later. circuitGROUNDS at EDC Las Vegas runs 70,000 people deep on a Saturday night — when the first act takes the decks at 7pm, there is no…
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Some sets you watch. Some sets you survive. KETTAMA in the Friday-night slot at the Yuma Stage during Coachella Weekend 2 was the second kind — the kind where you stop thinking about where you are and start just trying to keep up. The Yuma has always been Coachella’s most honest room. No stage production…
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Norman Cook Built This Culture. Then He Headlined It. The first Coachella in 1999 had Rage Against the Machine on the main stage and Norman Cook — the man behind Fatboy Slim — DJing in a tent for sweaty strangers who had come specifically to dance. Big beat was a cult genre. Electronic music was…