Announcements, releases and what the data says about where the scene is moving.
Of the ten festivals in our catalog with 100 or more names on the bill, Beyond Existence has the biggest share you can only see there — 88 of 115 acts.
999999999 play CRSSD Fall on Sunday, then seven more festival bills across four continents by the end of October, from Bangkok and Incheon to Medellín, Amsterdam and two Halloween shows in California.
Escape Psycho Circus shares more of its lineup with festivals running on the same days than any other bill in our catalog — 36 acts, spread across eight other Halloween festivals.
Jan Blomqvist sang a 92-minute live set on the Maxa art car at Burning Man 2026 in a dust storm, in goggles and a scarf, and the film is online. We hold 17 bookings for him. The next is BEONIX in Cyprus on 25 September.
CRSSD Fall set times are out — 53 sets on three stages at Waterfront Park. Ocean View takes a break after every set while the other two stages never stop, so the day is easy to split. The last hour each night is not.
Get Freaky books one of the most heavily travelled lineups in our catalog, and not one of those other dates is in Utah.
Four of the eight names we hold for AMF in Amsterdam on October 24 put records out on Armada Music, and the roster has 57 festival bookings in the next six weeks.
Off The Grid Campout SoCal has the most self-contained bill of any festival in our catalog with 60 or more names, in the part of the map where we hold the most festivals.
I Got It lands on Trace Amounts on 18 September 2026, Venga's first release on the label. The eight labels that have put out her records hold 308 bookings still to come in our index. Venga holds none.
Jackie Hollander is on three festival bills in October, and ten of the eighteen bookings we hold all-time are still ahead rather than behind.
Nocturnal Wonderland set times are out — 86 sets on five stages over two nights. On Saturday three stages change over at the same minute every hour, so you pick whole sets. On Sunday the stages drift apart, so you can catch half of two.
Distinct Motive is on five festival bills between September 24 and October 25, and eight of the 43 bookings we hold all-time are still ahead this year.
Same Same But Different published 201 timed entries across nine stages, and 70 of them are workshops — more than every other festival schedule we hold, put together.
Austin City Limits is the only festival in our catalog that runs itself twice, and its two weekends share 53 acts out of 130 — the most alike pair of bills we hold, and still nowhere near the same festival.
Casey Club are on seven festival bills between September 18 and October 22, and nine of the thirteen bookings we hold for them all-time are this season.
Experts Only has 48 roster bookings across 19 festivals in the next six weeks. The one to circle is the label's own night at the Gorge, where five of the eight acts are its own.
Desert Hearts Microfest spreads 26 acts across five days, the thinnest schedule of the 40 festivals starting in the next seven weeks.
Goldrush set times are out — 122 sets across nine stages, and the nine stages do not keep the same time. Which clock you live on decides how much of the weekend you see.
Twenty-eight sets across two stages at Subaru Park, drawn so the afternoon gives you no clean way to swap stages and the last two hours give you four decisions.
Making Time has the fourth-largest lineup in our catalog, and 129 of its 148 acts play no other festival we hold this season.
North Coast and Summer's Last Dance happen a mile apart in the same Chicago suburb, fifteen days apart, and share exactly one DJ out of 174.
Ultra Japan has the second most self-contained big bill in our catalog, and the same brand's Korean edition proves that isn't just a gap in what we count.
Lost Lands and Nocturnal Wonderland run on overlapping days 1,957 miles apart and share sixteen artists — the biggest same-weekend overlap in our whole upcoming catalog.
Every set at Wasteland runs an hour, starts on the hour, and ends exactly when the other two stages end. You will see a third of the festival and there is no way to see more.
Five days ago Kaskade led the all-time Most Booked board by two. Today it's a flat tie at 162, and one of them plays before the other.
Global Dance Festival puts five of the 25 most-booked DJs in our index on a 32-name bill. Across 63 upcoming festivals only one lineup is denser, and the same company books it.
Breakaway announced the last lineup of its biggest year. Across the five dates still to come, 109 of the 125 artists play exactly one of them.
Every artist on the Imagine Music & Arts Festival bill plays exactly one festival this year. It is the only lineup in our catalog with nothing in common with any other.
Metamorphosis published set times for all 59 of its sets, and 42 of the 45 changeovers inside a day happen at exactly the same second — which turns the weekend into a choice of room rather than a choice of artist.
Every one of the fifteen strongest lineups in a 1,794-edition archive is an EDC event, and the strongest of all is the October 2021 comeback edition.
Four days ago we counted three artists with a hundred festivals behind them. Then the archive doubled and went back to 1993, and the real number turned out to be sixteen.
Infrasound Equinox has the lowest circuit index of any 90-plus-name bill in our catalog, and the acts it does share turn out to cluster on a bass circuit of their own.
The six most-used festival venues in our catalog are all within 113 miles of each other in Southern California, and two of them are the same patch of land under two names.
We hold every Coachella lineup from the first one. Cross-referenced against the rest of the Scene Index, the share of the bill that works the dance circuit was 39% on opening weekend in 1999, fell to 22% by 2007, peaked at 55% in 2023 and sits at 40% on the largest bill it has ever run.
Dancefestopia opens on 7 September with 42 artists, four of whom play no other festival in our index all season. Measured across the 56 biggest bills of the year, that is the second-lowest share of any of them, and the artists on it work more festivals than almost anyone.
Of more than 9,000 artists in the Scene Index, three have been booked 100 or more times. Excision, Tiësto and Kaskade got there through three different festival ecosystems, and only one of them has actually played his hundredth.
Thirty-two indexed bookings since 2019 looks like a modest history. Ten of them are still ahead, which puts him among eight artists on the circuit with that many, and his are on bills the other seven barely touch.
Both Chicago festivals have published set times. They open at the same minute and ARC closes at 22:00 every night, which leaves 268 minutes across the whole weekend when one is playing and the other is not.
Luminate's midyear report makes dance/electronic the fastest-growing US genre and names John Summit and Disco Lines. In our catalog of the season ahead, 111 artists are booked more often than one of them.
His Scene Index history starts with two dubstep festivals in 2018. Eight years and 86 bookings later he tops the Most Booked board, and since his first year no artist in the index has more.
Twenty-six sets across two stages at Palladium Outdoors, built so the side stage returns you to the main one from its first second — eleven times out of twelve.
North Coast and ARC run on the same days eleven miles apart, with 283 artists between them and one name on both bills. It is the only collision of its kind in our catalog.
Creamfields has 245 named artists, the largest published lineup left on our calendar. Only three of them sit on the Most Booked board, and the reason is partly about Creamfields and partly about us.
Set times landed for Splash House Weekend 2. We read all 42 sets — across both pool days there is never a minute when fewer than three hotels are playing, and not one changeover gap on any stage.
Bass Canyon vs Splash House 2026 — both run 14–16 August, 934 miles apart. We read both schedules set by set, stages, hours, after-hours and lineups, to work out which festival fits your weekend.
What makes a great music festival? Twelve green flags experienced fans notice — set times, opening slots, bathrooms, sound, shade — four you can check before buying a ticket, and eight only the people who were there can answer.
A full read on CRSSD Fall 2026 from our index — what's on the bill, which nine names you can't see anywhere else, and the San Francisco festival running the exact same two days with fourteen of the same artists.
Every festival on our calendar from mid-August to New Year's Eve, and what the shape of it shows — four collision weekends, 94 artists booked in two places at once, and almost a month with nothing in it.
The festival with the most names, the festival with the most in-demand artists, and the festival with the densest bill are three different festivals. Here are all three, and what the gap between them tells you.
NiteHarts announced its lineup this week and everyone posted the poster. Here's the measurement nobody ran — what share of each bill appears at no other festival this season.
The free app scores festival lineups against your own taste, carries full per-stage set times, and keeps a permanent record of every show you've been to.
We count every lineup we can get our hands on and turn it into structured data. Here's what's in it, what it can answer, and what it says right now.