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ODESZA and Carl Cox are playing one festival we track this season, and it's in New Orleans

52 of the 60 acts on We Belong Here's first New Orleans bill play no other festival we track. ODESZA and Carl Cox are two of them.

ODESZA has one festival date in our catalog this season. So does Carl Cox. It's the same one.

We Belong Here: New Orleans runs 13 to 15 November, 50 days out. It's the festival's first run in the city. There are 60 names on the bill. 52 of them play no other festival we track. ODESZA and Carl Cox are two of the 52.

Where that ranks

We hold 82 upcoming festivals with 20 or more names. On the share of the bill you can only see there, We Belong Here is 4th, at 86.7%. The only US festival above it is Off The Grid Campout in the California desert, at 87.5%. Across all 82, the middle of the pack sits around 45%.

It's usually the small names that are one-offs. Here the top of the bill is too. Both artist pages in the app show a single upcoming show, and it's this one.

Nobody nearby books like this

That could be a quirk of where the festival is. We hold only one other New Orleans festival, and one more within 300 miles. So the fair test is the neighbours we do have.

Within 500 miles, straight-line, there are nine other festivals with 20 or more names. Five of the nine have fewer than a third of their bill to themselves.

Festivals within 500 miles of New Orleans, and how many play nowhere else

Festivals within 500 miles of New Orleans, and how many play nowhere elseWe Belong Here New Orleans 60 acts on the bill, 52 play no other festival, Beyond Existence 115 acts on the bill, 88 play no other festival, Hulaween 87 acts on the bill, 43 play no other festival, ACL Weekend Two 92 acts on the bill, 36 play no other festival, ACL Weekend One 91 acts on the bill, 36 play no other festival, Wakaan 62 acts on the bill, 17 play no other festival, Breakaway Houston 27 acts on the bill, 7 play no other festival, Seismic Dance Event 48 acts on the bill, 6 play no other festival, Freaky Deaky 39 acts on the bill, 6 play no other festival, Lights All Night 40 acts on the bill, 6 play no other festivalacts on the billplay no other festivalWe Belong Here New Orleans60Beyond Existence115Hulaween87ACL Weekend Two92ACL Weekend One91Wakaan62Breakaway Houston27Seismic Dance Event48Freaky Deaky39Lights All Night40
Every upcoming festival in our catalog with 20 or more named acts within 500 miles of New Orleans, straight-line. The inner bar counts acts on that bill and no other festival we hold. Catalog counts on 24 September 2026.

The one other New Orleans festival in the catalog shows the contrast best. Freaky Deaky NOLA is two weeks earlier and two miles away. It's smaller, 12 names, so it's off the chart. Two of the 12 are unique to it. It shares no acts with We Belong Here.

Only Beyond Existence, in Texas the week before, comes close, and it's built mostly from its undercard. We covered it on Tuesday.

The eight who travel

Eight acts on the bill do turn up elsewhere, and few of them nearby. The 14 festivals we hold within 500 miles book 548 different acts between them. We Belong Here shares three: BLOND:ISH with Breakaway Houston, Max Styler with Seismic Dance Event, and Supertaste with Hulaween.

The busiest name on the bill is ChaseWest, on eight of our festivals. After ChaseWest come Steve Angello, BLOND:ISH and Coco & Breezy on four each, and Sammy Virji on three. Steve Angello's list includes the festival's own Central Park date on 2 October.

Same weekend, the picture holds. Eight other festivals with named lineups run on at least one of 13 to 15 November, with 295 acts between them. We Belong Here shares two: BLOND:ISH at Breakaway Houston and Max Styler at Seismic.

What the number is and isn't

None of the ten acts on our Most Booked board are on this bill. That's the other side of the same number, not a knock.

Most of the 52 are smaller names. A local DJ who plays club nights every weekend still counts as a one-off here, because we count festivals, not club shows. So this doesn't mean you'll never hear them again. It means no other festival we track has them this season. About three in four of the 3,170 names we hold are on one bill only. That part is normal. A top of the bill that's on one bill only is not.

If you're going, two things follow. ODESZA and Carl Cox aren't on another festival in our catalog, so if they're on your list, this is the date. The other 50 one-offs are the bigger opportunity. Follow a few names you don't know, like Marshall Jefferson, Flamingeaux, Josh Heller or Nile Ashton. Each shows one upcoming show, and it's this one.

Tickets

Ticket links below are affiliate links.

We Belong Here isn't in our ticket feed, so there's no link for it here. Nor are Freaky Deaky NOLA, Seismic Dance Event or Beyond Existence.

Counts are from the Electric State festival catalog on 24 September 2026: 82 upcoming festivals with 20 or more named acts, placeholders like "Lineup TBA" removed, names matched regardless of capitalisation. "Play nowhere else" means on no other festival we hold. Miles are straight-line from stored venue coordinates; Astronox in Texas has none stored and shares no acts with this bill.

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