It’s Like a Circus: Festival Culture with Del & Domino
Watching the festival play out through the front window of a car with Del the Funky Homosapien and Domino of Hieroglyphics was something out of a dream. About an hour before the duo were...
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Teatime with Amani Friend of the Desert Dwellers [Interview]
Under the makeshift awning, past the vending booths sat the Press Lounge; home to Ron Jon’s traveling tea station. Amani Friend of the Desert Dwellers joined Sensible Reason post-interview for some organic conversation and...
Trevor Kelly Through and Through [Interview]
The Bay Area of California has long been known as a hub for community building — in the 1960s the birth of the hippie movement on Haight street, Berkeley had movements toward a democratic...
The Future is Coming On: Time-Traveling with Del the Funky Homosapien
There are few settings more anachronistic than desert music festivals, where forbidding emptiness masquerades as a dreamscape that could exist anytime, anywhere. Such was the case at this spring’s Serenity Gathering in Joshua Tree,...
Festival Review: Blurred Lines at Suspended in a Sunbeam
Many of us expected last week’s scaled down Suspended in a Sunbeam to be the warm-up festival of the West Coast season, getting us hyped for bigger, better known events such as Desert Hearts,...
Safi’s Lab: A View Beyond the Mask [Interview]
On a hot, desert morning at Serenity Gathering, I found myself in a conversation with a fellow shade seeker. We talked for hours about our experiences in Asia, the future of the festival scene,...
