Concerts and festivals are designed to be celebratory and escapist events. However, they are full of opportunities for disaster. Alcohol, crowds, poor management, inaccessible food and water, housing, ...

Woodstock ’99 changed mega-festivals forever Summer arrived in 1999 with bold promises of nostalgia. Organizers Michael Lang and John Scher planned to resurrect ...

The iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival in upstate New York defined a generation. And for the past half-century, nostalgic Baby Boomers worked to recapture that lightning in a bottle. They tried to ...

When Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers walked on stage at the beginning of the nu-metal iconoclasts’ instantly notorious Woodstock ’99 performance and surveyed a crowd that stretched towards the horizon, ...