Wakaan Festival 2023

Wakaan Music Festival Announces Lineup ft. Liquid Stranger, GRiZ, LSDream, Ravenscoon, Ahee, and more

With less than two months until the festival begins, the lineup has finally been announced. Per usual, there’s plenty to be excited about given the volume of exceptionally talented artists set to play for Wakaan’s 3rd year of operation. 

WAKAAN Music Festival lineup 2022

WAKAAN Music Festival Unveils Electrifying Year Two Lineup

After taking two years off, WAKAAN Music Festival is calling festival goers back to Mulberry Mountain from September 28 to October 1 after dropping an electric, alphabetically-organized lineup that shines from top to bottom. The brief hiatus has created an overwhelming level of excitement for fans all over as the anticipation for this lineup grew. […]

Super Future at WAKAAN Music Festival

Favorite Things We Saw at WAKAAN Music Festival 2022

The bass scene — and society at large, for that matter — look much different today than it did in 2019, which was the year Liquid Stranger debuted his flagship festival with his experimental bass label, WAKAAN. With community and innovation at the forefront of WAKAAN’s creative mission, 2019’s WAKAAN Music Festival received high praise […]

John Summit Stadium headline + more MP3 Roundup August 11

MP3 ROUNDUP — Made in America Cancelled, John Summit Headlines a Stadium, WAKAAN Finally Drops STACKED Lineup

Welcome to MP3 ROUNDUP, your one-stop-shop for all things festival and dance music updates, reported every Friday.  1. Pretty Lights is BACK Okay, we’ve been waiting for this moment for 5 YEARS! And we’re happy to report: the Pretty Lights return is just as grand as you’d expect, complete with an immaculate lights show, daring […]

Photograph from Wakaan Festival 2019

8 Items to Bring to Mulberry Mountain for WAKAAN Festival

After the inaugural year of WAKAAN Festival in 2019, fans have been itching to get back to Mulberry Mountain to experience round two of this unbelievable festival. The MP3 MAG team has traveled near and far to many festivals throughout the years, including WAKAAN Festival, so we decided to put together a list of essentials […]

Yheti press shot. Man in blue hoodie peeking over a big plant leaf

The Story Behind Yheti’s New Album, ‘Everything New Was Old’

In the ever-evolving realm of electronic music, change is not only expected — it’s celebrated. As a pioneer in the experimental bass community, Yheti has continuously taken his musical wizardry to display the beauty of change that emerges when artistry meets technology. Yheti sat down with MP3 MAG following his latest album release, Everything New […]

Press Photo of LYNY, who plays Sonic Bloom 2023.

LYNY: Tapping into Intuition, Creating Sounds from Scratch and a ‘Thank You’ Note to Skrillex

Middle school may have been filled with awkward bus rides and terrible fashion choices, but it’s also when many of us first recognized the immeasurable power of music. That’s a discovery that Alec Leinhauser, also known as LYNY, the electronic music phenom behind the massive banger, “Noxious,” will never forget. It was the moment his […]

Liquid Stranger Press Photo taken by Jason Siegel

Liquid Stranger Delivers Downtempo Unity EP on SSKWAN

At the inaugural WAKAAN Music Festival, Liquid Stranger announced the creative birth of SSKWAN, the sole brother label to WAKAAN that would be a home for downtempo and ambient electronic music. Through this duality in sound, the producer hoped to reflect the diverse yet harmonizing nature of humanity and the electronic music community in particular. […]

TVBOO performing at WAKAAN Music Festival in 2022

TVBOO

TVBOO Emerging from Jackson, Mississippi with a personality larger than an eighteen-wheeler dump truck, comes TVBOO, pronounced “taboo.” Mitch Draper, known as TVBOO, is quickly becoming one of the rising stars in the bass scene. His ability to weave distorted sounds through incredibly unique basslines, accompanied by infamous vocal samples, are just a few of […]

Smoakland performing live

Smoakland

Smoakland The West Coast is trademarked for its raw energy and free spirits. Few rep that mentality better than Smoakland’s Anthony Battaglia and Harrison Hays. Raised in the Bay Area, the Dubstep duo met while attending Boise State University as student athletes. Both returned home following school, but a twist of fate reunified them to […]