The future does not, apparently, involve checking the weather forecast. At last weekend’s Further Future festival neither the organizers nor any ticketholders (your correspondent included) seemingly bothered to check the weather channel. As a result, Friday’s long-predicted Mojave desert rainstorm came as a complete surprise to all involved: sparse festival fixtures Read more…
Further Future’s second year promises to sand off some of the rough edges from last year — a last-minute location change led to a half-built set with cranes still installing elements on Sunday morning — while keeping the festival’s strengths in diversity, aesthetics and, above all, music. In fact, this Read more…
Last year’s inaugural Further Future festival was the most interesting Burning Man-related event to emerge in years. Rather than simply attempting to recreate the playa on a smaller scale — as many regional BM-related events do — the organizers, who are also behind the Robot Heart art car, took a Read more…
With the sun rising over a vast desert expanse, blissed-out folks swaying before an enormous soundsystem and Thugfucker playing atop the Robot Heart bus, at 5am Further Future felt almost like Burning Man. Inspired by black rock city, the debut festival couldn’t be more different from mass dance events like Electric Read more…