NYDailyNews.com posted a blog on Sunday covering the best music festivals for the summer. Author Jim Farber (who’s actually a very credible music critic) offers his opinions on what festivals are worth attending or not.

Farber makes repeated assertions that you’ll need drugs to attend Electric Daisy Carnival or Electric Zoo.

On EDC;

How much? $215 for a two-day pass. $119 for one day. But you also have to factor in the price of the drugs you’ll need in order to endure music this repetitive and often lyric-free.

Worth it? If your idea of fun is to flail around in the blinding daylight while unphotogenic DJs hover over turntables playing music meant only for the darkest clubs, the answer would be yes. Even so, you will need the aforementioned drugs.

On Electric Zoo;

Worth it? See Electric Daisy. But even more expensive to enter and even more drugs required to stay.

Electronic dance music is misunderstood from people outside of our world and it’s why we will always be singled out. It’s a shame that the positive sentiments surrounding rave culture cannot be shared in the mainstream media and that they would prefer to push pageviews rather than the facts.

Another Example

In 2011, two people died at Bonnaroo and The L.A. Times ran this headline,

Another death at Bonnaroo draws attention to music festival safety

Two people die at Bonnaroo and it’s a safety issue. There aren’t any follow up articles with the toxicology reports, autopsy results or other unnecessary details. There’s no witch hunt to link the drugs and the music.

Fast forward to February 2013 and we get this,

A fatal toll on concertgoers as raves boost cities’ income

No longer a safety issue, it’s the raves are taking a fatal toll on concert goers. They even created an infographic where they make hack assumptions like this one,

It said friends told investigators Cyriaco took Ecstasy at the rave. Ecstasy, cocaine and heroin were found in his system, according to the toxicology report

The CDC report in their own article even says that he took heroin after going home, conveniently that’s left out.

From the tabloids to the The L.A. Times, mainstream media is going to continue to take their shots at dance music culture. The only difference now is that, we have the internet and it’s not going to keep people away or change what’s already happening.

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