Ready for music festival season? Don’t forget to stock up on these 10 essentials.

The sands of the hourglass are falling faster and faster, whisking us into the fickle unknown of our futures with a jarring and invincible intensity. 
What we’re trying to say is this: Music festival season 2019 is almost here. (Yes, already.) W…

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Two elderly men ditch their nursing home, hit up heavy metal festival

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This is as metal as it gets.

Two elderly men ditched their nursing home in Germany on Friday, and ended up at what’s widely considered the world’s largest heavy metal festival.

According to Deutsche Welle, police found the two runaways at Wacken Open Air, a colossal four-day annual music festival dubbed “the Metal Mecca,” held in the small German village of Wacken.

After being alerted by the nursing home, authorities reportedly located the missing pair at a casual 3 a.m. at the festival — that’s when the last stages finish up for the night, so these guys are pretty hardcore.  Read more…

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Someone Photoshopped the male artists out of a festival poster and the result is telling

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It’s a bleak state of affairs when you look at the lineup for a festival and you can’t see any female artists on the line-up. 

Lily Allen tweeted an edited version of Wireless festival’s poster with the male artists photoshopped out. The finished result showed that the three-day festival had booked just three female artists—Mabel, Cardi B, and Lisa Mercedez. 

The image was created by journalist Luke Bailey, who tweeted that “Wireless festival without the men is… not great.” 

Here’s what the unedited poster looks like: Read more…

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Forget body painting—body marbling turns your skin into a psychedelic work of art

Invented by Brad Lawrence, body marbling is a water painting technique that uses hydrodynamics to transform your body into a psychedelic canvas. Produced by Black Light Visuals, this non-toxic paint is the coolest trend one can try in music festivals …

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