Evan Ross

Just days after a stabbing and a wave of drug arrests made headlines Ozora Festival has confirmed two further tragic incidents, both fatal, that took place on site yesterday.

Ozora Festival, one of Europe’s largest psychedelic trance and arts gatherings, is underway in Igar-Vámszőlőhegy, Hungary, and running until 4 August.

Rocking the Daisies, one of South Africa’s longest-running music and lifestyle festivals, will not take place in 2026. The organisers, Steyn Entertainment, confirmed the cancellation in an official statement posted to the festival’s Instagram account, just months before the event was due to return to Cloof Wine Estate in Darling from October 2-4.

Sizigia Eclipse 2026 festival, planned for the shores of the La Sotonera reservoir in Huesca province, will not receive the environmental authorization it needs before its scheduled dates, after Aragón’s environmental agency, INAGA, ordered the project into a lengthier “ordinary” impact assessment that cannot be completed in time.

The underground psychedelic trance scene is reeling after the sudden death of Dasha, known to fans as DashAlien and by her dark psy alias Dazura – a rising artist who had only just performed her final set at the Back in the Mountains Festival in Kaos.

David Christman — known to the global rave community as Shiki — passed away on 30 May 2026 following a stroke, blood infection, and fatal heart attack. He was 80 years old.

The Portuguese psychedelic music community is mourning the loss of DJ Paulo Lopes, a foundational figure in the country’s psy

German events organisation Waldfrieden-Events GmbH has filed for insolvency, bringing an end to decades of operation from one of the

She went to her tent expecting to sleep off what she thought was appendicitis. She emerged a mother. The extraordinary, harrowing story of a cryptic pregnancy and the community rallying to catch her.

The Goa State Pollution Control Board has pulled the plug on two of the coast’s most popular party spots, ordering

Decision follows community petition citing consent culture concerns.

A recently circulated petition titled “Psytrance in Solidarity” has gained momentum within the global psytrance community, with dozens of artists, promoters, and festival organizers signing on.

Anta Gathering, an international music and arts event scheduled to begin this week in Portugal, was cancelled at the last moment following an intense campaign led by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

A devastating fire and multiple explosions hit the Ozora Festival in Hungary on July 25, as the event was just getting underway.

With less than two weeks to go, anticipation is at a high with tens of thousands of travellers, artists, and seekers prepare to descend on the sacred shores of Idanha-a-Nova for Boom Festival 2025.

The psychedelic dream that was Psy-Fi Festival has come to a crashing halt. In a heart-wrenching announcement this week, the

Legendary Israeli psytrance duo Infected Mushroom has pulled out of Australia’s Earth Frequency Festival (EFF), following mounting political pressure and a controversial statement from festival organisers.

Brazilian progressive trance artist and founder of Alien Records, 4i20, has passed away. The news, confirmed by a sombre post on his social media accounts on 24 June 2025.

Esoteric Festival has gone into voluntary administration after the sudden cancellation of its 2025 event in Donald, Victoria. The company

Organisers of Boom Festival and Portuguese authorities are facing mounting pressure to investigate an alleged plot by far-left activists to target Israeli festivalgoers at next month’s Boom Festival 2025, following explosive claims by a whistle-blower who says she witnessed discussions of violent and potentially deadly plans within a private messaging group.

Shankra Festival, the well-known psychedelic trance gathering in the Swiss Alps, has officially cancelled its 2025 edition after severe flooding