Unison is a festival I only first learned about in 2024, even though I had lived in the state in which it happens for more than three years by then. Much like Heart Nectar in Colorado and June Jam in Arizona, it's another small-scale festival with hypnotic future bass music and ecstatic dance, drawing in the same kinds of people you'd expect to find at Burning Man, that are so common in western states. As far as I know, it's the only event of its kind in the state of New Mexico.

How many times have I been to Seattle? Every time I pass through here I find something new to see, and I've gotten more familiar with this city than any other that I've never lived in, except maybe Austin.

I first went to Bass Canyon in 2022, and it has since become a can't-miss event for me every year. Every August, the Gorge Amphitheater in the middle of Washington state hosts this dubstep and drum 'n bass festival. Not only is the music an experience, but so is the amazing view of the Columbia River gorge.

Heart Nectar is a small-scale music festival that only recently started, either in 2022 or 2023, in southern Colorado's San Luis Valley. While I've been to other events of a similar size before, this was staged in the most austere and challenging environment where I've ever found such a gathering.