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By the time Labor Day weekend of 2023 rolled around, I had lived in New Mexico for over two and a half years, but somehow never got around to visiting the state's biggest city. I'd flown out of and into the airport there a few times, and I had a doctor's appointment in the city once, but I'd never actually looked around at anything or spent the night there. But then in the summer of 2023 I found out that Pantera, one of the '90s' most legendary metal bands whose surviving members had just reunited and were doing a long worldwide reunion tour, would be in Albuquerque on August 31. For me that was the night before a four-day weekend, so finally I was going to see what Albuquerque had to offer.
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After the grueling three festivals in a row in June--Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge, Electric Forest, and June Jam--I had to take a long break from anything fun. I spent the next few weekends mostly alone at home, staying away from anything remotely stimulating. I even considered selling back the Bass Canyon box seat tickets I'd bought earlier, but thankfully I didn't, because I really enjoyed this one.
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June Jam is a smaller, more low-key music festival that happens late in June every year, in a park in the forests near Flagstaff, Arizona. I found out about this one from the ads I was seeing on Facebook, which was recommending one obscure, out-of-the-way festival after another to me. Since I had friends going to this one, I bought my ticket to it, even though it was only a week after Electric Forest which was itself only a week after Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge. Three festivals in a row...I thought I could do it, but as we know from Electric Forest I was already feeling burnt-out at the beginning of the second one. Thankfully I had a few days to recharge before the third, and being smaller with fewer people, this one felt like a nice comedown after the craziness of the Forest and the unexpected tragedy of Beyond Wonderland.
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After the long experience that was Electric Forest, which immediately followed a quick trip to Portland which itself was right after the ill-fated Beyond Wonderland at the Gorge, I was way more than ready to go home. But there was one last thing to do, this short look around Chicago.
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