Last year, it was Kaskade. This year proves to be their biggest name yet. Dance festival giant Insomniac is returning with the Queen Mary-as-a-backdrop, house-centric Day Trip 2025 festival. And none other than Tiësto is headlining. Joining him? Legends like Armand Van Helden and Chris Lorenzo with contemporary slammers like Duke Dumont and Gorgon City. Tens of thousands of house lovers from around the country will gather on Long Beach’s southern shore to dance the nights away come June 21 and 22.
The 2025 Day Trip Festival Lineup
The 2025 Day Trip Festival will be broken into two stages this year, rather than the three it featured last. High Tide, the main stage, located at the eastern nexus where The Queen Mary and Spruce Goose Dome meet. And the Deep End stage, at the opposite western end of the festival grounds.
How do I get tickets to Day Trip 2025?
The presale for tickets will begin Friday, April 25, at 11 AM; general sale begins at noon. During the presale, one can grab both VIP packages and general tickets for both days, each with a $10 deposit. Two-day general admission passes are available starting at $228, while two-day VIP options start at $370.
Day Trip Festival is one of Long Beach’s largest music festivals. And the organization behind it is cultivating dance culture despite criticisms.
The DTLB skyline, paired with the Mary and the Spruce Goose dome, is something Insomniac has grown to love and appreciate for its festival goers. Removed from residential areas, with plenty of hotels nearby and access to transit, it is no wonder that the Burbank-based festival organizer has made a home in Long Beach. (Much-needed and appreciated boost to local festival going. After all, Goldenvoice vacated the space after a slew of pre-pandemic events that drew in massive crowds.)
While many of the indie electronic acts frown upon Insomniac’s corporate culture and lack of love for the authentic raver scene—overselling and dangerous conditions of the event organization’s cornerstone event, Electric Daisy Carnival, prompted the event to be suspended in the L.A. region, moving it to Vegas, for instance—the one thing they cannot deny is that they have turned Long Beach into an EDM festival haven.
Taking over the Queen Mary Waterfront (where they’ve been no strangers: the Electric Daisy Carnival made steady appearances there during the 1990s and 2000s), they’ve brought househeads together for Day Trip. Trance trippers for Dreamstate. Dubstep and drum’n’bass lovers for Apocalypse… And it’s not just Insomniac that’s interested in the space: Mayor Rex Richardson has long been promoting the essential-ness of lie music as a cornerstone for economic development and cultural cachet. With it, his Long Beach amphitheater—in the very space dominated by Insomniac’s festivals—will be constructed later this year.
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