North Coast Music Festival has become a tradition for many and is growing each year with the 2024 festival uniting 90,000 souls bouncing for three mind-bending days. This was no ordinary gathering, these gathers will stay united in their North Coast experience that will exuded into their daily lives and likely inspire for a even grander 2025. Here are the best shots and notes from the dance floor of North Coast Music Festival 2024.
North Coast Music Festival 2024 Day 1
The wildest twist? ISOKNOCK’s audacious debut, a floating spectacle that had the crowd craning their necks and questioning their own sanity as the duo performed from a suspended chipping, soaring high above the sea of delirious fans.
The Stadium Stage was a vortex of high-voltage collaborations. DJ Diesel threw down his beats and summoned Sullivan King, who crashed the party like a lightning bolt. Later, Dabin materialized with Illenium, and if that wasn’t enough, Level Up stormed the stage to join her husband, Subtronics, in an electrifying Friday night frenzy that left us all gasping for air.
Above & Beyond, Chase & Status, Sullivan King and the sheer magnitude of headliners were a kaleidoscopic parade of sonic mastery. The Vega Stage saw LSZEE’s debut, and it was nothing short of legendary—a seismic introduction to their mesmerizing sound.
Levity, oh Levity, turned the Shipyard Stage into an otherworldly enclave of sound during the Brownies & Lemonade takeover. The crowd was in a trance, swaying to every beat as if possessed. Tape B transformed the Chill Dome into a bass-ridden utopia before setting the Vega Stage ablaze with a performance that left the audience in a state of euphoric delirium.
Two Friends wrapped up the festival with a drumline extravaganza that left no doubt about the frenetic, joyous chaos of the weekend. Their euphoric festival-closing set at The Stadium Stage was the ultimate crescendo, a drumbeat anthem that pounded into our very souls.
And then there were the Coastie Side Quests—a carnival of ridiculous games and blissful madness. Putt-putt, basketball hoops, giant dice, and music trivia—North Coast Nomads roamed the festival grounds, doling out VIP upgrades and merch like candy. It was pure, unfiltered joy in game form.
North Coast Music Festival Day 2 & 3
North Coast Night Lights returned with a vengeance, a series of sold-out afterparties scattered across Chicago and beyond, where the revelry didn’t so much end as morph into a different, equally intoxicating beast.
As the dust settled and we stumbled back into reality, one thing was crystal clear: North Coast is revving up for their 15th anniversary in 2025 with promises of an even bigger, wilder spectacle. If you want to be part of this exhilarating circus, you’d better get on the Presale Waitlist at www.northcoastfestival.com.
