If you missed out on  the Sound Wave Block Party in Scottsdale, fear not, for this year’s Wet Electric intends on being one of the biggest parties of the year.

Activated Events and Relentless Beats have teamed up to bring Tempe some of the best artists from around the world for the “ultimate daytime music festival.”

Based at Big Surf Waterpark in Tempe, Arizona, Wet Electric 2013 is your chance to get wet and wild with some of the hottest artists and attendees in Tempe in the biggest wave pool in the country!

Wet Electric 2013 Lineup

In past years, Wet Electric has hosted artists like Dada Life, Eric Prydz and The Crystal Method. This year, however, we can expect to see even bigger names with even bigger tracks. The Wet Electric 2013 lineup includes a powerhouse of artists like DJ AM protege MAKJ, EDC favorite and party all-around party animal Chuckie, Russian-born Arty, big-room house artist (and RL Grime’s alter ego) Clockwork, and dubstep innovator Flux Pavillion. 

Also featuring… 

Abstrakt, Hemmesphere, Sam Groove, Hazardous, Nasty Nos, Kuntrol, Exacilbur, Grey the Mute, The Agency, Mad Max, BiJou and more!

Tickets

Ticket purchase is good for entry and access to all water slides (yay!) — 21+

Use promotional code “JNTM” to get $5 off your order! Tickets for Wet Electric 2013 can be found by clicking here.

Dates & Times

MAINSTAGE LINEUP: 

Flux Pavilion: 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Chuckie: 6:15pm – 7:45pm

Arty: 4:45pm – 6:15pm

Clockwork: 3:45pm – 4:45pm

MakJ: 2:45pm – 3:45pm

Decipha: 1:30pm – 2:45pm

Lujan: 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Wet Electric 2013 will be from 12PM to 9PM on Saturday, October 5, 2013.

Check back for updates on the lineup, set times, and more!

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Fall Out Boy: crying boys for angsting girls

Despite fangirls crowding the venue at 8 a.m. and the line stretching completely over the Tempe Town Lake bridge in the blistering heat, I must say that the band I used to accurately depict my teenage angst is still alive and kicking at the same middle-finger ferocity it had when I saw Fall Out Boy seven years ago, touring with From First To Last, Hawthorne Heights, and All-American Rejects.

Since then, the lead singer of Hawthorne Heights had passed on, Sonny Moore moved on from From First To Last to Skrillex, and when All-American Rejects played on my campus last year, you could tell the lead singer was tweaking on something so dramatically I felt my childhood memories shatter. However, I was surprisingly refreshed by Fall Out Boy. It had been a while, indeed.

Originally, Fall Out Boy was generally considered ‘pop-punk’; however, with the changing times the band found itself changing as well, catering to the hip hop scene in later albums. The crowd was essentially all ages; I saw people as old as my 57 year-old-father to eight-year-old cousin. I can imagine this scene may have irritated some fans, but I personally was excited to be a part of such a fanbase that extended far beyond current trends or pure nostalgia. And seeing New Politics open for them was especially rad, considering the extent of my knowledge about the band from Denmark is their presence on Spotify.

I’ll be honest with you: I haven’t listened to a Fall Out Boy album completely since Take This To Your Grave and From Under the Cork Tree. Not for any particular reason aside from just getting into other bands– but I was a little anxious they’d forget about their older hits and mostly propagate their newest album, Save Rock and Roll.  I wasn’t especially wrong with that worry– but the their performance made up for not knowing their newest hits by radiating energy and enthusiasm with every note played. Each musician sounded as great as they had in the past. While the sound sometimes shifts, they still possessed the same sound that brought them to fame originally.

The crowd, though, was significantly more crazy than I had expected– I mean, it’s Fall Out Boy-– but before I could blink I found myself submerged and unequipped within a surprisingly legitimate mosh pit of angry teenage boys. After I participated with them in their shoving activities I was able to convince one of them to let me crowd-surf for their first older hit of the night– Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things to Do Today. And naturally, Fall Out Boy continued to play a few more singles from their first two albums and it was incredibly righteous in all senses of the word.

The whole experience was very reminiscent of my thirteen year old self hearing Pete Wentz call out to those in the nosebleed seating in the arena “Come down to the floor!”, where I sprinted with my cumbersome DVSes only to be lifted over the railing by a security guard safely to the general admission area. Attending the Save Rock and Roll concert really reminded me what I loved about Fall Out Boy. And that is– even if you’re not a fan– a sort of unique charisma they possess, the idea that these are actually just the rebellious kids living next door, bitter about your hot neighbor cheating on either one of them with the paperboy.

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