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Shot at Identity festival, first time seeing Prydz. One of the best sets I've experienced.

So as you may know, or not and are just about to find out, EDM is taking over. If even you don't really know what it is, it's influencing the world around you: it's being incorporated into an increasing amount of popstar repertoire cycling your favorite radio station, it's creating a lifestyle and industry that affects the concert going experience as we know it, and finally, you knew it would come to this, it has experienced movement in the fashion industry.

Unless you've been oblivious in the stores or are too broke to be shopping these days (not unlike myself) you have noticed the neon, the crop tops, and the bright colors dripping from clothing racks in Nordstrom and Target and everywhere in between. Designers are smart, they know the summer festival trend and are catering to those fashion conscious festies.

Of course, the festival itself is no new creation but it's evolution is incredible. Naturally the music has changed, headliner names like Jimi Hendrix and The Who have turned into foreign looking monikers like Skrillex and Avicii. Although some traditional styles have reemerged on the festival scene, the direction is almost beyond comparison...

Late 60's festival fashions in Hyde Park, NY

Some style scene at Identity festival in Bristow, VA

 This past weekend I went to Identity festival in northern Virginia with some good (and some new) friends. Because it was only a one day festival, and we were really only going to see four acts in particular, we went a little EDM-casual for our looks.

It's all about the crop top. Yes those are fanny packs, and yes, mine is from Disney World.

The young legend, Madeon.

There was a lot of neon....

Mustaches are always involved.

EDM festivals are perfect for those outfits you would never otherwise wear. You can't wear something too outrageous because there will always be someone with more neon than you, less clothing than you, or more glitter than you.

The next night we headed to Pacha in New York to see Madeon, and to our surprise, another Eric Prydz set. The club was beyond overcrowded, the scene was club and attire appropriate for new york night life: tight dresses, heels, collared shirt, you've seen it all before. The crowd was not ideal but the music was so, so good.

Madeon rockin his signature blazer, the coolest teenager in the world. Photo credit Angas Reid

trying to find some dancing room amongst the pacha crowd......

up next: Pretty Lights

crystal visions

Blurry picture, but the legend herself.

Mystical goddess of rock, sister of the moon, and one of my personal idols (yep, up there with mom and Jesus) Stevie Nicks graced Hampton Roads, Virginia with her witchy presence and raspy ballads on July 14.

Rock hall-of-famer (inducted as a part of Fleetwood Mac), Stevie Nicks has lived the ultimate sex, drugs, and rock n roll life. From romantic involvement with band mates to at least two battles with rehab, she's seen it all. "We were beautiful, fast, sexy; love was everywhere."

Anyway, two reasons in particular of why I idolize her: the power of her poetry and iconic style. She wrote Landslide, a song you've heard even if you think you haven't, when she was just the ripe age of 24. She also has established herself as a dark, shawl-bearing, layers of chiffon-wearing, mystical mystery sex idol of rock.

As for style, I tried to channel her mystical essence:

 

However I ended up wearing something more along the lines of:

I knew I just had to have a long black skirt and some red, red lips.

The style around me included a lot of multi-lengthed dresses adorned on middle aged adults closing their eyes to remember the sunshine of the seventies. Stevie wore her signature shawls and black-on-black ensembles while she rocked some of the classics including Rhiannon, Gold Dust Woman, Stand Back, and of course her encore: Landslide.

Next up: Identity Festival

sounds like style

If these shoes could talk...

 Fueled by undying passions for writing, music, and style, styleheard has come to life. I've created this blog to share looks, styles, trends, and just a love for the fashion behind (and in front of) the music. That, and a new justification for all the money I spend on concert tickets.

Pretty Lights in Miami, FL. Photo Credit: Sarah Kohart

From dubstep to jam bands, I'm here to explore it all. Fascinated by personal style,  I'll aim to document the fashion and music of real people, across the country and beyond.

Bassnectar at The National in Richmond,VA I'm one of the dots at the top. Photo Credit to Bassnectar's people.

Please explore and adore everything I share with you. I hope to inspire, spark your curiosity, and just share some awesome experiences. Join my adventures that will range from Stevie Nicks in Virginia to Pretty Lights in Colorado to Electric Zoo in New York (and that's just in the next month and a half....) and so much more.


For your viewing pleasure here are some of my past experiences that have led me to this point...

Paper Diamond in Richmond, VA. I'm in the front there with my girl Chi Anh. Photo Credit Alex Fuller.

Some fabulous friends and I during Knife Party at Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL. Photo Credit Heist and Co

With Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips at the NorVa in Norfolk, VA

With my darling Victoria, camping out at my first festival, All Good, in Masontown, WV

Two of my best friends and I before Gareth Emery in Washington D.C.