August Brown: EDC Las Vegas and the increasing impossibility of escapism
by August Brown, Los Angeles Times
May 23, 2018
3 minutes
Of all the young fans I talked to over the weekend at Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas - about Avicii, about the massacre at last year's Route 91 country music festival, and about the music they were here to see regardless - almost all of them had a similar feeling about the world right now.
It's all falling apart.
I haven't been a teenager in quite a while, but my peers' first-generational tragedies - Columbine, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Iraq war and the economic meltdown -
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