VEGAS MUSIC NEWS: Electric Daisy Carnival Creators Plotting Sphere Show, New Life for ‘Beautiful’?

Posted on: March 25, 2025, 06:48h. 

Last updated on: March 26, 2025, 10:07h.

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Organizers of the two biggest festivals in electronic dance music — Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival and Belgium’s Tomorrowland — are joining forces to produce a new Sphere show.

It looks like the organizers of the two largest electronic dance music festivals are co-producing a Sphere show. (Image: Unity)

Though they feature no posts yet, social media sites for the collab were just launched on Tuesday. Both Tomorrowland and Insomniac, EDC’s producer, also posted this psychedelic video to their X accounts, hinting of the collaboration and directing fans to this website to sign up for an email announcement.

The details were spilled by an electronic music website that slots “Unity” into the spherical venue from August 29-31. That’s between the Backstreet Boys’ final residency date on August 17 and the Eagles’ return on September 5.

According to Cultr.com, attendees will “step into a new reality, experiencing a fusion of music, love, magic and togetherness.” The report has tickets going on sale Monday, April 7, with a presale beginning Monday, March 31 via unityxsphere.com. (As of Tuesday evening, that site isn’t up yet.)

Afterlife is Beautiful

We may have been premature in pronouncing the once-great “Life is Beautiful” festival officially dead last month. Forgive us, but the signs couldn’t have been any more there — shriveling up into a tiny ball in 2024, canceling its 2025 edition entirely, and even deleting its website.

However, this bombshell Vital Vegas report describes a possible path back to prominence for the fallen festival. Its current owner, Penske Media Corporation, is considering the purchase of the Downtown Grand Hotel, the former Lucky Lady that reopened following a 2013 renovation.

Why is that significant? Because Penske also owns Rolling Stone magazine. So not only is a “Life is Beautiful” refresh possible on and around the Downtown Grand’s grounds (say that three times fast), the structure could actually be rebranded as the Rolling Stone Hotel & Casino.

Though Rolling Stone certainly lacks the youth cachet it once had, it could certainly give the more weathered Hard Rock brand — which will open its second Las Vegas hotel in 2027, 32 years after its first, on the site of the former Mirage — a run for its rock n’ roll nostalgia money and help re-establish downtown as a music tourism hub.

Carlos Extends

Carlos Santana has announced new fall dates for his ongoing residency at House of Blues inside Mandalay Bay. He’ll perform on September 17, 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 27, and 28, as well as on November 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 15 and 16. Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. PT on Friday, March 28 via Ticketmaster.