[SOLD OUT] Paradiso Festival

Just look at the marketing for this event: hot-air balloons, sunflowers, bubbles, butterflies and other tripped-out mages. Yet the sold-out disco adventure raging this week at the Gorge won’t exactly look like a set piece from Oz… unless you alter your state of mind. While the company putting on the show, USC Events, claims to have a zero-tolerance policy for drugs — last year, 14 people were arrested and dozens were taken to the nearby hospital — there’s no way they can keep 25,000 people in the middle of nowhere from imbibing. All you kids headed that way this weekend to experience the bass-dropping electronic tones of big EDM names like Skrillex and Martin Garrix, or up-and-comers like Mija, Wave Racer, Galantis and Haywyre, remember to drink water, drink water, drink water. It’s about to be one hot event.