Infusing the Las Vegas backdrop and history with the spooky spirit of Halloween, Vegoose is an experience, not merely a festival: interactive attractions, performance artists and art installations by Las Vegas performers beckon your attendance—not to mention the top-tier musical line-up. Sam Boyd Stadium hosts a stadium where most of the goings-on will take place, but also features a sprawling 39-acre “grassy star nursery field,” where you can undoubtedly go to get your romance. Speaking of romance, in classy, Vegas fashion there will also be an “Impersonators Café” and Wedding Chapel (no word on whether “impersonators” will be the ones doing the marrying… we can only hope).

But, you came for the music, and this festival welcomes one and all with its mainstream and indie-loving lineup. See Modest Mouse and The Shins the same weekend you headbang to Rage Against the Machine and skank to Michael Franti & Spearhead. What happens at Vegoose, stays at Vegoose. We had to.