LIVE EVENTS

June is Music Festival Month on the Backstage Pass blog, where we take a twice-a-week peek at highlights from the biggest summer concerts worldwide. This week, Dutch producer and DJ Armin Van Buuren linked arms with the promoters at Sunburn in Mumbai to bring party-goers A State of Trance, a music festival headlined by Van Buuren and named after his weekly radio show. We dug through the social media melee and fished out our favorite shots of the throwdown. We re loving

This monochrome welcome:

This screaming sea of souls:

This amazing fisheye crowd shot:

This field of cellphones:

This rain of fire:

This explosive behind-the-decks view:

This electric storm:

This trippy space lighting:

These colorful spotlights:

This gates of Heaven goodbye: