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Bi-Weekly Review 6- Music Festival Junkies

Our website deals with a summer music festival series listing, comparing, and contrasting a few different music festivals based on cost, distance, and music genres. The site Music Festival Junkies lists nearly all the music festivals in Europe, The United States, and Canada in chronological order on the home page. This list is surrounded by various blogs, tweets, articles, and band line-ups. There is a bar with drop down menus beneath their very simple banner that offers further categorizing. Navigating with this bar one can find lists of the top 10 Mega festivals, camping festivals, unique festivals, and Canadian festivals under one tab. Then going to the right it has links to lists of United States Music festivals, European music festivals (sub menu of UK festivals), Canadian festivals, then has news on lineups and scenes, and finally the MFJ 50, a list of fifty of the festivals they most recommend. If one clicks through any list to a music festival it offers a brief dossier when and where the festival is, how much it costs, whether or not there is camping, give a list of the lineup and a short description of the atmosphere that one would encounter there and a link to the official site. On the right side there is a filter which expands to show different categories of festivals then one can click to expand the desired attribute to filter by, month, genre, or location then one chooses the category from the expanded stipulations, and the site offers a list of possible matches to the filter. Aesthetically the site doesn’t use anything flashy focusing more on bare bones easy navigation for the user. Overall the functionality of the site is great and offers an abundance of information on each festival, the methods that the site uses to lead people to the desired festival are swift and effective and the aesthetics don’t distract the user from the links that they should use.