Head Trip Festival lands at Empire Polo Club with Calvin Harris, Skrillex
Goldenvoice has announced the head trip festival, a two-day electronic music event scheduled for Oct. 10-11 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The lineup pairs mainstream headliners such as Calvin Harris, Swedish House Mafia, and Skrillex with multiple back-to-back sets, a programming choice that signals a tightly curated, DJ-forward format rather than a broad genre mix.
Goldenvoice’s Indio expansion
The announcement positions Goldenvoice—already identified as the organizer behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Stagecoach Music Country Festival, and Just Like Heaven—as extending its Indio footprint with a one-off dance-centric event. The head trip festival is set at the Empire Polo Club, at 81-800 51st Avenue, the same venue used for Coachella and Stagecoach. The pattern suggests Goldenvoice is leaning on a proven site and established festival infrastructure to introduce a new, electronic-only bill without changing locations or asking audiences to learn a new venue.
Even with only the basic event details confirmed, the choice of Empire Polo Club matters: it places the new festival in a setting already associated with large-scale, multi-day music events. That link can reduce friction for ticket buyers and touring teams alike, because the venue’s role as a recurring host implies familiarity with festival operations. Still, the context does not specify capacity, stage design, or production elements, leaving open how Goldenvoice intends to differentiate Head Trip from other events held on the same grounds.
Head Trip Festival lineup structure
Head Trip’s bill is explicitly anchored by electronic music artists across both days, with day-by-day listings already named. The first day is set to include Calvin Harris, Fisher, Chris Lake, Peggy Gou back-to-back with Four Tet, and Seth Troxler back-to-back with Ben Sterling. The second day is set to include Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, Dom Dolla back-to-back with Kettama, The Blessed Madonna, and DJ Harvey.
The figures point to a booking strategy that balances individual marquee names with pairings designed around collaboration and scene credibility. Back-to-back sets—Peggy Gou with Four Tet, Seth Troxler with Ben Sterling, and Dom Dolla with Kettama—can function as a programming hook because they promise a set that is, by definition, unique to the event’s schedule. Yet the context does not describe set times, stage assignments, or whether any additional artists will be announced, leaving the full scope of the lineup unresolved beyond the names listed.
Passes on sale at 11 a. m. ET
Passes are set to go on sale Friday at 11 a. m. ET. That single, confirmed milestone is likely to become the immediate test of demand for Goldenvoice’s new concept: an EDM-focused, two-day event placed at a venue already associated with some of its best-known festivals. The pattern suggests the sale timing is designed to convert early interest generated by the lineup reveal into quick commitments, especially for fans motivated by limited, collaboration-driven sets.
What remains open is how Goldenvoice will position pricing tiers, capacity, and any additional experience elements around Oct. 10-11, because none of those details are provided in the context. The next concrete development is Friday’s 11 a. m. ET on-sale, which will establish how the market responds to the Head Trip brand and its tightly specified artist roster at the Empire Polo Club.
