Katie Bain is a music and culture journalist who began her writing career after earning a degree in journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin. Born and raised near Green Bay, she's spent the last seventeen years in Los Angeles, California, where she's held positions at LA Weekly and international festival brand Insomniac Events and Beatport. Her work has appeared in publications including Billboard, The Guardian, VICE, Noisey, Flaunt, DoubleBlind, The LAnd,RBMA, and more. She is currently the Senior Music Correspondent at Billboard, where she focuses on electronic music and sustainability. In 2007, months after moving to LA, she took her first drive across the desert to Coachella to see Prince headline. She's been to the festival eleven times since, for work and play.