Phoenix Goldrush Music Festival announces its 2025 dates and venue

The Wild West-themed EDM event is returning to its original home.

February 10, 2025

Image: Attendees of last year's Goldrush music festival.

Attendees of last year's Goldrush music festival. Luis Colato

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Hold onto your bedazzled cowboy hats, Phoenix EDM fans. The Goldrush music festival is hitting the dusty trail back to Rawhide Western Town in Chandler this year.

Local concert promoter Relentless Beats announced in an Instagram post last week that the 2025 edition of the Western-themed EDM event will take place on Friday, Sep. 12 and Saturday, Sep. 13 at the East Valley attraction and venue.

“The Wild West has been waiting and now...WE RIDE AGAIN. Saddle up, partners! The long-lost legend of Goldrush at Rawhide is finally returning,” the post read in part.

It will mark Goldrush’s return to Rawhide, its original home, for the first time since 2021.

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Goldrush attendees at a previous edition of the annual electronic dance music festival.

Tony Cottrell Photography/Relentless Beats

Goldrush’s history at Rawhide

The annual two-night music festival debuted at the attraction back in 2017. The rustic kitsch of Rawhide, located on the Gila River Indian Community, fit Goldrush’s Western theme like a tasseled glove.

Festivalgoers could pan for gold, ride a mechanical bull or take aim in the town’s shooting gallery when they weren’t dancing and raging at multiple stages while superstar DJs performed.

In 2022, Relentless Beats moved Goldrush across the Valley to Phoenix Raceway in Avondale. Despite the venue change, the festival kept its Wild West theme.

Local EDM fans like Valley resident Brooke Kulik were stoked about the news of Goldrush’s return to Rawhide.

“Goldrush was my first ever festival at Rawhide back in September 2018,” Kulik commented on Instagram. “And my heart is on fire knowing that it’s back at Rawhide this year.”

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The main stage at Goldrush in 2023.

Jacob Tyler Dunn

Goldrush 2025 at Rawhide: What to know

The lineup for the 2025 edition of Goldrush hasn’t been announced by Relentless Beats yet, but will likely be revealed sometime this spring.

Last year’s Goldrush featured sets by The Chainsmokers, Alesso, SLANDER, AC Slater, Ganja White Night and masked DJ trio Black Tiger Sex Machine.

Relentless Beats is just as tight-lipped about when tickets for Goldrush will be available to the public. EDM fans can sign up on the festival’s website to be notified regarding on-sale dates and other info.

Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music and nightlife. He joined New Times in 2003. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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