For over 20 years, Germany’s Melt Festival has taken place in a location just as charismatic as the acts that have performed there: Ferropolis. his grim strip mine turned greenery-fringed industrial museum in Saxony-Anhalt, 85 miles southwest of Berlin, is home to ive giant excavators, with names like Medusa and Mad Max. his year, 19–21 July, they’ll form the backdrop to sounds as diverse as the whispery indie of Bon Iver and the artful hip-hop of A$AP Rocky.
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