Portraits From M3F Festival 2025: Sylvan Esso, Justice, LP Giobbi, and More

Additional behind-the-scenes shots of TEED, UPSAHL, Dev Lemons, Beach Weather, and The Strike from the annual non-profit event in Phoenix.
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Portraits From M3F Festival 2025: Sylvan Esso, Justice, LP Giobbi, and More

Additional behind-the-scenes shots of TEED, UPSAHL, Dev Lemons, Beach Weather, and The Strike from the annual non-profit event in Phoenix.

Words: FLOOD Staff

Photos: Erik Velasquez

March 13, 2025

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This past weekend, dozens of indie and electronic acts from across the world descended upon Phoenix, Arizona for the city’s annual M3F Festival, a long-running non-profit music and arts event dedicated to giving back to the local community. While Confidence Man got us hyped for M3F 2025 last week with an exclusive playlist of electronic tunes, today we’re sharing some post-festival coverage in the form of backstage artist portraits with a few of the weekend’s most exciting names.

Check out photographer Erik Velasquez’s shots of headliners Justice, along with additional lineup standouts Sylvan Esso, LP Giobbi, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, UPSAHL, Dev Lemons, and more below. You can also learn more about the charity aspect of M3F here.

UPSAHL

JUSTICE

BEACH WEATHER

TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS

DEV LEMONS

LP GIOBBI

THE STRIKE

SYLVAN ESSO

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