Brands talk about keeping it real, but most don’t. Fun Fun Fun Fest’s James Moody on the wacky ways it keeps fans passionate about the Austin music festival. When 20-something punk fans Stephen and ...

Ms. Bennett is a contributing editor in Opinion who writes on gender, politics and culture. I did something called survival camp as a teenager, an entirely voluntary activity, ostensibly for fun.

For the most part, I’m not a music-festival kind of guy. Over the years I’ve spent lots of time in various huge fields and parking lots waiting through a bunch of bands I didn’t really want to see, so ...