The club scene is riddled with kitschy themed “raves,” that could never—even collectively—hold their own against Tampa’s famed “Hallucination Before Christmas” party that’s spent the last three decades bringing Halloween and the holidays together for charity.
The 2025 installment of includes nearly 40 artists spread across four rooms, including Boys Noize Records alum Josh Wink (“Higher State of Consciousness”) along with Chicago house legend Gene Farris, Glastonbury and Burning Man alum Left/Right (stylized in all-caps), plus Hallucination OGs DJ Monk, DJ Three and Oona Dahl.
Not content to be just the most balls-to-the-wall audio-visual mindfuck, Hallucination also doubles as one of the heftiest holiday food drives in the Bay area, having collected more than 2,000 pounds of canned goods last year alone…