Kyle Hartman misses seeing renegade pop-up shows at theums , which will be celebrating its 25th anniversary the weekend of July 25. So naturally, the futuregardenagency co-founder decided to create his own DIY shows for this year’s event. “I worked for the festival for about eleven years,” he notes. “It’s definitely been a staple of the community. When I used to work for the festival, they used to do all these DIY parties in the neighborhood. There were a couple epic ones — Nathaniel Rateliff played on the roof of a house, if I recall. They were really special moments that came out of nowhere, that people weren’t expecting.” Hartman, who founded Future Garden with Kori Hazel in 2019, says he had been planning on putting together a pop-up with the agency’s roster of artists before UMS announced that this year would be its last. “It’s kind of serendipitous that I finally decided to do it this year, because if I hadn’t, I would not get another chance,” he says. ✍️ Read the full story b...