Life is Beautiful 2024: See the Best Photos From the Vegas Festival

Justice perform at Life Is Beautiful's Big Beautiful Block Party in Las Vegas.

The 11th annual Life Is Beautiful Festival kicked off on Friday, but the downtown Las Vegas staple looked a little different this year. In previous iterations, the festival has taken over 18 city blocks of downtown Las Vegas — located about five miles south of the famed Strip —but organizers switched it up this year, opting instead for a two-day “Big Beautiful Block Party” near the original site.

Despite the new digs in “old Vegas,” as the area is commonly referred to, Life Is Beautiful continued to have that familiar flair, embracing sponsored bars, local street food, glittered clientele, excessive daytime heat, firework displays and buzzy indie electronic headliners.

Jamie xx, Justice, James Blake and LP Giobbi were just a few highlights of Day One, and superstars including LCD Soundsystem, Jungle and Peggy Gou headlined Saturday night. Check out Rolling Stone‘s photos from the two-day party.

(Disclosure: Rolling Stone purchased a majority stake in Life is Beautiful in 2022.)