Factory Town in Hialeah is going all in for Halloween. The venue has announced its 2026 Hocus Pocus lineup, expanding the annual dance-music blowout into a three-night run from October 30 through November 1 that will feature Eric Prydz, Meduza, Chase & Status and more than 75 other DJs across five outdoor stages, with sets running from 7 p.m. until sunrise each night.
The festival, now in its sixth year, is being billed as one of the biggest Halloween lineups the event has produced to date, according to Miami New Times. Beyond Eric Prydz and Meduza, the bill includes Indira Paganotto, Nora En Pure, Purple Disco Machine, Gorgon City, Chloé Caillet and Prospa, alongside back-to-back sets pairing Joseph Capriati with Seth Troxler, Jamie Jones with Franky Rizardo, and Odd Mob with Cassian. Isoxo and Brutalismus 3000 are also slated to perform, and the lineup includes an act called Chasewest. Factory Town, which currently has multiple stages on its grounds, will reopen in roughly a month for the run.
An Industrial Wasteland Theme Takes Over the Grounds
This year's production leans hard into the venue's factory-floor bones. Organizers say Hocus Pocus 2026 will transform Factory Town into what they describe as a decaying industrial ecosystem, with immersive environments inspired by control rooms, ventilation chambers, reactor cores and industrial machinery. The site will also include a turnstile takeover as part of the design, per the same New Times report.
That theme fits naturally with the property's real history. Factory Town occupies the 190,000-square-foot site of the former Dixie Bedding mattress factory, a building constructed in 1946 that once produced cots for the U.S. military during both World War II and the Vietnam War, according to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity. Developer Avra Jain bought the abandoned industrial site in 2021 and stripped the warehouse roof to create an open-air complex, while preserving a large central kapok tree as part of an ecological garden, per Wikipedia's entry on the venue. The design leaves structural steel and concrete intact, giving the space its distinctive industrial aesthetic even before any Halloween set dressing goes up.
Local Crews Get Their Own Stage Takeovers
Two veteran Miami nightlife names are getting dedicated stage takeovers this year: Electric Pickle and Get Busy, both curating their own sets as part of the festival, the New Times report notes. It continues a Hocus Pocus tradition of pairing homegrown underground collectives with international headliners rather than treating the festival as an import-only affair. Electric Pickle was a foundational Miami club before it closed, and its presence on the bill is a nod to the city's dance-music lineage even as the festival's headline names get bigger every year.
Factory Town has also attracted a significantly younger audience as its event calendar has grown, and the venue now hosts a growing number of 18+ events. That expansion has coincided with the site becoming a stop for more than just multi-day dance festivals — Hoodline previously reported that the venue hosted FKA Twigs' Grammy-winning Body High tour kickoff in March, showing the seven-acre layout can accommodate major touring productions as well as DJ-heavy lineups.
Tickets, Timing and a Recent Wristband Scam
Hocus Pocus 2026 kicks off at 7 p.m. on October 30 at Factory Town, located at 4800 NW 37th Ave in Miami, and runs through November 1. Ticket prices for the festival range from $120 to $250, though official Factory Town ticketing has listed General Admission three-day passes at $174.99 and VIP three-day access at $274.99 as of August, with VIP entry including air-conditioned trailers and dedicated viewing decks.
Buyers should be cautious about where they purchase from. Miami-Dade Police arrested two men outside Factory Town this past March after catching them selling counterfeit $225 wristbands to attendees at an electronic music event, Hoodline reported at the time, with officers recovering cash and fake bands on site during an early-morning bust.
Behind the Scenes: A Settled Ownership Fight and City Zoning Push
The lineup announcement lands just weeks after festival promoter Insomniac Events settled a lawsuit with Club Space and Factory Town co-founders, resolving an ownership dispute and confirming that both companies will continue operating Factory Town and Club Space jointly, according to the settlement reported in July. That resolution provides some behind-the-scenes stability for a venue that has otherwise drawn scrutiny from its neighbors.
Factory Town sits within Hialeah's Factory Town Entertainment Sub-District pilot program and the Leah Arts District, a zoning framework the city established under Ordinance 2019-029 to revitalize industrial land near two Tri-Rail stations and retain young residents. But the arrangement hasn't been without friction: residents in neighboring Miami Springs submitted 243 noise complaints and pursued legal action against Factory Town in early 2022, which led to sound mitigation agreements and speaker realignments under the sub-district pilot program.
Whether this year's expanded three-night format and additional stages reignite those noise concerns remains to be seen. For now, the festival's organizers are focused on the lineup itself, promoting it as a milestone edition for a Halloween tradition that has grown from a single-night party into one of South Florida's largest seasonal electronic music events.
