Red Bull Best Trick
Cash prizes: $500 best trick, $250 best male trick, $250 best female trick. Detroit and surrounding skaters — grab a festival ticket, sign up to compete. No separate competition ticket required.
Rescheduled from Sept 19 — September tickets are honored at the door.
Cartoons & Stereo is where music, skate culture and community collide to bring a fresh, electric energy to Detroit.
It started in spring 2025 as one independent, youth-run day on the east side — a stage, a pop-up park and a parking lot full of people who normally only see each other online. It sold out, so we're doing it bigger.
Vol. 2 puts fourteen acts on the bill, a Red Bull-backed best trick contest on a purpose-built course, a nine-foot rim dunk contest and seventeen Detroit vintage and artist vendors in one lot for nine hours. One ticket, one gate, no VIP.
Lineup subject to change — set times drop the week of the show.
Cash prizes: $500 best trick, $250 best male trick, $250 best female trick. Detroit and surrounding skaters — grab a festival ticket, sign up to compete. No separate competition ticket required.
A course built in the lot for the day and open between heats. Bring your own board and a helmet if you want one — we have a few loaners, not many.
The rim comes down to nine feet and the bar goes up. Open sign-ups on site until the bracket fills.
Seventeen Detroit sellers — vintage racks, print shops, jewelry, zines and one-off pieces. Most take card, some are cash only. Full list below.
A spread of Detroit trucks parked out back by the stage, with a variety of options. Open from the first set to the last. Outside food and drink stay in the car.
Order merch here and choose pickup. It’s bagged with your name on it at the merch booth. Show your order email, skip the line, done.
Skate the lot at Big Pink as MAVI, Chuck Inglish, Sir Michael Rocks, Curtis Roach or Stoop Lee, to songs from the Vol. 2 bill. Land on the beat to turn the stereo up.
Vol. 2 merch
drops soon
Tees, hoodies and hats, screenprinted in Detroit. When the drop goes up you'll be able to have it mailed to your door, or preorder it and pick it up at the merch tent on October 17 — no shipping cost, in your hands that day.
Thanks, your order is in. Your receipt is on its way to your email.
Loading the drop…
Checkout is handled by Square on a secure payment page. Sales tax is added at checkout. Questions about an order: cartoonsandstereo@gmail.com.
Yes. Every ticket sold for the original September 19 date is valid on October 17 — nothing to exchange, just bring the same ticket. If you can't make the new date, email us and we'll sort it out.
Put everything you want in your cart and pay for it all at once. Shipping is a flat $7.50 per order in the US and $12.50 to Canada. Or choose pickup and get it free at the merch booth at Big Pink on Saturday, October 17, 2–11 PM. Bring your order email.
Bring one if you have one. The pop-up park is open between contest heats and it gets busy — a small number of loaner boards and helmets are available at the skate tent, first come first served.
Buy a festival ticket, then sign up at the Red Bull tent when you arrive. There's no separate competition ticket and no entry fee. Sign-ups close before the first heat.
All ages, and kids under 12 get in free with a ticketed adult. The festival runs rain or shine — the September date moved for severe weather, which is a different situation than a wet afternoon.
Street parking runs along Wight St and the surrounding blocks on Detroit's east riverfront. Rideshare drop-off is on Wight St at the gate. Lock your board to you, not to a fence.