Doritos and Stranger Things are Throwing an '80s Music Festival—in the Upside Down

A virtual concert celebrates the hit Netflix thriller's long-awaited fourth season

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Have you heard about the biggest ’80s music festival that never was? Storytellers say that Doritos Music Fest ’86 was poised to be the biggest event of the year … until the tour bus crashed near Hawkins, Indiana and the musicians disappeared into another dimension. It was the strangest thing.

Fear not, pop rock enthusiasts. 36 years later, the brand is making up for lost time by teaming up with Netflix‘s Stranger Things for “Live From the Upside Down,” a virtual concert celebrating the arrival of the hit thriller’s long-awaited fourth season.

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