The Midnight Rambler // Alfred Spellman

For 11 years, the two have coincided by design: UMF launched in 1999, piggybacking on the then-13-year-old WMC’s growing popularity. While an anomalistic Easter forced a one-week move in 2004, both events were otherwise held the last week in March. WMC always launched midweek, and UMF wrapped up the weekend. But this year, an unexpected shift in dates has made that scenario impossible, causing an international uproar in the process.