Festival weekends and DJ travel always look cleaner in recap posts than they feel in real life.
The bag is usually the thing dealing with the worst of it: dust, rain, airport floors, rideshare trunks, green rooms, cable spills, hotel room chaos, security lines, and the constant small panic of wondering where the adapter, charger, sunglasses, or passport ended up. That is the more interesting angle behind Nomadix’s new DayTripper collection.
The brand has launched its first bag lineup with three pieces: the 25L DayTripper Backpack, the 26L DayTripper Tote, and the 3L Traveler Tech Sling. Each is built with StormGrid™, recycled materials, PFAS-free waterproofing, abrasion resistance, and 97% UV resistance.
Nomadix frames the collection around commutes, workouts, weather, trail dust, city streets, and last-minute plans. For our corner of things, the read is clear enough: this is travel gear for people whose day can move from airport to venue to festival site to hotel without a clean reset in the middle.
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The backpack is the main travel piece
The 25L DayTripper Backpack is the most obvious fit for traveling artists, DJs, and festival weekends.
It costs $195.95 and is built around daily use and travel, with a padded laptop sleeve that fits a 16-inch laptop, a padded tablet or ebook sleeve, a spacious main compartment with back-panel divider, dual side water bottle or accessory holders, and several smaller pockets for the things that disappear fastest.
Those smaller details are where the bag becomes more relevant for music people. There is a top access pocket, a front compartment with zippered mesh storage, an interior zippered fleece glasses pocket, an interior zippered mesh pocket, and an interior smart tracker pocket. That covers a lot of the real stuff DJs carry when they are moving light: laptop, headphones, chargers, USBs, adapters, sunglasses, passport, power bank, water bottle, and whatever backup cable keeps the night from turning stupid.
The back panel is padded and ventilated. The shoulder straps are ergonomic, adjustable, and padded. There is a chest strap, a heavy-duty handle, a bike light attachment point, and a luggage handle pass-through. Nomadix also says the backpack meets carry-on size restrictions for most airlines, based on the 45-linear-inch rule, though travelers should still check with their airline.
I wrote about a similar kind of creator-travel logic in my piece on the Six Moon Designs ADC Travel Pack, where the real question was how much gear you can carry before the bag starts dictating the trip. The DayTripper Backpack sits in that same conversation, built for movement first and laptop life second.
The tote feels made for the festival overflow problem
The 26L DayTripper Tote costs $149.95, and it may end up being the easiest piece to understand for festival weekends.
A backpack is for the stuff you need to keep close and organized. A tote is for the rest of the day: hoodie, rain shell, merch, camera layer, snacks, extra socks, sunscreen, water bottle, small blanket, and the pieces you did not think you would need until the weather changed.
Nomadix gives the tote a reinforced padded bottom, zippered top closure, dual water bottle or accessory pockets, interior zippered pocket, daisy chain attachment points, heavy-duty rope handles, luggage handle pass-through, and a 16-inch laptop sleeve.
That last part changes the role a bit. This is not only a beach tote with tougher fabric. It can move between work, travel, and event carry, which matters for artists and music teams who are rarely carrying one category of stuff. A laptop can sit beside merch, a jacket, a small camera, a portable recorder, a pair of headphones, and the day’s festival supplies.
The padded bottom is also a real detail for event travel. Bags get dropped on pavement, gravel, venue floors, wet grass, and hotel lobbies. A tote that keeps its shape and gives the base a little protection makes more sense than a soft floppy carryall once tech gets involved.
This connects neatly with my earlier article on YETI’s summer carry lineup, where festival carry came down to durability, weather, and whether the bag can take real abuse without feeling like outdoor cosplay. Nomadix is working that same space with a softer, travel-first shape.
The sling is the small bag DJs actually need
The 3L Traveler Tech Sling is the smallest piece in the collection, priced at $69.95.
This is the one for the essentials that should never be buried in the main bag. Nomadix says it can fit an iPad Mini, Kindle, foldable noise-canceling headphones, cords, and larger accessories at the same time. It also has an exterior pocket for a small power bank, stretch-mesh pockets for cords and small items, a central divider with card sleeve, and a wide-opening design that gives access without dumping everything out.
For DJs and traveling producers, this may be the most day-to-day piece in the lineup. Keep passport, phone, wallet, earplugs, adapters, USBs, cable, charger, power bank, small headphones, and room key in one place, then leave the larger bag where it belongs.
That matters at festivals because the biggest bag is often the least convenient one. Once you are inside the site, backstage, in a booth, or moving between stages, the backpack can become dead weight. A sling keeps the high-risk small stuff attached to you.
The strap range runs from 35 inches minimum to 64 inches maximum, which gives it enough adjustment for crossbody use over a hoodie, jacket, or lighter summer fit.
StormGrid is the collection’s shared pitch
All three pieces are built around StormGrid™, which Nomadix positions as ready for sun, rain, trail dust, and city streets.
The company does not give a long technical breakdown in the email, but the feature set points to the same idea across the collection: PFAS-free waterproofing, abrasion resistance, 97% UV resistance, and recycled materials.
That combination fits the actual travel pattern for music people better than overly precious luggage. Touring artists, DJs, content teams, and festival writers do not need bags that look perfect once and then fall apart under weather. They need bags that can get shoved under a table, leaned against a speaker case, tossed in a van, dragged through the airport, and still look normal enough for dinner after the set.
I also think this is why Nomadix starting with bags makes sense. The brand already sits in that outdoor-meets-everyday zone. The DayTripper collection gives it a travel surface that can live in the same routine as towels, festival layers, water bottles, chargers, and weekend gear.
Which DayTripper bag fits which music person?
The Backpack is the safest pick for artists and DJs carrying a laptop, tablet, headphones, power, travel docs, sunglasses, and a more organized day kit. It is the one I would look at first for fly dates, writing trips, festival coverage, or one-bag daily carry around a city.
The Tote is better for overflow. It is the bag for festival days, merch runs, extra layers, pool-to-venue movement, record store stops, or anyone who needs a carryall that can still protect a laptop when the day changes.
The Sling is the high-access piece. It is for the small essentials you cannot lose: phone, wallet, passport, USBs, earplugs, battery, cords, room key, and small tech.
None of these replaces a flight case, a proper DJ bag, or a hard case for expensive equipment. That is not the job here. The DayTripper collection is more about the stuff around the gig: travel, weather, waiting, moving, eating, charging, packing, unpacking, and staying ready when the day refuses to stay simple.
For music festivals and traveling artists, that is usually where the bag earns its place.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
