by Sean Matthews | Jan 17, 2017 | Festivals, News
Some big names are taking over Chicago this July, as the 2nd annual Chicago Open Air Festival was announced today. After a monstrous first year that saw Rammstein’s only US appearance, the group behind Chicago Open Air “cranked it up to 11” this year by...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 12, 2017 | Festivals, News, Touring
While we’re still no closer to a new Tool album than we were a decade ago (or are we?), the band are at least getting out and playing some places they haven’t for a while. Just last week they announced that they’d be playing the Governor’s Ball...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 11, 2017 | Festivals, News
Headed to Manchester, TN for Bonnaroo? If so, it’s not going to be to see any metal. Much like Coachella, the festival has nothing remotely heavy on it. In fact, it shares a lot of the same artists as Coachella this year. With the exception of headliners U2 and...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 9, 2017 | Festivals, News
Nine Inch Nails ended 2016 on an up note by surprise-releasing a new EP. Not the Actual Events is a 21-minute, five song EP that came out on December 23rd, and suggested that the band would be coming out of a several year dormancy. Well, we’ve got good news...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 5, 2017 | Festivals, News
With the new year comes festival announcements, and we already started things off with the confirmation of the rumor that Tool would be playing their first New York show in a decade by headlining the Governors Ball. Yesterday, Coachella announced their lineup, with...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 3, 2017 | Festivals
The new year started off on a sad note for of Of Mice & Men fans, as the band’s longtime singer Austin Carlile decided to officially step down from the band following his health issues. The connective tissue disorder Marfan Syndrome Carlile suffers from...