Posted by Alexander Stafford on January 29, 2018
The UK’s Download Festival has expanded their 2018 line up by adding over 65 more bands to their previously announced headliners. And still even more bands are expected to be announced as well. Download takes place at Donnington Park June 8-10, 2018. Previously Announced Headliners Ozzy Osbourne Guns N’ Roses Avenged Sevenfold Marilyn Manson […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 19, 2017
Until Wednesday, when the Vans Warped Tour 2017 lineup is officially unveiled, we’ll have to take this with a grain of salt, but an alleged lineup has leaked, from the tour’s July 19th Cincinnati stop at the Riverbend Music Center. With the absence of Kevin Lyman’s Mayhem Fest for a second year, it seems like they’ve […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on March 16, 2017
If you keep wondering how much your favorite bands make when they head out on the road, Billboard‘s Boxscore released their latest batch of earnings and attendance from many artists, and we’ve summarized them here for you. This time, we got a fairly short list of shows to report on but the numbers and bands […]
Posted by Sean Matthews on October 7, 2016
With the festival season slowly winding down, we were onsite in downtown, Louisville, Kentucky, this past weekend for the 3rd Annual Louder Than Life Festival. Featuring some of the larger names in metal and rock that have headlined most of the festivals this year, this gourmet food, bourbon and music weekend was no different. Over 50,000 concert […]
Posted by Sean Matthews on May 31, 2016
Today, the lineup for the third incarnation of Kentucky’s Louder than Life Festival was announced. Like many of the other regional festivals that have been announced in the last month or so, the lineup splits the difference between metal and hard rock, with many of the biggest names in both. Slipknot, Disturbed, Korn, Slayer and Avenged […]
Posted by Sean Matthews on May 17, 2016
In the wake of Mayhem Fest’s demise, the rock festival, long popular in Europe, seems to really be taking off. In addition to the Chicago Open Air, Houston Open Air and combination Ozzfest and Knotfest, more and more new and larger festivals seem to be popping up, and AEG Live announced another one yesterday, Denver’s […]
Posted by Alix Vallecillo on May 16, 2016
There was a time when many of us in America looked at Europe with envy for having hundreds of festivals during summer, while we got almost no tours as most good bands were booked to play there. Now that seems to be vanishing, as the land of the free has stepped up its game by hosting […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 9, 2016
Last year saw the inaugural Monster Energy Rock Allegiance festival come to the Philadelphia suburb of Chester, PA at the Talen Energy Stadium. Things must have gone pretty well, as today, they announced that the festival is returning this September. This year’s festival has expanded to two days, September 17th and 18th. And as could […]
Posted by Holly Fitzpatrick on May 2, 2016
In the wake of the cancellation of the Mayhem Festival, a lot more non-traveling festivals are popping up. It’s kind of like the European festivals, in which a band can just play regional festivals instead of going on an actual tour. And along with fests like Chicago Open Air (which just sold out of single […]
