Posted by Elise Yablon on October 27, 2023
New & Noteworthy is Metal Insider’s weekly column highlighting some of the newest rock and metal releases coming out each week. This week marks the return of Dokken and The Gaslight Anthem, as well as big releases from the likes of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Poppy, Doro, In This Moment, Taking Back […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on May 17, 2023
Chicago’s Riot Fest has just dropped one jaw-dropping line-up for 2023. Headliners include rock legends Foo Fighters, The Cure, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, and Queens of the Stone Age. But that’s not all—joining the ranks are Turnstile, The Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Silverstein, Pennywise, Enter Shikari, Sleep Token, AFI, and a […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 18, 2014
[youtube]http://youtu.be/7AAPuyhks6Y[/youtube] On July 1st, Every Time I Die’s seventh album, From Parts Unknown, will be released. Before that, however, frontman Keith Buckley stopped by Metal Insider‘s Weehawken headquarters to chat about the new album. In the first part of a two-part interview, he opens up about the album title, working with Kurt Ballou, and why The […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 25, 2014
The Gaslight Anthem isn’t particularly metal, but if you like Bruce Springsteen and/or Social Distortion and/or bands that sound like Social Distortion covering Bruce Springsteen, then you might be familiar with them. And if you’re an Every Time I Die fan that’s unfamiliar with the band, you might want to familiarize yourselves with them, as […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 10, 2013
What’s it sound like when a beer corporation and a music mogul team up for a festival? Pretty sweet from the lineup of the second annual Budweiser Made In America Festival lineup that was revealed earlier today. The Jay-Z-curated festival will return to Philadelphia again for a second year, with Beyonce, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix […]
Posted by Metal Insider on November 19, 2012
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Hard to believe it, but Thanksgiving is just a few days away. With that in mind, we decided to continue a tradition we started last year and list the top five events we’re thankful occurred in 2012. Sure, 2012 was […]
Posted by Metal Insider on June 25, 2012
This past weekend, Metallica presented the inaugural Orion Music + More festival in Atlantic City, NJ. Metal Insider’s Bram Teitelman, Zach Shaw and Kodi McKinney were there, as was MI contributor Alex Rudisill. We’ll be bringing you plenty of interviews from the show, but today is the first of two recaps, covering the first day’s festivities. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 21, 2012
If we were to have handicapped the final two slots of who would wind up playing Metallica’s Orion Music & More festival when it was first announced, we would’ve definitely had Baroness and Volbeat in the top ten. Baroness are now being managed by Metallica’s management company Q Prime, and with Yellow and Green coming out […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on May 17, 2012
Heard of New Jersey’s The Gaslight Anthem? You probably will soon. Their major label debut, Handwritten, will be out in July, and their earnest, if somewhat derivative, mashup of Social Distortion and Bruce Springsteen will likely be the focus of some “rock’s not dead yet” trend pieces over the next few months. At any rate, […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on May 15, 2012
In past years, Riot Fest was a punk rock festival that took place all over Chicago. It has since evolved into a multi-genre festival and carnival, set to take place in Humboldt Park with events at Congress Theatre and Cobra Lounge. And last night’s announcement of the first batch of bands confirmed for the September […]
