Posted by Zenae Zukowski on November 8, 2022
The United Kingdom’s Download festival will return in 2023 with a special celebration of its 20th anniversary with four headline sets. Headliners include Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, and Metallica, who will perform two unique, no-repeat performances on Thursday and Saturday of the event. The 2023 edition will take place on June 8th-11th, 2023, […]
Posted by Elise Yablon on July 30, 2020
Post-hardcore band Touché Amoré has announced that they will be releasing a new album later this year. Lament is set to hit shelves October 9 via Epitaph. “Our 5th studio album LAMENT is available now for pre-order,” starts a post announcing the album on the band’s Instagram page. “It’s been four years since the […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 23, 2019
While we’ve already seen quite a few tours announced this week including Slipknot, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, King Diamond, Atreyu, Gatecreeper, The Devil Wears Prada, and Insomnium; we’ve put ten others that were revealed this week. 10) La Dispute announce US Fall Tour La Dispute will return this Fall for another set of touring dates across […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 6, 2018
Record Store Day has proven to be a savior for the music industry, particularly independent record stores and vinyl sales. Since it launched in 2007, it’s expanded to two days (there’s also one on Black Friday) and vinyl sales have continued to increase every year. Meanwhile, the event, which was meant to get consumers away […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on October 19, 2016
We love A.V. Undercover, the series in which visiting bands have to cover a song from one of 25 artists, with the list dwindling down every time an artist visits. It helped get GWAR back into the national spotlight and earned them alumni status after they crushed a Kansas cover, and just a few weeks […]
Posted by Matt Brown on September 28, 2016
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Not every band can hit the top 10 with just an EP, especially one that is more or less on par with an LP released last year. But Ghost have come quite a […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on May 18, 2016
Last week, Riot Fest left fans utterly shocked when they announced that the original Misfits lineup would perform at both the Chicago and Denver editions of the festivals. Now the festival has revealed the first wave of bands confirmed for its stacked lineup. The Chicago edition (taking place September 16 – 18) will host […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 22, 2016
There are so many festivals happening that to make one stand out, you really need to do something to differentiate it from the rest. The New York Times just wrote about that, stating they’re not going to Coachella or Bonnaroo any more because of the overall sameness of the the artists playing all those festivals and […]
Posted by Seth Werkheiser on March 27, 2015
First the post-hardcore band Touche Amore signs a management deal with the Jay Z owned Roc Nation, and now progressive metal masters Coheed and Cambria have joined the Roc Nation family as well. As noted by Property of Zack, Touch Amore signed with Roc Nation because, “the band’s manager being hired by (Roc Nation) and presumably taking his artists […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 13, 2015
Touche Amore, the California post-hardcore band, has signed a management deal with Roc Nation, the entertainment and management company owned by Jay Z. The band are the only remotely heavy band on the roster, which includes Capital Cities and Haim alongside other much more mainstream artists like Rihanna, Shakira, Kanye West and Timbaland. The band […]
