by Zach Fehl | Jul 28, 2017 | Protests, Religion, Touring
Yesterday, Thursday, July 27th, the Vans Warped Tour made its stop in Kansas City, KS, and just like all good things that come through the area, the Westboro Baptist Church organized a protest against it. During the demonstration, members of the pirate metal group...
by Matt Brown | Jul 19, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Summer touring season usually yields some good numbers for album sales, even if the album isn’t really considered new anymore. A few bands have popped up...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 29, 2017 | Controversy, Touring
Punk rock band The Dickies have been around for 40 years now, and as one of the bands playing a handful of shows on this Summer’s Vans Warped Tour, attracted their share of attention. However, it was for all the wrong reasons. Video has surfaced of the...
by Matt Brown | Jun 28, 2017 | Metal By Numbers
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I honestly don’t know why everyone hates on Nickelback so much. Well, actually I do: the hate bandwagon. But really, they’re a harmless...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 27, 2017 | Close Calls, Touring
The Warped Tour has only been on the road for about a week, and it’s already claimed one casualty: the tour bus that Hundredth and Being as an Ocean were traveling in. The two bands were on the road to today’s date in Nashville, and woke up to the back of...