This year’s Aftershock Festival, the west coast’s largest rock festival, will be taking place this October in Sacramento, California. The exciting lineup taking four stages across four days has just been announced, featuring some of the biggest names in rock music including headliners Foo Fighters, Slipknot, Kiss, and My Chemical Romance. Other acts confirmed for […]
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Smashing Pumpkins Announce Upcoming Spring 2022 Tour
Smashing Pumpkins will soon be embarking on their previously postponed Rock Invasion 2 Tour that includes 30 dates across the country, a handful of which will be festival stops. The tour, which was originally meant to take place in 2020, is now set to start at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis on May 1st […]
Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age’s Mark Lanegan Dies at 57
Mark Lanegan, the lead singer for Seattle grunge band Screaming Trees as well as a former member of Queens of the Stone Age, has died. He was 57. The news of his passing was announced by his family and friends through his verified Twitter account. The cause of his death was not disclosed. “Our beloved […]
Tool Puts Autographed Ultra Deluxe Vinyl Up For Sale at $810
Tool has just revealed that they will be selling an Ultra Deluxe vinyl version of their 2019 album Fear Inoculum at upcoming live shows. Only available to fans who purchase the Toolarmy VIP tickets, the vinyl set includes 5 discs of 180-gram vinyl, are autographed, and come in fancy packaging–all for $810. The pricey announcement was […]
Tom Morello, Serj Tankian, More Join Afghan Schoolgirls for Cover of “God Help Us All”
The Miraculous Love Kids, a non-profit music school of Afghan schoolgirls, were joined by Tom Morello, Serj Tankian, and other artists for a compelling cover of Morello’s own “God Help Us All.” “Today, our lives are in great danger as the success we achieved in becoming part of an international cultural scene has now marked […]
Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Joan Jett, and Poison Reveal Newly Rescheduled Tour Dates
Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Joan Jett, and Poison will finally be embarking on their stadium tour that was initially announced back in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic halted nearly all events. “On behalf of the band, we’re beyond thrilled that the stadium tour is finally happening this summer,” Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott said in a […]
Modest Mouse Announce North American Tour Dates
Modest Mouse has just announced a brand new North American tour in support of their 2021 album The Golden Casket. The tour will begin in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 18th and wrap up in Boise, Idaho, on August 29th and will be Modest Mouse’s second time on the road since their most recent album release. See […]
Here is the Full List of Record Store Day 2022 Releases
Record Store Day 2022 is around the corner, and hundreds of exclusive releases have been slated to hit shelves in over 260 independent record shops around the world. This will be the 15th year of an exclusive collection of vinyl, CD, and cassette releases in celebration of physical media. Last month, to kick off the excitement, […]
Foo Fighters Drop Death Metal Song from “Studio 666”
The Foo Fighters’ new horror-comedy Studio 666 is set to release at the end of the month on the 25th, and to tease fans even more, the alt-rockers have dropped a new, heavy death metal song from the flick. “The premise of the movie is that we move into this house, I have writer’s block, I’m […]
Rage Against the Machine Finally Announce Rescheduled 2023 North American Tour Dates
After some rescheduling and postponement, Rage Against the Machine has finally gotten their reunion tour back on the calendar with a whole new list of dates for late 2022 through early 2023. Rage is set to return to the stage on July 9th in East Troy, Wisconsin, and wrap up the 2022 portion of their […]