We’re confident that we were born in the right time period because we don’t know what we would do without music festivals. Another lineup has been announced and we’re foaming at the mouth. Louder Than Life is going down September 21-24 in Kentucky. Headliners are none other than Green Day, Foo Fighters, Avenged Sevenfold, and Tool. Weezer, limpbizkit, Pantera, Queens of the Stone Age, Turnstile, Movements, Dance Gavin Dance Pierce the Veil, Flogging Molly, Mayday Parade, and You Me at Six are just a few more of the bands that will be joining the headliners. Danny Wimmer said, “The fans… Read more »
Thank you, Kevin, and thank you, Warped Tour, for embedding such a valuable lesson in the young man I was. I’ll keep striving to achieve my dreams because of it.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from All Time Low, Halsey, Bleachers, and more.
Darrin chats with Jonny Two Bags, guitar player for the OC punk band Social Distortion.
Radiohead, Phish, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beach Boys, Bon Iver, and more are set to headline this year’s Bonnaroo Festival, taking place June 7-10 in Manchester, Tennessee.
For the last 2½ years, Bill Armstrong, co-founder of local rock label SideOneDummy Records, has been working on a side project. His vision was to create a website for independent labels to give away free music.
Whats up Bitch Slapers! After a crazy weekend its time for your only thing you should be doing on a monday night BITCH SLAP RADIO! First off on the show tonight most of the Bitch Slap crew was at a week long festival in South Florida called sunfest, where we saw some pretty dam good bands, flogging molly, big d and the kids table, crash kings, and Weezer! We talk about the bands but most importantly we talk about the people that were at this festival visual notes were flowing, as well as the jelly rolls on some of the… Read more »
The Warped Tour, the annual traveling festival that targets the Vans-wearing, emo-loving youth of America, has recently announced the lineup for their 2009 caravan. As usual (and because the event is celebrating its 15th anniversary), the lineup combines older acts like NOFX, Less Than Jake and Bad Religion with newer artists like 3OH!3 and Black Tide. Other notables on the bill include the hard-rocking Gallows, the Ataris, Thrice, Underoath, Bayside and a bunch of other bands that are currently blasting on Hot Topic stereos. At first glance, the bill lacks the big names of past fests, the Paramores and Gym… Read more »
Who said you can never go home again? For Dublin-born singer-guitarist Dave King of Irish-American punk rockers Flogging Molly, all it took was a little help from his eventual wife and bandmate, violinist Bridget Regan. “When I heard Bridget playing the fiddle it brought out a lot of feelings in me,” King said through a bright and friendly Irish brogue during a recent phone interview with “I wanted to take that feeling and go back home – not physically of course. It just seemed to all fall together for me.” A lilting mix of traditional Celtic sounds – fiddle, banjo,… Read more »
When an event has been around for 13 years, it’s usually time to shake things up. And while Ozzfest chose to do that by going free, the Vans Warped tour opted to piece together one of its most diverse rosters to date. The tour, which will kick off June 28 at Chula Vista, California’s Coors Amphitheater, is currently slated to play 45 shows through an August 25 date in Los Angeles with a lineup that includes Coheed and Cambria, Bad Religion, New Found Glory, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Cute Is What We Aim For, Bayside and Canadian rapper K-os. Among the… Read more »
