After drawing record-breaking crowds and hosting the largest rock event in Ohio history in 2025, Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival is coming back with an even louder roar in 2026. The festival is slated to return to the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, from Thursday through Sunday, May 14-17, and will feature over 140 artists performing across five stages. In addition to the previously announced headliners—Shinedown (Friday) and Tool (Sunday)—the festival has confirmed that My Chemical Romance will top the bill on Thursday, May 14, with Bring Me The Horizon headlining Saturday, May 16. The weekend will also… Read more »
Fresh off their performance at When We Were Young 2025, Panic! At The Disco just announced that they’re ready to celebrate 20 years of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out. No, really, we can’t believe it either. The Paradox x idobi Radio Exclusive T-Shirt Limited edition, printed-on-demand. Designed by Beepus (Beauty School Dropout) with creative direction from The Paradox. A collaboration capturing the energy of their debut EP NSFW and the future of alternative music. $29.99 Shop now Alongside revealing deluxe editions of the record and themed merch, Panic! also *finally* released Live In Denver on streaming platforms, YouTube, and… Read more »
This week on Add To Library, hosts Shawn Kupfer & Brian LaCour dive deep into an instant classic from 2023 as they’re talking all about Blackbraid’s 2023 record Blackbraid II! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
Spanish Love Songs and Illuminati Hotties have joined forces on a new track, ‘Heavenhead.” The track will appear on Spanish Love Songs’ upcoming EP, A Brief Intermission In The Flattening of Time, available on November 21 via Pure Noise Records. The Paradox x idobi Radio Exclusive T-Shirt Limited edition, printed-on-demand. Designed by Beepus (Beauty School Dropout) with creative direction from The Paradox. A collaboration capturing the energy of their debut EP NSFW and the future of alternative music. $29.99 Shop now Frontman Dylan Slocum notes, “We’ve been huge fans of Sarah (Tudzin) & her work both with Illuminati Hotties and… Read more »
Following the release of “Pill To Swallow,” “Naive,” and “16/25,” Softcult has just unveiled “She Said, He Said.” The grunge-laced track is both dreamy and aggressive…a delectable and raw takedown of patriarchal standards, “nice guys,” and victim-blaming. This single is set to appear on their debut full-length record, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow, due on January 30, 2026, via Easy Life Records. The Paradox x idobi Radio Exclusive T-Shirt Limited edition, printed-on-demand. Designed by Beepus (Beauty School Dropout) with creative direction from The Paradox. A collaboration capturing the energy of their debut EP NSFW and the future of alternative music. $29.99 Shop… Read more »
This week on Add To Library, Shawn & Brian dive deep into a band that Shawn discovered at a live show as they’re talking all about the amazing Desert Metal stylings of The Black Moriah’s Road Agents Of The Blast Furnace! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new episodes every week!
Viva Las Vegas…err…vengeance? Panic! At The Disco has officially landed in Sin City and was caught soundchecking for this year’s headlining When We Were Young Festival slot. Their forthcoming sets on October 18 and 19 mark the band’s first live appearance since their farewell show on March 10, 2023, in Manchester, England—where frontman Brendon Urie closed the book on nearly two decades. Fans lined up outside of the festival grounds on the night of Thursday, October 16, and saw Brendon Urie back on the mic, rehearsing some Fever You Can’t Sweat Out faves, including “London Beckoned Songs About Money Written… Read more »
Ahead of their When We Were Young Fest performance this weekend, Story Of The Year has unleashed their latest single, “Gasoline (All Rage Still Only Numb).” The track is the first taste of their newly announced, forthcoming album, A.R.S.O.N., which drops on February 13, 2026. “Gasoline is a song about hitting your breaking point and saying fuck everything,” guitarist Ryan Phillips shares. “It’s about being wild and reckless, and giving into the impulse to burn it all down and start anew.” “A.R.S.O.N. picks up where Tear Me To Pieces left off,” the band shares. “It’s all about getting back to… Read more »
Following the release of their new single “NOT OK,” 5 Seconds Of Summer is back with their new song “Boyband.” The synth-laden new track aims to reclaim the word. They describe, “We’ve always been called a boyband and this song is about us owning that narrative and taking the power back.” The track is set to appear on the forthcoming Everyone’s A Star!, due for release on November 14. Pre-order your copy here. This marks the group’s first LP release since 2022’s 5SOS. In the previous years, band members Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashtown Irwin, and Michael Clifford have all explored music with solo endeavors. Now, they’re ready to… Read more »
After being convicted in 2013 of multiple sexual offenses—including the assault of several young children and possession of extreme child and animal pornography—former Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison. On the morning of October 11, 2025, Watkins was murdered by fellow inmates at HM Prison Wakefield. This is a developing story.
