Festivals

Mad With Power returns for its 8th year of bringing action-packed heavy/power metal and free-play games to Madison, WI. This year, the festival will be headlined by Firewind (Greece) and Dream Evil (Sweden), both of which have no other announced US shows for 2025. Supporting them will be bands like […]

Hold onto your black eyeliner, folks, because Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (the brains behind NINE INCH NAILS) are throwing a festival that’s basically a goth nerd’s thesis project. Future Ruin Festival hits Los Angeles on November 8, and no, this isn’t your Coachella. Think less flower crowns, more “I […]

The legendary NYC punk venue CBGB has been closed since 2006, but the name was revived for the CBGB Festival, which went down in NYC in 2012, 2013, and 2014, and now CBGB Festival returns for another edition in 2025, co-presented by CBGB & OMFUG and The Bowery Presents. While the 2012-2014 editions were multi-day, multi-venue fests […]

Alice In Chains will no longer be performing at the Boardwalk Rock festival due to health concerns involving drummer Sean Kinney. Rob Zombie will now be taking their place. Boardwalk Rock will be held in Ocean City, MD on May 17-18 and it will feature the following: May 17: Def […]

The roster has been finalized for the 2025 installment of stoner, doom, and heavy rock festival RippleFest Texas. This year’s event is slated to take place September 18-21 at The Far Out Lounge in Austin, TX and feature more than 30 musical acts, including Weedeater, Whores., Author & Punisher, and […]

Alright, millennials, let’s talk about the video game that’s basically your spiritual animal: TONY HAWK’S PRO SKATER. Those pixelated skateboards and gravity-defying grinds are practically coded into your DNA. So when they announced the remaster of Pro Skater 3 + 4, the collective scream of nostalgia could’ve shattered a halfpipe. […]

Swanfest — the annual music festival curated by Dance Gavin Dance — has revealed its official lineup for this year’s event, taking place Saturday, May 31, 2025 at Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, IL. Marking the fourth installment of the annual event, and its return to the Midwest, Dance […]

Emerging from the depths of hell to bring you some of the most BRUTAL national Metal and MetalCore bands, the 4th Annual Virginia Deathfest is back Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd, ready to melt your fucking face. The Two Day Festival, by bands, for bands, will highlight the […]

On The Blue Cruises, Inc. (the OG masters of making boomers relive their mullet days at sea) just dropped news about the Monsters Of Rock Cruise (MORC). This floating time capsule of spandex and power ballads will set sail for its 14th(!) voyage April 12-17, 2026. Five days of “I […]

RIOT FEST is hitting the big 2-0 this year—midlife crisis? Nah, they’re throwing a three-day rager in Chicago’s Douglass Park (Sept 19-21) with headliners like GREEN DAY (who probably still know all the words to Dookie), BLINK-182 (Tom’s back, but don’t ask him about UFOs right now), WEEZER (yes, they’ll […]