Punk rock outfit No Guidance gave audience their first taste of the group’s new album this week.
The band premiered its new single, ‘Oh Hell‘ Monday. The song is featured in the band’s forthcoming third album, Late to the Party. According to information provided in a news release announcing the debut of the new single, the release date for the album (which will come through Thousand Islands Records) is under consideration.
The musical arrangement featured in the band’s new single is a fiery composition driven equally by its instrumentation and its vocals. The whole will appeal to fans of works from the likes of No Use For A Name, Rise Against, and Ignite.
No information was provided about the song’s lyrical theme in the news release announcing the debut of the new single but an explanation of the band’s drive to deliver sociopolitical commentary in its songs gives an idea as to the theme in this song; this especially as one can hear the question in the song’s chorus, “How did we get here?”
Organizers of the annual Aftershock Festival have announced the details for this year’s edition of the concert event.
Slayer was announced as the newest addition to the festival’s lineup. The band will serve as one of its four headliners alongside Iron Maiden, Slipknot, Motley Crue, and Iron Maiden. They will share time alongside Pantera, Five Finger Death Punch, Judas Priest, and Disturbed as co-headliners throughout the four-day event.
In all, more than 130 acts have been tapped for the 2024 edition of the Aftershock Festival. The festival’s current lineup is as follows, and is subject to change: Iron Maiden, Slayer, Mötley Crüe, Slipknot, Disturbed, Pantera, Judas Priest, Five Finger Death Punch, Evanescence, Breaking Benjamin, Till Lindemann, Falling in Reverse, Rise Against, Staind, Halestorm, Seether, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Mastodon, Anthrax, Architects, Tom Morello, Cypress Hill, Ministry, Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, Skillet, Sevendust, Tech N9ne, Insane Clown Posse, Static X, Clutch, Body Count, Lorna Shore, Highly Suspect, Poppy, Grandson, Nothing More, P.O.D., Filter, Eagles of Death Metal, Coal Chamber, Code Orange, Jinjer, Bad Wolves, Shadows Fall, Fear Factory, Sleeping With Sirens, Juliette Lewis and the Licks, Marky Ramone Plays The Ramones Classics, Drain, City Morgue, Saosin, L.S. Dunes, Badflower, PUP, Rival Sons, Militarie Gun, Hawthorne Heights, Bayside, Giovannie and the Hired Guns, Show Me The Body, Whitechapel, From Ashes to New, The Warning, Set it Off, Resorte, Fugitive, Better Lovers, Drug Church, Biohazard, Joey Valence & Brae, Tim Montana, Vended, The Chisel, The Armed, Soul Glo, High Vis, Narrow Head, I See Stars, Bob Vylan, GEL, Holding Absence, Touché Amoré, Citizen Soldier, New Years Day, Drowning Pool, Alien Ant Farm, Orgy, Adema, Powerman 5000, Taproot, Local H, HED PE, Moonshine Bandits, CKY, Brutus, Alien Weaponry, Oxymorrons, Veil of Maya, Lilith Czar, Holy Fawn, D.R.U.G.S., Ho99o9, Ill Niño, Winona Fighter, Slothrust, Hemorage, Nerv, Damnage, Jeris Johnson, Any Given Sin, Deadlands, Mike’s Dead, Self Deception, Lø Spirit, Jager Bonham, Dead Poet Society, Point North, Like A Storm, Teen Mortgage, Jigsaw Youth, The Funeral Portrait, Black Map, Capital Theatre, Descartes A Kant, Lowlives, StrateJacket, Blame My Youth, Caskets, Silly Goose, Reach NYC, TX2, Royale Lynn, Budderside, and Gozu.
A fifth state is being added so more acts will be announced soon.
Layaway plans are available for single day, weekend general admission, and VIP packages with a down payment as low as $10. More information on tickets and VIP packages is available along with all of the festival’s latest news at:
Organizers of the annual Aftershock Festival have announced the schedule for this year’s installment of the annual event.
Now in its ninth year, the festival is actually a rescheduled event from 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic caused the event to be re-scheduled last year. As with its 2019 edition, this year’s installment of the Aftershock Festival is officially sold out. It is scheduled to take place this weekend from Thursday to Sunday at Discovery Park in Sacramento, CA.
The festival grounds are located at 1600 Garden Highway. Sacramento, CA.
Attendees at this year’s festival will be required to follow strict COVID-19 guidelines. Those guidelines are noted here.
The 2021 edition of the Aftershock Festival is scheduled to open at 4:25 p.m. ET Thursday with a performance by Oxymorrons, on the Coors Light Stage. Fit For A King follows at 4:50 p.m. on the Jack Daniel’s Stage. Death Angel and Exodus will follow Oxymorrons at 5:25 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. respectively on the Coors Light Stage. Meanwhile back on the Jack Daniel’s Stage, Knocked Loose is scheduled to follow Fit For A King at 5:55 p.m.
From there, Anthrax, Testamentand Cypress Hill will keep the music going between the two stages. Cypress Hill’s performance on the Jack Daniel’s Stage at 8:50 p.m. will close out the evening’s activities.
Friday will see the festival expand to three stages, with music starting at 12:45 p.m. from Contracult Collective on the Coors Light Stage. Ayron Jones will take the stage first at 1:20 p.m. Friday on the Kolas Stage. Performances from acts, such as Crobot, Pop Evil, and Rancid and many others will keep things moving through the day. Metallica will headline Friday’s events beginning at 8:55 p.m.
Moving on to Saturday, American Teeth and The Black Moods will open the day’s schedule at 12:30 p.m. and 12:35 p.m. on the Coors Light Stage and Kolas Stage respectively. Also notable acts featured on the day are those, such as South of Eden, Another Day Dawns, and Atreyu, as well as Anti-Flag, Mudvayne, and Alien Weaponry. The original lineup of The Misfits rounds out the day at 9:10 p.m. on the Jack Daniel’s Stage.
Even as the weekend winds down Sunday, the music will not let up. Sunday’s schedule opens at 12:20 p.m. on the Jack Daniel’s Stage with a performance by Law. As the day continues, performances from the likes of From Ashes To New, Pennywise, Mastodon, and Rise Against are also scheduled. Metallica closes out the weekend’s festivities at 7:55 p.m. ET on the Kolas Stage.
Along with lots of music, this weekend’s festival will also feature just as much food, drink and entertainment. The full details on all of that are noted below.
Additional food & beverage, and other experiences onsite include:
· Caduceus Wine Garden, highlighting Caduceus Cellars and Merkin Vineyards, owned by Arizona resident Maynard James Keenan, co-founder of international recording acts TOOL, A Perfect Circle, and PUSCIFER.
· Coors Light Coldstream serving with frosty draft technology, complete with actual ice crystals
· Deep Eddy Vodka -Deep Eddy’s Dive In Trailer is a place where people come together to enjoy good times that never seem to end. Where strangers are just friends you haven’t met yet. While at Aftershock stopby and see us at the Deep Eddy Dive In Tour and raise a glass to being back together!
· Dr. Greenthumb’s – Founded by the Godfather of insane brains, B-Real of Cypress Hill
· Fxck Cancer / Dyin 2 Live Dreams Program
· It’s Ronz World – custom guitars, rock shop and art
· Jack Daniel’s Mobile Distillery Tour Experience – Officially registered by the U.S. Government in 1866 and based in Lynchburg, Tenn., the Jack Daniel Distillery is the first registered distillery in the United States and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Cheers your friends make your own history at Aftershock when you rock out at the Jack Daniel’s Main Stage with Metallica!
· KOLAS – Stop by the Loud Lounge to level up Aftershock vibes with t-shirt ripping, body art and more. KOLAS will also provide dynamic delivery outside the festival grounds. Stop by the KOLAS footprint all weekend long to learn more!
· Mortus Viventi – Live Tarot Card Readings
· The Blackened Bar – Aftershock is proud to continue the collaboration with Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey. The pop-up will feature Blackened, a super-premium American whiskey blend, crafted by the late Master Distiller Dave Pickerell and finished in the earth-shattering music of Metallica. This exciting collaboration marks the latest in a long line of amplified guest experiences only available through Danny Wimmer Presents music festivals.
· The Loud Lounge – Get heady and hang in the Loud Lounge with Kolas, Clown Cannabis, California’s Finest CBD, Heavy Grass, Dr. Greenthumb’s, Helpful Hemp and more.
· Take Me Home – not for profit, volunteer based foundation that has been saving the lives of homeless animals since 2001.
· weedmaps – Located inside the Loud Lounge. Fans can learn about cannabis delivery by downloading the weedmaps app all weekend long. Stop by the booth for fun giveaways and prizes and if you forgot your clear bag, weedmaps has your back.
Aftershock Festival is presented and produced by Danny Wimmer Presents. More information on the festival is available along with all of the festival’s latest news at:
Jon Snodgrass’ new live recording is available now.
The recording, Tace – Live at the Social Sanctuary released Friday through all major digital outlets. It is available free for everyone and follows last October’s release of Snodgrass’ latest album, Tace. The record is a compilation of covers that pays tributes to Snodgrass’ influences, such as The Beatles, Husker Du, and Cheap Trick.
Snodgrass was joined by a variety of well-known and respected figures for the recording of Tace. Among those who joined Snodgrass for the compilation were Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronaut), and Stephen Egerton (Descendants, ALL).
Tace – Live at the Social Sanctuary comes from Snodgrass’ October 2020 performance at the noted venue in Los Angeles, CA. The concert’s audio was mixed and mastered over the course of this summer.
Said Snodgrass of the recording’s free release, “We’re basically putting this live album out for free so folks know what to expect this fall and are stoked and tell their friends. Also, this was the only rock show that we played last year.”
Courtesy: Night Owl PR
In other news, Snodgrass is scheduled to take his album out on the road starting Sept. 2 in San Diego, CA. The tour is scheduled to run through Oct. 31 in Gainesville, FL. It features performances in cities, such as Atlanta, GA; Minneapolis, MN and Santa Cruz, CA.
More information on Tace is available along with all of Jon Snodgrass’ latest news and more at:
The band made the announcement through a news release distributed Monday. The tour, dubbed the “Nowhere Generation Summer U.S. Tour,” is scheduled to launch July 30 in New York, NY, and to run through Aug. 24 in Salt Lake City, UT. It features performances in cities, such as Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX, and Birmingham, AL.
The tour’s schedule is noted below. Tickets are available here. Live Nation is producing the tour.
JULY
30 Rooftop at Pier 17, New York, NY
31 Stone Pony Summer Stage, Asbury Park, NJ
AUGUST
1 Skyline Stage at The Mann, Philadelphia, PA
3 MECU Pavilion, Baltimore, MD
4 Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC
6 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
7 St. Augustine Amphitheatre, St. Augustine, FL
9 Avondale Brewing Company, Birmingham, AL
10 The Fillmore, New Orleans, LA
12 Bayou Music Center, Houston, TX
13 Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX
15 South Side Ballroom, Dallas, TX
17 Arizona Federal Theatre, Phoenix, AZ
20 The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
21 Five Point Amphitheatre, Irvine, CA
22 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA
24 The Complex Outdoor, Salt Lake City, UT
Front man Tim McIlrath said in a recent interview, that he and his band mates are looking forward to getting back to the stage.
“A year without live music in a time when we needed it most has been trying for all of us,” said McIlrath. “Live music has been missing from all of our lives for far too long. We can’t wait to fix that on the ‘Nowhere Generation Tour.’ It’s been a long year, and we have a lot to say about it…”
Rise Against’s forthcoming tour dates are in support of its coming album, Nowhere Generation, which is scheduled for release June 4 through Loma Vista Recordings. It is the band’s first album on the label.
Pre-orders are open now. The album will release through a variety of platforms, noted below.
* CD in a soft pack jacket with a multi-page lyric booklet
* 12-inch, limited edition vinyl picture disc (exclusive to the band’s webstore)
* Deluxe album edition with a distinctive spinning wheel gatefold jacket with die-cut front cover; a 12-page album art booklet insert, and a bonus 7″ featuring two “Nowhere Session” versions of album standouts “Nowhere Generation” + “Broken Dreams, Inc”; special vinyl color variants for retail worldwide as well as the band’s webstore.
* Standard vinyl format that includes a single sleeve, dorado paper-wrapped jacket, with lyric insert featuring metallic ink; multiple special vinyl color variants for select retailers as well as the band’s webstore.
* Exclusive versions of the album, on vinyl and CD available at Target. A jacket with exclusive interchangeable inserts and special colored vinyl for the LP and a bonus Nowhere Session song on the CD.
More information on Rise Against’s new tour and album is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Rise Against will release its next album this summer.
The band is scheduled for release June 4 through Loma Vista Recordings. It is the band’s first album on the label. Pre-orders are open now. The album will release through a variety of platforms, noted below.
* CD in a soft pack jacket with a multi-page lyric booklet
* 12-inch, limited edition vinyl picture disc (exclusive to the band’s webstore)
* Deluxe album edition with a distinctive spinning wheel gatefold jacket with die-cut front cover; a 12-page album art booklet insert, and a bonus 7″ featuring two “Nowhere Session” versions of album standouts “Nowhere Generation” + “Broken Dreams, Inc”; special vinyl color variants for retail worldwide as well as the band’s webstore.
* Standard vinyl format that includes a single sleeve, dorado paper-wrapped jacket, with lyric insert featuring metallic ink; multiple special vinyl color variants for select retailers as well as the band’s webstore.
* Exclusive versions of the album, on vinyl and CD available at Target. A jacket with exclusive interchangeable inserts and special colored vinyl for the LP and a bonus Nowhere Session song on the CD.
As with the band’s existing catalog, this record takes on a variety of social and political topics, such as Generation X and Y’s pursuit of the “American dream,” and moves made by the political and economic elite to keep themselves in power.
In anticipation of the album’s release, the band premiered the video for the album’s lead single, ‘Nowhere Generation‘ Thursday. The song’s lyrical theme is one of those noted social commentaries for which Rise Against has come to be known. The song’s musical arrangement will appeal to the band’s established audience base, too, with its familiar stylistic approach.
More information on Rise Against’s new album and single is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Rise Against’s song ‘Broken Dreams Inc.’ received the remix treatment this week.
Independent industrial act Health debuted its remix of the song Friday. Rise Against debuted its original song in September as part of the soundtrack to DC Comics’ ongoing Dark Knights: Death Metal story.
The remix takes Rise Against’s original tune and gives it a much more brooding, subdued take. The vocals are there but they are placed almost under a rich layer of electronics and keyboards, which set the noted tone here.
Front man Tim McIlrath talked about the song’s lyrical theme in a recent interview.
“’Broken Dreams, Inc.’ speaks to today’s changing landscape of American society, the opportunities that are available to some but not to others, the people who are able to benefit versus those who get left behind, who suffer and end up as casualties,” said McIlrath. “How do we level the playing field so everyone can have a real chance at attaining the American Dream? One word, ‘disruption.’ You have to put power into the hands of the people, not business, you have to value people and community over profit.”
“You can’t have a shareholder-run country or a shareholder-run world, a world that values profit above all else, because profit above all else can result in dangerous repercussions for humankind,” added McIlrath.
More information on Rise Against’s new single and video is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Independent rock band Father Before kicked off the weekend with some new music.
The band debuted its new single ‘Until Lambs Become Lions’ Friday through punknews.org. The single is the lead single from the band’s new EP Ruby. The band will announce more details on the record soon.
The musical arrangement featured in ‘Until Lambs Become Lions’ opens with a metal style approach, but quickly turns in a decidedly punk direction. The melodic guitar-driven arrangement will appeal to fans of bands, such as Rise Against, Bad Religion, and NOFX.
Front man “Elijah” talked about the lyrical theme that accompanies the upbeat arrangement during his interview with punknews.org, stressing it is meant as a message of encouragement.
“”Until Lambs Become Lions” is the reminder that we already have what we need to face our fears. Don’t run to the past, don’t run to the future. However dark it seems when the lights have all gone dim, find your footing and never give up.”
In addition to its new single, the band also debuted the song’s companion video Friday. The band debuted the single’s video through insaneblog.net. The video features Elijah going through a series of vivid dream sequences as the band performs to the single, which plays over the video.
More information on Father Before Me’s new single and EP is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Punk rock Super Group Record Thieves debuted the lead single from its new album this week.
The band debuted its new single ‘Sacrifice‘ Wednesday. The song is featured in the band’s forthcoming debut album Wasting Time, which is scheduled for release Nov. 24 through Thousand Island Records.
The song’s musical arrangement is a stark departure from the sounds created through the band members’ original bands — Allout Helter, Authority zero, and Boldtype. Rather it is more akin to works from the likes of New Found Glory, Millencolin, and Rise Against. That is evidenced through its pop punk style sound and stylistic approach.
The song’s lyrical content comes across as one of those familiar inner ruminations focusing on the topic of facing everything happening in the world and standing up for one’s beliefs. That familiar lyrical topic couples with the song’s accessible musical arrangement to make the work in whole a work that will connect with a wide range of listeners.
More information on Record Thieves’ new single and album is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
Veteran punk band Rise Against debuted the video for its latest single this week.
The band debuted the video for its song ‘Broken Dreams, Inc.’ Tuesday. The video features scenes from DC’s ongoing Dark Knights: Death Metal story. It is the band’s first new song in three years, and is part of the story’s soundtrack. The soundtrack is scheduled for release at a future date, which is under consideration.
The musical arrangement featured in ‘Broken Dreams, Inc.’ is everything that audiences have come to expect from the band over the years, with its rich bass line, steady time keeping and melodic guitar lines and vocal delivery. While the song is part of the soundtrack for a comic book story line, its lyrical theme applies to the real world, too.
Front man Tim McIlrath talked about the song’s lyrical theme in a recent interview.
“’Broken Dreams, Inc.’ speaks to today’s changing landscape of American society, the opportunities that are available to some but not to others, the people who are able to benefit versus those who get left behind, who suffer and end up as casualties,” said McIlrath. “How do we level the playing field so everyone can have a real chance at attaining the American Dream? One word, ‘disruption.’ You have to put power into the hands of the people, not business, you have to value people and community over profit.”
“You can’t have a shareholder-run country or a shareholder-run world, a world that values profit above all else, because profit above all else can result in dangerous repercussions for humankind,” added McIlrath.
More information on Rise Against’s new single and video is available along with all of the band’s latest news at:
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