Louder Than Life Festival Lineup Announced

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The Louder Than Life Festival will return to Louisville, KY this year with an expansive lineup of acts.

The festival, scheduled to take place Sept. 22-25 at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center in Louisville, KY, will be headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot, and KISS. The four-day festival will also feature performances from bands, such as Bloodywood, Anti-Flag, and Superbloom. The KY Expo Center is located at 937 Phillips Ln. in Louisville, KY.

The festival’s full lineup is noted below. Tickets are available here. Weekend general admission passes start at $249.50 plus fees. Weekend VIP passes start at $629.50 plus fees. A limited number of Weekend Top Shelf VIP passes is still available for $1,329.50 plus fees.

General admission single day passes start at $99.50 plus fees. Single day VIP passes start at $295.50 plus fees. Layaway options are available through March 31 for $10, with payments made through July.

A trailer for the forthcoming annual festival is streaming.

The current Louder Than Life lineup is as follows (subject to change):

Thursday, September 22: Nine Inch Nails, Bring Me The Horizon, Evanescence, Halestorm, Tenacious D, Yungblud, Highly Suspect, Ministry, Nothing More, Baroness, Spiritbox, Apocalyptica, Dorothy, Don Broco, New Years Day, Plush, Lilith Czar, Maggie Lindemann, Taipei Houston, The Dead Deads, Mothica, Superbloom, Eva Under Fire, Oxymorrons

Friday, September 23: Slipknot, Shinedown, Lamb Of God, Mastodon, In This Moment, Meshuggah, Clutch, Jinjer, GWAR, In Flames, Helmet, POORSTACY, Crown The Empire, DED, All Good Things, Amigo The Devil, Vended, Mike’s Dead, If I Die First, Orbit Culture, The Luka State, Ego Kill Talent, The Native Howl, Archetypes Collide

Saturday, September 24: KISS, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Chevelle, Ghostemane, Jerry Cantrell, Dance Gavin Dance, Theory of a Deadman, Body Count, Sevendust, Mammoth WVH, We Came As Romans, Airbourne, Cherry Bombs, Ill Niño, Tetrarch, Nita Strauss, Against The Current, Wargasm, Trash Boat, Shaman’s Harvest, Solence, Dropout Kings, Bloodywood

Sunday, September 25: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Alice In Chains, Incubus, Papa Roach, The Pretty Reckless, Architects, Bad Religion, Action Bronson, The Struts, Jelly Roll, Dirty Honey, Anti-Flag, The Joy Formidable, Bayside, The Warning, Royal & The Serpent, caroles daughter, Radkey, The Mysterines, Crown Lands, AEIR, The Alive, As You Were

The Louder Than Life Festival is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents. The festival debuted in 2014 and expanded to four days in 2021.

More information on the 2022 Louder Than Life Festival is available along with all of the festival’s latest news at:

Website: https://www.LouderThanLifeFestival.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ltlfest

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The Native Howl Launches New Tour; Debuts New Video

The Native Howls is back out on the road.

The band launched a new series of live dates Monday in Burlington, VT.  The band’s new tour schedule runs through July 13 in Boggstown, IN. The tour schedule is noted below.

The Native Howl Tour Dates:
7/4 – Richmond, VA – Canal Club
7/5 – Washington DC – Hill Country DC
7/6 – New York, NY – Hill Country NYC
7/8 – Frostburg, MD – Dante’s Bar
7/9 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
7/10 – Nashville, TN – The End
7/11 – Louisville, KY – The Tiger Room
7/12 – Cincinnati, OH – Stanley’s Pub
7/13 – Boggstown, IN – Summer Bash 2019

The tour is just the latest in support of the Michigan-based band’s latest album, Out of the Garden and Into Darkness (2018).  It comes two months after the band held its “Torque Tour” May 2 to 11. Out of the Garden and Into Darkness spawned the single ‘Somethin’ Else‘ and its companion video, which debuted Oct. 24.

Prior to launching its new tour, the band debuted the video for its new single ‘Harvester of Constant Sorrow‘ June 23.  The song and video are not featured in Out of the Garden and Into Darkness.  the video couples elements of Metallica’s ‘Harvester of Sorrow’ with Union Station’s ‘Man of Constant Sorrow,’ which was used in Touchstone/Universal Pictures’ 2000 movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the movie’s soundtrack.

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The song’s video also spoofs the famous concert hall scene in which the Soggy Bottom Boys performed “their” song and couples that with a spoof of Metallica’s video for ‘Harvester of Sorrow’ for the final product.

The Native Howl front man Alex Holycross talked about the video’s concept in a recent interview.

“”I was out for a run last Fall and was contemplating all the “mash-ups” that were popular at the time,” he said. “These mash-ups were simply audio of two different songs spliced together and over each other (a popular one at the time was a combination of audio from “Whole Lotta Love” by Led Zeppelin and “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath). I then thought about an online poll we had done with our fans in which we asked which song they’d like us to cover (even though we did not really have a concrete intention of doing so at the time). The most requested song by FAR was “Man of Constant Sorrow”. I then glanced at my Metallica ring on my right hand, and thought ‘what if we did a true mash-up of this with a Metallica song?’ Then it hit me: Harvester of Constant Sorrow!” Metallica may be our biggest influence collectively as a band, and “Man of Constant Sorrow” is definitely my favorite bluegrass song of all time. We have always been against the idea of doing cover songs, but this endeavor was exciting to us both conceptually and compositionally.”

Holycross added, “The video is always the most difficult part, and we lend our unending thanks to our brother and studio partner Joe Horsch for crushing that portion of the project, as always. As far as the song itself goes, it was as much of challenge as it was a joy to find creative ways to put the Howl’s spirit and collective mind into two iconic songs, and end up with a piece that we were proud of. Selecting which vocals to use from which sections of each song was a long conversation, as well as the arrangement of the fast ‘cut-time’ (albeit ‘Metallica-esque’ in nature, it is original Howl riffs and solos). The concept for the video was quite simple: recreate scenes from the movie “Oh, Brother Where Art Thou” (which made “Man of Constant Sorrow” a hit) and scenes from Metallica’s “One” video. Both the movie and music video have had such an influence on us, that we wanted to pay homage visually as well as sonically. We hope everyone enjoys the song and video, thanks for the support!”

‘Harvester of Constant Sorrow’ is just the latest song from The Native Howl to receive its own video treatment.  The band also released a video for its single ‘Thunderhead‘ in 2016.  The song was the lead single from the band’s 2016 EP Thrash Grass.

More information on The Native Howl’s upcoming live dates is available online now along with all of the band’s latest news at:

 

Website: http://www.thenativehowl.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thenativehowl

Twitter: http://twitter.com/thenativehowl

 

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The Native Howl Announces New Live Dates

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Independent bluegrass band The Native Howl announced a new live schedule this week.

The Michigan-based band announced Wednesday, that it will launch “The Torque Tour” starting May 2 in Joliet, IL.  The nearly two-week-long tour is scheduled to run through May 11 in Neenah, WI and feature dates in Minneapolis, MN; Sioux Falls, ND and Green Bay, WI.  The tour’s schedule is noted below.

2nd Joliet, IL – The Forge
3rd Dubuque, IA – Vintage Torque Fest
4th Sioux Falls, SD Biggs Live
5th Omaha, NE – Lookout Lounge
7th Minneapolis, MN – The Icehouse
8th Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
9th Green Bay, WI – Lyric Room
10th Indianapolis, IN – Black Circle Brewing Co
11th Neenah, WI – Short Branch Saloon

The band’s upcoming tour is in support of its most recent album, 2018’s Out of the Garden and Into The Darkness.  The record debuted at #3 on the Bluegrass Billboard Chart and #50 on the New Artist Album Billboard Chart.  It spawned the single ‘Somethin’ Else’ and its companion video.

Prior to releasing Out of the Garden and Into The Darkness, the band released the EP Thrash Grass in 2016.  That record spawned the single Thunderhead and its companion video.

More information on The Native Howl’s upcoming live dates is available online now along with all of the band’s latest news at:

 

Website: http://www.thenativehowl.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thenativehowl

Twitter: http://twitter.com/thenativehowl

 

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