Category Archives: Rock News

Metallica announces high school winners of marching band competition

Metallica announces high school winners of marching band competition

ABC/Randy HolmesMetallica has announced the high school winners of their 2024 marching band competition.Taking first place in the large high school category is Sonia Sotomayer High School in San Antonio, Texas. The medium high school winner is Freehold Township High School in Freehold, New Jersey, and the small high school prize went to South Range High School in Canfield, Ohio.The…read more »

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Noah Kahan headlining 2025 Oceans Calling festival

Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Noah Kahan headlining 2025 Oceans Calling festival

ABC/Paula LoboGreen Day, Fall Out Boy and Noah Kahan are headlining the 2025 Oceans Calling festival, taking place Sept. 26-28 in Ocean City, Maryland.The bill also includes Weezer, Lenny Kravitz, The Black Crowes, Vampire Weekend, Cake, Live, Spin Doctors, Good Charlotte, Modest Mouse, Jack’s Mannequin, Collective Soul, Franz Ferdinand, Devo, Vance Joy, Blind Melon and…read more »

Sleep Theory schedules first headlining tour

Sleep Theory schedules first headlining tour

Epitaph RecordsSleep Theory has announced their first-ever headlining tour.The outing kicks off May 20 in Birmingham, Alabama, and wraps up June 28 with a hometown show in Memphis, Tennessee. Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit SleepTheoryOfficial.com.The tour supports Sleep Theory’s upcoming…read more »

Shinedown adds LA show to Dance, Kid, Dance tour

Shinedown adds LA show to Dance, Kid, Dance tour

Live NationShinedown has added a show in Los Angeles to their upcoming Dance, Kid, Dance tour.The concert takes place Aug. 3 at the Kia Forum, which is one of the venues where the FireAid benefit concert was held in January. An artist presale begins Wednesday at noon PT, and tickets go on sale to the general…read more »

Muse bassist teases 2026 release for next album

Muse bassist teases 2026 release for next album

Mairo Cinquetti/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesMuse is aiming for a 2026 release for their next album.Speaking about the status of the band’s milestone 10th studio effort, bassist Chris Wolstenholme tells The Leona Graham Podcast, “I think we’ll start [working on it] very, very soon, like in the next couple of months.”Muse has a number of European gigs…read more »

Sum 41, Spiritbox, The Beaches nominated for 2025 Juno Awards

Sum 41, Spiritbox, The Beaches nominated for 2025 Juno Awards

Disney/Randy HolmesSum 41, Spiritbox and The Beaches are among the nominees for the 2025 Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys. The “Fat Lip” rockers, who hail from Ajax, Ontario, will compete for the group of the year prize and in the rock album of the year category with their farewell record, Heaven :x: Hell.Spiritbox and…read more »

Ministry reworking early synth-pop material on upcoming album, ‘The Squirrely Years Revisited’

Ministry reworking early synth-pop material on upcoming album, ‘The Squirrely Years Revisited’

Rick Kern/Getty ImagesBefore becoming pioneers of industrial rock, Ministry started off as a synth-pop band. Now frontman Al Jourgensen is revisiting that early material on an upcoming album called The Squirrely Years Revisited.The record is due out on March 28 and includes reworked versions of songs off Ministry’s first two albums, 1983’s With Sympathy and 1986’s Twitch.“Since I…read more »