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 »
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 »
Courtesy God’s Love We DeliverThe Struts frontman Luke Spiller and Beck are among the artists playing the 2025 edition of the Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, taking place March 6 in New York City.The annual event raises money for God’s Love We Deliver, which delivers meals to people who are too sick to prepare them…… read more »
ABC/Randy HolmesDave Grohl has contributed a signed guitar, as well as the cape he wore during a 2023 Crown Royal Super Bowl commercial, to an auction raising funds for Los Angeles fire relief.The guitar, a Pelham blue model of Grohl’s signature Epiphone DG-335, not only features the Foo Fighters frontman’s signature, but also his handwritten lyrics to…… read more »
Courtesy of the Rock & Roll Hall of FameSoundgarden, The White Stripes and Oasis are among the 2025 nominees to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.The ballot also includes The Black Crowes, Joy Division and New Order, Bad Company, Billy Idol, Phish, Outkast, Mariah Carey, Joe Cocker, Cyndi Lauper, rock ‘n’ roll…… read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
