Since their Mercury Prize nominated, No.1 debut album, Home, RUDIMENTAL have soared with success. With sold out tours and headlining major festivals, they have brought their unique sound to millions worldwide, establishing themselves as one of the most vibrant and exciting live shows around. Now established as one of the UK’s biggest acts with platinum…
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Versengold, Aborted & Caspian added to Summer Breeze line up
VERSENGOLD will plunge SUMMER BREEZE into a gold rush once again! We’re bringing the Bremen six to Dinkelsbühl ‘In The People’s Name’ (‘Im Namen Des Folkes’). Because you have been asking for ‘Punch Instead Of Punch’ (‘Punsch Statt Punsch’)! By now, singer Malte and the other ‘Drunkards’ (‘Trunkenbolde’) have a lot of ‘Skeletons In The…
Orelsan and 8 other new confirmations for Dour Festival!
After A$AP ROCKY and DISCLOSURE, it is ORELSAN who is announcing his arrival at Dour Festival for Thursday 11th of July 2019. Saying that ORELSAN had a good year would be an understatement. After having reconciled with the moms and piling up the victories for “La Fête est finie”, which is his third and best…
ODESZA, Kygo, BASSNECTAR & Zeds Dead headline Electric Forest 2019
Topping the bill is ODESZA on Thursday, KYGO on Friday, BASSNECTAR on Saturday and ZEDS DEAD on Sunday. THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT will perform three unique Incidents, and many more artists join the Forest Family to create an unforgettable weekend of music, wonder, and Forest adventures. ALISON WONDERLAND, GANJA WHITE NIGHT, GRAMATIK, NGHTMRE & SLANDER…
Knotfest meets Hellfest on 20th June 2019
Exclusively in 2019, organisers are happy to announce that on Thursday, June 20th, HELLFEST will welcome their friends from KNOTFEST! Delighted by these 10 exceptional names, HELLFEST has agreed to lend its Main Stages to allow its fans already present if they wish, to enjoy another mini festival and additional programming. Best of all, organisers…
Anthrax, Dimmu Borgir, Thy Art Is Murder & Tesseract join Bloodstock 2019
As the festive season descends upon us, BLOODSTOCK come bearing gifts! Four more bands for 2019! Saturday’s special guest on the Ronnie James Dio main stage will be none other than thrash titans, ANTHRAX. The band are set to start work on a new studio album in 2019, so maybe we’ll get to hear something…
Foo Fighters, Travis Scott, Lana Del Rey For Inaugural Lollapalooza Stockholm
Lollapalooza Stockholm has released its inaugural lineup featuring FOO FIGHTERS, TRAVIS SCOTT, LANA DEL REY, LALEH, BRING ME THE HORIZON, THE 1975, ERIC PRYDZ, GRETA VAN FLEET, BILLIE EILISH and more. When one of the world’s biggest festivals land on Swedish ground on June 28th & 29th 2019, it’s with some of the world’s and…
Travis Scott, Marteria & Casper, Migos, Rita Ora & more for Wireless Festival Germany
The London Wireless Festival has been writing urban & pop music history for over 12 years. After the acclaimed Germany premiere in 2017, the festival will return to Frankfurt am Main on 5th and 6th July 2019. The Wireless Germany Festival follows a unique musical approach in this country and brings the biggest international and…
Slash, Lamb Of God, Amon Amarth, Clutch and more for Copenhell 2019!
COPENHELL adds 16 new bands from a multitude of different genres of music to the hard end of the scale of next year’s festival poster. The iconic Guns N ‘Roses Guitar Virtuos Slash started ten years ago on an exciting solo career next to the big rock band and is now joining Alter Bridge singer…
Indie-pop sensation Christine and the Queens headline All Points east
Following the global success of her 2016 debut album Chaleur Humaine, CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS, AKA French artist Héloïse Letissier, unveiled a new chapter in her story with the release of new album Chris in September. Headlining All Points East on Sunday 26th May, CHRISTINE AND THE QUEENS will be joined by METRONOMY, MARIBOU STATE,…
Superschande join the Diechbrand Festival line up
When the DEICHBRAND long-time favorites Le Fly with Liedfett and Das Pack come together to create a unique, new live concept, we are honored to announce that this special big event can be experienced live on the DEICHBRAND 2019. The three Hamburg-based formations have developed a completely new version of the co-headline concept, earning themselves…
The Beach Boys to headline Cornbury Music Festival 2019
At Cornbury Festival HQ organisers are all Good Vibrations as they are super-excited to be able to announce that the wonderful, one and only BEACH BOYS will be coming to their little Cotswold gathering next summer. Yes, the silver surfers will be taking to the Cornbury stage on Sunday July 7th as the closing day headliner. For you…
RBC Bluesfest Canada announces lineup additions
RBC Bluesfest organizers today announced three early lineup additions for July 5th, 2019 – ERIC CHURCH, JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT and COLTER WALL – increasing the buzz created by an earlier confirmation that BACKSTREET BOYS are coming to the ‘fest on July 14th. The festival runs from July 4th to 14th. Organizers also…
Hämatom, Krisiun & Nasty join the Summer Breeze line up
Day 4 of the annual advent band release for Summer Breeze Festival 2019! You can quickly get bruised in the crowd when the band on stage is going for it. Let’s hope that there’s only a limited amount of hematomas after the HÄMATOM show in Dinkelsbühl. Set up as a full concept where music and…
Khalid, Foals, Alice in Chains & more added to NorthSide Festival 2019
A really strong start for NorthSide with names like BON IVER, MAJOR LAZER and THE STREETS is now up with eight new amazing names including one of the hottest R & B names right now. The Texan KHALID has four songs on the American Top 100 this week including the two huge hit “Eastside (with…
UFO, Michale Graves & Versengold confirmed for Wacken Open Air 2019
The first Monday of this year’s calendar has it all – okay, there is nothing for Metal purists, but we serve three closely related genres with top-class acts! When UFO formed in 1969, no one could foresee that the band’s story will not be over in 2019 – 50 years of UFO, what a madness….
Korn, Rob Zombie, Tool & more for Welcome to Rockville 2019
After a record-breaking year in 2018 that welcomed a sold-out crowd of 90,000 over an expanded three-day weekend, Welcome To Rockville returns even bigger in 2019. The ninth annual edition of Florida’s Biggest Rock Experience will take place Friday, May 3, Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5 at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Florida and…
Gloryhammer confirmed for Sabaton Open Air 2019 in Sweden
In the very likely event of an invasion of undead unicorns this Summer, there’s no danger of the party stopping at Falun – because we’ll be under the protection of the mighty Angus McFife and his band GLORYHAMMER. The five-piece symphonic power metal band, formed by Alestorm frontman Chris Bowes in 2010, has released two…
Nephew, Nik & Jay and TV2 added to Smukfest 2019
If only you were able to see NEPHEW, NIK & JAY and TV2 at the same festival….. Well you are in luck, as all three are on the program for Smukfest 2019! NEPHEW showed last year that the few who manage to turn the beech forest into fluctuations and thankfully Simon Kvamm & co. again…
Slayer to play Final Tour in Germany at Rock am Ring & Park!
Metal icons SLAYER are the main act of the fourth and last “Make Monday Great Again” band announcement wave. As part of their final tour, the Californian cult band will perform at the twin festivals at the Nürburgring and in Nuremberg. These two concerts are likely to be among the highlights of the next festival…
Florence + The Machine to headline BST Hyde Park 2019
On Saturday July 13th, FLORENCE + THE MACHINE perform for their hometown and return to British Summer Time for a celebratory show along with THE NATIONAL and many other exciting acts! 2018’s latest album, High As Hope, hit new creative peaks with trademark Florence Welch anthems and epic sonics, coupled with sharp lyrical reflections on life, love…
Decide, Lord of the Lost & The Ocean to play Summer Breeze 2019
The next confirmation is certainly not for the faint of heart: The infamous DEICIDE will do the honours at SUMMER BREEZE 2019 and open the gates to the very depths of hell with their brutal sound! The four-headed death metal group from Florida delivers a clear and unambiguous message with album titles such as ‘To…
English punk rock Counterfeit confirmed for Deichbrand Festival
We just can not get enough of these London guys. And even COUNTERFEIT themselves never get enough of their performance on stage – even if they baptized their EP “Enough” released some time ago and after that they had tinkered with their current record for a while. The English band around actor and frontman Jamie…
Pale Waves to play Rock For People 2019
Imagine classic The Cure dressed in black singing with the soft voice of Taylor Swift. Imagine 80’s dancing sound of The 1975 by a girl who looks like she just got back home crying from a prom. This chick is Heather Baron-Gracie, the front-girl of the band from Manchester – PALE WAVES! PALE WAVES is…
Testament, Septicflesh & Gernotshagen confirmed for Wacken Open Air 2019
Day 2 of the annual Wacken Open advent band releases give us one band has already played Wacken Open Air, the other two will make their debuts. The forbearers of thrash resemble a Lovecraftian brotherhood. They’re the elder gods who set everything in motion for generations to imitate, while still ruling the roost from on…
Frank Carter & The Rattle Snakes & Deaf Havana to play Deichbrand Festival
Where there is a stage to play and an audience to sweep along, you can count on him and his band. FRANK CARTER AND HIS RATTLESNAKES just do not get enough. They have just finished their German tour completely sold out in the run-up, and they are laying back and playing the big festival dates…
The Inaugural Arizona Roots Music & Arts Festival Announces Single Day Lineup
Arizona Roots Music & Arts Festival will take place at the Riverwalk at Rawhide Western Town & Event Center on February 9 and 10, 2019. The festival will be brought to you by the same team that brings you the California Roots Music & Arts Festival in Monterey, CA. Over its ten year history, Cali…
Tom Grennan to play Rock For People festival 2019
TOM GRENNAN is a young British musician, guitarist, pop / indie alt-rock songwriter from Bedford. An agitator with a jaw, who three years played guitar in a fairy tale, to eventually get signed by Insanity Records and break through. TOM GRENNAN is like a jellyfish, his drunken, urgent voice and intelligent pop swirls of the…
Hammerfall confirmed for Summer Breeze 2019 in Germany
It might be an exaggeration to suggest that they saved heavy metal in the mid nineties, but they certainly breathed some new life into a genre that was vegetating. HAMMERFALL! Their debut was the first ignition for many metal fans to go back to the purest form of heavy metal. And still today, 25 years…
First acts announced for Fairport’s Cropredy Convention 40th Anniversary
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention three-day open-air music festival will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in 2019. The organisers have announced most of the acts booked for next summer’s event which will take place on Thursday 8th, Friday 9th and Saturday 10th August 2019. The remaining acts will be announced in January 2019. It was also announced that…
Gloryhammer & Myrath join the Wacken Open Air 2019 line up
The Waken Open Air Festival X-Mas calendar has started and since midnight the first two new bands for the W:O:A 2019 are ready to be unveiled! GLORYHAMMER – Our Prince Angus McFife and his comrades return to Wacken to compete against the dark wizard Zargothrax once again! The Gloryhammer gig at the W: O: A…
Bring Me The Horizon to play Rock For People festival 2019
The first advent release for Rock for People festival 2019 is BRING ME THE HORIZON, often known by the acronym BMTH, an English rock band from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Formed in 2004, the group now consists of vocalist Oliver Sykes, guitarist Lee Malia, bassist Matt Kean, drummer Matt Nicholls and keyboardist Jordan Fish. The style…
Tash Sultana & Jorja Smith confirmed for NOS Alive 19’
From the UK to Portugal, one of the most stimulating names of recent R & B, JORJA SMITH, presents her debut album “Lost & Found” released in June 2018. JORJA SMITH is the latest confirmation for NOS Alive’19 in Portugal and she will play the Sagres Stage on July 11th 2019. JORJA SMITH is a…
Macklemore to play Festival Musilac 2019 in France
It has been confirmed, rapper MACKLEMORE will play Festival Musilac in France on July 11th! No one has been able to miss MACKLEMORE‘s worldwide success, propelled by hits like Thrift Shop or Glorious, he has quickly established himself as a staple of the American scene and his joyful, light and colorful hip-hop will make you…
Indie-Rockers Beirut added to VIDA festival in Spain
VIDA festival continues to add artists to the line up for its sixth edition with the addition of BEIRUT, an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zach Condon. BEIRUT‘s music combines elements of indie-rock and world music. VIDA festival 2019 will be held from the 4th to 6th…
Dream Theater confirmed for Tons of Rock Festival
Prog-metal legends DREAM THEATER will play their only Norway show in 2019 at Tons of Rock festival on Saturday 29th of June! The last time they were in Norway, the band celebrated the 25th anniversary of the “Images & Words” masterpiece in Oslo at Spektrum. They have followed up with a number of amazing albums…
Interpol, Mac DeMarco, Kurt Vile & The Violators and Cigarettes After Sex for Best Kept Secret festival
After the recent announcement that BON IVER would headline next summers Best Kept Secret festival in the Netherlands, festival organisers have now released four new acts! So here goes – INTERPOL, MAC DEMARCO, KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS and CIGARETTES AFTER SEX will play at the Best Kept Secret festival. The sale of the bungalows,…
The Cure to headline INmusic Festival 2019
True rock icons, and one of the most influential bands of our time, THE CURE are set for their first live show in Croatia as headliners of INmusic festival #14! THE CURE will grace the Main stage of INmusic Festival #14, Croatia’s biggest music festival which will take place at the Isle of Youth…
Giggs & Rudimental to headline NASS Festival 2019
The first acts have been announced for NASS 2019, the UK’s biggest celebration of music, street art, skate and BMX. NASS 2019 sees GIGGS (Friday) and RUDIMENTAL (Saturday) announced as 2 out of 3 headliners topping the bill for the 4-day festival. The NASS main stage will see one of the most influential and important…
Black Metal gods Emperor confirmed for Summerbreeze 2019
Powerful, majestic, brutal – these words are probably the most accurate to describe the musical works of our next confirmation: EMPEROR are coming to SUMMER BREEZE! The godfathers of black metal have made themselves extremely scarce on German stages in the past few years – their last tour seems like an eternity ago. The band…
New Festival coming to North Carolina in May 2019
Epicenter Festival – a new 3-day destination music experience from premier independent U.S. music festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents, will debut in the heart of the Mid-Atlantic region, at the newly created Rockingham Festival Grounds in Richmond County, North Carolina on Friday, May 10, Saturday, May 11 and Sunday, May 12, 2019. Epicenter Festival replaces…
A$AP Rocky, Skepta & more for Sónar Barcelona 2019
Today the first shows of Sónar Barcelona 2019 are revealed, among them the new live shows of two of the main figures in global hip-hop: the American rapper A$AP ROCKY, who will bring his new show to the main stage of Sónar by Night and the UK artist SKEPTA, a key name in grime and…
Robbie Williams to headline BST Hyde Park 2019
Britain’s greatest entertainer – ROBBIE WILLIAMS – will headline Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park 2019. Since bursting on to the stage as the youngest member of Take That in 1990 and then going solo in 1995, ROBBIE WILLIAMS has been at the top of his game for nearly 30 years, and has become a…
Hot Chip & more for Vida Festival Spain 2019
VIDA Festival heats the engines of its sixth edition incorporating four great names in its programming: HOT CHIP, SUPERCHUNK, DIDIRRI and STELLA DONNELLY. All of them, together with THE CHARLATANS, will be some of the bands that will play VIDA 2019, to be held from the 4th to 6th July at Masia d’en Cabanyes (Vilanova…
A$AP Rocky & Disclosure confirmed for Dour Festival 2019!
After celebrating the 30th edition in style on a beautifully redesigned site, it’s now time to think about the next episode and to announce the first two names. The first headliner is A$AP ROCKY, the bright and inventive rapper from New York, who will be performing for the first time at the festival on the…
Volbeat to headline Tons of Rock 2019!
Tons of Rock organisers are extremely proud of presenting the Nordic region’s biggest band, VOLBEAT, as headliner on June 28th, 2019 Since their inception in 2001, VOLBEAT, the critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated Danish rock band has become giant with its unique mix of classic rock’n’roll, heavy metal and rockabilly. They immediately release the live album…
Band of Horses, John Butler Trio & more for UK’s Black Deer Festival
The first acts for the UK’s Black Deer Festival of Americana and Country Music – check out the poster below: There’s so many more still to be announced – with over 80 artists set to play across 6 different stages.
Elbow to headline Belladrum Festival 2019
We are delighted to announce today that ELBOW, one of the UK’s most successful bands of recent times, will headline the Thursday night of Bella 2019. Over twenty years and seven studio albums, ELBOW have achieved many of the accolades that mark out a successful band. Their cabinet boasts three Ivor Novellos, a Mercury Music…
Rag’n’Bone Man announced as Stanton Calling Friday Headliner
Stanton Calling Festival organisers are so excited to announce our first headliner for 2019 – the incredible RAG’N’BONE MAN!! As one of the most recognisable voices in music, RAG’N’BONE MAN is a true chart-conquering force. His breakthrough anthem ‘Human’ was the indisputable song of 2017, his debut album was one of the fastest selling releases of…
Lana Del Rey and A$AP Rocky to play Tinderbox Festival
Along with the two American superstars, MACKLEMORE and DROPKICK MURPHYS are among the first international names to join SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA at Tinderbox 2019. The announcements for Tinderbox started yesterday with the announcement of the world’s largest EDM name – SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA – and continues today with eight new names, including several US megastars. …
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