Fronted by the illustrious Steven Tyler/Joe Perry tandem, the American band celebrated their 50th anniversary last year. Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic thwarted their plans for a world tour but not to worry! On Sunday 19 June 2022 AEROSMITH will rock your socks off in Dessel and close out GMM2022 with an exclusive Benelux show. In…

Your prayers have been answered! On Thursday 16 June 2022 GMM favourites IRON MAIDEN will return to Dessel. They will close out the first festival day of the 25th anniversary edition! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic IRON MAIDEN had rescheduled their ‘Legacy of the Beast Tour 2020’ for June-July 2021. The British heavy metal legends…

Now that JUDAS PRIEST have postponed their 2021 tour to 2022 Graspop Metal Meeting can announce its first headliner for next year. The legendary godfathers of heavy metal are celebrating their 50th anniversary at the 25th edition of GMM and they’re promising a scorching headline show for Saturday 18 June 2022. JUDAS PRIEST have set…

PEARL JAM’S summer 2021 European tour has officially been rescheduled for June and July of 2022. And so the first name for Rock Werchter 2022 is in. On Thursday, June 30, 2022, PEARL JAM will headline the opening day of the festival. Earlier it was announced that the Belgian Rock Werchter Festival is postponed to…

Can you feel that heartfelt cry coming for the thing we love and miss so much? DOOOOUUUR! It’s never been so strong, and with it the flood of memories, encounters, musical discoveries and emotions shared during 5 days of love and madness. The team is doing everything possible to prepare an edition that lives up…

The organisers of Graspop Metal Meeting are toiling like mad to complete the line-up for the 25th XL edition. Today organisers had the pleasure of adding 12 new bands to the roster: A DAY TO REMEMBER, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE and MEGADETH are just a few of the bands that will rock your socks off…

The most requested female artist in the world, CARDI B, does the honour of choosing LES ARDENTES for the Belgian date of her 2021 summer tour. After the announcement of DAMSO as the first headliner, CARDI B becomes the next headliner added to the already insane program planned from July 8 to 11 in Liège,…

On 15 April Graspop organisers announced with a heavy heart that the 25th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting was postponed until 2021 but not to worry! Their painstaking efforts to make the four-day XL edition one for the history books did not go to waste. From 17th – 20th June 2021 we will all celebrate…

One of the most successful acts in rock history, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS – singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith, and guitarist John Frusciante – will take the stage on Sunday, 4 July 2021. The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS have sold more…

On to the summer of 2021 – That’s when the Rock Werchter Festival will be back in full swing, from the 1st to 4th July at the Festivalpark in Werchter (Belgium). Today PEARL JAM announced that their summer 2020 European tour has officially been rescheduled for June and July of 2021. The band embarks on…

Dour Festival re-confirms another headliner for its 2021 edition: EXCISION, the heavy dubstep phenomenon that guarantees an exceptional audiovisual show. To get through this week as best we can without Dour Festival, organisers can now officially launch their 2021 countdown and unveil a new headliner. After the announcement of A$AP ROCKY playing the Last Arena…

A$AP ROCKY is set to join the Dour Festival 2021 line-up and will play on the Last Arena – open on Wednesday for the first time! Organisers have officially reached the peak of Dourstalgia. They are all feeling an XXL dose of Dourstalgia as it’s today, at exactly 12 noon, that Dour Festival should have…

Global pop superstar KATY PERRY will perform a spectacular and unprecedented show at Tomorrowland Around the World, the digital festival. One of the best-selling musical artists of all time, Katy will dazzle the People of Tomorrow across the globe in an eye-popping visual spectacle full of special effects, delivering a breath-taking show of her greatest…

The Dour Festival will not be held in 2020, since the edition has been postponed for a year. The Dourstalgia knows no bounds, and this summer organisers will be totally distraught at not being able to shout DOUREUUUH while making their way from stage to stage or waking up at the campsite with their heads…

On Saturday July 25 and Sunday July 26, Tomorrowland is organising Tomorrowland Around the World, the digital festival: a spectacular entertainment experience open to people of all ages and places, unfazed by borders or boundaries – a world premiere and a major step in the future of digital music festivals. Bringing together more than 60…

With legendary rockers AEROSMITH Graspop Metal Meeting is announcing the first headliner for its XL 25th edition. Fronted by the illustrious Steven Tyler/Joe Perry tandem, the American band celebrated their 50th anniversary last year.  Unfortunately the Covid-19 pandemic thwarted their plans for a world tour but never fear! On Sunday 20 June 2021 AEROSMITH will…

Before revealing new names in hip-hop and indie, Dour Festival is back to focus on the techno, electro and drum & bass scene. First up is a mandatory visit to the Boombox to celebrate with London duo CHASE & STATUS RTRN II JUNGLE dj set, psytrance from the hottest Brazilian artist around right now MANDRAGORA,…

The Werchter Boutique Festival is having a good time this year, with headliner TAYLOR SWIFT as well as ELLIE GOULDING and 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER. Three toppers that were announced a while ago. Today, the poster is further supplemented with homegrown hit parade heroes: BAZART, PREGNANT GUY, LOÏC NOTTET and BRIHANG. Werchter Boutique 2020 will…

After the announcement of Avant-Garde Metal Day, which will bring together the crème de la crème of the Belgian and international metal scene, Dour Festival is making a strong comeback and announcing a new batch of rock names that proves that the genre continues to take on fresh faces and will always have its place…

Suikerrock festival adds THERAPY? to the program of Friday 31st July, the throwback day with only bands from the past 33 years Suikerrock. The Irish rock trio was on the Tienen stage in 2006. THERAPY? is exactly 30 years old this year and is celebrating that with the compilation album “Greatest Hits (2020 versions)” that…

Dour Festival: Avant-Garde Metal Day is back on Saturday July 18 with CULT OF LUNA and AMENRA headlining! Great news! Avant-Garde Metal Day is back at Dour Festival for the second year in a row. Saturday afternoon will be anything but a rest for those who dare to venture to the Garage, our new stage…

Festival organisers have been waiting for EXCISION at Dour Festival for 10 years now, so they feel very honoured to have him as one of the festival’s headliners this year. As for his career, the Canadian has been busy working on many projects since 2011; after collaborating with the iconic metal band Korn, Excision, whose…

TW Classic presents an impressive line-up for 2020. Sir PAUL MCCARTNEY will headline the one-day festival, which takes place on Sunday 21 June at the Festivalpark in Werchter. THE KILLERS and CROWDED HOUSE had already been confirmed, and now another three names are added to the line-up: SONS, SINÉAD O’CONNOR and KAISER CHIEFS. Would you…

Rock Werchter is working on yet another impressive line-up. Would you expect anything less? This week, 28 more acts RSVP’d. It’s an exciting list of newcomers that include banjos, pianos, orchestras, brass bands, beautiful voices and searing guitars. LIANNE LA HAVAS, APPARAT, MABEL, THE DEAD SOUTH, SAMPA THE GREAT, EEFJE DE VISSER, THE LAST INTERNATIONALE…

The lineup for Rock Werchter is gradually shaping up. Huge acts like Pearl Jam, The Strokes, Kendrick Lamar, System of a Down, Twenty One Pilots and Volbeat will take the stage. Other prominent performers on the lineup are Beck, Faith No More, Pixies, Thom Yorke Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, Anderson .Paak and the Free Nationals, Wilco….

With the addition of 3 DOORS DOWN, MASTODON, RIVAL SONS, SKILLET and a clutch of others, the XL line-up for Graspop Metal Meeting 2020, which takes place from Thursday-Sunday 18-20 June 2020, is shaping up nicely. With no fewer than 16 new acts the line-up for the 25th edition of GMM is almost complete. 3…

Aside from bringing us some genuine legends, Couleur Café has always presented us with some artists who help to shape the future of their genre. SNARKY PUPPY is one of the leading bands in the contemporary jazz scene. They are at their best on stage, so don’t miss out on Saturday 27th June. Check out…

Time for the Rock Werchter name call – The newcomers look pretty impressive, and varied. BECK, THE LUMINEERS, RAG’N’BONE MAN AND BLACK PUMAS join the line-up for Thursday 2nd July. Earlier this week The Strokes were confirmed for Friday 3rd July, and now organisers add LEWIS CAPALDI to the list for that day. New for…

New at Werchter Boutique 2020: ELLIE GOULDING! An amazing third name joins the bill at the one-day festival on Saturday 20th June in the Festivalpark. The next edition’s headliner is TAYLOR SWIFT. It was also previously announced that 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER would also be there. ELLIE GOULDING is one of the leading ladies of…

Hardcore is a genre we’ve always associated with sweltering clubs where the ceilings drip sweat as the moshing faithful unleash tonnes of pent-up energy in the pit – in our opinion that’s still the ideal environment for a hardcore gig. Every year during the outdoor festival season a wide selection of hardcore bands feature on…

THE STROKES are playing Rock Werchter 2020 – On Friday 3rd July that is. The New Yorkers performed only one time in Belgium so far, on 26th February 2002 at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels. A return in a big way this is! Eleven acts are now announced for Rock Werchter 2020, which takes place…

Two decades into their career, Richmond, Virginia natives MUNICIPAL WASTE are still massive aggressive. Contrary to such contemporaries and full-blown thrash bands as Havok and Suicidal Angels, MUNICIPAL WASTE’s output is more akin to hardcore, putting them in the same category as D.R.I. and Suicidal Tendencies – the band members call it speed metal punk….

The French-Congolese rapper NISKA, who has become one of the musical icons of a whole generation, has confirmed his first appearance at the Dour Festival where he will deliver his hits by the score. Londoner JAMES BLAKE, back after 3 years of absence with his new gem “Assume Form” also joins the line-up for an…

As far as Couleur Cafe festival organisers are concerned, 2020 is going to be a colorful, musical and stunningly beautiful year, starting with 2 legends – One for the first time at Couleur Café, the other as the first artist ever to visit us for the seventh time! With over 25 years of career and…

Hard to believe but it’s been four years since ANTHRAX honoured the Alcatraz festival prison grounds with a visit. Metallica is unattainable for a festival of Alcatraz’ size and now that Slayer has called it quits only Megadeth and ANTHRAX remain to fly the flag for the Big Four. So far organisers haven’t had the…

On the heels of the announcement of next summer’s headliners and an initial batch of more than 70 names Graspop has confirmed another string of exciting acts for next summer’s 25th XL edition. The four-day metal fest takes place from Thursday 18 through Sunday 21 June 2020 at the Stenehei festival grounds in Dessel, Belgium….

His real name being Jamar Rolando McNaughton, CHRONIXX is so much more than just the son of the Jamaican singer Chronicle: he is the leading figure of the revival of the reggae scene in his country! Having had a dazzling career debut in 2011 with his EP Hooked, he mixes his Caribbean roots and reggae…

New for Rock Werchter 2020: FAITH NO MORE – The Californian quintet will appear in the Festivalpark on Saturday 4th July. FAITH NO MORE will appear twice in Belgium next summer, having already announced their appearance at Graspop Metal Meeting. And why not? FAITH NO MORE are beyond categorisation. The five-piece have always gone against…

There is a second name on the bill for Werchter Boutique 2020 on Saturday 20th June at the Festivalpark, Werchter. We already know that TAYLOR SWIFT will headline the one-day festival, and now organisers have added 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER – 5SOS for short – to the line-up. The Australian band 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER…

Double trouble of the best kind is landing in Kortrijk with BUTCHER BABIES. The brainchild of singers Heidi Shepherd and Carla Harvey burst upon the scene in 2010. BUTCHER BABIES’ roots can be traced back to Shepherd’s erstwhile all female punk/metal cover band. When Harvey joined they decided to take a different tack and try…

A new name for TW Classic! After recent confirmation of THE KILLERS and headliner PAUL MCCARTNEY for the day festival, which takes place on Sunday 21st June at the Festival Park in Werchter, comes the announcement that CROWDED HOUSE will also play TW Classic 2020. CROWDED HOUSE is a long standing and much-loved vehicle for…

Following the confirmation of IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST and AEROSMITH as the other headliners for the 25th XL edition of Graspop Metal Meeting, the organisers have added FAITH NO MORE as the final headline act for next summer. The American rock band will end main stage proceedings on Friday. GMM XL takes place from 18th…

A great new confirmation for Rock Werchter 2020! KENDRICK LAMAR comes to the Festivalpark on Saturday 4th July. KENDRICK LAMAR is the most celebrated hip-hop artist of his generation and probably soon of all time. This week’s flurry of names for Rock Werchter 2020 is looking very good. PEARL JAM, PIXIES and WILCO are confirmed…

If the clichéd term “pioneer” can be applied to any electronic musician still on the circuit, it’s SVEN VÄTH, a pioneer of contemporary electronic music, who wears it exceedingly well. Long before SoundCloud, Myspace, Laurent Garnier or Underground Resistance, even before the internet, the German was already DJing. Having learned his trade in the clubs…

Check out what the Saint has dropped into our shoes – The first names for the 34th edition of Suikerrock – WHITE LIES and THE SISTERS OF MERCY will hit the stage on Friday 31st July. These two standard-bearers of British post-punk / wave rock on one stage, get the “Not to be missed!” Stamp…

PHILIP H ASELMO & THE ILLEGALS perform A Vulgar Display Of 101 Proof Back in the day even extreme metal bands enjoyed a fair amount of commercial success – This was before downloads and streaming services started playing a crucial role in the music industry. Arlington, Texas, was home to the Abbott brothers Vinnie Paul…

With legendary rockers AEROSMITH Graspop Metal Meeting is adding yet another bigger-than-life name to its 25th edition line-up. Fronted by the illustrious Steven Tyler / Joe Perry tandem, the American band are celebrating their 50th anniversary next year with a world tour that stops off in Dessel on Sunday 21 June to close out GMM2020…

If Sam Shepard, aka FLOATING POINTS, knows exactly how to play with our emotions through muffled percussion, light electronic layers and imponderable jazz chords, it’s because the man is a doctor of neuroscience and he knows the secrets of our brains. A scientist, but above all, an artist, the British co-founder of the formidable label Eglo…

A wave of new names for Rock Werchter! After the earlier announcements of PEARL JAM (2nd July), TWENTY ONE PILOTS (4th July) and SYSTEM OF A DOWN (5th July) for Rock Werchter 2020, five more top acts join the bill today. PIXIES and WILCO come to Werchter on Thursday 2nd July. THE STREETS will be…

Rock Werchter confirms a new name for 2020. SYSTEM OF A DOWN play the Festivalpark on Sunday 5th July.  A much anticipated return, because SYSTEM OF A DOWN is always compelling, and always brings a brilliant live show. Rock Werchter 2020 takes place from Thursday 2nd July to Sunday 5th July at the Festivalpark in…