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Powerwolf confirmed for MetalFest Open Air 2023

Sunday’s dark metal mass, which was performed in PRAGUE last night by the German metal band POWERWOLF, burned into the hearts of all present an unbreakable sign of loyalty to their true metal faith. The ranks of their “believers” are expanding every day and with every album they release. Word got around and POWERWOLF promised…

Full line up completed for Rhythm and Vines 2022

With over 102 acts performing across four stages from December 29 through to sunrise of January 1st, the final release is headlined by UK grime rapper DIZZEE RASCAL making his way to Gisborne for the first time. The award winning rapper and producer will also be celebrating 20 years since his debut album release “Boy…

Udo Dirkschneider with his band U.D.O. will rock the ROCK CASTLE 2023 festival!

One of the most prominent figures in metal history and today, UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER returns to the scene of the crime! At the 1st edition of ROCK CASTLE festival in 2021, he supported, in a very difficult time, live performances and arrived in “Krumlov” with his band DIRKSCHNEIDER. This time, for the 3rd edition of this…

Treefort Festival announces first wave of artists for 2023

Treefort Music Fest 2023 first wave lineup includes more than 185 emerging and renown artists hailing from 25 states and 15 countries – with more to be announced in the coming months! Treefort’s Main Stage headliners include fresh and familiar bands, including groovy psych rockers UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA and you better be ready for some…

Nile Rodgers & Chic And Sophie Ellis Bextor headline Rock Oyster Festival 2023

Rock Oyster festival 2023 unveils the legendary NILE RODGERS & CHIC and kitchen-disco queen SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR as the first two headliners of next summer’s edition. Freak Out! Located on the banks of the Camel Estuary on the stunning Cornish coast, Rock Oyster is a 4-day festival and camping holiday taking place from 27th –…

Olly Murs plays Margate Summer series Friday 25th August 2023

Today, it is announced that OLLY MURS joins the wealth of musical talent for next year’s Margate Summer Series. The pop sensation and judge of The Voice UK will be heading to Dreamland Margate for a one-day spectacular in the height of the UK summer on Friday 25th August 2023! Making his long-awaited return, OLLY…

London’s Wide Awake Festival announces Phase 2 line up!

Wide Awake Festival, situated in Brockwell Park, has established itself as one of London’s most distinctive festivals in recent years. Today they announce a phenomenal second round of acts for 2023, reaffirming why they are such a unique event. Taking place on May 27th 2023 the festival will welcome the likes of CAROLINE POLACHEK, SHYGIRL,…

Testament, Jinjer, Clutch and more for Into The Grave festival 2023

Into The Grave festival organisers have seen a lot of big festivals announce bands over the past few days, so they didn’t want to keep you waiting any longer for new names! At Into The Grave you don’t have to have stress or run to a stage a kilometer away, in other words, not a…

Nightwish, Wardruna, Hammerfall and Aura Noir join the Tons of Rock festival 2023 line up!

Norway’s biggest festival served the audience a gift package with headliners GHOST and PANTERA recently and today they follow up with another wild Nordic artist release! Directly from a packed Oslo Spektrum just before the country closed again in autumn 2021, we find Finnish band NIGHTWISH, who make a long-awaited Tons of Rock debut. “We…

Sam Smith confirmed for Orange Warsaw festival 2023

Since its inception, in the last 13 years, the festival has changed its space and form, but its goal is to guarantee music fans a cultural event at the highest world level. The first confirmed artist perfectly fit into this narrative – SAM SMITH declares that Orange Warsaw is in the best possible form! Sam’s…

Rock Castle Festival confirms German Metal band Rage for 2023

Metal maniacs! The 3rd edition of the international rock-metal festival ROCK CASTLE 2023, which will take place on August 17th -19th, 2023 in the beautiful castle park in MORAVSKÝ KRUMLOV, confirms another well-known, popular, and especially really legendary power-metal band – RAGE! Only few metal bands can look back at such a complex, multi-faceted and…

DOT To DOT Festival Announces Spotlight Artists For 2023

Dot To Dot Festival have announced the very first artists to join the line up for their 2023 event. With a reputation for bringing the hottest new emerging artists to city-centre stages, the award-winning festival is set to return once again to Bristol and Nottingham on the 27th and 28th of May respectively, following their…

Dauphin’s Countryfest Releases 2023 First-Round Artist Lineup

Dauphin’s Countryfest is pleased to release the first-round lineup of artists slated to perform at Canada’s longest-running country music festival, taking place June 30th – July 2nd, 2023. We are thrilled to announce one of the most well-rounded lineups we have ever done – There is truly an artist for every Countryfest fan Rob Waloschuk…

Rudimental LIVE confirmed for South Facing Festival 2023

RUDIMENTAL LIVE is announced today for a massive open-air show next summer at South Facing Festival, celebrating 10 years of their 2013 seminal album ‘Home’. Taking place on Saturday 5th August 2023! South Facing Festival is the capital’s biggest series of open-air concerts from the biggest names in music, taking over the Crystal Palace Bowl –…

Dustin Lynch to headline Saturday at Lakes Jam Festival 2023

Award-Winning Multi-Platinum Country Artist DUSTIN LYNCH to Perform at Lakes Jam in 2023! Grand Ole Opry member and award-winning country artist DUSTIN LYNCH is headlining Lakes Jam in 2023. His performance will be on the Bud Light Main Stage on Saturday, June 23rd at 10:00p.m. DUSTIN LYNCH has “built one of the most consistent recording…

Nightwish confirmed for Sweden’s Atlas Rock Festival 2023

NIGHTWISH is a symphonic metal band fronted by singer Floor Jansen. They are one of Finland’s most successful bands and have sold more than nine million albums. In total, they have more than 60 gold and platinum awards. Five of their albums have reached #1 on the album charts and 13 of their singles have…

The War On Drugs confirmed for the UK’s Eden Sessions

The American rock sensations, THE WAR ON DRUGS, are set to take to the stage in front of the world-famous Biomes at Eden Sessions on Sunday 18th June 2023. THE WAR ON DRUGS, led by Adam Granduciel, make records that wrestle a fractured past into a unified and engrossing present. Their music has been described…

David Rodigan & The Outlook Orchestra play South Facing Festival 2023

The original Reggae selector, DAVID RODIGAN & THE OUTLOOK ORCHESTRA will be headed to south London next summer for an open-air spectacular at South Facing Festival. Taking place on Sunday 6th August 2023! South Facing Festival is the capital’s biggest series of open-air concerts from the biggest names in music, taking over the Crystal Palace…

Tons of Rock announces first 15 bands for 2023!

In 7 years, Tons of Rock has become Norway’s biggest metal and rock festival and the big, annual gathering point for all rock and metal fans in Norway. With over 80,000 visitors in 2022, Tons of Rock is one of Norway’s largest music festivals. Tons of Rock returns in 2023 from the 22nd – 24th…

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds confirmed for South Facing Festival 2023

NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS are announced today for a huge open-air headline gig at South Facing Festival next summer. Taking place at Crystal Palace Park on Friday 28th July 2023, tickets go on general sale on Friday 11th November at 10am! South Facing Festival is the capital’s biggest series of open-air concerts from the…

Decadence Arizona announces phase 3 line up artists!

Anticipation for Decadence Arizona: Ancient Future has grown into a fervor as the year draws to a close, and Relentless Beats continues to stoke the fires with the phase 03 addition of artists to Arizona’s largest New Years Eve celebration. No stranger to destroying the Valley, dubstep producer SUBTRONICS joins the lineup for a special…

Primal Scream & Happy Mondays play Margate Summer Series 2023

PRIMAL SCREAM today announces a huge open-air show taking place next summer as part of the Margate Summer Series! The Scottish rock legends will be heading to Dreamland Margate on Saturday 5th August 2023 with some very special guests in tow. The HAPPY MONDAYS will be joining the line-up for this one-day concert. With a…

Anthrax, Kreator, Beartooth and more for Metal Days Slovenia 2023

ANTHRAX are coming to MetalDays for the first time, and it won’t be an ordinary concert. Legends are celebrating 40 years of existence, and MetalDays is the best place to celebrate! KREATOR are back after an unforgettable performance in 2016. The German thrash metal institution has already occupied one of the most important places in…

Craig David plays London’s South Facing Festival 13th August 2023

CRAIG DAVID is announced today for a huge open-air show next summer at South Facing Festival, taking place at Crystal Palace Park, in London. Taking place on Sunday 13th August 2023, tickets go on general sale next Friday 11th November at 10am! South Facing Festival is the capital’s biggest series of open-air concerts from the…

Ghost headline Graspop Metal Meeting 15th June 2023

Hot on the heels of the announcement of PARKWAY DRIVE organisers can now confirm the next headliner for Graspop Metal Meeting 2023. On Thursday 15th June Swedish band GHOST will headline the North Stage. Ever since the 2010 release of their maiden album ‘Opus Eponymous’, Papa Emeritus and his Nameless Ghouls have been on a roll….

Simply Red play Sonic Park Stupinigi in Italy 2023!

After a stellar 2022 that saw the band perform in front of over 600,000 people across Europe, SIMPLY RED are announcing their European tour that will also take them to Italy next summer! SIMPLY RED made history in the Eighties with some of the most memorable songs ever: Stars, Sunrise, Fake and Thinking Of You….

Aussie metalcore heroes Parkway Drive headline Graspop Saturday 17th June 2023!

A new week means the announcement of a new headliner for Graspop Metal Meeting 2023! On Saturday 17th June the Aussies of PARKWAY DRIVE will round off proceedings on the North Stage. Since 2003 the Australian quintet have been one of the leading lights of the metal scene with their no-nonsense metalcore. Their seventh studio effort ‘Darker Still’ was…

OneRepublic confirmed for Nibe festival 2023

American band ONEREPUBLIC will play the summer’s only Danish concert at the Nibe Festival on Friday 30th June 2023 on main stage. Since ONEREPUBLIC formed in 2002, the Americans have delivered plenty of great tracks – “Apologize”, “Lose Somebody” and “Counting Stars” are good examples of these with the latter getting no less than 1.7…

Primal Scream, Rudimental & The Human League lead the Camp Bestival Shropshire 2023 line up

Rob & Josie da Bank are super-excited to announce that genre-swerving Glaswegian heroes PRIMAL SCREAM will headline Camp Bestival Shropshire when they come together for the second Weston Park festi-holiday from 17th – 20th August 2023. Joining them at the top of the Shropshire line-up are drum n bass groovers RUDIMENTAL and synth-pop singalong legends…

Brooks And Dunn to headline Carolina Country Music Fest 2023

The East Coast’s largest outdoor country music fest, brought to you by Southern Entertainment, announces Grammy Award winning duo, BROOKS AND DUNN as a headliner at the eighth annual Carolina Country Music Fest. BROOKS AND DUNN will be joining MORGAN WALLEN AND MIRANDA LAMBERT on the Coors Light Main Stage. In addition to BROOKS AND…

Multi-platinum country music singer Chris Lane to play Lakes Jam 2023

Multi-platinum country music singer and songwriter CHRIS LANE is officially part of the lineup for Lakes Jam in 2023. He will be performing on Saturday, June 24th at 8:00 pm on the Bud Light Main Stage.  CHRIS LANE’s “decidedly more country sound” (MusicRow) has landed him seven charting singles and three #1s including “Big Big…

First wave acts announced for Love International 2023

Love International organisers are proud to announce the first wave of names who’ll be joining them in Tisno next year. Featuring friends old & new, some very special b2b’s and a few Love International debuts… They will be announcing the full line-up early in the New Year, along with details of our Barbarella’s programme &…

Camp Bestival Dorset announces 2023 line up!

Camp Bestival Dorset is totally delighted and just a little bit excited to announce that pop chanteuse GRACE JONES will celebrate Camp Bestival’s Animal Snap themed 15th birthday with you at Lulworth Castle next July! Joining the legendary music, fashion and film icon at the top of the bill for the landmark family festival frolic…

Pantera, Gojira, Behemoth & Clutch confirmed for Sweden Rock Festival 2023

In late August, it was announced that one of the biggest and most important bands in metal history, PANTERA, is set to reform for the band’s first tour in more than 20 years. It has now been confirmed that Phil Anselmo and Rex Brown will be bringing their PANTERA to this summer’s Sweden Rock Festival!…

Slipknot, Halestorm, Zeal & Ardor and more ready for Copenhell 2023

COPENHELL adds SLIPKNOT as a headliner as well as 8 other hard and heavy bands to next year’s festival poster! The masked maniacs from SLIPKNOT return to COPENHELL following their excellent seventh studio album, ‘The End, So Far’. Everyone who has experienced this band live knows how infectious the atmosphere is! The carefully staged madness…

Rezz, Kaskade, Liquid Stranger and 40+ more to play Ubbi Dubai Festival 2023

The award-winning, highly-recognized leader in the electronic music event space, Disco Donnie Presents, is excited to announce the 4th installment of Ubbi Dubbi, returning to its original home at Panther Island Pavilion in Fort Worth, Texas. On April 22-23, fans are invited from all corners of the globe to this dazzling electronic music paradise featuring…

Slipknot to headline Graspop Metal Meeting 2023!

The announcement of our first two headliners DEF LEPPARD and MÖTLEY CRÜE is still fresh in our minds and already it’s time to reveal our third headliner for Graspop Metal Meeting 2023 – None other than SLIPKNOT will close out the South Stage on Saturday 17th June. Earlier this year the nine-strong masked troupe headed by vocalist Corey Taylor…

Boy Harsher, A Split-Second, Riki & more for the inaugural Flesh & Steel Festival

Restless Presents, in partnership with SYNTHICIDE and Saint Vitus, announces the single day lineup, single event passes, and ticket bundle packages for FLESH & STEEL, a multi-venue, multi-date descent into darkness. In just one month the tribes of darkwave, industrial, EBM, coldwave, and other forms of moody opaqueness shall converge upon Brooklyn, New York for…

Imagine Dragons and The Strokes headline inaugural Lollapalooza India

IMAGINE DRAGONS and THE STROKES will headline the inaugural Lollapalooza India, along with performances from GRETA VAN FLEET, DIPLO, ZHU, AP DHILLON, CIGARETTES AFTER SEX, JAPANESE BREAKFAST, MADEON, ALEC BENJAMIN, JACKSON WANG, CHELSEA CUTLER, THE WOMBATS and many more. Lollapalooza India will showcase more than 40 bands on 4 stages over 2 days at Mahalaxmi…

Lionel Richie to play 2 nights at Nocturne Live UK 2023

The 125 million-selling international pop superstar LIONEL RICHIE is the first artist confirmed for next year’s Nocturne Live concert series, which returns to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire from June 14th – 18th 2023. The Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy-winning singer, who was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, is a…

Bluesfest arrives in Melbourne for the first time in 2023!

The award winning Bluesfest in Byron Bay has been showcasing the biggest names in music from around the world every Easter long weekend since 1990 and we are thrilled to announce that on Saturday April 8th and Sunday 9th April 2023, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre positioned on the on the banks of the beautiful Birrarung…

Paco Osuna, BLOND:ISH, Dombresky, Cloonee & more for Delusionville

The world’s most infamous immersive event brand, elrow, is excited to unveil the lineup to their most epic theme yet, Delusionville- a 12 hour trip into the collaborative minds of legendary street artist and “art phenom”, Ron English, the Arnau family, Link Miami Rebels (CLUB SPACE, SPACE PARK). Held in Miami’s sprawling new Factory Town venue,…

New UK Music Festival Brings the Hottest Breaking Acts Together For Outings in Oxford and Lincoln

Brand new music festival Beam Me Up has put together a mouthwatering line up of the hottest new bands around for its inaugural outing in Lincoln (10th February) and Oxford (11th February 2022). COACH PARTY, OPUS KINK, PRIMA QUEEN and PLAY BLUE EYES play both legs kicking off at The Drill in Lincoln on Friday…

Eight-time GRAMMY® winner BECK to play at Bluesfest for the first time ever!

Musical genius BECK will grace the stage for the first-time next year at Bluesfest 2023, making him the 50th artist to be announced for the festival, held over the Easter long weekend in Byron Bay. BECK will play an intimate and unique acoustic show, which has earned rave reviews from key publications around the world….

Stormzy to headline All Points East UK 18th August 2023

British rapper, singer and songwriter, Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr known professionally as STORMZY will be heading to Victoria Park for ‘This Is What We Mean Day’ on Friday 18th August – a full day of music jointly curated by STORMZY and All Points East as part of Luno presents All Points East 2023!…

Zach Bryan and Tyler Childers Headline Inaugural Two Step Inn Festival

ZACH BRYAN and TYLER CHILDERS will headline the inaugural Two Step Inn on April 15th – 16th, 2023, at San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, TX. The brand-new music festival is a first-of-its-kind event in Texas, where old school and new school country unite with everything in between to come together and embrace the genre. Two Step Inn will bring fans to…

Maggie Rogers, Jamie xx, Polo & Pan and more announced for M3F Fest 2023

M3F Fest, North America’s most celebrated non-profit music festival, has announced the lineup for the highly-anticipated 2023 edition at Margaret T. Hance Park in downtown Phoenix, Arizona from March 3rd – 4th. M3F donates 100% of festival proceeds to charity with a record $1.2 million donated last year and $4.4 million donated since 2004. Beyond…

Hatebreed, Wargasm, While She Sleeps and more will stir up FULL FORCE 2023!

While everyone else slept, Full Force festival has released a new monster: HATEBREED! In addition to WARGASM (UK) and WHILE SHE SLEEPS, festival organisers are knocking out more heavyweights today. The lineup for FULL FORCE 2023 is like a tender little plant that wants to become a massive Venus flytrap one day. After the first…

Germany’s RockHarz Festival announces first bands for 2023

Festival organisers have announced five audience favorites and all firecrackers of their genre for the 2023 anniversary festival! With AMON AMARTH, IN FLAMES, BLIND GUARDIAN, FEUERSCHWANZ and MONO INC. not only do they account for a large number of public wishes, but these bands also represent some important milestones in the history of the festival!…

System Of A Down, Korn, Deftones & Incubus to Christen Inaugural Sick New World Festival

The inaugural Sick New World Festival is set to deliver an enormous collection of multi-genre Hard Rock/Alt heavy-hitters, including headliners SYSTEM OF A DOWN, KORN, DEFTONES and INCUBUS, to the Las Vegas Festival Grounds on May 13th, 2023. The stacked lineup features over 50 artists including EVANESCENCE, TURNSTILE, CHEVELLE, MR. BUNGLE, PAPA ROACH, DEATH GRIPS,…