It’s been just over a year since Anastasia Elliot released “Wish I Could Be Better”, a single that shifted her sound in a completely different direction from anything on her debut album, La Petite Mort. Slower, sexier, and built around a vocal delivery that her fans hasn’t heard from her before, the album left everyone […]
Rock radio kings Shinedown have spent more than two decades building an extended ‘family’ through constant touring and consistently releasing emotionally driven music. The band holds the record for the most #1 songs in Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay history — with 23 tunes topping the chart. “Safe and Sound” from their latest release Ei8ht is […]
The 20th anniversary Super Girl Surf Festival wrapped up on August 23rd, 2026 at the Oceanside Pier in Oceanside, California. The SMKFLWR Stage in the Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre was rocking all afternoon, with a wide variety of genres represented, capped off by rapper B.o.B and electronic duo Hippie Sabotage. The World Surf League competitions […]
The final day of the Hinterland Music Festival 2026 packed its own punch to conclude the long weekend of music. The first half of the day featured a mixture of different pop music performances, kicking things off with the wacky and wild pop duo, Haute & Freddy, followed by the moody and gut-wrenching indie pop […]
Outside Lands Music Festival brought its vibrant atmosphere and eclectic lineup once again to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park the weekend of August 7th through 9th, 2026 — marking its eighteenth year! As one of the most anticipated music festivals of the summer season, its blend of diverse talent (spanning all genres, from indie rock […]
More than two decades after Fallen turned Evanescence into one of the defining rock bands of the early 2000s, Amy Lee can still walk onto an arena stage and make the whole thing feel intimate. The band’s recent St. Louis show was big, loud, and impressively produced. First up was Nova Twins, entertaining early fans […]
Beach Bunny has built an impressive career out of making emotional damage sound like the best part of summer — and at a sold-out Delmar Hall in St. Louis, the Chicago indie rock band demonstrated just how effective that formula becomes when an entire room is shouting the feelings back at them. Indianapolis band Wishy […]
There are music festivals… and then there are gatherings built for a community that speaks the same language. This October, Neverender Festival arrives at the Observatory Festival Grounds in Santa Ana for a two-day celebration of post-hardcore, emo, punk, indie, and progressive rock. It’s a rundown crafted with intention, an entity increasingly rare in today’s […]
The Black Keys have built their whole career — going back to their days as an Akron, Ohio duo — on the combination of Dan Auerback’s blues-soaked guitar work and Patrick Carney’s stripped-down drumming. Getting to see that at an intimate venue like The Factory in St. Louis on July 19th was a great opportunity […]
The modern era is fast-paced. In a blink of an eye, you’ve missed three tags, six text messages, another app asking you to update your password, and an ad for the air fryer you were thinking about buying but never talked about out loud. Welcome to BIG MODERN! The band’s third full-length in just over […]
Outside Lands music festival is set to return on August 7th through the 9th, 2026 at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, that means, the countdown is on! The festival — produced by Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents, and Starr Hill Presents — is one of the main annual events to hit the city, a […]
It’s time to dust off your studded belt. In just a few short weeks, Vans Warped Tour returns to southern California on July 25th and 26th, bringing two days of pop punk, metalcore, emo, ska, hardcore, alternative, reggae rock, and everything in between to the Shoreline Waterfront in Long Beach. With the recently released daily […]
Let’s get weird — it’s Les Claypool night! Marketed as “Claypool Gold”, Les Claypool brought not one, not two, but three of his bands to town on June 1st, complete with the prodigal son Sean Lennon to boot. The place to be was Gallagher Square at Petco Park, home of the Padres, smack dab in […]
I walked into Bridgestone Arena genuinely excited this past week. For starters, it would be my first time seeing openers Nova Twins and, while I’ve had a few opportunities to catch their shows in the past, I’ve never made it, so I was thrilled to finally see them live on a big stage. Second, I […]
Iowa’s best kept secret, the Hinterland music festival, is back for 2026! The four-day camping event — hosted at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles, Iowa, just outside of Des Moine — is showcasing its most exciting lineup to date, with massive names attached like KATSEYE, Lorde, Mumford & Sons, and Kali […]
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