Chicago’s Riot Fest has revealed its 2013 lineup and local punk rock heroes Fall Out Boy are one of the headliners. Joining them as headliners are fellow pop punk act Blink-182 and another headliner that’s yet to be revealed (judging by poster question mark counts, we’re guessing Jimmy Eat World).
Also playing are bands such as Violent Femmes, Bad Books, AFI, Taking Back Sunday, Glassjaw, Yellowcard, Mission to Burma, Blondie, Guided By Voices, Peter Hook (performing Joy Division) and more. While many of these bands have been touring for ages or are reunited after long hiatuses, there are also of plenty newcomers to the fest such as the astounding trio of brothers from St. Joseph, MO in Radkey.
The festival is set for September 13-15 in Chicago’s Humboldt Park. Tickets are available now from Ticketfly.
Tom Morello is performing a special tribute to a paralyzed war veteran in an exclusive Kansas City Alamo Drafthouse event.
The Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet is showing “Body of War,” a 2007 documentary about Kansas City native Tomas Young. Young was paralyzed from the chest down after being shot less than one week after deployment to the war in Iraq. Young has planned to end his life in May by removing the feeding tube he has been using since last November.
Inspired by Young’s story and his letters calling for peace, rock artist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave) will be performing a special tribute concert prior to the film. The concert and documentary are meant to serve as a celebration of Young’s life and work.
Tickets are now on sale at the Alamo Drafthouse Box Office and online.
The annual ACL Festival in Austin, Texas, maybe one of the latter festivals to get in on the game in 2013, but its dual weekend lineup has proven to be one of the more unique and variety-filled options of the festival season. This year’s headliners include new wave acts such as Depeche Mode & The Cure, folkier acts such as Wilco, and big rock acts such as Muse, Kings of Leon and Thom Yorke’s other non-Radionhead band, Atoms for Peace.
This year, ACL is taking place over two weekends: October 4-6 and October 11-13. Though the lineup is mostly the same for the two weekends, there are a few acts, that won’t be at both, so make sure you view by weekend and purchase your tickets accordingly. 3-day tickets are available on aclfestival.com for $225.
Check out the full ACL Festival lineup below:
DEPECHE MODE
THE CURE
MUSE
KINGS OF LEON
ATOMS FOR PEACE
LIONEL RICHIE
PHOENIX
WILCO
VAMPIRE WEEKEND
THE NATIONAL
ERIC CHURCH
PASSION PIT
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
ARCTIC MONKEYS
FUN.
KENDRICK LAMAR
FRANZ FERDINAND
D’ANGELO
KASKADE
TAME IMPALA
LOCAL NATIVES
THE SHOUTING MATCHES
TORO Y MOI
GRIMES
PORTUGAL. THE MAN
SILVERSUN PICKUPS
THE JOY FORMIDABLE
NEKO CASE
DIVINE FITS
GROUPLOVE
JIMMY EAT WORLD
THE BLACK ANGELS
THE BRIGHT LIGHT SOCIAL HOUR
THE MAVERICKS
OKKERVIL RIVER
SHUGGIE OTIS
PURITY RING
DAWES
HAIM
SMITH WESTERNS
JUNIP
WALK THE MOON
VINTAGE TROUBLE
NOAH AND THE WHALE
PAPER DIAMOND
LISSIE
PINBACK
THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
WILD BELLE
PHOSPHORESCENT
COURT YARD HOUNDS
THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN
FOXYGEN
LITTLE GREEN CARS
SAVAGES
AUTRE NE VEUT
PARQUET COURTS
FIDLAR
WHITE DENIM
TRUE BELIEVERS
THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
DELTA RAE
JAKE BUGG
THE LONE BELLOW
ELECTRIC GUEST
DAN CROLL
DEAP VALLY
WILD NOTHING
TYPHOON
HUNDRED WATERS
TWIN FORKS
RED BARAAT
ELECTRIC SIX
SHOVELS & ROPE
REIGNWOLF
MONA
MS MR
WIDOWSPEAK
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
BEAR MOUNTAIN
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS
JD MCPHERSON
PACHA MASSIVE
VALERIE JUNE
WILD FEATHERS
ROADKILL GHOST CHOIR
JC BROOKS AND THE UPTOWN SOUND
DESERT NOISES
THE BAND OF HEATHENS
HOLLY WILLIAMS
ALANNA ROYALE
CHERUB
THE DYNAMITES FEAT. CHARLES WALKER
SHINYRIBS
JACUZZI BOYS
WICK-IT THE INSTIGATOR
SHAKEY GRAVES
HOUNDMOUTH
WILD CUB
PETERSON BROTHERS BAND
LUELLA AND THE SUN
X AMBASSADORS
SONS OF FATHERS
COURRIER
MY JERUSALEM
NOT IN THE FACE
DANA FALCONBERRY
BOBBY JEALOUSY
WHISKEY SHIVERS
THE PRESERVATION
MAX FROST
LATASHA LEE & THE BLACKTIES
CALEB
SHANNON LABRIE
ANDREW DUHON
KRISTIN DIABLE & THE CITY
COLIN LAKE
BROOKE WAGGONER
TYREE MORRIS & HEARTS OF WORSHIP
ENDURANCE
THE STAPLETONES
HEAVENLY VOICES CHOIR
THE MCCRARY SISTERS
DISCIPLES OF CHRIST
THE HENSLEY ENSEMBLE
THE DURDENS
THE WARRIOR GOSPEL BAND
BARTON HILLS CHOIR
THE VERVE PIPE
SCHOOL OF ROCK
TIM AND THE SPACE CADETS WITH MOTHER FALCON
PETER DISTEFANO & TOR
GRACE LONDON
PLAYDATE
THE OHMIES
THE Q BROTHERS
ANDY Z
CASPAR BABYPANTS
The Killers and Wilco have been revealed as the officially confirmed headliners for the 2013 LouFest in St. Louis. The festival is September 7 and 8 in Forest Park.
The full lineup was revealed Tuesday morning after days of fans guessing the lineup online in a crossword challenge. Other acts include The National, Alabama Shakes, Jim James and more. See the full lineup below.
Tickets for LouFest will be available Friday, May 3. Visit loufest.com for more information.
2013 LouFest lineup:
The Killers
Wilco
The National
Alabama Shakes
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Jim James
Local Natives
Fitz And The Tantrums
Toro Y Moi
Twin Shadow
Trampled By Turtles
WALK THE MOON
Ra Ra Riot
Court Yard Hounds
Icona Pop
Youngblood Hawke
Robert DeLong
Jukebox The Ghost
Wild Belle
The Mowgli’s
Brick + Mortar
Desert Noises
Space Capone
Wild Cub
J. Roddy Walston & The Business
Andrea Davidson
Modoc
The Lonely Biscuits
Kentucky Knife Fight
Tef Poe
Boston’s tragedy at the Boston Marathon left America speechless, but Boston musicians have found a way to share their collective voices in a show of support for the victims. Over 130 Boston bands and other national artists have joined up with Boston blog, Allston Pudding, to create a charity compilation with donations from the mixtape benefiting the victims of the tragedy.
The 130-track mixtape includes songs from all sorts of genres and includes bands such as Mean Creek, Kangaroo Court and more.
You can download the whole thing for a mere $1 donation, but larger donations are encouraged and welcome. Anyone who donates $10 or more is entered in a drawing to win an Allston Pudding sweatshirt. All proceeds go to The One Fund Boston.
Kansas City’s Not A Planet is getting ready to release their debut LP and in celebration, they’re offering a free mp3 download of a new song.
Their debut record is called The Few, the Proud, the Strange. From our live show experience with NAP, these guys are fun, uptempo rockers. They almost have a modern vaudevillian sound going on for a few songs, but they also have plenty of other songs that sound completely different too. You can get a taste of their sound and download a free mp3 of “Invisible Man” off the new record at the band’s Reverbnation page.
If you like what you hear, join Not A Planet for a CD release party on Friday, May 10 at the Czar Bar. Appropriate Grammar and Noah’s Ark Was a Spaceship! will join NAP as openers.
Cowboy Indian Bear already won our hearts simply for having an awesome band name and some of the nicest band members around. However, if that’s not enough to also win you over, then their new album will.
The Lawrence 4-piece band’s new album Live Old, Die Young is officially out now. It’s complete with the band’s signature cool harmonies, chill indie pop vibe and interesting percussion arrangements. You can stream the album in full over at Spinner and buy it via the Record Machine.
If you like what you hear, be sure to join the band for the CD release shows where they’ll be performing for two nights only as a 9-piece band. The first show is Thursday, April 25th at Davey’s Uptown in Kansas City (21+). Then they’ll be in their hometown of Lawrence, Kansas on Friday, May 10 at the Lawrence Arts Center for an all ages show.
Stream M83′s soundtrack for the upcoming film Oblivion staring every ones favorite scientology crazed Tom Cruise and everyones ACTUAL favorite actor (no sarcasm here) Morgan Freeman rocking some kickin shades.
It’s a phenomenal listen, and the film looks incredibly promising. So check out the trailer album below then buy the album on 4/9 and then see the film on 4/19.
As if streaming music wasn’t enough, we have thrown in an added bonus. Head on over to our handy-dandy Facebook page and find one of our posts on Oblivion and comment on your expectations for the film, or your reactions to the soundtrack for your chance to score a pair of April 16th advance screening passes (sorry….Kansas City area only).
Avid movie goer, music aficionado and Netflix junkie. I also strive to quote Jurassic Park on a daily basis and I sing like no one is listening when in the car.
We love Lollapalooza for its always amazing lineup, great backdrop with the Chicago skyline and, of course, the lobster corn dogs. The 2013 lineup is here and as rumored Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age, The Cure, Phoenix, Vampire Weekend and more have joined this year’s roster.
Here’s the full lineup by day:
FRIDAY
The Killers
Nine Inch Nails
New Order
Queens of the Stone Age
Steve Aoki
Thievery Corporation
Lana Del Rey
Flux Pavilion
Band of Horses
Hot Chip
Crystal Castles
Imagine Dragons
Frightened Rabbit
Dillon Francis
Smith Westerns
Disclosure
Father John Misty
Ghost B.C.
Modestep
Emeli Sande
Jessie Ware
Atlas Genius
Timeflies
Theophilus London
Monsta
IO Echo
Icona Pop
Chance the Rapper
Lance Herbstrong
Robert DeLong
Deap Vally
Twenty One Pilots
San Cisco
Hey Marseilles
Keys N Krates
The Neighborhood
Pacific Air
American Authors
Houndmouth
Brick and Mortar
D-Pryde
Brite Lite Brite
SATURDAY
Mumford & Sons
The Postal Service
The National
The Lumineers
Kendrick Lamar
Eric Church
Steve Angello
Ellie Goulding
Azealia Banks
Local Natives
Dada Life
Matt & Kim
Foals
Death Grips
Court Yard Hounds
Adventure Club
Ben Howard
GriZ
Charles Bradley
Heartless Bastards
Baauer
Haim
Unknown Mortal Orchestra
St. Lucia
Shovels & Rope
Little Green Cars
Family of the Year
360
The Bright Light Social Hour
Reignwolf
Pujol
Planet Hemp
Cole Plante
Lukas Nelson & P.O.T.R.
Blondfire
Frontier Ruckus
Wheeler Brothers
The Dunwells
Supreme Cuts
Cherub
Wild Cub
Brooke Waggoner
Beast Patrol
SUNDAY
The Cure
Phoenix
Vampire Weekend
Knife Party
Grizzly Bear
Major Lazer
Dog Blood
Two Door Cinema Club
Tegan and Sara
Beach House
Cat Power
2 Chainz
Alt-J
The Vaccines
DIIV
Alex Clare
Baroness
Lianne La Havas
Wild Nothing
Angel Haze
Wavves
Alvin Risk
Jake Bugg
Wild Belle
Art Department
MS MR
Guards
Kill the Noise
Skaters
The Orwells
Palma Violets
Astro
Machines Are People Too
Yawn
Half Moon Run
The Mowgli’s
Wake Owl
Bear Mountain
O’ Brother
Makeshift Prodigy
Avid movie goer, music aficionado and Netflix junkie. I also strive to quote Jurassic Park on a daily basis and I sing like no one is listening when in the car.
The Boxer Rebellion sent out a link to their fans via their eNewsletter to check out their new music video for their new single entitled ‘Diamonds’ before it goes completely public tomorrow. But don’t worry, we got the link and we are sharing it right here with you! But we do encourage you to sign up for their email list as well, but don’t worry we have you covered if you forget.
‘Diamonds’ is the first single off of their new record slated to come out this year, however the only news is that there is more news to come. Eeeek!
Avid movie goer, music aficionado and Netflix junkie. I also strive to quote Jurassic Park on a daily basis and I sing like no one is listening when in the car.
Stream M83′s soundtrack for the upcoming film Oblivion staring every ones favorite scientology crazed Tom Cruise and everyones ACTUAL favorite actor (no sarcasm here) Morgan Freeman rocking some kickin shades.
