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Rock fans, brace yourselves for the ultimate summer plan. The Original Misfits are coming to set the stage on fire with not just one but three epic shows. The band will be joined by other legendary bands such as Megadeth, AFI, The Gaslight Anthem, and Fear. Read more
After a five-year hiatus from touring, Taylor Swift has made her triumphant return with the tour-kick off show at State Farm Stadium, performing for and honoring her massive fanbase. Read more
Arizona-based Industrial Band Featuring Videographer/Photographer Jim Louvau & Andy Gerold (Ashes Divide) PHOENIX – There Is No Us, the Phoenix-born industrial band featuring Andy Gerold (Ashes Divide, My Darling Murder) and photographer/videographer Jim Louvau (Chester Bennington, Jerry Cantrell), release their first single in five years with today’s arrival of “Fame Whore”. The video can be viewed here. The track, which was produced by Sean Beaven (Nine Inch Nails, Slayer), is Read more
Heritage, the album released today by five-piece downtempo deathcore band Distant, is the band’s third album, and the second with their current line up - joined by Jan Mato on drums and Eise Smit on guitar in 2020. While their second album Aeons Of Oblivion showed what the band was capable of, especially on the four-part “Ritual,” an almost deathcore suite, Heritage is the band at their full power. While Read more
After releasing their latest record, Deceivers, last year to critical acclaim, extreme metal masters Arch Enemy have returned today with a new video for the album track, "Poisoned Arrow". Produced by Mirko Witzki (Witzki Visions), watch "Poisoned Arrow" today at 9AM PT//12PM ET//6PM CET here. Michael Amott comments as follows: "I almost can't believe we're releasing a 7th (!) video off our recent 'Deceivers' album. Yet here it is, 'Poisoned Read more
PHOENIX – In a city where history seems to be but a suggestion, where a shrinking number of hundred year old buildings sit in the shadow of cranes that throw tons of steel and glass into the arid desert air, hoping that unsuspecting outsiders fall in love with the 3 days of reasonable weather per year – which seems to work at an alarming rate – one can still find Read more
PHOENIX — England’s Sad Night Dynamite has had two full length albums, both dropping in the last two years, but based on the fevered crowd reaction to their Sunday night concert at Valley Bar, with support from The Color 8, you might believe they are a group whose rabid cult-following stretches across decades and multiple albums. Valley Bar was the perfect venue for the show, as its location around the Read more
The definitive behind the scenes mini-documentary of Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' (RJA's) experience from weekend one of the When We Were Young Festival (10/22-23/22), including Saturday's festival cancellation, subsequent pop-up show with Hawthorne Heights and Armor for Sleep, and RJA's next day's performance. The Red Jumpsuit ApparatusWhen We Were Young - Weekend One Behind The Scenes Mini-Doc Watch here: During The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' soundcheck at the When We Were Young Read more
Jump to Photo Galleries PHOENIX — The Who is a band with a pedigree worthy of selling out stadiums, but this night held the ambiance of a relatively intimate venue at Ak-Chin Pavilion. Opening the show was Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs. This same large stage that can look almost empty for a quartet was filled to the brim with a full orchestra and ten times as many musicians. Read more
Jerome, AZ – Puscifer’s recent limited engagement, concert-meets-feature films: V is for Versatile: A Puscifer Concert Film featuring music from the V is for… era and Parole Violator: A Puscifer Concert Film featuring Conditions of My Parole, have been extended for viewing here through Nov. 7 (initially the films were slated to run through the morning of Nov. 1). Watch "Man Overboard" from Parole Violator here: Meeting at the intersection Read more
Jump to Photo Galleries Tempe, AZ — Marquee Theatre hosted a sellout crowd for the return of AFI to the valley for the first time since their February 2017 sold out show at the same venue. The AFI “Bodies Tour 2022” stopped in this college town following a short COVID postponement, and included opener Drab Majesty with their unique ethereal sound to excite the fanbase. Known for high-energy live performances, Read more
Panic! at the Disco, MARINA, and Jake Wesley Rogers bring a fiery “Vengeance” tour to downtown Phoenix. Read more
Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Animals As Leaders, and Fit For An Autopsy joined forces to rock and rattle Arizona Financial Theatre. Read more
Following the undeniable popularity and immediate sell out of the hit inaugural When We Were Young Festival 2022, which takes place later this month, organizers are excited to announce the lineup for When We Were Young 2023! Read more
Jump to Photo Gallery Tacoma, WA — A surreal air swept over the night that a once dormant My Chemical Romance erupted on the stage of Tacoma Dome, following a warm-up by “emo” post-hardcore cohorts Taking Back Sunday and anti-folk singer-songwriter Kimya Dawson from Olympia, WA. The show arrived nearly 3 years after the Halloween 2019 announcement of the reunion, and 9.5 years following the March 2013 break-up of this Read more
Australia's Victoria K returns in 2022 for the release of the sophomore album Kore this coming October via Rockshots Records to follow the 2020 debut album Essentia. Read more
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