Month: October 2024

The Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival will return to the historic Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio for its seventh year, taking place on July 18-20, 2025.

Festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents are planning for another record-setting year, following last year’s event featuring 75,000 fans attending three days of music, tattoos and haunted attractions.

Inkcarceration 2024 featured headliners Shinedown, Godsmack, and Breaking Benjamin, with performances by The Offspring, Bad Omens, Halestorm, Parkway Drive, and others.

Presale passes go on sale October 16-18. Visit www.Inkcarceration.com to sign-up for exclusive details on Inkcarceration 2025, and discover the 2025 lineup when it is announced.

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced additional performers and presenters for the 2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony set to take place on October 19th at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio. The 2024 Inductees set to performing include Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, and Dionne Warwick.

The new round of talent to appear at the cermeony include: Andrew Watt, Billy Idol, Chad Smith, Jack Black, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Maynard James Keenan, Robert Trujillo, Steve Stevens, Tom Morello, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Zakk Wylde

The above-noted performers and presenters join previously-announced artists including Busta Rhymes, Dr. Dre, Demi Lovato, Dua Lipa, Ella Mai, James Taylor, Jelly Roll, Julia Roberts, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, Lucky Daye, Mac McAnally, Method Man, Roger Daltrey, Sammy Hagar, Slash, and The Roots.

Mary J Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & The Gang, Ozzy Osbourne, and A Tribe Called West will be inducted into this year’s Hall of Fame 2024 class.

Alexis Korner, John Mayall, and Big Mama Thornton will receive the Musical Influence Award. Jimmy Buffett, MC5, Dionne Warwick, and Norman Whitfield will be honored with the Musical Excellence Award with Suzanne de Passe given the Ahmet Ertegun Award.

The 2024 ceremony will stream live on Disney+ with a special airing on ABC on January 1st at 8 pm ET/PT and become available to stream on Hulu the next day.

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Dropkick Murphys have dropped the video for their new single “Sirens,” the first tease off their new album coming in 2025. “Sirens” was produced by longtime DKM collaborator Ted Hutt, and was mixed by Ted Hutt and Ryan Mall.

Dropkick Murphys’ frontman Ken Casey shares: “For nearly a decade, the division between red and blue, right and left, has grown deeper, darker and uglier – dividing families, and ending friendships. Nobody enjoys this more than the billionaires, who are making record profits off the blood, sweat, and tears of the working class. They love it when we fight amongst ourselves, because their biggest fear is us joining together to come after them…THE REAL ENEMY.”

The band’s video for “Sirens” pays homage to the video for Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and was directed by Travis Schneider. The visual features various Massachusetts locals representing different sectors of the working class.

Dropkick Murphys have also announced March 14, 15, 16 and 17 as the Boston dates for their annual hometown Boston St. Patrick’s Day Weekend Celebration shows in 2025. Details and ticket info for these shows will be announced soon.

Check out the video for Sirens: HERE.

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Ice Nine Kills have today dropped the new single, “A Work of Art”, the official track for the horror film, Terrifier 3, which hit theaters over the weekend

Along with the single, Ice Nine Kills  released the 14-minute extended-cut of the accompanying music video for A Work of Art, directed by longtime collaborator Jensen Noen with special effects for the video created by Academy Award-winner Christopher Nelson. The video also stars David Howard Thornton (Terrifier’s infamous ‘Art the Clown’), Catherine Corcoran (Terrifier), Leah Voysey (Terrifier 2), and more, along with contributions from bassist Shavo Odadjian (‘System Of A Down’).

Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas says of the collaboration: “Creating a track for ‘Terrifier 3’ is like stepping into the ultimate horror playground. The film and our new single, “A Work of Art” reflect the same twisted, unrelenting energy that fans of both Ice Nine Kills and the Terrifier franchise thrive on. And having our music video play in theaters after the movie at special screenings last night was the ultimate honor and the best way to pay homage to the cinematic terror that has inspired me and this band. The extended cut of the video marks a new era of INK related terror, but what that means shall remain in my nightmares….for now. Psychos, we present to you what may well be our most glorious and goresome offering yet, sure to leave you both tongue-tied and terrified – “A Work of Art”.”

The full 14-minute extended cut video (featuring an extra 7 minutes of never-seen before footage) can be viewed HERE.

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Green Day’s iconic 1994 album Dookie is being celebrated in a very unusual way. Three decades since Green Day dropped their third studio album, the band is dropping Dookie Demastered,  in collaboration with BRAIN, in which each of the project’s 15 tracks have been incorporated into a series of random household objects.

A press release announcing the news reads: “Instead of smoothing out its edges and tweaking its dynamic ranges, this version of Dookie has been met­icu­lously mangled to fit on formats with uncom­promis­ing­ly low fidelity. The listening experience is unparalleled, sacrificing not only sonic quality, but also convenience, and occasionally entire verses. It’s Dookie, the way it was never meant to be heard.”

Items used on the Dookie Demastered tracks include a Teddy Ruxpin doll, a doorbell, a toothbrush and even an answering machine. The first-of-its-kind “demastered” version of the 1994 album is available in 15 different formats, each more unconventional and purposefully low-quality than the last.

Fans can “play” all 15 formats at a dedicated website, and even enter a drawing for a chance to buy the one-of-a-kind recordings in a drawing that ends on Friday (Oct. 11) at 11 a.m. ET. Per the website, “those deeply familiar with the originals may experience existential disquietude. Extended listening has been known to provoke rage-nausea in audiophiles.

Green Day have been celebrating the Dookie anniversary, as well as the 20th anniversary of American Idiot, on their Saviors stadium tour, which will hit Corona Capital stadium in Mexico City on Nov. 15.

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Weezer have announced a concert film shot during their ongoing 2024 tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their self-titled debut, aka The Blue Album.

Titled Weezer’s Voyage to the Blue Planet: The Concert Film, it was captured at Boston’s TD Garden on September 10th and will livestream at Moment.co on October 13th and 14th.

The band posted on social media:  “One small step for man, one giant leap for Weezerkind On October 13th + 14th, we’re bringing you a very special concert film of The Voyage to the Blue Planet Tour (shot at the Boston show). For all of you that couldn’t make it out to the tour, now’s your chance to come celebrate 30 years of the Blue Album with us! Grab your popcorn and your early bird tickets on @momentworld ’til 12pm PT tomorrow, and see you on October 13th + 14th http://moment.co/weezer”

Weezer are also celebrating the Blue Album’s 30th anniversary with an expansive reissue featuring 36 unreleased tracks. Pre-orders are ongoing ahead of its release on November 1st.

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