Month: October 2024

Bullet for My Valentine and Trivium have announced their 2025 co-headlining North American “The Poisoned Ascendancy Tour.”  The tour will see both bands celebrating landmark albums: Bullet for My Valentine’s The Poison, and Trivium’s Ascendancy, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025. Each album will be performed in their entirety on this tour.

BFMV shared in a joint statement: “We are super excited to announce we are coming back to the USA in 2025 with our friends Trivium, to bring you the Poisoned Ascendancy Tour. We’re going to be celebrating 20 years of our debut album ‘The Poison’ and Trivium’s ‘Ascendancy’. It’s the metal tour of 2025, so don’t miss out.”

Trivium added: “This is a celebration for the old fans that were there at 9 a.m. at Ozzfest to catch a couple songs from a band in Iron Maiden shirts. It’s for the new fans that have been listening to the deep cuts but never caught them on a recent tour. And lastly, it’s for both BFMV and us to take a moment to reflect on how amazing these 20 years have been, how fast they’ve gone, and how important these albums are for the both of our bands. Having August Burns Red, Bleed From Within and Sylosis joining us only makes this more special. We can’t wait to play Ascendancy for you!”

The 26-city tour kicks off on March 30th at PNE Forum in Vancouver, B.C., making stops across North America in Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and more before wrapping up in Raleigh, NC at Red Hat Amphitheater on May 18th. August Burns Red will play in support across all dates, while Sylosis and Bleed From Within will open select shows.

Tickets are on sale now via Ticketmaster.

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Styx is returning to Las Vegas for a five-night engagement at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. The shows will be held on January 24, 25, 29, 31 and February 1, 2025. All shows are scheduled to begin at 8:30 pm.

Styx posted on their social pages: “Styx is coming back to VEGAS! And this time, we’re playing The Grand Illusion in full PLUS all your favorite greatest hits! Get your tickets Friday at 10 AM PT. Jan 24, 25, 29, 31 & Feb 1 The Venetian Theatre, Las Vegas https://found.ee/styx_vegas2025 See you at The Venetian!”

Styx will be performing 1977’s The Grand Illusion in its entirety for the first time in their 50-plus career, along with the band’s classic hits. The Grand Illusion reached No. 6 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and featured the hit songs “Come Sail Away,”and “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man).”  The album has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA, having sold over three million copies to date.

Tickets start at $45 and are on sale now via Ticketmaster and Venetian ticket outlets.

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Blink-182 singer-bassist and co-founding member Mark Hoppus will release his new memoir Fahrenheit-182, co-written with ‘Sellout’ author Dan Ozzi. Hoppus had previously announced Fahrenheit-182 back in 2022, saying he was “excited” to tell his story after battling cancer.

Hoppus announced the memoir in a tongue-in-cheek, infomercial-style video, and promises the memoir will ‘get into skateboarding, ’90s music, and band breakups, as well as his diagnosis with cancer, which he’s since treated with chemotherapy.’  Hoppus shares:  “I wrote a book! And it’s terrific. This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate  Threaded through with the very human story of a constant battle with anxiety and Mark’s public battle and triumph over cancer, Fahrenheit-182 is a delight for fans and also a funny, smart, and relatable memoir for anyone who has wanted to quit but kept going.”

The band released their full-length project ONE MORE TIME… (available here) in 2023, and recently dropped ONE MORE TIME… PART-2 (available here), a deluxe edition featuring additional bonus tracks.

Fahrenheit-182 hits shelves on April 8, 2025. To preorder, head here.

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Imagine Dragons will conclude the North American leg of their Loom World Tour with a one-night-only performance featuring the LA Film Orchestra on October 27, as well as special arrangements from legendary game composer Inon Zur.

The special performance will bring music from Imagine Dragons sixth studio album LOOM to life in a never-before-heard show. Imagine Dragons – in collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios – will also perform their hit “Children of the Sky (A Starfield Song)” for the very first time live.  That song will be transmitted back to Earth from the surface of the Moon as part of Lonestar’s Freedom Mission flying with Intuitive Machines to the South Lunar Pole in early 2025.

Chris Stott, Founder and CEO, Lonestar, shares: “With Starfield and Imagine Dragons you’re taking part in the space program.”  Ryan Micheletti, an investor in Lonestar through The Veteran Fund, added: “Our goal is to inspire the next generation of kids to be excited about the future of space and technology, which is why we chose ‘Children of the Sky’ as the first song in history to be broadcast from the Moon.”

Imagine Dragons said in a statement: “Humanity’s deepest origins come from space, and it is where we will inevitably return as a space-faring species one day. We are all, truly, children of the sky.”

The group’s North American run of dates makes it way coast-to-coast, including back-to-back nights at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage, three shows at Salt Lake City’s Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre, and a four-night run at LA’s iconic Hollywood Bowl before wrapping up in October.

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A Perfect Circle, Primus, and Puscifer have announced the “Sessanta V2.0” tour, hitting cities they missed on their joint “Sessanta” tour earlier this year in celebration of Maynard James Keenan’s 60th birthday,.

The Sessanta V2.0 tour will kick off April 24th in Palm Springs, California, and run through a June 7th show in Auburn, Washington. Along the way, the tour will hit such markets as San Antonio, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Milwaukee, among other cities.

Keenan said in a statement: “The Sessanta run was by far the most fun and delicious extended birthday party I’ve ever had thanks to all of the attendees and the master musicianship of Primus, Puscifer and A Perfect Circle. No comparison. Decided we need to share this with people who missed the first round in places we couldn’t get to. Strap in.”  Keenan does double duty as the frontman of both Puscifer and A Perfect Circle, while the unique tour sees the three bands rotating on and off the stage, often collaborating with members of the other bands.

For tickets, head HERE.

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R.E.M. is encouraging fans to register to vote with their newly released compilation album We Are Hope Despite The Times. The title of ‘We Are Hope Despite The Times’ is drawn from the lyric, “We are young despite the years / We are concern, we are hope despite the times” from R.E.M.’s song “These Days” (off R.E.M.’s 1986 studio album, Lifes Rich Pageant). 

In correlation with National Voter Registration Day, Constitution Day, and Citizenship Day, the digital compilation features 18 hand-selected R.E.M. tracks, with themes of activism and social responsibility. Songs on the album include “World Leader Pretend,” “Fall on Me,” “Welcome to the Occupation,” “Drive,” “Finest Work Song,” “Turn You Inside-Out,” “Pop Song ’89,” “Stand” and “Its the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”

The band recommends that fans to visit vote.gov or headcount.org to register to vote or update their voting information.

‘We Are Hope Despite The Times’ is available to stream now.

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