Month: November 2024

The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have revealed the headliners for the 2025 edition of the yearly festival, with Lady Gaga, Green Day and Post Malone set to take the stage across two weekends — April 11-13 and April 18-20 — at Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA.

The fest wrote on Instagram alongside the 2025 concert poster:  “Music Make You Lose Control Register now for access to passes at coachella.com. Presale begins Friday, 11/22 at 11am PT.”

Lady Gaga (who previously headlined Coachella in 2017) will headline night Fridays alongside Missy Elliott, Benson Boone, Three 6 Mafia, and Miike Snow and more. Gaga shared in an Instagram post: “I have long dreamed of throwing a massive night of chaos in the desert. I’ve had a vision I’ve never been able to fully realize at Coachella for reasons beyond our control but I wanted to come through for music fans. I have been wanting to go back and to do it right, and I am. I’m headlining and starting the weekend off at Coachella. Can’t wait to hear you all singalong and dance dance DANCE till we drop. ”

Green Day will perform on Saturdays, making their Coachella debut and sharing top billing with Charli XCX. Featured performers include Clairo, Sam Fender, T-Pain, and Jimmy Eat World, along with punk rock pioneers Misfits with founding members Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only.

Post Malone will take the stage on Sunday alongside co-headliner Megan Thee Stallion, joined by Zedd, Beabadoobee, Shaboozey, Ty Dolla $ign, and Circle Jerks, among others. Post Malone previously performed at Coachella in 2018 and made a surprise appearance in 2023 during Bad Bunny’s set.

In addition, Travis Scott will “design the desert” in a special project, with details yet to be announced. Fans can secure their passes by registering now at coachella.com. Presales begin Friday at 11 a.m.

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Ghost have announced a massive 55-date 2025 world tour, with the trek including a European leg kicking off mid April 2025, as well as a North American leg launching July 9th in Baltimore (including their first-ever performance at the legendary Madison Square Garden in New York City) before wrapping September 24th in Mexico City.

Each show will be “a phone-free experience,” following the precedent of the two sold-out nights in L.A. at which the live footage for the band’s successful concert film RITE HERE RITE was filmed. Phones will have to be secured in a Yondr pouch but will remain in the possession of concertgoers.

Tickets for the North America dates are available via Ghost’s official website.

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The Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival has unveiled its full 2025 lineup, headlined by Metallica (on two nights), Linkin Park, and Korn. The annual hard rock and metal fest is set for May 8th-11th at the Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

A post to the festival’s social media platforms reads:  “LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT: @SonicTempleFest brings an iconic rock & metal lineup to @CrewStadium in Columbus, Ohio on May 8-11. Experience 2 Unique Sets from @Metallica plus @LINKINPARK, @Korn, @badomenscult, @IncubusBand, @AliceInChains, @RobZombie, @threedaysgrace (reunited with Adam Gontier), @alicecooper, and a very rare reunion performance from Acid Bath. Over 100 bands in total!”

Fest promoter Danny Wimmer in a press release: “We’re thrilled to finally reveal the full lineup to our fans! Bringing two nights of Metallica to Sonic Temple has been years in the making, and we’re excited to make it a reality. With over 100 bands, including powerhouses Korn, Bad Omens and Incubus, alongside the highly anticipated return of Linkin Park, and the reunion of Three Days Grace with Adam Gontier, 2025 is shaping up to be an unforgettable year. We can’t wait to see everyone at Sonic Temple!”

• Thursday, May 8th will be headlined by Korn, with performances by Bad Omens, Three Days Grace (with original vocalist Adam Gontier), Killswitch Engage, Jinjer, and Ministry, and more.
• On Friday, May 9th, the first of two Metallica headlining slots will take place, as the metal legends bring their two-show “No Repeat Weekend” format to Sonic Temple. Friday also features sets by Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Mastodon, Cannibal Corpse, Deafheaven, Suicidal Tendencies, Hatebreed, and a reunited Acid Bath, among other acts.
• Saturday, May 10th will be headlined by Linkin Park (featuring Emily Armstrong on vocals) with sets by Incubus, I Prevail, and Trivium. Bullet for My Valentine, Jimmy Eat World, Underoath, and a reunited Crossfade also are featured for that date.
• Wrapping up the festival on Sunday, May 11th will be headliners Metallica, who will perform a completely different set than their Friday slot. Other feature performers include Alice in Chains, Arch Enemy, GWAR, and a reunited Power Trip.

For information on Sonic Temple 2025, head HERE.

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Five Finger Death Punch has donated $200k from a portion of ticket sales from their headlining arena and amphitheater North American tour this past summer and fall. The funds will be split between two charities personally chosen by band members Ivan Moody and Zoltan Bathory.

Moody chose Covenant House, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping homeless, trafficked, and exploited youth and young families, in support of Youth Homelessness Awareness Month in November. Covenant House’s 34 locations across the country aims to provide shelter, support, and comprehensive services to homeless youth.  Said Moody: “Many of our songs and music videos speak directly to the issues being addressed by Covenant House. Our commitment to donating to support their programs and using our platform to raise awareness perfectly aligns with the band’s and our fans’ values.”

Zoltan chose to support the Call of Duty Endowment, a non-profit organization helps veterans find high-quality careers by supporting groups that prepare them for the job market and by raising awareness of veterans’ value to the workplace. Zoltan’s connection to this charity began when he was featured as a character (an in-game operator named Oz) in two Call of Duty games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II and Call of Duty: Warzone.

Zoltan and Ivan have raised millions of dollars over the past two decades for various causes and shown overwhelming support to first responders and the military. Proceeds from their 2019 No. 1 hit “Blue On Black” featuring Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert, and Brian May were donated to the Gary Sinise Foundation.

Additionally, the official video for the band’s song, “Wrong Side Of Heaven,” brought awareness to the struggles of veterans suffering from PTSD and has garnered over 411 million views to date. The band raised over $300K for various military organizations supporting veterans afflicted by PTSD through the campaign around the song in 2014, and 5FDP was awarded the prestigious Soldier Appreciation Award in 2016 by the ‘Association of The United States Army’ an honor bestowed only upon Elvis Presley.

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Hollywood Undead have signed a new record deal and have released the song “Hollywood Forever”, which also finds the band sporting newly reworked masks done by Jerry Constantine.

In the new video for “Hollywood Forever,” the band members appear maskless throughout most of the clip,  and features people entering a theater and giving up their various vices as the price of admission. By the end of the clip each member has their new masked look for their next era.

Vocalist/bassist Johnny 3 Tears said of this song, “This song is for the fans. They’ve allowed us to live out our dreams and simple words can’t express our gratitude – so we wrote this for them.”

Vocalist/guitarist Charlie Scene adds: “It’s refreshing to find a group of people who share the same vision and are as passionate as we are about this next chapter for Hollywood Undead. Our idea of what this band could be has never seemed so possible. Excited to get started.”

See the video for Hollywood Undead’s “Hollywood Forever” – HERE.

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