Gerard Way (ex-My Chemical Romance) to perform his first solo show

Gerard Way Source The former My Chemical Romance singer will perform his first solo show at this year’s  Reading & Leeds Festival.  At the festival will also perform bands like: Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Blink 182, Papa Roach, Die Antwoord and many other amazing bands and artists. For more information about the festival and tickets, check out the Reading & Leeds Festival official websites. The full Reading &…

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A Short Guide to Running Your Own Club Night

If you love music and want to put on your own club night, there are quite a few things you should plan for and manage before hand. Whether it’s booking the artists, the venue or simply doing some promotion work, it’s important that you plan before hand. Here is a short guide on what to do and what not to do in preparation for your club night. Stick to your Budget It sounds simple but…

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Living on Much More Than a Prayer: Saving for Festival Season

Festivals can be deceptively expensive. Where you may think that once you’ve paid for your ticket the rest of the weekend will be cheap, after all sleeping in a tent and enjoying all the music in the great outdoors shouldn’t cost you a bundle. You even had the best of intentions, bringing all your own food and booze with you, but beware. When you wake up hungover, that smell wafting over from the bacon sandwich…

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Lana del Rey reveals upcoming tour dates

Lana del Rey Source Lana del Rey just announced new upcoming tour dates for US and North America. These might  not be such great news for the European fans, but you might want to know that the artist will also perform in France at Festival de Carcassonne and Festival Rock en Seine, on July 17 and August 24 and also confirmed performing in Sweden at  Bråvalla Festival in Norrköping in June. So check out the…

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Outkast announce they’ll be touring 40 festivals

Just a few days after they announced they’ll be headlining Coachella Festival with Arcade Fire (their first concert in years), Outkast announced they are embarking on a tour which will take them to 40 festivals. “It’s truly an honour to celebrate 20 years and still be free to do music the way we choose,” Big Boi said in a statement. “Don’t just think outside the box, know that there is no box. I’m looking forward…

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Opeth, Phil Anselmo, Black Label Society and many more added to Download Festival 2014

The organizers of Download Festival 2014 mean business – they’ve just announced a lot more participants, confirming artists such as Opeth, Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Black Label Society, Bowling For Soup, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, the BossHoss, Skid Row, Tesla, Bury Tomorrow, Danger Danger, Powerman 5000, Huntress, the Graveltones and Anti-Mortem. The headliners had been previously announced: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith. Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alter Bridge were announced as…

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