Category Archives: Rock, Alternative & Punk

It’s another Canadian Superpack for the closing day at the 2020 Kemptville Live Music Festival with multiple Juno and Canadian Classic Award winning headliners Glass Tiger, Juno award winning and Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductee Andy Kim and rock solid Canadian icon band Honeymoon Suite rounding out the day. The 2020 Kemptville Live Music Festival runs July 23-26, 2020 on the historic grounds of the Kemptville Campus just 30 minutes from downtown Ottawa.

What more could there be on the way for this 6th annual live music festival?

The Mango kid a.k.a. Danko Jones hit up the Brass Monkey for a long-overdue stop in Ottawa. 4 years overdue to be exact.

TORONTO – The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) today announced that tickets for a highly anticipated JUNO Week event, JUNO Kick-Off Concert Presented by CBC Sports, are now on sale. JUNO Award winners and Saskatoon’s own, The Sheepdogs, will headline the event along with a night of classic Canadian covers and collaborations with your favourite JUNO artists and players from JUNO Cup. Proceeds from the event support MusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity associated with CARAS and the JUNO Awards.

The second annual Lollapalooza Stockholm has revealed its 2020 lineup which features Post Malone, Ellie Goulding, Zara Larsson performing on Friday, Pearl Jam, The Killers, and Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals taking the stage on Saturday, while Kendrick Lamar, Camila Cabello, and Kacey Musgraves will close out the festival on Sunday.  The lineup features more than 55 artists including Galantis, Of Monsters and Men, Rival Sons, Rex Orange County and many more performing on four stages on June 26-28, 2020 at Gärdet, a beautiful park in the heart of Stockholm, Sweden. Tickets are on sale now at www.LollaStockholm.com.

Big Wreck brought their But For The Sun tour to the packed Music Hall Concert Theatre in Oshawa.

The world’s most iconic and celebrated rock legends will hit the road together next summer for a co-headlining tour SO MASSIVE that it could only be held in America’s biggest stadiums.  THE STADIUM TOUR featuring DEF LEPPARD, MÖTLEY CRÜE, with POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS will hit select cities in the U.S. where each band will bring their electrifying stage shows while promising to perform their stadium sized anthems.  Produced by Live Nation, the summer tour is set to steamroll through America, visiting the country’s most iconic stadiums, was announced today at SiriusXM’s Hollywood Studios live on the Volume Channel 106.

U.S. DATES TO KICK OFF ON MAY 30^TH

Meghan Trainor to Open all Dates, with Special Guest Leon Bridges on Stadium Dates

MAROON 5’S NEW HIT SINGLE “MEMORIES” OUT NOW – #1 ON HOT AC

It’s been quite a ride for Cory Marks since he graced our stage at Capital Country fest in Spencerville, almost, 5 years ago. It was also 5 years ago that Marks arrived on the scene with his debut album This Man which introduced us to tracks like “Don’t Count Saturday Night”, “Burnin’ Up The Blacktop” and “21” to name a few.

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS ANNOUNCE FIRST ACOUSTIC ALBUM AND TOUR

The Full Album Will Be Released on February 7

The First Single – “Fare Thee Well” – is Available Now

Perdida is a Deeply Personal Album that Weaves Introspective Lyrics and Unexpected Instruments Together Across 10 Songs for an Emotional and Musical Journey

In October it was announced that Metallica would headline Epicenter, Welcome to Rockville, Louder Than Life, Aftershock and Sonic Temple. Today the rest of the 2020 Sonic Temple lineup was announced with SlipKnot taking the remaining headline slot at the second annual festival in Columbus, OH.