Tag: live music

  • Festival preview: Aftershock 2018

    Festival preview: Aftershock 2018

    With summer in full swing, as everyone heads (and has headed) out and about to take in their favorite music festival, let’s not forget one experience that is a must for any music lover: Monster Energy’s Aftershock Festival. Aftershock takes place October 13th and 14th in beautiful Discovery Park, located in Sacramento, California. For the 7th…

  • Spring festing in Canada, metal style (part 1)

    Spring festing in Canada, metal style (part 1)

    CEMR Metalfest April 6-9, 2017 Headliners: Plant Eater (Saskatchewan), Display of Decay (Alberta), Terrifier (BC) Presented by CEMR Metalfest and Voxx Promos S/T- Ep by Planet Eater – SK Dust of Existence by display of decayhttp://thesludgelord.blogspot.ca/2017/01/terrifier-album-premiere-canadian.html 420 Music & Arts Festival April 20-22, 2017 Headliners: WO FAT (Dallas, TX), ANCIIENTS (Vancouver), BLACK MASTIFF (Edmonton/Vancouver) Distortion,…

  • How to not be an old jaded music fan (this is not an answer)

    How to not be an old jaded music fan (this is not an answer)

    I love music. Probably a good thing, even a requirement, for someone who edits a music site. But I’m not always as excited about music, especially new music, as I remember being at one time. And that’s kind of sad. One way of interpreting what’s going on here is that there’s just too much music, metal…

  • NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda

    NXNE 2014 Diaries: Redanda

    Reports from the trenches Redanda & Buddy-Boys at NXNE 2014 This is being written with a fairly heavy hangover, but hopefully that means our experience at NXNE 2014 is still fresh in the mind, however hazy. We departed from Hamilton (which a beer girl at the tents at Yonge & Dundas kindly referred to as…