Spring is just around the corner. Which means Record Store Day, the industry’s annual vinyl collectors paradise isn’t far away either! Scheduled for Saturday April 12th, Record Store Day has grown exponentially since its inception back in 2007. With scalpers everywhere and the myriad of titles available on vinyl, CD and cassette increasing every year….
Spring has sprung, which means it won’t be long until the UK festival season kicks off! With a whole host of rock, metal and alternative music festivals taking place all over the country we’re spoilt for choice and so we’ve put together a list of some of our favourites, to help you plan a 2025…
March 8th marks International Women’s Day. A day when we celebrate Women from all walks of life. From it’s earliest beginnings back in 1909 to becoming a mainstream UN backed holiday in 1977, it has become an important date in the calendar as we continue to discuss issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights & violence…
With doors fully open and a stacked line up from early in the day, 2000trees is well and truly back. The beauty of trees is when you have a gap on your schedule, you’re bound to find something to get stuck into, and even discover your new favourite band. Wandering round different stages to find…
The final day of Download Festival 2024 is, judging by many comments online from attendees and those who wish they were going alike, “the most stacked” line up of any day on this years’ festival. Perhaps it is no coincidence that it was also the first part of the festival (RIP packages aside), to sell…
48 hours is a long time in the music industry. Since we published our preview of the first part of Download Festival 2024, we’ve had over half a dozen bands – Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Overpower and Negative Frame, and then slightly later Ithaca – decide to drop off various parts of the Download…
We’re just a few days away now from the gates of Donington being thrust wide open and then Download Festival 2024 will commence! To get you in the mood, or maybe to persuade you to part with your hard earned cash for some last minute tickets, here are ten of the bands Rock Sins thinks…
Our weekly playlist update is back for the first time in awhile! There’s been SO much good music released recently that we wanted to give our playlist a spring cleaning and provide our readers and listeners with a new batch of the latest tunes (and maybe one or two old favourites too). With their critically…
Its’ that time of year again, as we frantically check metweather and scribble down set times in hopes the clash fairy is kind to us! Yep, its Festival season, which means the annual pilgimage of the faithful for Donington for Download, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year! We here at Rock Sins have…
We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
