Download 2024 is go! Following in the footsteps of other European festivals like Rock AM Ring and Nova Rock over the last week or so, the Download Festival team have unleashed the bulk of the 2024 Line up in one huge announcement. For the first time since 2012, the Download Festival has two new headliners…
Billy Talent’s sixth album has been something long awaited by fans. Particularly when its first single dropped all the way back in 2019. Over two years later, likely due to various COVID related problems, Crisis Of Faith finally arrives but was it worth the wait? Immediately it’s nice to be reminded that after 2 years…
This latest edition of the Rock Sins’ playlist features the usual mix of new singles, new tracks from just released albums and EP’s and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. We’re celebrating Wrestlemania weekend being the big WWE fans that we are by including Code Orange’s Let Me In – theme song…
The second announcement for Slam Dunk Festival 2020 is out and it is a belter! Joining Don Broco as headliners at Slam Dunk 2020 are none other than Canadian punk rock favourites Sum 41! Sum 41 have recently been teasing a UK tour with Billy Talent and The Used on their social media, and guess…
It’s time once again for another update to the Rock Sins Spotify playlist. This time out we are, as you might have guessed from the title, focusing on the annual August bank holiday festival double header at Reading & Leeds 2018. This weeks’ 20 tracks are a mixture of old favourites and new releases from…
Due to some unforeseen circumstances we’ve had a few issues in getting the final part of our Download 2016 festival coverage published for your enjoyment but better late than never, here it is! For anyone who didn’t see it the first time around, or who would like a refresher, You can catch up with the…
We thought we’d be due another Download Festival 2016 line up announcement before Christmas, and Andy Copping and his team have obliged with a monster of an announcement! Via their often used good friend, Daniel P Carter on the BBC Radio One Rock Show, ten new acts have been added to the festivities at Donington…
After the success of the Vans Warped Tour returning to the UK in 2012, anticipation was very high for the 2013 instalment. We sent Sam Dignon along to enjoy the ride and here’s his report from day one…. Opening up the Monster Energy Stage at Warped this year Attila (5) begin to get the crowd…
We were all warned that the first announcement concerning the UK leg of the 2013 Vans Warped Tour was imminent last week and true to their word, the organisers have unleashed the first batch of bands upon the UK, including the event’s first headliners. What will be occuring at Alexandra Palace this coming November? Well…
The first announcement of the August bank holiday weekender festival double bill is upon us and Reading and Leeds have thrown out a couple of surprises amongst a lineup that, in our opinion, most people could have largely predicted. For Rocksins regulars, there are some good rock and a couple of metal bands mixed in…
