In the first update to our weekly playlist for awhile (yes, we know we’ve been slacking), we’ve got a great selection for you from pop punk to prog metal! We have new singles from the likes of Poppy, Megadeth, Despised Icon, Royals, Cabin Boy Jumped Ship, Autumn Fires, Heriot, Twat Union, Raven Numan, Lolo and…
Hoping to bring some Christmas cheer to fans, punk rockers Four Year Strong will be putting on a Christmas show, with their 13th Annual Holiday Show, which will be live-streamed on Saturday 19 December 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT. Vocalist and guitarist Dan O’Connor said “We’ve never missed a Four Year Strong Annual Holiday Show since…
After the Download Festival 2020 announcement on Monday, it’s now the turn of Slam Dunk 2020 to unveil their first festival bands. Headlining a UK festival for the first time, and making Slam Dunk their exclusive UK festival appearance for 2020 are Don Broco. One of Rock Sins’ favourite bands, State Champs, also seem to…
Slam Dunk Festival once again returned to Hatfield bringing along all the pop-punk, metalcore and ska fans have come to expect. The 2018 edition marks the first time the festival has moved to a new site at Hatfield House. Moving to a larger outdoor setting was already an improvement as it meant all the chokepoints and…
The last weekend of May is fast approaching which means two things. It’s another bank holiday and Slam Dunk Festival is on the way. One of the major highlights of the musical calendar and always a great way to kick off the Festival season proper. This years lineup is an all-star occasion and is so…
A couple of weeks ago, it was revealed that Arizona’s finest original emo rockers Jimmy Eat World were going to headline their first UK festival by topping the bill at Slam Dunk 2018. Then, on Monday, it was announced they had co-headliners in the shape of none other than Good Charlotte. The Madden brothers and…
Team Rock Sins was out in force at Download 2017, so in order to make our festival coverage from this year’s Download the most enjoyable and readable it can be, we’ve decided to break things up a bit. Here’s our view of what happened on The Avalanche Stage and The Dogtooth Stage on the first…
Merry Christmas to us all from the powers that be at Download Festival HQ. Andy Copping and the team have just unveiled an amazing selection of bands for the 2017 Download Festival that will go a long way towards winning over some of the fans who weren’t already convinced by the first announcement, and make…
In addition to the news we brought you at the end of last week that Five Finger Death Punch have unfortunately had to pull out of Download’s tenth anniversary edition of the festival, during last week there were two sets of new band announcements that we thought we had better catch up on for those…
