We all know that Download Festival starts as soon as the gates open on a Wednesday lunchtime. With many fantastic events like The Takeover and some of our friends doing awesome DJ sets, District X and The Doghouse are definitely the place to be for the early arrivals. For Download 2025, it felt like the…
We are very much into the final countdown before the gates of Donington open for the 2025 Download Festival! We’ve got features aplenty to keep eager attendees excited as they countdown the days, and up today is our preview of the festival’s first full day of entertainment. Recently we caught up with Download Senior Booker…
Three brand new headliners for Download 2025! For the first time since 2010 the Download Festival has an entirely fresh set of headliners for the Donington faithful to enjoy. With punk rock legends Green Day making their Download bow on Friday night, the mysterious phenomenon of Sleep Token on Saturday and nu metal icons KoRn…
It’s time once again for a new installment of the Rock Sins Weekly Playlist! Your regular source for the best new singles in the world of alternative music is back with another selection of new tunes, covering everything from post-metal to pop punk! This time out we have new singles from the likes of Jimmy…
Jimmy Eat World deliver their anthemic single Something Loud in acoustic form alongside a companion video. The original track was released back in June and continues to gain momentum on streaming platforms and radio across America. On this acoustic version lead singer and guitarist Jim Adkins went broader in his musical contributions. In addition to…
Our elder emo senses were tingling as we made our way to Brixton’s 02 Academy to see Jimmy Eat World supported by The Get Up Kids. This gig is 3 years in the making and one sweltering night in the capital is ready for Arizona natives. Rock Sins photographer Nick Allan was there to take…
After three years of the festival circuit being put on hiatus, it was finally time for 2000Trees to join the likes of Download Festival and welcome everybody back. With lots of re-booked bands from the cancelled line-ups, the festival was announced to be a sell-out, just a week before it all got underway. With the…
They’ve only been back a week and they’re headlining festivals! My Chemical Romance have been announced as headliners for the 2020 Download Festival Australia next March. My Chemical Romance top an impressive line up that also includes high spots on the bill for Jimmy Eat World, Deftones, In Flames, Testament, Ministry, Clutch, Carcass and Alestorm….
With our review of Jimmy Eat World’s last album, 2016’s Integrity Blues, Rock Sins spoke about how it was a good album but every time it tried to make the leap from good to great it was let down by its inconsistencies. Three years later, Jimmy Eat World have returned with their new album Surviving….
After our Spotify playlist being quiet for awhile, we’re back with a bang. Twenty fresh songs for you all to enjoy, and a real mix of brand new stormers and old favourites. For newly released albums and EP’s, we’ve got tracks from Bring Me The Horizon, Swallow The Sun, Fever 333 and Frank Turner. For…
Original emo favourites Jimmy Eat World are returning to the UK and will link up with Frank Turner early next year. The Arizona band will join the folk-punk singer-songwriter and his backing band, the Sleeping Souls, at shows in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Bournemouth, Cardiff and London, where they’ll perform at Alexandra Palace on February 3….
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…
