With just over 6 weeks until the annual pilgrimage to the Hallowed Donington turf, the Download Festival 2023 team have two big bits of news; more bands, and the stage splits for this year’s festival! New additions include pop punk favourites State Champs, recently reformed emo/post-hardcore favourites Casey and Canadian hardcore punks and longtime friends…
The line up for Download Festival 2023 just got a hell of a lot bigger! Some huge names have been added to the already impressive set of bands playing Donington this Summer. With so many great bands joining the fun, it’s difficult to know where to start. So we’ll start with some favourites of ours…
Taking to the stage for the first of two huge sold out O2 Academy Brixton shows, Placebo proved themselves still one of the most exciting bands in rock with a setlist where material new and old shone. Matt Higgs captured it all – check out the photo gallery from the night below.
We were lucky enough to get to see My Chemical Romance on the last of their Milton Keynes dates at Stadium MK and as you’ll have seen from the tour announcements and posters they had a variety of special guests supporting them across the tour. Those attending all three Milton Keynes dates had the chance…
Placebo. Not a name we hear much these days, but maybe that’s about to change. Having not released an album since 2013’s Loud Like Love, the band have done some extensive touring both in support of that and a greatest hits record. When that finished, singer/guitarist Brian Molko and bassist Stefan Olsdal decided to hit…
It’s a new week which means we’re back with another playlist update for you all! There’s some brand new music from Pixies who still sounded as wonderful as they ever! A crushing new track from the Glasgwegian metal mob, Bleed From Within as well as another ever so anticipated song from Porcupine Tree. We’ve got…
For their huge twenty fifth anniversary edition, the Meltdown Festival which takes place at London’s famed Southbank Centre have invited legendary frontman of The Cure, Robert Smith, to help curate the festival. To put it mildly, he’s done rather well. Today’s first announcement of the line up for Meltdown Festival 2018 has a stunning array…
With Sonisphere 2010 at Knebworth now hours rather than days away, we at Rock Sins thought we’d take a little look at the UKs main challenger to Download and give you a bit of a preview of the line-up highlights in Sonisphere’s second year in the UK. Friday will bring lots of fun, games and…