Initial Details Announced For Dia De Los Toadies 2012 The initial details for the 2012 Dia De Los Toadies have been announced. The 5th annual music festival put on by the Toadies will take place August 31st-September 1st at the Whitewater Amphitheatre in New Braunfels Texas. For the first time ever, Dia De Los Toadies will feature artists who don’t call Texas home. Those artists include Helmet (who will share co-headlining duties with the Toadies this summer) and Mariachi El Bronx. Other artists set ... Read More

Lisa Marie Presley Brings 'Over Me' to Jimmy Kimmel Live Lisa Marie Presley performed last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. We are going to rip off Tosh.0 and put 30 seconds on the clock: Tom Petty called he wants the outfits from the Don’t Come Around Here No More video back. Not even Jack White can make this listenable. This went way better than her audition for Dancing With The Stars. When does she start singing? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5g5p3-Rvgs&list=UUa6vGFO9ty8v5KZJXQxdhaw&index=3&feature=plcp Yeah these were all rather lame but this performance is so bad ... Read More

Watch Garbage's Entire Webster Hall Show (New York City May 22nd 2012) I'm getting old. In previous years, a guy like myself would have made his way into the city earlier this evening to catch Garbage destroy Webster Hall.  But that wasn't the case as this writer not only wasn't in the building, but was admittedly asleep for the entire duration of the Webcast courtesy of MTV HIVE. Fate is a funny thing. You ever fall asleep early and wake up like 3Am with absolutely ... Read More

Mr. Sparkly's 2012 Sasquatch! Festival Must-See List   It’s that time of year again. The 2012 Sasquatch! Music Festival is right around the corner. Like most of the other 20,000 people heading to the Gorge Amphitheatre this Memorial Day Weekend, I am busy packing my camping gear and buying supplies in anticipation for a fun-filled weekend in central Washington State. However, I thought I’d take some time and share my top ten must-see acts for this year’s festival. 10) Starfucker Starfucker makes the number 10 spot for ... Read More

Peter Gabriel Celebrates 25 Years of 'So' With North American Tour When I was in Junior High we had a new kid show up in 7th grade. He was from upstate New York and he looked a lot like Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts. Kids being kids were cruel to him even after I passed him the “puck” that ended up being the game winning goal for our quarter of “street hockey” in PE. I tried to be nice because let’s be ... Read More

Slash & Myles Kennedy Bring "You're A Lie" To Fallon I know, I know. Every time Slash appears on some Late Night TV show performing I'm always here sharing the video.  It's just that I never get to see him live, the shows always sell out in 5 minutes, or they're on sale weeks I'm broke as sh!t. So, I try to get my fill in when I can. That said, below is the video from last nights episode of Late Night With Jimmy ... Read More

So to save some time, we'll tell you who's playing at Austin City Limits in one word: EVERYBODY. Every single act(besides Jay-Z and Pearl Jam.. so far at least) is on this list. From headliners Red Hot Chili Peppers, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, The Black Keys and Jack White to Iggy and The Stooges(in which Mike Watt Plays Bass) and Florence + The Machine. Weezer has come out of hiding for this one as well. Childish Gambino continues to take over ... Read More

Jay-Z Set To Curate Made In America Music Festival Jay-Z has a lot of stuff. He has a basketball team, he has 99 Problems, an album with Kanye West and of course a baby with Beyonce. Now Jay-Z has a music festival.  This two day music event will take place in Philadelphia on September 1st and 2nd and will feature a diverse lineup spread across three stages. Some of the highlights include D’Angelo, Dirty Projectors and Pearl Jam. It will be known as ... Read More

Mick Jagger, Foo Fighters & Arcade Fire Hit SNL Stage It's tough these days to try to be one of these "online rock journalist" dudes when I can't stand any moment in time when Dave Grohl isn't behind a drum kit. But, I've been muzzled from making fun of things that the mass majority of people like, so that will be my only dig I promise. Anyway, tonight Saturday Night Live completed it's 37th Season, and the finale featured a slew of big ... Read More

Danny Barnes and Wayne Gottstine Announce New Project, SPLIT LIVERS; Set To Take Midwest By Storm Bluegrass Fans - UNITE! It’s not everyday that you get the chance to see a man who changed the way an instrument is played team up with the mandolin player from one of the most unusual and diverse bands in the genre. Well boys and girls, the time has come for two masters of their craft, and two men with influences ranging from country to metal to ... Read More

Joseph Arthur Hits The Road In Support Of 'Redemption City' The fact is if he needed it, Reverend Justito would probably give Joseph Arthur a kidney. He loves the man and his art that much. Earlier this year, Arthur released the incredible double disc effort Redemption City and as we just discovered he hits the road today in Philly to support it. You can check out our extensive coverage of past Arthur shows by clicking here. You can check the dates for his ... Read More

Best Coast Play "The Only Place" On Letterman  I walked in from a night of Foxy Shazam and the first thing on TV when I walked in was Best Coast on Letterman. Funny, because we at Concert Confessions were just discussing the other day about how Best Coast are playing Orion Music + More Festival (that Metallica thing in Atlantic City) and how it's not going to take long for this chick (the singer in this band) get hit in the face with ... Read More

Watch Highlights of Phish Performing at Bonnaroo in 2009 A few days ago we told you about the exciting new Bonnaroo 365 YouTube channel. Now for one week, the channel will be airing nearly 90 minutes of footage of Phish from their 2009 appearance at the festival. You can check it out down below for yourself up till 05/22/12. If that is not enough of a Phish phix for ya, click here to check out our extensive coverage of the band. Read More

2012 Rock The Bells Festival Announce Dates and Lineup Information for the 2012 Rock The Bells Festival has been announced. The shows will be spread out over two days and will hit three major US markets (Bay Area, Southern California and Camden, NJ). Highlights of the festival include Method Man and Redman performing Blackout in its entirety, Immortal Technique, Deltron 3030, Salt N Pepa, Yelawolf and many more. Also worth the price of admission will be the only North American festival appearances of ... Read More

Willie Nelson Covers Pearl Jam On Jimmy Fallon It's been almost a year since I saw Willie Nelson in Spokane.  The legend himself in person. Hard to believe that weekend even happened.  So every time he's on TV or something I feel like I have to check it out, to sort of relieve the memories a little bit. So he stopped by 'Late Night', promoting his latest effort Heroes among other things. Hell I would go see him again in NJ tomorrow night ... Read More

Voodoo Music Experience 2012 Announces Details and Initial Artists  Last year we had a blast when we headed out to Voodoo Festival on a sunny Saturday afternoon in New Orleans. It’s a shame we can’t make it back this year as it appears the festival could be the best edition yet. Green Day and Neil Young and Crazy Horse have been announced as two of the headliners for the party in City Park. Also on the bill will be Justice, Tomahawk, AWOLNATION, K'naan ... Read More

Toadies and Helmet Team Up For Co-Headline Tour We have been excited for this one for a while. This summer, Toadies and Helmet are hitting the road for a co-headline tour of the United States. The trek will kick off July 20th in Houston Texas and both bands will be playing full headline sets. UME will serve as the opener and the tour is set to wrap up August 14th in Denver Colorado. To check out the latest single from the Toadies Summer ... Read More

Tenacious D Perform 'Roadie' on Letterman Easily entertained is how I would describe the majority of fans of music I run into. That being said, last night Tenacious D stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City to play a boring song to a crowd that loved it. Maybe it's because I don't find Jack Black funny in most of his flicks that I don't get this band. But I don't care if they brought John Bonham and Jimi Hendrix back from the dead ... Read More

Riot Fest 2012 Set To Hit Chicago September 14-16 This actually sounds really cool. It is called the Riot Fest and it is going down September 14-16 in Chicago. While the lineup tends to be rather heavy, one can’t notice such diverse acts as The Jesus and Mary Chain and Elvis Costello.  The event will take place at Humboldt Park and the Congress Theatre. The best part is that tickets start at $18 a day. Below is the full line up (as of ... Read More

Jane's Addiction Extends Theatre of the Escapists US Tour Keeping with the smaller is better approach, Jane’s Addiction have extended their ‘Theatre Of The Escapists’ tour with dates reaching into late May. The trek will focus mainly on markets in the southern portion of the United States with a portion of all ticket sales going to the Occupy Movement.   UPDATED: As of May 15th, Jane's have added a THIRD leg to this Theater of The Escapists Tour heading around the U.S. In August the ... Read More

Coachella Announces 2013 Dates and Presale Information Remember last Friday when we posted that image that the Coachella folks asked us to pass along? Not shocking at all, the announcement was that the 2013 festival will once again be two weekends. Those weekends will be April 12-14 and April 19-21 2013. Pre-sale tickets will go on sale on May 17th 2012 at 10 am PST. Click here to check out the official Coachella site for more pre-sale information.         Read More

The Black Keys Fall 2012 West Coast Tour Dates Having successfully rocked two weekends of Coachella last month, arena rockers The Black Keys will return to the West Coast this fall. The short trek will kick off in the meth infested central valley hotbed known as Fresno and will wrap in beautiful Las Cruses New Mexico a few days later. From there Patrick and Dan head off to the land down under. No word on who will support  Tegan and Sara will support ... Read More

Rocking Out With Mom - A Tribute To The Women Who Raised Us   A few months ago we had the bright idea to have some of your favorite confessors share tales of attending concerts with their Mother's. We hope you enjoy them and encourage you to share your own via the comment section. Happy Mother's Day to our Mom's and all the Mom's out there. Thank you for all that you do. Alexis (LexC666) When this "assignment" first got posted I thought, God people actually go ... Read More

Lamb of God, Dethklok and Gojira Team Up For North American Tour What more can we say? According to ThePRP Lamb of God, Dethklok and Gojira are teaming up for a late summer North American tour. This tour is going to be brutal as fuck and you can check out all the dates down below. We will update the post when we know more details but for now you can check out the dates below.   08/01 Seattle, WA – WaMu Thater 08/02 Vancouver, BC – Queen ... Read More

Coachella asked us to pass this on, so we are doing just that. But what does it all mean? Read More

The Wombats 'Jump Into The Fog' With Conan O'Brien Despite being almost 33, I will probably get grounded for this but it is so worth it. For a while in high school I started calling my Mother a Wombat. Not sure why really, probably because I was a dumb punk kid. She played along and even embraced the Wombat crossing sign I snuck into her truck at one point. So when I see this band, I automatically think of my Mother, which is ... Read More