San Francisco decided to jump into the festival mix early Tuesday, when the lineup for the sixth annual Outside Lands Music And Arts Festival was announced.  Sir Paul McCartney will headline along side Nine Inch Nails and the Red Hot Chili Peppers the weekend of August 9th through the 11th at Golden Gate Park. Other notable acts include Phoenix, Willie Nelson, Kurt Vile and The Violators, Gary Clark Jr (shocker), Young The Giant, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Band Of Horses, Fishbone and Grizzly Bear.   No ... Read More

Dizzy Wright has been grinding and paying these dues for years and he is about to come and set YOUR TOWN on fire!! The Funk Volume artist is on the Kottonmouth Kings tour along side Deuce, Snow The Product and Eskimo Callboy. Judging from the post on Dizzy's facebook, these shows have been going off. Dizzy has recently released a new E.P " The First Agreement " on Funk Volume Records. You can find it right here, and be sure to check out ... Read More

Monday, the recently reunited Black Sabbath announced four tour dates on North American soil, with stops in New Jersey, Toronto, Washington and LA. The good news about this: besides fans getting to see the newly single Ozzy along with Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi live in person, two of these four venues they'll play are awesome. The Gorge in George, WA is the closest thing to heaven us satan worshiping souls will ever get, plus the PNC Bank Arts Center in Homdel, NJ is always ... Read More

Death To All is a tribute tour to Chuck Schuldiner, frontman for the band Death who passed away in 2001 due to brain cancer. He is the the father of the metal genre we now know as "Death Metal". He is one of the greatest guitarists of all time as well as one of the biggest icons/names in metal and has influenced many guitarists that came after him. This show helps keep his memory alive. The tour is also a benefit show ... Read More

Shreveport, Louisiana gypsy, punk, country, grumble, boogie band Dirtfoot are taking to the fans to help fund their newest album, literally being recorded as this is being typed at Blade Studios in Shreveport and being produced by Brady Blade. Dirtfoot is currently in an incredibly exciting evolution stage... it actually began when Nathan Woods joined in 2011 and added electric bass to the mix. Then last Summer longtime drummer Lane Bayliss retired and they picked up a rock drummer by the name of ... Read More

Even though no one is topping the charts, some of these bands are at the top of my music stack. Because is because. Sound check timing at the prop of the door, interestingly enough to be one of the few first fans to catch a glimpse at The Meat Puppets warm up sessions, encountered at the Rochester stop. With house sounds leveled to the root of the birds eye to "the point of distraction". Wondering answers of bands ... Read More

What can I say, I could probably end my concert going career after seeing one of the greats Shirley Manson, she is the core of every girl fronted rock band that has came along today. For me she was one of the first female fronted bands that I started listening to years ago. Garbage was formed in Wisconsin in 1994, and honestly I can't remember what I was doing in 1994, but I do know when Shirley started singing "I'm only happy when ... Read More

Jerry Cantrell has abandoned all of his long hair brothers and sisters and cut his locks. That my friends is a damn shame. What's not a shame, is Alice In Chains have a new record coming out soon, and have begun their trip around the late night circuit. Last night was Jimmy Kimmel, where the band performed "Stone" off the forthcoming album 'The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here". Check out the video of that below: Alice In Chains - Stone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNZPr4Mvhkc Read More

Jay-Z is the latest of festival curators to announce the lineup via an annoying Spotify playlist. Right as the ink is dry on the sale of his shares in the New Jersey Brooklyn Nets, the rapper/sports agent announced that Made In America Festival will be returning to Philly this Labor Day Weekend. Big names include Nine Inch Nails, Queens Of The Stone Age and Beyonce`. Other acts on the stupid Spotify playlist signifying their spots at this festival include Phoenix,  The Gaslight Anthem, Kendrick ... Read More

Meat Puppets  -  04/04/13 Mercury Lounge - New York City Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks Back to places familiar to this guy as the Meat Puppets graced the Mercury Lounge tonight completing a back to back stint in New York City. If you've been following us here at Concert Confessions, you've read the documented tales of the band ripping through Lancaster and New Hope. Who would have thought that those shows wouldn't have even began to prepare me on what was going to take place here ... Read More

Performances like these are the reason why David Letterman isn't rumored to be replaced by anybody. Wednesday evening, The Flaming Lips stopped by the Ed Sullivan Theater and got totally weird. Wayne cradling the baby in his arms says it all... They performed "The Terror", and you can check that performance out below: http://youtu.be/ng-9vMA1moY Read More

Meat Puppets- 04/02/2013 John And Peters - New Hope, Pennsylvania Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks We're gonna put this in the first 25 words because it's that important: John and Peters in New Hope is the most amazing place in the world! This little place on a little street in a little town, the perfect way to dive into our 2nd night of seeing the Meat Puppets. It's this tiny bar with a sliding door leading 3 steps down to the basement in the back with ... Read More

Meat Puppets -  04/01/2013 Chameleon Club - Lancaster, PA Words/Photos/Videos - Jay Porks Opening Day. Fresh cut grass, blue skies and Baseball. It is indeed the foundation of America. Today is a different kind of Opening Day for this guy, as it's the first of four consecutive nights to be spent with my desert punk legend buddies, The Meat Puppets. They've got a new record coming out, Rat Farm, this month and all reports are that the first few shows of this Rat Farm tour ... Read More

Alight folks here we go. Lollapalooza 2013 has revealed it's full lineup. We debated sharing the headliners with you when they broke a few weeks ago (  Phoenix, The Postal Service, The National, the Killers, Mumford & Sons and Vampire Weekend). We decided to wait for the full lineup, and it turned out alright. In the artists we care about after giving the lineup a quick skim category we list these folks: Queens of the Stone Age, Nine Inch Nails ,The Cure, Ghost(not calling them B.C.!),Kendrick Lamar, ... Read More

The Metal Alliance tour was phenomenal. This took place at the world famous House of Blues in Hollywood, Ca. The lineup consisted of thrash metal legends Anthrax, Exodus, High on Fire, Municipal Waste, and Holy Grail. Due to the show starting so early and obviously short on time from coming home from work from a traffic jam because of an accident plus driving to LA which there was another accident on the road, I missed all the bands except for Exodus and Anthrax. Right ... Read More

What a show, when you start a review with 'what a show' for me it means I'm hurting beyond belief. I've been to some rough shows in my concert going career, but when a venue doesn't use a "proper" rail in front of the stage, you pay the price, and I paid the price last night. This was my second time seeing In This Moment, and they never disappoint they always put on a good rock show, and this was no exception. Maria ... Read More

  As you know by now, not only is Black Flag back together, but there are TWO versions of Black Flag back together. One featuring original members Greg Ginn, Ron Reyes and Gregory Moore, calling themselves Black Flag. Then there's FLAG featuring Keith Morris, Chuck Dukowski,  Stephen Egerton and Bill Stevenson. Black Flag, not FLAG is the band this posts tour dates are concerning. Now that we've got that straightened out, the tour dates for Ginn, Reyes and Moore's Black Flag lay below. Black Flag ... Read More

Returning to Brooklyn taking place in Prospect Park May 17th through the 19th will be The Great GoogaMooga Festival. And the price is right: the Saturday and Sunday of this event can easily cost you Zero dollars if you choose to register between April 1st and 3rd with winners being selected on April 10th. You get to rock out to acts like The Darkness, The Flaming Lips, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sharon Van Etten, Matt & Kim and many many more. There's a good ... Read More

The last time I had the chance to see Scott Weiland perform was roughly ten years ago and he was the front man for a band called Velvet Revolver, a lot of things have changed within that ten years and overall Scott isn't the same performer he was with Velvet Revolver, he doesn't have Slash, or Duff to lean on, and he doesn't have the persona that he once had. The persona that commanded the stage, got the crowd into the performance, and ... Read More

We're at a point now where we cannot promise that this will be the last 90s nostalgic tour for this summer, but we can promise this was the big one last year. Summerland 2013! That's right I said it. "Last year's Summerland was a blast," Everclear frontman Art Alexakis said in a statement. "This year, we've brought a decidedly edgier flavor bill to satisfy all of the fans of Nineties rock & roll out there.  It's going to be an amazing summer night every ... Read More

Okay West Coast, put away your cameras and don't you dare try to take a pictures- Prince is coming to your side of the country. The Purple People Eater will make his way through your town beginning in April with two night/four show runs in Vancouver, Seattle, San Francisco, Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego and Anaheim.  For all of those dates, just click your mouse and scroll down a bit. Prince West Coast Tour Dates: 04/15 – Vancouver, BC // The Vogue (Early Show) 04/15 – ... Read More

Like we said on Monday, that Summerland 2013 announcement isn't coming to save our summers (Spoke too soon, check out the Summerland 2013 Lineup here). So your choices for 90s throwback tours are down to a few now. You have the Last Summer On Earth Tour and now you have Mark McGrath's 'Under The Sun' traveling 90s circus.  Gin Blossons, Fastball, Smashmouth and Vertical Horizon round out the list of acts, as word on the street is that McGrath and Art Alexakis of Everclear ... Read More

Monday night, Killer Mike took to the stage on David Letterman. If you follow Killer Mike on twitter, you were definitely aware that it happening. If you're the guy writing this, you're glad Killer Mike tweeted out a link to the video of this so he could set his alarm forward a few minutes tomorrow morning. Anyway, check out the video of the performance for "Untitled" (which featured Scar and El-P ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4nF4d_H4PM Read More

Good news for fans of Metal everywhere, The 2013 Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival has announced the artists and dates that will keep heads swinging on both ends of the country this summer. Rob Zombie will headline and play along side Amon Amarth, Mastodon, Five Finger Death Punch while Children of Bodom, Behemoth, Battlecross and Machine Head will occupy the rest of your festival day. Check out the dates below, along with a announcement video that every festival seems to be doing these ... Read More

For those of us waiting on a Summerland 2013 lineup announcement, well, we can't promise that it is in fact coming. But, if you want to check the engine of the 90s with your dipstick, we just might have the concert tour for you.  The Last Summer On Earth 2013 tour features Barenaked Ladies, Ben Folds Five and Guster traveling the country hitting all your favorite outdoor venues. For the dates, just check below. Some of which don't include Guster and some not ... Read More

Dessa, A. Wolf and Her Claws, Farout and Dj Mahf Words/Photo's by BeezNutzSTL Each year thousands of artist converge on Austin, Tx for the annual South By Southwest Music Festival. Many of them book shows throughout the midwest en route to the Music Fest each year. This year Dessa announced a show at The Firebird in St. Louis, and I made sure I had that night off. The day started off rainy, and very gloomy, a normal wet and cold St. Louis afternoon. My ... Read More