Category Concert Reviews

(PCM) What started out as being one of the most promising festival line-ups this summer Carolina Rebellion came to an abrupt end on Sunday evening with performance cancellations of headliners Volbeat, Bush, Rise Against, and Soundgarden due to the inclement weather conditions in the North Carolina area. The situation left many fans in attendance, who braved the elements for hours, wet, muddy, and just plain disappointed as festival organizers scrambled to come up with a game plan, ultimately deciding the conditions were just too dangerous for both attendees and the performers to allow the show to continue.

In true Rebellion spirit, the frustrated crowd on Sunday started several chants such as “Rain Or Shine, Rain or Shine” tossing every imaginable object at the stage in efforts to ur...

(PCM) We were recently able to check out Sevendust’s absolutely blistering show at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia, PA. The band is on touring currently promoting their ninth studio album “Black Out The Sun” (our review here) and the Atlanta band scored their first-ever #1 on the Billboard charts, taking over the “Top Hard Music Albums” chart its first week out!

Sevendust never disappoint in the live atmosphere and they literally put on one of the loudest, most hard-rocking shows I have ever had the chance to attend. They absolutely tore the venue apart with their hypnotic stage presence and unyielding energy...

(PCM) Buckcherry’s new Confessions CD is available now via Century Media Records and we recently had a chance to catch up with Buckcherry front man Josh Todd at the Carolina Rebellion music festival in Concord, NC.

Confessions is Buckcherry’s sixth studio album and first U.S. release for Century Media Records. It was produced by Keith Nelson and Marti Frederiksen (Aerosmith, Ozzy Osbourne) and features eclectic CD artwork by graffiti artist Ewok. The songs on Confessions merge punk grit, gutter attitude, honest storytelling, and razor sharp hooks, while the lyrics are tied together by the underlying theme of the Seven Deadly Sins.

The album’s first single “Gluttony” is impacting Active Rock in the U.S. and is steady climbing...