Turnstile hit The Electric Factory at Philadelphia’s This Is Hardcore Fest in 2015 just months after dropping their debut full-length ‘Nonstop Feeling’, and the result is a sweat-drenched, high-velocity document of a band already operating at full force, with stage dives, singalongs, and a packed crowd locked into every groove-driven, melodically charged, hardcore-punk riff they threw out. Filmed by famed hardcore videographer hate5six, it’s a sharp and visceral look at a band on the rise.
Video: Queens of the Stone Age Unleashed the Full Force of ‘…Like Clockwork’ at Paris’s Zénith in 2013
Queens of the Stone Age hit Paris’s Zénith in 2013 with ‘…Like Clockwork’ freshly out and riding a Billboard 200 number one, and Josh Homme, Troy Van Leeuwen, Michael Shuman, and Dean Fertita delivered a set that moved between the album’s darker, more layered material and catalog heavyweights with total precision, the kind of powerful, musically tight performance that has made this band one of the most formidable live acts in rock.
Lowest of the Low Bring ‘Shakespeare My Butt’ to Fallsview Casino This November
Lowest of the Low are heading to the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino on Saturday, November 21, 2026, for a full performance of their landmark debut album ‘Shakespeare My Butt’, celebrating its 35th anniversary. Junkhouse joins as very special guest. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 24 at 10:00am through ticketmaster.ca.
‘Shakespeare My Butt’ became the best-selling independent release in Canadian history at the time of its release, and Chart Magazine placed it in the top 10 of the Top 100 Canadian Albums of All Time in 1996, 2000, and again in 2005. The album earned Gold certification in 2008, the same year Lowest of the Low were inducted into the Canadian Indie Rock Hall of Fame. Hits include “Rosey and Grey,” “Bleed a Little While Tonight,” “Salesmen, Cheats and Liars,” and “Subversives.”
“This is a band our guests have been eager to see,” said Cathy Price, Vice President of Marketing and Resort Operations at Niagara Casinos, “and we’re excited to bring them to the OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino.” The band built their reputation on joyous live shows, sharp wordplay, razor-edged hooks, and harmonies that hit every time. Hearing ‘Shakespeare My Butt’ performed in full is going to be something special.
Show Details:
Lowest of the Low with Very Special Guest Junkhouse
Saturday, November 21, 2026
8:00pm
OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino
CMA Fest Presented by SoFi Adds New Performers to Its Massive June Lineup in Nashville
CMA Fest presented by SoFi runs June 4 through 7 in Nashville, and the Country Music Association has just revealed another wave of performers joining an already packed four-day festival. From Platform Stage rising stars at Nissan Stadium to free daytime sets across multiple outdoor stages, the additions stretch across every corner of the event. Tickets are on sale now at CMAfest.com.
Inside Nissan Stadium, the Platform Stage will feature Emily Ann Roberts, The Jack Wharff Band, Kaitlin Butts, Kat Luna, Laci Kaye Booth, Maggie Antone, Scoot Teasley, Vincent Mason, Willow Avalon, and Zach John King. Clay Walker, Jo Dee Messina, Rhett Akins, and Sara Evans will open the nightly stadium shows, with Caylee Hammack performing the national anthem on Thursday night.
The free outdoor stages bring their own energy. Brandon Lake headlines Cowboy Church at the Chevy Riverfront Stage on Sunday morning, while CeCe opens the stage Thursday with the national anthem. The Dr Pepper Amp Stage welcomes Filmore on Friday and Gabriella Rose and Nappy Roots on Sunday. MŌRIAH joins the Chevy Vibes Stage on Thursday, Love and Theft on Sunday, and the Wrangler Remix Stage adds Omer Netzer on Saturday and MORGXN on Sunday.
SoFi and Kelsea Ballerini have also launched the Amplify Your Ambitions contest, offering a $200,000 grand prize and two $50,000 runner-up prizes for emerging artists. Submissions are open now through April 30, with three finalists performing at an intimate Nashville concert on June 4, where the grand prize winner will be announced by a panel of judges and public vote.
CMA Fest will be filmed for a national television special airing on ABC and Hulu this summer, executive produced and written by Robert Deaton and directed by Alan Carter. The festival has drawn an estimated 95,000 daily attendees and has been running since 1972, making it the longest-running country music festival in the world. A portion of proceeds supports music education initiatives nationwide through the CMA Foundation.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s Record-Breaking MASA Tour Hits Theaters With ‘American YoungBoy’
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s concert film ‘American YoungBoy’ is in theaters nationwide today, April 22, and it’s the full story of one of the most significant tours in recent hip-hop history. The film documents last year’s ‘Make America Slime Again’ Tour across 42 sold-out arena shows, with stage footage, fan energy, backstage moments, and a candid look into YoungBoy’s personal life. Tickets are on sale now at americanyoungboy.com.
The ‘Make America Slime Again’ Tour broke the record for the highest-grossing debut headlining tour by a rapper, and The New York Times named it the number one music moment of 2025. YoungBoy is the most-streamed artist in the world, the most RIAA-certified rapper in history, and the only hip-hop artist to debut three consecutive number one albums. ‘American YoungBoy’ gives fans rare access to an artist who, despite his massive reach, remains intensely private.
Creatively directed by Nico Ballesteros and produced and distributed by Foundation Media Partners in partnership with YoungBoy’s own production company 38 Heights Film and Productions, the film premieres on 1,000 screens nationwide. 38 Heights is powered by Kyle Montana Claiborne, Antoine Fee Banks, and Alex Junnier, marking YoungBoy’s formal entry into filmmaking and visual storytelling.
Alex Zhang Hungtai’s Ambitious Double Album ‘Orion/Mother’ Arrives June 19
Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced ‘Orion/Mother’, a new double album due June 19 on American Dreams, and he’s sharing two lead singles today to mark the occasion. “Sidewinder,” the opener from ‘Orion’, and the title track from ‘Mother’ are both out now, each exploring what Zhang describes as “the primordial state within the unconscious that leads to a confrontation with what is unspoken and hidden.”
The New York-based Taiwanese-Canadian artist, musician, and actor built the project by revisiting home recordings made with some of the city’s finest improvisers, then composing over them using Ableton to cut and match sessions together. The collaborators include percussionist Che Chen, Korean gong resonator and experimentalist Leo Chang, clarinetist Madison Greenstone, flautist Laura Cox, cellist Lester St. Louis, noise artist Kwami Winfield, and tap dancer Melissa Almaguer.
Zhang improvised on trumpet over live samples of those chopped sessions, with the instrument becoming, in his words, the “grounding force” and conceptual narrator of the entire record. The whole thing was written and recorded over two intensive weeks at a New York rehearsal space during a period of personal transition. “The major contributor to the completion of this double album,” he says, “is the removal of doubt.”
The music moves across a striking range of terrain, trumpet flying above thrumming electronics, navigating percussion strikes, communing with explosive sounds, and dissolving into silence. It’s the sound of an artist pulling unresolved fragments from his past into the present and building something entirely new from them. “The music,” Zhang says, “sounds like something that was dormant is starting to awaken.”
Zhang has spent years working outside easy categorization, releasing solo piano records, improvised music, and sound collage work since retiring his Dirty Beaches moniker in 2016. His parallel career as an actor and film scorer has taken him from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return to composing the soundtrack for Hlynur Pálmason’s acclaimed Godland. ‘Orion/Mother’ is his second project of 2026 and one of the year’s most compelling releases.
‘Orion/Mother’ Tracklist:
Orion
01 “Sidewinder”
02 “Nataraja”
03 “Shadow Integration”
04 “Orion”
05 “Tannhauser Gate”
Mother
01 “Kali”
02 “Mother”
03 “Earth Orbit”
04 “American Burial”
05 “Tuğçe”
Video: Korn Turned Summer Breeze Open Air Into 40,000-Person Controlled Chaos
Korn headlined Summer Breeze Open Air in Dinkelsbühl, Germany on July 16, 2017, closing out a massive day that also featured Parkway Drive and Powerwolf in front of 40,000 people. With Brian “Head” Welch back in the fold alongside James “Munky” Shaffer, the dual 7-string guitar attack was locked in and relentless, anchored by Fieldy’s bass and Ray Luzier’s drums while Jonathan Davis pushed the emotional intensity to the limit. They ran through “Blind,” “Freak on a Leash,” “Got the Life,” “Coming Undone,” “Here to Stay,” and “Falling Away from Me,” a setlist that hit the full weight of their catalog and turned the festival grounds into pure mayhem.
Video: Grammy-Winning Country Powerhouse Keith Urban Lights Up SXSW at the iTunes Festival
Keith Urban brought his country rock firepower to the iTunes Festival at SXSW in Austin in 2014, and the result was a high-energy set that showcased both his vocal range and his reputation as one of the most formidable guitarists in the genre. Urban moved fluidly between heartfelt ballads and full-throttle anthems, with his guitar work front and center throughout. It’s a sharp, compelling document of an artist completely in his element on a major stage.
Watch Queens of the Stone Age Deliver a Ferocious Desert Rock Set at Reading Festival 2014
Queens of the Stone Age hit the Reading Festival stage in 2014 riding the momentum of ‘…Like Clockwork’, their critically acclaimed 2013 record, and delivered a set that moved between brutal power and hypnotic groove with total command. Josh Homme led the band through “You Think I Ain’t Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire,” “No One Knows,” “Little Sister,” “Go With the Flow,” “I Sat by the Ocean,” and “Smooth Sailing,” a lineup that balanced catalog heavyweights with fresh material and hit hard from the first note.
Video: Lenny Kravitz Tears Through a Five-Song Firecracker Set at the iHeartRadio Music Festival
Lenny Kravitz opened the 2023 iHeartRadio Music Festival at Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena on September 22, and he wasted no time. He launched with a scorching cover of The Guess Who’s “American Woman,” then drove straight into “Fly Away,” “It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over,” “Believe,” and “Again” before closing the whole thing down with “Are You Gonna Go My Way.” Five songs, full throttle, no filler.