World famous Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker had a recent chit chat with the fellow at MTV News and leaked some information that the rockers would be traveling through Europe in August for festival appearances. The band has already been rumoured to be playing a slot at the UK dual event.
“We go to Europe in August for all the festivals… we do, like, six weeks out there, and then our album will come out probably early next year,” he explained.
Blink-182 seemed to have dropped the ball about a appearance at the Reading And Leeds Festivals this August. …

Yeah, another festival post. This one is actually for an amazing cause though, with some amazing bands!
NeverSayNever has been an ongoing festival which actually supports a not-profit organization. This year the festival will be benefiting the Haiti Relief Fund in collaboration the American Red Cross and UNICEF to help with relief efforts by donating 100% of total profits! With a lot of music industry collaborations with not-for-profits raising funds for the haiti relief funds, I think this festival is right up in the right alley!
The festival this year (March 17 …

The Bamboozle Festival is the mother of a tiny little festival named HoodWinkwhich features two days, one in california, and the other being in New Jersey. The bands listings have been announced for both days, alongside with the bands they will be covering. Should be interesting! Let’s hope the Jersey Shore cast is there on April 30th.
Here’s a detail of the both dates featured on HoodWink this year:
Taking place on March 26, 2010 in Anaheim, California and will feature such acts as:

The Maine covering Everclear
Say Anything covering The Misfits
Circa Survive covering …

Festivals and tours are the biggest thing for fans to look forward to across the world. With the new decade rounding the corner and festival season upon us, the competition is heating up in the UK with the new release of the Download Festival’s first set of bands being announced. Organizers have released the first draft of bands for the Donington Park three day event known as Download Festival.
Check out the bands, event information and dates by clicking on the image below.

Bamboozle 2010 has added 17 more artists performing at this year’s festival and they can be found below. Last week I made a post about the full list of bands to date on Bamboozle this year and they have just added more artists to the already extensive and impressive line up!
Here’s who’s been added to this year’s bamboozle since last week’s post!
Saturday May 1st:
Drake
Bullet for My Valentine
100 Monkeys
Bobby Long
Escape the Fate
Relient K
The Pretty Reckless
The Bled
Sunday May 2nd:
Motion City Soundtrack
88 Keys
Eye Alaska
Minus the Bear
Sean Price
Wale
Winston Audio
Wiz Khalifa
Also peforming a special set …