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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rock Fest, largest rock and camping event in US, turns 31
Rock Fest is ready to bring another stellar lineup of rock to audiences next week. Described on its webpage as 'Our Motherfest'n Reunion,' the festival promises three days of rock favorites as well as up-and-coming musicians. Headlining on Thursday is Rob Zombie in his return to Rock Fest. When not making films, Zombie is best known for horror and sci-fi themes in his music and is best known for songs like 'More Human than Human' and 'Creature of the Wheel.' Friday brings heavy-metal fan favorite Five Finger Death Punch, known for songs like 'Remember Everything' and 'Wash It All Away.' Metal band Bad Omens hits the stage in Cadott on Saturday, known for the songs 'Just Pretend' and 'The Worst in Me.' There will also be a 'Bonus Bash,' featuring bands that include Drowning Pool, Born of Osiris, A Killer's Confession, Convictions and Left on Red. 'This will be our 31st rendition of Rock Fest, so it'll be a big year,' said Rock Fest promoter Wade Asher. 'We changed our branding a little bit and gave it a new and refreshed look, but we still have that nature of Rock Fest that everybody loves and knows. 'Rock Fest is about the music — that's the number one thing for us. It's an incredible lineup, with Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch and Bad Omens. It's just really well lined-up this year.' This isn't to say, of course, that music will be all that will be taking place at the festival grounds. 'There's going to be a full tournament-style kickboxing event that's going to be on site,' explained Asher. The WFC tournament is said to feature over 100 fighters. He explained that there will also be photo ops, art installations, and more. 'There will be different activities that are going to be onsite that you normally wouldn't see anywhere,' said Asher. The event started about seven years after its country cousin, Country Fest, back in 1994. It was at that point specifically more for classic rock, said Asher, with the first Rock Fest attracting the likes of Eddie Money, REO Speedwagon and Cheap Trick. The festival has since evolved into the behemoth it currently is, which is now the largest rock and camping event in the country. In the last few years, Rock Fest has feature well-known names in the industry such as Jelly Roll, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Slipknot, Alice in Chains, Mötley Crüe, Korn, KISS and Pantera. Despite the rock-heavy lineup in each Rock Fest, Asher stated he thinks it's an asset to the festival to include artists outside the genre when making the lineup each year. 'We try to get a bit multi-genre and dabble in other stuff as well,' he said. 'We have Ja Rule this year, for instance. We had Ice Cube one year; we had Snoop Dog in another. We want to give the fans just something a little bit more than they would expect.' Asher takes pride in being able to bring some of the biggest names of music to a part of the country that might surprise some of the uninitiated. 'It's definitely a destination festival — that's for sure, in the middle of nowhere. They say they count as many cows on their way out here as they do people when they get here,' he said with a laugh. 'But it feels pretty good — we've built an infrastructure over time, and now artists call us to come play, even the headliners. They know they're going to have a good day and the fans are going to be great. It's evolved into something special — something beyond my wildest dreams.' Solve the daily Crossword
Scoop
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Breakout Band Sleep Theory Release Debut Album 'Afterglow'
Breakout four-piece Sleep Theory —vocalistCullen Moore, guitaristDaniel Pruitt, bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt— have released theireagerly awaiteddebut album,Afterglow, via Epitaph Records. The album offers astunning display of diverse rock flavors andwas produced by David Cowell andmixed by Zakk Cervini (Bring Me The Horizon, Bad Omens, Architects). To celebrate the release, Sleep Theory havealso shared the video for 'Gravity.' The song, with its pop-inspiredbounce, heady grooves, generously sprinkled synths, and Moore's soulful, arena-sized voice, is about the winners and losers who keep playing the game of love. "'Gravity' is really just a classic R&B story— it's about that real chemistry you sometimes feel with someone, even when the timing's not perfect," Moore explains. "I wanted it to feel confident, a little flirty, and very 2000s — something that could've played in the background of a scene in a throwback movie." He yanks the curtain back a little more, saying, "'Gravity'actually came together back in 2021, before we even knew we were going to do a full album.I wasn't thinking in terms of a big project yet — I was just writing whatever felt good at the time.A big inspiration was the song 'No Guidance'by Chris Brown and Drake. It had this smooth, confident energy that really stuck with me. I wanted 'Gravity' to have a similar vibe — something that feels cool and effortless but still has emotion behind visually, I was thinking of that same kind of late night, moody feel." In other Sleep Theory news, the album's lead single 'Stuck In My Head,' ascended to the No. 1 spoton the Active Rock radio charts —a first for the band! The single "Static" is currently at No. 19 on the activerock charts, the album's fourthsingle to appear in the Top 20. All told, Sleep Theory have accumulated 350million streams across 10 singles in their brief but blockbuster career thus far. Sleep Theory combineenergetic hard rock and metalcore, alongside the powerhouse vocalist Cullen Moore. Praised by Jelly Roll and David Draiman, they've toured with Shinedown, Falling In Reverse, and Beartooth. In under two years, they became the fifth most-played artist on Active Rock thePaper HeartsEP merge heavy rock with pop and R&B, producing anthemic bangers and emotional ballads. Saluted byRevolver, Loudwire, and Amazon Music as an Artist to Watch in 2025, they've become one of heavy music's biggest breakouts. WithAfterglow, the quartetprovesready to ascend to the next level. Sleep Theory deliver the dynamic, heavy bounce and massive vocal hooks that the rock world desperately needs. Moore is a powerhouse singer who outmatches nearly all his peers, recalling the most classic and timeless pop, R&B, and rock 'n' roll vocalists of the last several decades. Sleep Theory push themselves creatively at every turn, catapulting the genre to new sonic heights.
Forbes
04-04-2025
- Climate
- Forbes
A Meteorologist's Surprise Role In Sleep Token's New Single ‘Caramel'
If you watch the news on Raleigh, North Carolina station WRAL, you might hear some unusual utterances woven into Chris Michaels' Saturday morning weather forecast. And if you're a fan of the band Sleep Token, you might recognize the words as lyrics from the group's new single 'Caramel,' which dropped Friday. Michaels, a pop-punk drummer and avid fan of the U.K. alternative metal band, has an unusual connection to the song — Sleep Token asked him to help generate buzz for it using his go-to professional tools, a weather map and weather data. How did a North Carolina weatherman end up on the PR team for a massively popular metal band? Much to the meteorologist's shock and delight, the band contacted him on TikTok after noticing that the guy who dubs himself a METALorologist has, for the past two years or so, occasionally snuck lyrics from rock and metal bands into his forecasts, for fun and out of his lifelong love of music. Michaels has creatively folded in lines from Bad Omens, A Day to Remember, Dream Theater and Creed ('We would welcome some weather with 'arms wide open'') when talking about climate events from tropical storms to heatwaves. During one March forecast, he mentioned a 'dark day for your solstice' and warned of 'winds that started from within,' tapping lyrics from Sleep Token hit 'Emergence,' which that topped both the No. 1 Billboard Hot Hard Rock charts and iTunes earlier this year. Sleep Token formed in London in 2016, releasing its first single 'Thread the Needle' the same year. Its members wear masks to remain anonymous, calling themselves Vessel, II, III, and IV. Michaels was stunned to learn Sleep Token wanted him to collaborate on the 'Caramel' rollout. 'I almost dropped my phone when the person on the other end was talking about that,' he says in an Instagram behind-the-scenes video explaining how the experience unfolded. He posted his first 'Caramel'-related video on March 27. In it, he stands in front of a monitor displaying the Sleep Token logo as 'Emergence' lyrics play. The message 'Prepare 3/29' flashes across the screen. On the morning of March 29, Michaels followed up with another video, this time captioned 'Developing. 3/31.' In it, he stands before the kind of map WRAL uses to show where storms will hit, only this time names of cities had certain letters blurred out. Fans quickly noticed that when combined, the hidden letters spell 'Caramel.' A third clue appeared on March 31: a map from the North Carolina State Climate Office showing the average last freeze in Durham and Goldsboro as April 4, the release date of the new single. While some viewers have accused Michaels of using Sleep Token for social media clicks, far more Sleep Token fans have thanked him for his fun, creative efforts that got them guessing. 'Though there was one more puzzle piece that we never got to show, I'm honored to have been a part of this project with a band who's been one of my favorites since 2021,' Michaels said in a news story posted by WRAL. 'To blend my two loves, weather and music, is something I will never forget.' Scrolling through the lyrics of 'Caramel,' it's hard to imagine which ones might make it into Michael's Saturday forecast. For Raleigh's sake, let's hope the weekend forecast doesn't include a 'beautiful nightmare.'
