Active Rock

Billboard recently release their list of top 2016 albums and as you may expect, it’s chock filled with pop and hip hop albums. Have no fear though! The list includes a few of our favorite rock albums that we know and loved from this year. The 1975 had a huge 2016 and we see that confirmed with their album from this year making the chart. The album has quite possibly […]

The list of performers for Welcome to Rockville was recently announced and we’re in love with who is coming. The festival will occur in Jacksonville, Florida at the end of April, so prepare to be rocked next spring! The headliners for this event include A Perfect Circle, Def Leppard and Soundgarden. Others set to perform at this festival include Papa Roach, the Offspring, Mastodon, Three Days Grace, Pierce The Veil, […]

The Cold War Kids have recently announced a tour set for North America and they’ve really done a good job with this one. In March they’ll embark on a mini-tour of sorts that will stretch from South Carolina to Wisconsin to Toronto to Arkansas and beyond. In total there are 16 tour dates scheduled starting March 4 and ending March 24. Let’s take a look! 3/4 – Columbia, SC 3/5 […]

Recently, Apple Music released their year-end charts, showing us all who had the best 2016. The top 25 albums and songs were filled with hip-hop and pop stars, but there were plenty of rockers representing on the chart. Let’s take a look at how our favorites finished… The top rocker on the Top 25 Albums chart from Apple Music was “Blurryface” from Twenty One Pilots. This album had three major […]

Next May, we’re going to be heading to Somerset, Wisconsin to check out Northern Invasion, a great rock festival that you can’t miss. Just recently, the festival released the details to the festival and there are some big names heading to Wisconsin. Among the names playing at Northern Invasion are Kid Rock, Soundgarden, Papa Roach, Godsmack, Sum 41, the Struts, Rival Sons, Alter Bridge, the Pretty Reckless, Amon Amarth, Bush […]

Amy Lee is one of the best female musicians in the rock world and this week she turns a year older. This star from the band Evanescence turned 35 on Tuesday, which means she’s done plenty in the music world already right? Right! Amy has won two of her seven Grammy nominations, mainly with all of them revolving around her band’s hard rock music. At that award show she won […]

Everyone seems to be getting into the ugly Christmas sweater business these days and one of them to do so is Green Day. They have announced that you can purchase their “Revolution Radio” ugly sweater for a low cost of just $59.99. You can purchase the sweater here, but it’s currently in the pre-order stage. It will be released on December 16. Other stars who have gotten into the ugly […]