Metal legends Judas Priest have announced their Invincible Shield Tour, with special guest Sabaton. Tickets are available at judaspriestinvincibleshield.com!
4/18 – Wallingford, CT – Toyota Oakdale Theatre
4/19 – Newark, NJ – Prudential Center
4/21 – Reading, PA – Santander Arena
4/24 – Bangor, ME – Cross Insurance Center
4/25 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway
4/27 – Youngstown, OH – Covelli Center*
4/28 – Indianapolis, IN – Everwise Amphitheater at White River
5/1 – Rosemont, IL – Rosemont Theatre
5/2 – Minneapolis, MN – The Armory
5/4 – Kalamazoo, MI – Wings Event Center*
5/5 – Maryland Heights, MO – St. Louis Music Park
5/7 – Huntsville, AL – VBC Propst Arena*
5/9 – Daytona, FL – Welcome To Rockville 2024^
5/11 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank Amphitheatre
5/12 – Mobile, AL – Mobile Civic Center Arena*
5/14 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
5/17 – Evansville, IN – Ford Center*
5/19 – Washington, DC – The Theater at MGM National Harbor
5/21 – Albany, NY – MVP Arena
5/22 – Syracuse, NY – Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview
Metalcore act Code Orange is touring in early 2024 with special guests Teenage Wrist and Soul Blind. Spy, Gridiron, and others to-be-announced will also be appearing on certain dates. You can grab tickets at codeorangetoth.com.
2/13 – Austin, TX – Emo’s Austin
2/14 – Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall
2/16 – New Orleans, LA – Toulouse Theatre
2/17 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East
2/18 – Birmingham, AL – Zydeco
2/20 – Atlanta, GA – Hell at The Masquerade
2/22 – Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
2/23 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage*
2/24 – Philadelphia, PA – Theatre of Living Arts*
2/25 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club*
2/27 – Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere
2/29 – Toronto, ON – The Opera House
3/1 – Detroit, MI – The Shelter
3/2 – Chicago, IL – Metro Chicago
3/3 – Minneapolis, MN – Varsity Theater
3/5 – Denver, CO – The Oriental Theater
3/6 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex
3/8 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon+
3/9 – Vancouver, BC – Commodore Ballroom+
3/10 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom+
3/12 – San Francisco, CA – The Independent+
3/13 – Sacramento, CA – Goldfield Trading Post Sacramento+
Rock band Mac Saturn will be headlining a North American tour in early 2024 in support of their new album, Hard to Sell, which will be released on January 26th. The 35-date run comes with support from alt-rock/indie pop trio The Thing With Feathers. You can get tickets at macsaturn.com – and bring your dancing shoes!
1/26 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit
1/27 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
1/28 – Toronto, ON – Velvet Underground
1/30 – Montreal, QC – Bar le Ritz PDB
1/31 – South Burlington, VT – Showcase Lounge
2/2 – Portland, ME – Portland House of Music
2/3 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
2/4 – Albany, NY – Empire Underground
2/6 – New York, NY – Gramercy Theatre
2/8 – Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
2/9 – Washington, DC – Union Stage
2/10 – Charlotte, NC – The Underground
2/12 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West
2/13 – Nashville, TN – Exit/In
2/15 – St. Louis, MO – Red Flag
2/16 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar
2/17 – Oklahoma City, OK – Beer City Music Hall
2/19 – Houston, TX – The Bronze Peacock at House of Blues
2/20 – Dallas Downtown, TX – The Cambridge Room at House of Blues
2/21 – Austin, TX – 3TEN ACL Live
2/23 – Tempe, AZ – Innings Festival 2024 (The Thing With Feathers will not be appearing.)
2/26 – San Diego, CA – Voodoo Room at House of Blues
2/27 – Los Angeles, CA – Echoplex
2/28 – Berkeley, CA – Cornerstone
3/1 – Seattle, WA – Barboza
3/2 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
3/4 – Boise, ID – 9th Street Parallel at Knitting Factory
3/5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court
3/8 – Denver, CO – Marquis
3/11 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line
3/12 – Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
3/13 – Chicago, IL – Bottom Lounge
3/15 – Indianapolis, IN – Old National Centre
3/16 – Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups
3/17 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection-The Stache
Update: Four new dates have been added! Check the list!
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, two legendary guitar virtuosos, are co-headlining a spring 2024 tour. The pair have been friends for over 50 years, but this is the first time they will tour as a duo-bill. Along with the tour announcement comes the news that Satch and Vai are planning a new musical collaboration!
Disturbed is kicking off another leg of the Take Back Your Life Tour in January. With them on this run will be Falling in Reverse and Plush. You can find tickets and VIP at disturbed1.com.
1/19 – Peoria, IL – Peoria Civic Center
1/22 – Grand Rapids, MI – Van Andel Arena
1/23 – Green Bay, WI – The Resch Center
1/25 – Des Moines, IA – Wells Fargo Arena
1/27 – Oklahoma City, OK – Paycom Center
1/29 – Omaha, NE – Chi Health Center
1/31 – Sioux Falls, SD – Denny Sanford Premier Center
Breaking Benjamin just announced an unplugged tour with an opening solo set by their guitarist Keith Wallen. Tickets and VIP are available at breakingbenjamin.com.
1/12 – Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
1/13 – Richmond, VA – The National
1/16 – Huntsville, AL – Mars Music Hall
1/17 – Birmingham, AL – Iron City
1/19 – Memphis, TN – Elvis Presley’s Memphis: Graceland Soundstage
1/20 – Fayetteville, AR – JJ’s Live
1/23 – Midland, TX – Wagner Noel Performing Arts Center
Joe Satriani and Steve Vai, two legendary guitar virtuosos, are co-headlining a spring 2024 tour. The pair have been friends for over 50 years, but this is the first time they will tour as a duo-bill. Along with the tour announcement comes the news that Satch and Vai are planning a new musical collaboration!
The Union Underground is offering up a trip back in time with their Back To The 2000s Tour, which features special guests Soil, Ra, and Flaw. This nu metal nostalgia party kicks off March 1st in San Antonio, Texas! Each band will be playing exclusive material from their most popular albums. Get your tickets and VIP now at national-acts.com!
I just spent six wonderful days with my brother and his wife in Colorado, and I am devastated to be back home. Well, actually, home isn’t the problem; work is. My job sucks, but I won’t whine here. I’m sure everyone has complaints about their places of employment. Lol.
Anyway, I flew to Colorado Springs last Monday. My brother (Rick) and his wife (Jayne) picked me up from the airport. We had lunch and drove to their house, where we watched “The Osbournes Want to Believe” and ate dinner. We crashed pretty early, and once I’d caught up on sleep, my vacation could fully begin.
Tuesday was relaxing. We got coffee and did a little sightseeing, including the Catholic cemetery in town, then binged “Outer Banks” and made these really delicious grilled cheese sandwiches with blueberry jalapeño jam, smoked cheddar, horseradish mustard, and caramelized strips of bacon. Yes, it was as good as it sounds. Then, we hauled ass down to this really small haunted house, because it was Halloween and we wanted to do something in honor of my favorite holiday.
Wednesday was exciting, as it was the day we traveled down to Albuquerque for the Wednesday 13 Performs Murderdolls concert. This was the main reason for my trip, though I extended it into a nice family visit instead of a two-day run for nothing but the show. I’m going to write a review of the concert, so I won’t go into details in this post. Let me just say it was worth the 4 hour flight and 3.5 hour drive. Meeting Wednesday 13 (and guitarist Roman Surman) was everything. I’ve been a fan of Murderdolls for 20 years, and I thought I might die. Haha! Wednesday could not have been nicer. I told him that he’d always been my favorite Murderdoll and he said “So give me a hug since I’m yours.” I melted. Oh, and he said it was obvious I wasn’t from New Mexico because of my accent.
Ok. I’ll stop. You can read the rest when I share my review.
Thursday was another lazy day. Rick smoked burgers for dinner and we watched TV. He and Jayne had to work on Friday, and I used that time to do an interview with Adam of EverFelt and bond with their cats.
Rick and I stayed up late, finishing season 3 of “Outer Banks.” When I got up Saturday morning, Jayne was at work and Rick had already found our first college football game of the day. Now, this may seem strange to y’all, but this was the thing I was most excited about, besides the concert. My brother and I haven’t been able to watch football together since he moved to Colorado. Our whole family are huge Alabama Crimson Tide fans, and this past weekend was a big game: Alabama played LSU. Jayne was bored, but Rick and I were happy, especially given that Alabama won.
And then it was Sunday and time for me to get on a plane and return to Alabama. I had two more days off work, which was lucky because I came home with the flu. Now I’m back in the swing of real life and I kind of hate it. Just counting the days until my next trip…
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