Paul McCartney, The Front Bottoms, Metallica, More To Play Lollapalooza 2020

Not even COVID-19 can kill Lolla.

On Tuesday, the Chicago based music festival stunned everyone when they revealed that Lollapalooza was still going down, but things are different this time around. Due to the coronavirus running rampant across the country, Lolla 2020 is going to be virtual, taking place Thursday, July 30, to Sunday, August 2, on YouTube. And yes, it’s gonna be free.

The lineup features a wide range of acts, such as The Cure, Porno For Pyros, Jane’s Addiction, Paul McCartney, LL Cool J, IDLES, The Front Bottoms, A$AP Rocky, Tenacious D, and Metallica. “Original live performances” will take place over the four-day event and will include artists like H.E.R., The Neighbourhood, Vic Mensa, Alison Wonderland, and Louis The Child. Check out the full lineup below.

Lolla 2020 will have special appearances from guests like former First Lady Michelle Obama, b-boy dancer Crazy Legs, Chuck D of Public Enemy, rapper PineappleCITI, and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

Created back in 1991, Lollapalloza originally was Jane’s Addiction’s farewell tour. The festival ran until 1997 and came back in 2003. 2004’s festival was cancelled but it came back annually in 2005. Artists who’ve played the festival in the past include Siouxsie And The Banshees, Pearl Jam, Archers Of Loaf, Beastie Boys, Hum, Devo, The Prodigy, Queens Of The Stone Age, Dashboard Confessional, The Reverend Horton Heat, Jack’s Mannequin, Kanye West, The Gaslight Anthem, Lady Gaga, The Pretty Reckless, At The Drive-In, Kendrick Lamar, Skrillex, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Third Eye Blind, Highly Suspect, CKY, and Ariana Grande.

Evanescence, Judas Priest, Tool, More To Play Welcome To Rockville 2019

Florida’s biggest rock ‘n’ roll festival is gonna be bigger than ever next year.

The 2019 Welcome To Rockville festival will take place in Jacksonville, Fla., at Metropolitan Park. Welcome To Rockville will be from Friday, May 3, to Sunday, May 5. Tickets go on sale Friday at noon est.

Alterative metal act Evanescence, English metal legends Judas Priest, and Los Angeles rock group Tool are headlining the festival along with KoЯn, The Prodigy, Rob Zombie, Shinedown, Incubus, and Bring Me The Horizon. Others set to play include Chevelle, Flogging Molly, Beartooth, Starset, Hands Like Houses, Dirty Honey, Skillet, Yelawolf, The Damned Things, High On Fire, Movements, Boston Manor, Papa Roach, Meshuggah, Fever 333, While She Sleeps, grandson, and The Dirty Nil.

Welcome To Rockville started in 2011 and has been expanding ever since. Originally the festival was a one day only show before expanding to two days in in 2013 and then the whole weekend in 2018. Bands who’ve played the festival in the past include The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Five Finger Death Punch, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chiodos, Hollywood Undead, Red Sun Rising, The Dillinger Escape Plan, and Great Van Fleet.

Check out the full lineup below.

System Of A Down, The Prodigy Architects, More To Play Inagural Sonic Temple Festival

If you didn’t know that this year was the final year of Rock On The Range, now you know. But fret not, there’s a spiritual successor that will start next May.

Sonic Temple, created by Louder Than Life and Welcome To Rockville founder and Rock On The Range co-founder Danny Wimmer Presents, will be a different experience than their previous festival. Unlike ROTR, which DWP co-produced with AEG, Sonic Temple will be run entirely by DWP. In a press release posted by Consequence Of Sound, DWP said, “I am so proud of what we accomplished with Rock on the Range, and we couldn’t have done it without our partnership with AEG. When we started Rock on the Range, there was no other festival in America quite like it but recently it became clear that we had different visions of where to take the festival next. The city of Columbus and our devoted rock fans deserve a one-of-a-kind, world-class festival, and that is exactly what Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival will bring to MAPFRE Stadium.”

That’s right, Sonic Temple won’t just be another rock festival, other genres will be accepted. Spoken word, punk, rap, emo, post-hardcore, and comedy will be featured along with artists in the worlds of rock and metal.

Foo Fighters, System Of A Down, and Disturbed will headline the inaugural festival. Other acts to perform include Bring Me The Horizon, Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine, Scarlxrd, Teenage Wrist, In This Moment, Joan Jett And The Blackhearts, Movements, Hands Like Houses, Basement, Wage War, and many others. A comedy and spoken word tent, presented by SiriusXM, will feature comedian Andrew Dice Clay, former Black Flag vocalist Henry Rollins, and actor Pauly Shore (Bio-Dome, Encino Man, Son In Law).

Sonic Temple will take place May 17 to the 19 at MAPFRE Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Tickets go on sale November 30.