Dead Girls Academy Announce North American Tour

Los Angeles rockers Dead Girls Academy recently wrapped up a tour in Europe, but they’re ready to hit the road again.

The rock quintet will be hitting the road next week as the supporting act for Rob Zombie’s guitarist John 5 tour with blues-rock guitarist Jared James Nichols. The tour starts Tuesday, February 26 in Mesa, Ariz., at Club Red and ends Sunday, April 14, in San Diego, Calif., at Brick By Brick. Check out the tour dates below.

2/26 Mesa, Ariz. @ Club Red

2/28 Albuquerque, N.M. @ Launchpad

3/1 Lubbock, Texas @ Jake’s Backroom

3/2 San Antonio, Texas @ The Rock Box

3/3 Houston, Texas @ Scout Bar

3/5 Austin, Texas @ Come And Take It Live

3/6 Dallas, Texas @ Trees

3/7 Oklahoma City, Okla. @ 89th Street

3/9 Indianapolis, Ind. @ HI-FI Indy (SOLD OUT)

3/10 Akron, Ohio @ The Empire Concert Club (SOLD OUT)

3/12 Sellersville, Pa. @ Sellersville Theater

3/13 New York, N.Y. @ Iridium (SOLD OUT)

3/14 Poughkeepsie, N.Y. @ The Chance

3/15 Teaneck, N.J. @ Debonair Music Hall

3/16 Hampton, N.H. @ Wally’s Pub

3/17 Lebanon, N.H. @ Lebanon Opera House

3/18 New Bedford, Mass. @ Greasy Luck

3/20 Québec, Canada @ L’ANTI

3/21 Montreal, Canada @ Piranha Bar

3/22 Ottawa, Canada @ The Brass Monkey

3/23 Toronto, Canada @ Lees Place

3/24 London, Canada @ Rum Runners

3/26 Thunder Bay, Canada @ Crocks

3/27 Winnipeg, Canada @ Pyramid Cabaret

3/28 Regina, Canada @ The Exchange

3/29 Calgary, Canada @ Dickens

3/30 Edmonton, Canada @ The Starlit Room

3/31 Vancouver, Canada @ Rickshaw Theatre

4/2 Seattle, Wash. @ The Crocodile

4/3 Portland, Ore. @ Star Theater

4/4 Redding, Calif. @ The Dip (SOLD OUT)

4/5 Sacramento, Calif. @ Holy Diver (SOLD OUT)

4/6 Hollywood, Calif. @ Whisky A Go-Go

4/7 Anaheim, Calif. @ The Parish @ HOB

4/11 Las Vegas, Nev. @ Count’s Vamp’d

4/14 San Diego, Calif. @ Brick By Brick

“I’m excited to join John 5 on his headlining run across North America!” vocalist Michael Orlando said. “John 5 has always been a symbol of creativity to me. I watched him in Marilyn Manson and recently with Rob Zombie. He brings an amazing live show and encompasses the aesthetic of rock n roll! It’s going to be an amazing tour!”

After their tour, Dead Girls Academy will be playing some rock festivals in the summer. The group will be at Welcome To Rockville in Jacksonville, Fla., on Saturday, May 4, with The Damned Things, Shinedown, and Yelawolf, as well as Epicenter Festival in Rockingham, N.C., on Saturday, May 11, with Sylar, Memphis May Fire, and Judas Priest, and at Edgefest in Jackpot, Nev., on Saturday, July 20, with Fozzy, Ded, and Bobaflex.

Dead Girls Academy released their debut album Alchemy last year via Victory Records (Carousel Kings, Don’t Sleep, Jungle Rot). You can read a review of the album here.

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.