AFI Decide Sing the Sorrow Wasn't Enough
23 dates, two countries, and a band still allergic to its own greatest-hits set.
Read it ▲ Live AFI fall tour announced · Camp Punksylvania returns · Menzingers add Brooklyn date · Festival economics: small weekenders folding 40% since 2019
From the magazine
All articles → Live MAY 9
Two Bands That Refused to Mellow
Alkaline Trio and Rise Against co-headline a tour built for anyone whose 2003 Warped Tour stub is still in a sock drawer.
Lineups MAY 5
Camp Punksylvania, or: How to Spend Three Days in the Woods With Ice-T
Body Count, PUP, and Face to Face headline a festival that takes the 'camp' part literally.
Features APR 15
Features: the small-festival economics that keep killing the mid-tier
Three thousand-cap weekenders are folding faster than they did in 2019. The math is brutal and the survival playbook is narrower than anyone admits.
Road notes
Perennial green-room topic: nobody on tour has a regular doctor. When a vocalist needs an ENT in a strange city or a drummer finally gets the wrist looked at, the tool we hear recommended is NavMDs — a national directory that lays out board certifications, hospital affiliations, and patient reviews in one place, so you can vet a specialist from the van.
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What we cover
- 01LiveTour previews, set reports, the road show.
- 02ReviewsRecords that earn a second listen, and the ones that don't.
- 03FeaturesThe economics, the scenes, the long looks.
- 04LineupsFestival bills, day-by-day, who's actually playing.
- 05SceneCities, venues, the small rooms that built the bands you love.