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Rebels & Rhythms Collide: A Rockabilly Riot in Las Vegas

Rebels & Rhythms Collide: A Rockabilly Riot in Las Vegas After a week-long WrestleMania in the city of neon lights, Las Vegas is turning up the volume and not turning back as the world's largest and most electrifying Rockabilly event storms into town! Welcome to Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Weekend 28, where the heart-pounding rhythms, gleaming classic cars, pin-up glamour, and vintage thrills collide for four unforgettable days. Since its […]

April 25, 2025 13

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Riot Fest Celebrates 20 Years with 20 Albums

Riot Fest 20 Features 20 Bands Playing 20 Full Length Albums Riot Fest is about to celebrate the festival's 20th anniversary this year, 20 bands will be playing 20 full-album sets, including headliner Weezer playing the complete "Blue Album." While Riot Fest has featured full-album sets in the past, organizers said this is the most they've ever had in a single year. The full-album sets will be: Weezer: "The Blue […]

April 25, 2025 10

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Portals of Possibility

Portals of Possibility: Peering into Universal's Phenomenal New Park!” Universal has, with perhaps admirable, if somewhat noisy, ambition, presented what they term an "immense multi-theme park", touted as one of the "biggest new theme parks that's been made in a long time". The latest monolithic offering from the Universal entity. This "Epic Universe", you see, is presented as an "immense multi-theme park", heralded, somewhat breathlessly, as "one of the biggest […]

April 25, 2025 5

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Riot Fest 20 Lineup Has Been Announced!

Riot Fest 20 Lineup Has Been Announced! Celebrate With Us as Racketeer Radio KFQX Gives Our Listeners A Chance to Win A Pair of Passes Celebrating two decades, Riot Fest 2025 boasts a stellar lineup, including Blink-182, Green Day, Weezer, the Sex Pistols, Alkaline Trio, The Beach Boys, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, The Bouncing Souls, and The Linda Lindas. This diverse roster reflects the festival's evolution from a punk-centric […]

April 23, 2025 29

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Salt Lake City’s Dry Spell Gets a Repeal

Salt Lake City's Dry Spell Gets a Repeal Salt Lake City. A place, let's be frank, that conjures images of… well, let's just say the nightlife expectations might typically involve a vigorous game of charades followed by an early night with a lukewarm herbal infusion. One pictures a certain… orthodoxy when it comes to leisure pursuits. A landscape, shall we say, less associated with the clinking of cocktail shakers and […]

April 22, 2025 12

Album Releases

Teenage Bottlerocket ‘Ready to Roll’ with New Music & Label

Teenage Bottlerocket Ready to Roll with New Album, Single & Label Back and Ready to Roll—literally. Teenage Bottlerocket have announced their brand-new full-length album, Ready to Roll, set to drop September 12 on Pirates Press Records. It’s the band’s first LP since 2021 and marks a fresh chapter while staying true to everything fans love about TBR: fast tempos, catchy hooks, and zero pretension. “This record came out of a […]

April 19, 2025 24

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Wink Martindale: A Broadcast Legend & Beloved Voice

Remembering Wink Martindale: A Broadcast Legend & Beloved Voice of Rock'n'Roll Wink Martindale, the legendary game show host, radio personality, and our cherished voice behind History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, has passed away on April 15, 2025, in Rancho Mirage, California, at the age of 91. He died after a year-long battle with lymphoma, surrounded by his wife of 49 years, Sandy, and family. Born Winston Conrad Martindale on December […]

April 16, 2025 34

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The Jack Knives Final Single “Kill Me First” & Gear Up for Major Tour

The Jack Knives Release Final Single "Kill Me First" & Gear Up for Major Tour w/ The Bouncing Souls & H2O The Jack Knives are officially charging into the spotlight with the release of their third and finalsingle, “Kill Me First,” from their forthcoming full-length album Into the Night. Out now on all major platforms, the single arrives with a powerful new music video that pulses with the band’s signature […]

April 11, 2025 15

Album Releases

The Place Behind The Stars Coming in June

Streetlight Manifesto Announces 'The Place Behind The Stars' Coming This June Streetlight Manifesto has officially announced the release of their forthcoming album, The Place Behind The Stars. The band shared the news via their Instagram account, stating: "Hello. Our new album is called The Place Behind The Stars. It will be released on June 24 by the Pentimento Music Co. We recorded it ourselves, as usual, and hope you will […]

April 10, 2025 31