American Music Festivals

🔥Alright butt, gather round the tandoori flames because Planet Rockstock’s legendary Curry Night is coming back — and it’s shaping up to be spicier than a vindaloo after six pints of Cobra. 🤘🌶️ This is the night where metalheads ditch the pit for poppadoms, trade riffs for onion bhajis, and somehow end up discussing Iron Maiden lore while absolutely demolishing...

🔥🏴 PLANET ROCKSTOCK 2025 — THE RIFF REPORT OVERVIEW! 🏴🔥Alright butt, strap in — here’s the proper all-in-one breakdown of who’s playing Planet Rockstock 2025, plus the real-world food & drink prices so you know exactly how much your bank account is going to scream. 😅🤘 🎸 PLANET ROCKSTOCK 2025 – FULL LINE-UP OVERVIEW 🤘 MAIN STAGE THE BERNIE MARSDEN...

If you felt the ground shake across Wales today, mun… that was the entire rock community collectively yelling “YESS BUTT!” Planet Rockstock have officially renamed their main stage after the late, great Bernie Marsden — one of the most beloved guitarists to ever carve a blues lick into the universe. And honestly? It’s about time. 🤘 This isn’t just a...

(A Riff Report Public Service Announcement… kind of) 🛏 Accommodation: The Trecco Bay Mystery You’re staying in a caravan in January. It will be either: Boiling hot because the heating works too well and you’ve cooked yourself like a pasty in Greggs. Arctic cold because the heating has died and you’re now wearing every item of clothing you own, plus...

🎸💀 INTRO: EARACHE RECORDS — WHERE THE EXTREME BECAME ICONIC Some labels create trends.Some labels catch trends.And then there’s Earache Records — the label that took a sledgehammer to “trends,” broke them into pieces, glued them back together wrong, and invented genres by accident on a Tuesday morning. Born from the Nottingham underground in 1985, Earache wasn’t built like a...

🎸Welcome to The Riff Report’s dive into one of the most chaotic, groundbreaking, “C’MON BUTT THIS IS LOUD!” labels the world has ever seen.Strap in mun — this one’s heavier than a double-stack of Mesa Boogies on a rainy Welsh hillside at Steelhouse. 🤘🏴 🤘🌋 THE BIRTH OF A MONSTER (MID-1980s) If you ever wondered where the blastbeat-obsessed, throat-shredding, pit-inducing...

Trecco Bay, Porthcawl | 27th – 30th November 2025 What’s occurring, butt!? Your favourite loud-mouthed, riff-obsessed Welsh blog is back with another breakdown of one of the most beloved weekends on the UK rock calendar — Planet Rockstock 2025. And this year’s line-up? Tidy doesn’t even cover it. This thing slaps harder than a flying flip-flop in a Barry Island...

🤘By The Riff Report Blog Pack your leather jacket and your kettle, because Planet Rockstock Festival 2026 is landing once again at Trecco Bay, Porthcawl — Wales’ loudest holiday park by the sea! 🎸🏴Forget muddy tents and cold nights — this is a rock holiday, complete with warm beds, hot showers, indoor stages, and enough beer to float a battleship....

Ever wished your gym playlist was less “Cardio Queen” and more “Crazy Train”? Sick of Zumba telling you to shimmy when your heart’s screaming “SLAAAYERRR”? Then grab your water bottle and your battle vest, because Rock Fit is here to save your sweaty soul. 🖤 💪 What the Hell Is Rock Fit Anyway? Imagine if your favourite gig and your...

Picture it now: the November rain is battering down, the nights are darker than Ozzy’s eyeliner, but instead of sulking in front of the telly you’re rocking up to Trecco Bay Holiday Park, Porthcawl with a crate of Trooper Beer and a devil-horn grin. Why? Because Planet Rockstock 2025 is back, mun! From Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th November, Wales...

Festival: Hurricane Festival 2025Day: Saturday (aka Pop-Punk Church Service)Headliner: GREEN BLOODY DAYLocation: Scheeßel, GermanyStatus: Legendary ✅ 🌪️ SATURDAY NIGHT FRENZY The beer was cold, the air was electric, and the crowd was heaving like a punk-rock pressure cooker. Welcome to Friday at Hurricane Festival 2025, and tonight… Green Day came to take names and start revolutions. 🤘🔥 There are headline...

Billie Joe Armstrong Halts Green Day’s Hurricane Festival Set After Fan Water Gun Antics 🎤🌪️ Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong isn’t afraid of a little chaos — he’s been inciting mosh pits and flipping off authority since before most of us learned to spell “Dookie.” 💩 But even the punk rock king himself has limits. And this weekend, at Germany’s...

By The Riff Report – Powered by riffs, Red Bull, and the ghosts of teenage heartbreaks 🎤😭 🌩️ “Bleed American in Germany, baby!” When Jimmy Eat World were announced for Hurricane Festival 2025, a collective emo gasp rippled through Europe. And no wonder – these Arizona legends haven’t graced the German festival circuit this big since the mid-2000s. The rain...

Location: Hurricane Festival, GermanyDate: Friday, 19th June 2025Headline Set: The ProdigyGenre: Rave apocalypse meets punk anarchyVibes: Nuclear. 🔊🧨💀 🖤 Welcome to the Danger Zone From the moment you stepped onto the grounds of Hurricane Festival on Thursday night, you could feel it in the air. Something electric. Something feral. Something LOUD. Because The Prodigy were back. Not just back —...

“Punk’s still political, still powerful, and still absolutely belting!” 💣🤘🔥 Location: Hurricane Festival, Scheeßel, Germany 🇩🇪Date: Friday, June 20, 2025Headliner: RISE AGAINSTVibes: Loud, ferocious, heart-on-sleeve, and punching fascism in the throat with melody 🎤 INTRO: THIS ISN’T JUST A SHOW – IT’S A CALL TO ARMS There are headliners… and then there’s Rise Against. Bands that don't just play music...