Show Review: The. Best. Aftershock. Ever.

Review and All Photos by: Alan Ralph @ARPhotoSF 
Additional interviews and content here by: Emily Anderson @wisefoolfilms

For decades, Europe has led the way in the heavy metal and loud rock music festival space. Monsters of Rock (the originator, which started in 1980!), Wacken Open Air, Dynamo Open Air, Hellfest, Graspop, Copenhell, Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Summer Breeze, Sweden Rock Fest and Download have always dominated the landscape with their amazing lineups year after year. 

United States was never close in offering an equivalent heavy metal experience. Sure, there was Ozzfest and Mayhem Festival, but those have been gone since 2017 and 2015 and Americans have always leaned more towards indie rock music festivals like Lollapalooza, Coachella, Bonaroo, and Outside Lands anyway.

For the last twelve or so years, Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP) has been chipping away at the supremacy of the European heavy metal festivals, with Welcome To Rockville, Louder Than LifeSonic Temple, Inkcarceration, Rock on the RangeRocklahoma, Carolina Rebellion, and Northern California’s very own Aftershock Festival. With the best lineup it has ever had, West Coast’s Biggest Rock Festival definitely lived up to its name in 2024!

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts: 2016-05-23 – 2016-05-29

Grateful Dead
Appearing for another farewell bow at The Fillmore this week.

This week in The Bay Area we have refusals, memoirs, and those who wear purple. We have clowns, the dead, and war. Should be a pretty good time.

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Spinning Platters Weekly Guide to Bay Area Concerts, 5/30/13-6/4/13

All clowns are insane. Therefore, wouldn't any group of clowns be an Insane Clown Posse?
All clowns are insane. Therefore, wouldn’t any group of clowns be an Insane Clown Posse?

You know it’s a good week when Insane Clown Posse are playing an opera house in Oakland. Just sayin’…

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Spinning Platters Podcast: Episode 3 – The View

Listen to the podcast to see why this photo is here
Listen to the podcast to see why this photo is here

Episode 3 of the Spinning Platters podcast is now available below, and in iTunes.  Dakin, Gordon and D.P. are joined on this episode by writer Raffi Yousouffian for a discussion of:

  • What we’ve been listening to
  • Cult Bands
  • Stop the War on Fun and the ongoing fight to keep San Francisco all-ages clubs open

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