I thoroughly enjoyed a little sidestep away from music and into magic when I saw The Magic Mod perform in Glasgow last year. Genuinely funny, entertaining and very good at what he does. I was on stage for one trick, really keeping a close eye… and still didn’t see how the hell he did it. Well, … Continue reading The Magic Mod is back in town (well, some towns…) in 2027!
Joanne Shaw Taylor has released her new single “Never Gonna Please ‘Em All,” coinciding with the October 23 release of her latest studio album, The Trouble With Love, via Joe Bonamassa’s Journeyman Records.
The song addresses the pressure to meet other people’s expectations and the realization that trying to please everyone can come at the expense of being yourself.
“Never Gonna Please ‘Em All” particularly focuses on the expectations placed on women, including being told to smile, speak less and make themselves more agreeable. Taylor pushes back against those demands, emphasizing the importance of individuality and self-acceptance.
The song also reflects Taylor’s experiences as a songwriter, particularly her ability to turn personal struggles into music. The lyric “I turned my heartbreak / Into a work of art” highlights that connection, while the repeated refrain “Ain’t never gonna please ’em all” reinforces the song’s message.
The single appears on Taylor’s 10-track album, The Trouble With Love, produced by longtime collaborator Kevin Shirley. The record explores relationships, heartbreak, friendship and personal growth through a combination of blues, rock, soul and Americana.
The album includes two notable collaborations. Joe Bonamassa appears on the title track, “The Trouble With Love,” which examines the highs and lows of romantic relationships. Guitarist Orianthi joins Taylor on “What Good Is My Love?,” a song about loving someone who cannot return those feelings.
Other songs include “Hell Or High Water,” which focuses on perseverance, and a cover of Celeste’s “This Is Who I Am.” “You And Me (Rachel’s Song)” was written as a tribute to Taylor’s best friend and explores the importance of lasting friendships.
Taylor will support the album with a fall U.S. tour beginning October 28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Canadian blues-rock band Bywater Call will open the initial dates, with Robert Jon & The Wreck joining for additional shows.
The tour concludes November 21 at the Golden State Theatre in Monterey, California.
Joanne Shaw Taylor 2026 U.S. Tour Dates
October 28 – Albuquerque, NM – KiMo Theatre * October 29 – Flagstaff, AZ – Orpheum Theater * October 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre * November 1 – Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre * November 3 – Grand Junction, CO – Mesa Theater * November 5 – Colorado Springs, CO – Phil Long Music Hall * November 6 – Fort Collins, CO – Aggie Theater* November 7 – Boulder, CO – Boulder Theater * November 9 – Salt Lake City, UT – The State Room ** November 10 – Boise, ID – The Egyptian Theatre ** November 12 – Spokane, WA – Knitting Factory ** November 13 – Tacoma, WA – Rialto Theater ** November 15 – Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater ** November 17 – Grass Valley, CA – The Center for the Arts ** November 19 – Napa, CA – Uptown Theatre Napa ** November 20 – Bakersfield, CA – World Records ** November 21 – Monterey, CA – Golden State Theatre **
* With Bywater Call ** With Robert Jon & The Wrec
Joanne Shaw Taylor 2027 UK Tour Dates
May 2 – Harpenden, UK – The Eric Morecambe Centre May 3 – Leeds, UK – City Varieties Music Hall May 4 – Whitley Bay, UK – Playhouse May 6 – London, UK – Cadogan Hall May 7 – Bury St Edmunds, UK – The Apex May 8 – Manchester, UK – Royal Northern College of Music May 9 – Birmingham, UK – Town Hall May 11 – Glasgow, UK – St Luke’s
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has spoken about his friendship with Marilyn Manson, and explained why he has stood behind Manson in the face of the on-going sexual assault lawsuits which the singer faces.
In 2021, more than a dozen woman accused Manson of sexual abuse/sexual assault, in the wake of allegations made by actress Evan Rachel Wood, who shared revelations of her “horrific”time with her former partner in the HBO documentary Phoenix Rising.
Manson made out-of-court settlements with Game Of Thrones actress Esmé Bianco, and another woman, known only as ‘Jane Doe’ who had accused him of rape. Another lawsuit filed by Ashley Morgan Smithline was withdrawn and recanted.
Manson is set to face a jury trial on November 15, 2027 to answer charges brought by his former personal assistant, Ashley Walters. Another case filed by actress Bianca Allaine Kyne is still pending. In a statement made to Rolling Stone in 2024, Kyne said, “For years, I lived under his shadow, paralyzed by fear. But that fear no longer controls me. It has been replaced by an unwavering pursuit of justice. I stand tall, unafraid. This is not just about my personal story. This is about exposing an industry that prioritizes profit over the safety of vulnerable young women.”
The LADA’s Sex Crimes Division investigated other claims made against Manson, but elected not to press charges, referencing issues with the statute of limitations.
Manson, real name Brian Warner, has denied all accusations against him.
In a new episode of the New York Times‘ podcast Popcast, Billy Corgan discusses his friendship with Manson, which has endured regardless of the allegations made against the singer, when asked “How do you make determinations of the degree to which they should be in your life and you should be in their lives?”
“That’s a valid question,” Corgan replies. “I think that ultimately, as a Christian person – how can I put it? – you have to stand by your friends. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have an opinion, and that doesn’t mean you’re not critical. In his case – and I’m not here to adjudicate it – but the DA looked at the case for five years. In some cases, I knew personal things behind the scenes that are not in the public sphere. I personally didn’t feel that he was guilty of the things he was being charged with, and ultimately, the fact that the DA didn’t pursue it.
“Basically, the person that I knew, and the way it all kind of went down, even though it was an elongated process, was commensurate with the person that I knew,”Corgan continues. “It all kind of lined up. But, I wasn’t there. I can’t be there for everything. But I guess it’s one of those things where I don’t, I don’t want the world to tell me who my friends are and who I should associate with. That’s politically, socially, and in Brian’s case, we have a relationship that goes back close to 30 years.”
Corgan goes on to point out that Manson’s wife Lindsay Usich has a twin sister [Ashley Usich-Iha] who is married to Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, adding,”there’s a deeper set of relationships there.”
“I think anybody in that situation struggles with the accusations,” he continues, “the seriousness of the accusations, but again, I also knew the inside baseball of the case. I knew certain people who are involved, and so you make those evaluations. At the end of the day, I feel I made the right determination, but if things had come out… Like, people would ask me privately, ‘Well, what happens if…’ and I’d say, If he’s guilty, or anybody in that situation is guilty, they should go to jail.”
“I’m not saying I have any moral supremacy here,” Corgan concludes. “I’m saying it’s a case-by-case basis. But I don’t like the idea of… this kind of witch mob thing bothers me.”
In the wake of the allegations against Manson, the star was dropped by his management and record label. He has since been signed by Nuclear Blast, released two albums, toured with Five Finger Death Punch and more.
For many, the album gave voice to their own struggles. On Wednesday night, a tribute gig in the singer’s London neighborhood proved the music still holds sway.
Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today it leads with the Sonic Temple 2027 lineup: nearly 150 acts across May 13–16 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, with Blink-182, Iron Maiden, Falling In Reverse and Korn headlining the four nights and Alice In Chains, Faith No More, A Perfect Circle, Mastodon, Meshuggah and Testament underneath.
Then Chris Fehn, who turned up on Pawn Stars to authenticate a long-nose Slipknot mask that was made for him, told the shop he never wore it because “it’s too nice,” and watched Chumlee offer $1,200 against a $15,000 ask. And Deafheaven, who are touring the US with Interpol for eight dates in March 2027, a year and a half after Paul Banks sang on their last record.
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Scott Penfold opens today’s Metal Breakdown Daily with the full Sonic Temple bill and the question of whether Blink-182 belongs on top of it, then Chris Fehn’s day at the pawn shop and the Deafheaven and Interpol dates, and takes a side on the pop-punk Thursday. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.
Sonic Temple 2027 Lineup: Iron Maiden, Korn, Blink-182, Falling In Reverse
Sonic Temple 2027 runs May 13–16 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, with Blink-182 headlining Thursday, Iron Maiden Friday, Falling In Reverse Saturday and Korn Sunday, and a bill of nearly 150 acts that includes Alice In Chains, Faith No More, A Perfect Circle, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Knocked Loose and Turnstile.
Danny Wimmer Presents released the full lineup on October 22. It’s the sixth edition under the Sonic Temple name, which replaced Rock On The Range in 2019. Iron Maiden were the first headliner announced; their Friday set is one of the final two dates of Run For Your Lives, with Boardwalk Rock in Ocean City, Maryland closing the tour two days later. Korn close the festival on Sunday.
Faith No More’s appearance is one of their first American shows since 2016; the band’s return begins in January with four stadium dates alongside System Of A Down in Australia and New Zealand. A Perfect Circle, Primus, President and PeelingFlesh had been announced ahead of the full reveal. The rest of the heavy middle: Testament, Ministry, Clutch, Helmet, Fear Factory, Crowbar, The Black Dahlia Murder, Blood Incantation, Soulfly, Nailbomb, Lacuna Coil, Bullet For My Valentine, Shadows Fall, GWAR, Till Lindemann and Chad Gray performing Mudvayne and Hellyeah material. Further out: The Offspring, The Prodigy, Jimmy Eat World, and a late-’90s rock radio reunion of Snot, Spineshank, Dry Kill Logic, Ugly Kid Joe, Sponge and Wheatus.
Tickets are on sale now at sonictemplefestival.com with DWP’s $1-down payment plan; a share of sales goes to the DWP Foundation. Day-by-day placements beyond the headliners haven’t been released. Sonic Temple is one of five major US festivals inside three weeks of May; our 2027 festival guide has the full calendar.
Full Sonic Temple 2027 lineup (alphabetical, as announced):
$UICIDEBOY$ 10 Years 156/Silence 3OH!3 A Day To Remember A Perfect Circle After The Burial Alice in Chains Allt Arankai Badflower Bear McCreary Beartooth Big Ass Truck I.E. Blink-182 Blood Incantation Bowling For Soup Boundaries Bullet For My Valentine Butcher Babies Carpenter Brut Castle Rat Chad Gray: Voice of Mudvayne & HELLYEAH Circa Survive CKY Clutch Crown The Empire Crowbar Cute Is What We Aim For Dark Divine Dayseeker Demon Hunter Diggy Graves Dirty Honey DRAIN Dry Kill Logic Emmure Empty Shell Casing Escape The Fate Eyes Set To Kill Faith No More Falling in Reverse Fear Factory Fit For An Autopsy Fleshwater Forever The Sickest Kids Ghostemane Green Lung GWAR Gym Class Heroes HANABIE. Helmet Her Last Sight Highly Suspect Ho99o9 Hollywood Undead Hot Milk Hot Mulligan House of Protection If Not For Me Imminence Impending Doom In This Moment Infected Rain Insane Clown Posse Invent Animate Iron Maiden I See Stars Jimmy Eat World Jutes Kami Kehoe Kim Dracula King 810 Knocked Loose Korn Lacuna Coil LOATHE Madball Mastodon Meshuggah Midnight Ministry Monolord Nailbomb Nevertel Nita Strauss Of Mice & Men OTEP Palisades Pain of Truth PeelingFlesh Point North Poppy President Primus The Paradox Relient k Rain City Drive Red Saosin sace6 Seether Secrets Shadow of Intent Shadows Fall Showing Teeth Silent Theory Skid Row SLOMOSA Sleeping With Sirens Sleep Theory Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators Snot Soulfly South Arcade Spineshank Spite Sponge Steel Panther Sunborn Sullivan King Superheaven Switchfoot Sylosis Testament The All-American Rejects The Ataris The Barbarians of California The Black Dahlia Murder The Color Morale The Offspring The Pretty Reckless The Prodigy The Warning Thousand Below Till Lindemann: The Voice of Rammstein Turnstile Ugly Kid Joe Underoath Unearth Vana Violent Vira Waka Flocka Flame We The Kings Wheatus Wolves At The Gate XCOMM
Chris Fehn Authenticates His Own Slipknot Mask On Pawn Stars
Former Slipknot percussionist Chris Fehn appeared on the October 21 episode of Pawn Stars to authenticate a long-nose mask, a signed guitar and a signed drum head brought in by a seller asking $35,000 in total; Fehn confirmed all three were real, said the mask was made for him but never worn because “it’s too nice,” and the shop’s best offer was $4,200.
The seller, a regular named Spencer, said he acquired the pieces from a radio DJ in Iowa. The guitar’s back is inscribed “Slipknot Music Land Southridge Mall July 1999,” a Des Moines mall signing the month after the self-titled debut came out. He asked $20,000 for the guitar and drum head and $15,000 for the mask, which he believed was one of Fehn’s early No. 3 masks. Chumlee was blunt: “This looks like a Halloween costume!” His reasoning was sound; Slipknot masks are widely replicated and this one carried no markings. So he brought in an expert, and the expert was Fehn.
Fehn remembered the Southridge signing as one of the band’s first and confirmed the autographs, noting his own was the older version of his signature. On the mask: it was his, made specifically for him, and it never went on stage. “It’s too nice,” he said. “If I would’ve used this live or even for photos, this wouldn’t have held up to be like this.” He’d had three made, “and it just didn’t fit right.” Chumlee’s offers went from $2,500 for the signed pieces to $3,000 for those plus $1,200 for the mask, on the grounds that the band never used any of it. Spencer called the lot “iconic rock history” and left without a deal.
Twelve hundred dollars is an insult, and Chumlee’s logic is also correct, and both are true. Memorabilia is valued for what an object did, not what it is, and this mask sat in a box because it pinched. What the show missed is that the moment Fehn said “that’s mine, they made three, this one didn’t fit” on camera, the mask stopped being a Halloween costume. He gave it its provenance for free. The seller should have asked for the tape.
Deafheaven And Interpol Announce March 2027 US Tour
Deafheaven and Interpol will play eight US dates together from March 16 to March 27, 2027, opening at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and closing at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey; presale is Wednesday, October 28 at 10 a.m. local time and general tickets go on sale Friday, October 30.
Neither band is billed as headliner and no openers were named. The pairing has a paper trail: Interpol’s Paul Banks sang on “Incidental II” from Deafheaven’s Lonely People With Power, the March 2025 album that brought the screaming back after Infinite Granite. Interpol released their eighth record, This Mirror Weighs A Ton, on August 28 through Partisan, and spent 2026 touring North America with Loathe, DIIV and julie on the bills. A band that defined New York indie rock in 2002 has been building its support slots from the shoegaze and heavy end of the room for a year, and this tour is where that was going.
In 2013 Deafheaven were the band half of metal refused to call metal. In 2027 they’re the one act who can put Interpol in front of a blackgaze crowd and a blackgaze band in front of an Interpol crowd and keep both rooms. The Anthem holds about 6,000. Expect it to sell out.
The Take: Blink-182 Can Headline Sonic Temple, And It’s The Right Call
Thursday at a DWP festival exists to sell the four-day pass, the person buying that pass grew up on Enema Of The State and Iowa in the same year, and the heaviness on this bill was put where it belongs: in a middle tier stronger than any Sonic Temple before it.
Blink-182 on Thursday is a strategy, not a shrug. The add-on day converts a three-day ticket into a four-day one, and the buyer is thirty-five, will stand in a field for Blink-182 on Thursday and in the same field for Meshuggah on Friday. Falling In Reverse on Saturday is the same math for someone a decade younger. You can be annoyed by that and it’s still true.
The counter-argument is the real one: headliners are a festival’s identity, and two of Sonic Temple’s four say pop-punk and arena rock. Fine. Name the metal bands who can headline a stadium festival in 2027. Maiden. Korn. Slipknot, who are playing their own stadiums next summer. Metallica, who don’t play other people’s festivals. Tool, A Perfect Circle’s day job. Ghost. Sleep Token, if you count them, and they’ve already done Louder Than Life. Two of those are on this bill. The top of the poster isn’t all metal because there isn’t any more metal that size, and the fix isn’t swapping out Blink-182. It’s the undercard.
Which is exactly where DWP put it: Meshuggah, Testament, Blood Incantation, Crowbar, Fear Factory, The Black Dahlia Murder, Mastodon, Faith No More, Alice In Chains. A festival is the whole poster, not the top line. Read the whole poster. It’s the heaviest Sonic Temple yet, with a pop-punk band selling the Thursday wristband that pays for it.
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TL;DR
Sonic Temple 2027: May 13–16, Historic Crew Stadium, Columbus, Ohio; nearly 150 acts; Blink-182 (Thursday), Iron Maiden (Friday, one of the last two Run For Your Lives dates), Falling In Reverse (Saturday) and Korn (Sunday) headline, with Alice In Chains, Faith No More, A Perfect Circle, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Knocked Loose and Turnstile on the bill. Tickets on sale now.
Chris Fehn authenticated his own long-nose Slipknot mask and a signed guitar and drum head on Pawn Stars; all were real, the mask was never worn (“it’s too nice”), and the shop’s offer topped out at $3,000 for the signed pieces plus $1,200 for the mask against a $35,000 ask. No sale.
Deafheaven and Interpol play eight US dates March 16–27, 2027; presale October 28, general sale October 30. Paul Banks previously guested on Deafheaven’s “Incidental II.”
The Take: Blink-182 headlining Thursday is the right call. Thursday sells the four-day pass, and the heaviness lives in the strongest Sonic Temple undercard yet.
FAQ
When is Sonic Temple 2027 and where is it?
Sonic Temple 2027 takes place May 13–16, 2027 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. It is the sixth edition under the Sonic Temple name, which replaced Rock On The Range in 2019, and is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents.
Who is headlining Sonic Temple 2027?
Blink-182 headline Thursday, May 13; Iron Maiden headline Friday, May 14; Falling In Reverse headline Saturday, May 15; and Korn headline Sunday, May 16. Nearly 150 acts are on the bill, including Alice In Chains, Faith No More, A Perfect Circle, Mastodon, Meshuggah, Testament, Knocked Loose, Turnstile, The Offspring, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, and The Pretty Reckless.
How much are Sonic Temple 2027 tickets?
Tickets are on sale now at sonictemplefestival.com. Danny Wimmer Presents offers a payment plan for as little as $1 down, with pricing by pass type and tier; a portion of sales goes to the DWP Foundation, which supports charities in the festival’s host communities.
Was Chris Fehn’s Slipknot mask on Pawn Stars real?
Yes. On the October 21, 2026 episode of Pawn Stars, Chris Fehn confirmed the long-nose mask was made specifically for him during his early years in Slipknot but was never worn on stage or in photos because, in his words, “it’s too nice.” He also authenticated a guitar and drum head signed by the band at a Des Moines mall in July 1999. The seller asked $15,000 for the mask and $20,000 for the signed items; the shop offered $1,200 and $3,000 respectively, and no sale was made.
When do Deafheaven and Interpol tickets go on sale?
Presale for the Deafheaven and Interpol tour begins Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at 10 a.m. local time, with general on-sale Friday, October 30. The eight-date run opens March 16, 2027 at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans and ends March 27 at Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey, with stops in San Antonio, Hidalgo, Dallas, Asheville, Washington, DC and Philadelphia.
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Costa Rica-based thrashers Chemicide have revealed details of their next long player. Dubbed Self Devour and comprised of 10 tracks, it will be released through Listenable Records in 2027. Recorded in Costa Rica at Apex Studios (drums) by Alberto Terán, Fox Lab Studios (guitars and bass) by Sandy Quirós and Estudios Mediocres (vocals) by Frankie & Chalo. Read more…
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