Bunbury Music Festival Announces 2016 Lineup

Music festival season has officially begun. In the past couple of months, we have unveiled several music festivals’ lineup and now, we’ve added another one to the list. On Thursday (Feb. 25), Ohio’s Bunbury Music Festival announced its 2016 lineup. Artists heading to Cincinnati this June will include: The Killers, Florence and the Machine, Tom Petty’s Mudcrutch, Tears for Fears, HAIM, Grimes, Ice Cube, Big Grams (Big Boi and Phantogram), Umphrey’s McGee, The Dear Hunter, The Mowgli’s, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Diarrhea Planet, and many more. The official flyer for the music festival, which includes all the artists for this year’s festivities, can be seen below.

The Bunbury Music Festival will return to Cincinnati for its fifth incarnation during the weekend of June 3-5 along the Ohio River in downtown Cincinnati. General admission and VIP passes are now on sale on the festival’s website.

‘Interview’ Scalper Gets Hit By Karma

Dear Scalpers, not all of you get off Scot-free and that’s what one scalper is learning; the hard way.

A man in Ohio tried to cash in on the craziness surrounding The Interview, the James Franco-Seth Rogen starring film which went from a “probably won’t even break even” film to one of the most talked about films of 2014 all thanks to the assassination of Kim Jong-un plot.

A man named Jason Best learned that a local movie theater in Clifton, OH would be one of the 300 places screening the controversial flick around the time when Sony was still trying to figure out how to release the film, and decided to purchase 50 passes (at $13 each) to the showing.

Sensing that this would be a way to make a little extra cash, Best decided that he would turn around and sell them online at a higher price; you know, what scalpers do.

“I saw all the hype about ‘The Interview’ on the 23rd and thought, ‘hey, folks are selling these tickets in other cities and it seems like that’s the thing to do right now so why not give it a shot so see how it goes,”’ he said.

And how it went was not what he imagined. His plan backfired.

Soon after the tickets had been purchased, Sony announced they would be streaming the film on sites like YouTube, Hulu, and Netflix for half the price of a movie theater ticket. No need to actually go to a theater.

Now, Best is demanding a refund for the tickets he purchased at the Esquire Theater.

“I thought I’d get my money back because the theater’s website *very clearly* said the tickets were refundable,” he said.

Again, things did not turn out in Best’s favor. He tried to get in touch with the theater and was told they did not have a website and that The Interview was considered a special event.

Turns out, Best had bought the tickets from MovieTickets.com which informs customers that “theater owners reserve the right to withhold refunds for special events.”

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the manager of the theater called Best out by telling him that trying to re-sell those tickets, scalping, was illegal.

Karma.

Rock on the Range Unveil 2015 Line Up

Rock on the Range are beating all the other music festival by revealing the complete line-up for next year’s event, today.

The yearly music festival announced that some big names in the rock world will be headlining including Slipknot, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, Judas Priest and many more.

“It’s been way too long since Slipknot has played ROTR…five years is too long. We’re coming back with a new album and a new show. It’ll feel good to headline again. Everyone, prepare for hell,” Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said about the band’s involvement in next year’s festival.

“We’re very excited to be back and playing Rock On The Range. It was an honor to be a part of the very first ROTR back in ‘07 and we’re grateful to return to be a part of this amazing rock n roll event,” Breaking Benjamin’s Ben Burnley said, mirroring Taylor’s sentiments.

But like it as said, Breaking Benjamin and Slipknot are not the only ones to be heading to Columbus, OH’s Crew Stadium during the weekend of May 15-17, 2015.

Check out the full list of artists which include Anthrax, Marilyn Manson, Of Mice and Men, You Me at Six, Dillinger Escape Plan, and many, many more.

2015 ROCK ON THE RANGE LINE-UP:

Linkin Park, Slipknot, Judas Priest, Godsmack, Marilyn Manson, Breaking Benjamin, Rise Against, Volbeat, Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, Papa Roach, Halestorm, Of Mice & Men, Ministry, Anthrax, Tech N9ne, In This Moment, Hollywood Undead, Live, Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts, Yelawolf, In Flames, Motionless In White, Saxon, Rival Sons, Falling In Reverse, Apocalyptica, Hatebreed, Periphery, Nonpoint, Babymetal, The Devil Wears Prada, Dillinger Escape Plan, We Are Harlot, Starset, New Medicine, Beartooth, You Me At Six, Young Guns,Dorothy, Crobot, Shaman’s Harvest, Like A Storm, Unlocking The Truth, Islander, Marmozets, Sabatron, Upon A Burning Body, From Ashes To New, Red Son Rising, and Santa Cruz

General admission for the three-day festival will go on sale beginning on Friday, Dec. 5 at 10 in the morning, EDT.

Skunk Battles Its Way to the Front of Paramore Show

We know that Paramore has a big fan base, but did you know that also included woodland creatures?

Well, that became apparent during the band’s stop in Cincinnati, OH for their co-headlining MONUMENTOUR with Fall Out Boy. Things were going great until frontwoman, Hayley Williams noticed there was huge commotion going on in the crowd down in front during their song, “The Only Exception.”

Word got to the singer that a skunk had found its way into the crowd. After finding out what was causing the ruckus, she made a comment about the matter.

“Apparently, it’s just a skunk down there, spraying you with its love and generosity,” she said. 

“That’s never happened before!” she added. 

Seems that the skunk was fighting its way to the front of the crowd. Got to given the smelly, black and white creature some cool point and kudos for getting to the front of the crowd, something that we’re sure even some concert veterans still have trouble with. 

Kudos, Pepe LePew. 

Bunbury Music Festival Reveal Line-Up

You can tell Summer will soon be here when all the music festivals begin to reveal their line-ups. The Bunbury Music Festival is the latest of these events to reveal who will be on their third annual bill.  Fall Out Boy, Paramore, The Flaming Lips, Fitz And The Tantrums, Young The Giant, New Politics and many more have been confirmed to take the stage. 

Fall Out Boy, Paramore and New Politics will be taking a break from their “MONUMENTOUR” Tour to take the stage at this Cincinnati-based festival due to take place from July 11 through July 13. Tickets for the festival are currently available at Bunbury’s website, but keep in mind that additional headliners will be announced at a future date.

The current line-up can be seen below on the official flyer.