When We Were Young 2025: Nostalgia reigned supreme for the fourth installment of iconic Las Vegas festival weekend
Everyone’s favorite nostalgia festival returned for a massive fourth year as When We Were Young took over the Las Vegas Festival Grounds last weekend. The downtown streets swarmed with colorful millennials clad in all black and sporting their best Warped Tour-era fits to celebrate another edition of the ultimate throwback lineup. Atlas jumped in the […]
Show Review: Story of the Year’s festival preshow starts the When We Were Young weekend with a bang
Emos of all ages landed in Las Vegas early last week for a chance to catch a When We Were Young festival pre-show. Atlas’ pick for Friday night was Story of the Year’s epic headliner at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas, nestled right in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. The band was joined by […]
Show Review: The Click Five is back for good, sells out Las Vegas headliner
The guys in The Click Five are ready to be in a band again, returning to a Las Vegas stage for the first time in well over a decade last week. The B Side at the House of Blues was packed with squealing millennials eager to recapture a moment of early-2000s joy- and that joy […]
Show Review: The Rocket Summer returns to the desert for 20th anniversary of ‘Hello, Good Friend’
It’s been over a decade since The Rocket Summer (the moniker of multi-instrumentalist Bryce Avary) visited Tucson but that all changed with an intimate show at Club Congress on Tuesday night. Even though most of the room admitted to driving down from Phoenix, the close-knit feel of the iconic main street venue made for an […]
Show Review: Cartel’s ‘Chroma’ gets a proper 20th anniversary party in Phoenix
Cartel is back and before they drop any new music on longtime listeners, they’re taking the time to celebrate 20 years of Chroma– an album that continues to have a massive impact on the alternative music scene to this day. The tour was rounded out by Hunny and Macseal for a relaxed Sunday night at […]
Show Review: Turnstile’s Never Enough Tour sells out Mesa Amphitheatre
One of the most anticipated tours of the year finally made its way to Arizona last week- Turnstile’s Never Enough Tour sold out Mesa Amphitheatre and the crowd was a bomb ready to unleash their energy upon this stacked lineup. The Baltimore hardcore outfit was joined by Speed and Amyl and the Sniffers for a […]
Show Review: The Story So Far brings fans together for rainy, rowdy Mesa tour stop
Fans looking for a classic pop punk show needed only to attend The Story So Far’s fall tour. This energetic explosion- featuring Neck Deep and Origami Angel- found the perfect home for the evening under the stars at Mesa Amphitheatre last week. It was an early, rainy night in Arizona but the vibes were perfect […]
Show Review: Bilmuri’s Summer Slammer Tour hits the gas at Tempe’s Marquee Theatre
Bilmuri’s Summer Slammer Tour turned Arizona’s Marquee Theatre upside down last week with a sold out show that packed the venue from floor to balcony. Johnny Franck’s iconic solo project has turned unserious music into an art form that clearly resonates with the fans as they stood wide eyed and grinning on the barricade and […]
Show Review: EVNNE is ready to go with high energy Phoenix tour stop
While Arizona can sometimes be overlooked in the K-pop touring market, that was not the case for EVNNE when they brought their very first North American headliner to Phoenix this week. The seven member group- Seungeon, Jeonghyeon, Keita, Hanbin, Junghyun, Jihoo and Yunseo- had their third stop of the Set N Go tour at the […]
Show Review: Bring Me the Horizon’s USA Ascension Program sells out Mortgage Matchup Center
The USA Ascension Program has already come to a close but not before British metal icons Bring Me the Horizon landed in Phoenix for the tour’s penultimate stop. They brought along Motionless in White and The Plot in You to round out a lineup of theatrical metalcore augmented by blinding lights, elaborate stage designs and […]