Given our state of economic chaos and the subsequent collapse of consumer confidence in everything but gold bullion and good times, music festivals are learning they need to go big or go home. Sasquatch! just went pretty big. This year's party, poised as always to be the best way to spend your Memorial Day weekend, will fill the picturesque Gorg...

This weekend, Trent Reznor announced on the Nine Inch Nails website that his band would tour this year with fellow Lollapalooza 1991 alums Jane's Addiction (original lineup and everything!) and that this might actually be the last Nine Inch Nails tour ever. Well, now we've got one date on that tour: the Sasquatch Music Festival, at the reporte...

The Gaslight Anthem were forced to pull their show at Helsinki's Tavastia this evening due to a robbery.The band's van was broken into shortly after their show on February 13 at Gothenburg's Sticky Fingers. The theft then caused a chain of events which led to the cancellation.Drummer Benny Horowitz explained the band's unlucky evening on their o...

Kerrang! faves The Gaslight Anthem will support their hero Bruce Springsteen at this year's Hard Rock Calling festival.Past years have featured sets by Aerosmith, Eric Clapton, The Police and The Who among others.This year's Hard Rock Calling will take place in London's Hyde Park on June 28.For tickets, log on to www.aloud.com.

It's been a big winter for Bruce Springsteen, what with the new album, word of a reissued classic, a new Greatest Hits set, that Super Bowl gig this coming weekend, and then a tour with the E Street Band. It's become clear in the second half of this decade that Springsteen's influence has extended beyond the stadium rock mainstream, and that son...