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Kerry Anne Keogh was born and raised in the Mile High City. She attended Heritage High School in Littleton where she ran track and cross country and was a two-time letterman and 1st team all-state lacrosse player.
Kerry Anne continued her education at the University of Colorado where she received a bachelor’s in Political Science. She later received a bachelor’s from CSU in Marketing as well and would go on to complete her master’s degree in Sports and Event Management from CU Denver. She is an avid CU sports fan to this day. In her free time, you can find Kerry Anne attending sporting events around the state, hiking, skiing, or wakeboarding depending on the season, or traveling the world.
People Think “When We Were Young Fest” Will Be Fyre Festival 2.0
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After us elder emos got over the initial excitement of When We Were Young Fest being announced, questions about logistics started to pop up and now people think it’s going to be Fyre Fest 2.0.
Let’s go over the details.
It’s a one-day event
With over 60 bands performing
and only 3 Stages…
Most, if not all, of the people who are excited about this, have also attended Warped Tour in the past and know that even that show had way more than 3 stages for a one-day festival showcasing that many bands.
So of course TikToks are all over our FYP talking about how this whole festival might be a scam.
Prays it’s not because I really want to go 🙏🏻
Also, many people are pointing out that the same people putting this festival on were also responsible for Astroworld which unfortunately ended in tragedy.
What do you think? Is it worth the flights and $250 admission?
NOFX to Headline 3 Punk in Drublic Festivals in Spring 2022
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This spring, NOFX are amping it up with a total of three Punk in Drublic Craft Beer & Music Festival dates across the Southwestern United States.
Last year, the California punk rock legends mounted two instances of their signature annual music and beer celebration on the East Coast.
But for 2022, NOFX will keep things close to home with Punk in Drublic dates in Tempe, Ariz., on March 19, San Diego on March 26, and Ventura, Calif., on March 27. Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, the Bouncing Souls and Lagwagon are scheduled to join NOFX at the Arizona date; Pennywise, Face to Face and Lagwagon at the other two California-based festivals.
See the full Punk in Drublic Festival 2022 band lineups down toward the bottom of this post.
NOFX figurehead and festival curator “Fat” Mike Burkett said, “I’m really looking forward to playing these shows for many reasons… I literally spent minutes calling bands and putting this line up together… So if you’re gonna go to one punk show this year… Go to one of these, they’re outdoors!”
In the absence of now-defunct summer punk rock festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour, Punk in Drublic — which had a multi-date run in 2017 — seems like one of the last remaining punk fest havens.
Festival co-producer Cameron Collins of Brew Ha Ha Productions added, “Punk in Drublic is one of the best touring festivals on the planet right now, in my opinion. It’s pure, it’s organic and it’s everything punk rock should be. We’ve been doing it since 2017 and though we had a crap 2020 like everyone else with the pandemic, PID is back and better than ever. I can’t wait to get back out there with our people!”
Craft beer tasting will be available at all three dates. Punk in Drublic tickets go on sale starting Wednesday (Jan. 19) at 10AM local time. Get yours and more info at punkindrublicfest.com.
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Last Call with Scott Alderman, tour producer, metalhead and author
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Fans of heavy metal may remember the infamous 2000 “Tattoo the Earth Tour” with Slayer, Slipknot and Metallica headlining. Shrewsbury resident Scott Alderman was the producer and sat down with Last Call to talk about earning the enmity of Sharon Osbourne, organizing shows in rodeos and parking lots, making sure the stage didn’t catch fire (again) and his upcoming book, “Caravan of Pain” out March 15.
Why was the “Tattoo the Earth Tour” so infamous?
The tour struggled to come together — getting it off the ground while we had so many people and entities trying to stop us from doing it. When we started the tour, we were still building it, in a way. It began in the middle of July but we didn’t announce it until the middle of June. I didn’t know the end dates when we started or who was going to show up to the first show.
Plus we had Slipknot, who had just gone platinum, and they’re just an insane band, and their fans are insane.
Insane in a good way or bad way?
I think in a good way. I had a sense back then that the kids who go to our shows are not going to go shoot up their high school. They’re getting it out of their system — I always thought of it as giving them a place for that. But we got banned in Boston — we were so loud, there was so much cursing on the stage that old ladies were riding around trying to find the party to get it shut down. Within a couple days, the mayor banned Slipknot and Tattoo the Earth for life — and it was one of our better shows. We had like 12,000 people but we couldn’t tattoo because it was still illegal in Massachusetts. We couldn’t even do a demonstration.
Who was the first band that committed?
Slipknot — we were trying to find a headline band. I was trying to get Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Metallica. I had a guy who was working with us and he mentioned Slipknot — said they’re hot, they just went platinum, and they’re a little bit dangerous. When we saw that Slipknot was really the band we wanted, we went to their agency and they had already committed to playing Ozzfest. So we worked on them and doubled the offer and they left Ozzfest and really pissed Sharon Osbourne off.
You think you made a powerful enemy that day?
Oh yeah, oh my lord. It was a double edged sword. Clear Channel — that was Live Nation back then — at the time owned all the amphitheaters. She had the pull (with Clear Channel) and got us out of those locations, so we were left playing rodeos, parking lots and horse tracks. The original tour was supposed to be like 38 days but it got cut down to 18 shows for lack of locations. She had got a big headliner — a hot band — and then we stole them away. She had every reason to be angry — I would have done the same thing in her place. When she found out that half of our dates were Clear Channel venues, she was like, “no way.”
So how about the tour itself — once you got it going?
It was like “Spinal Tap” meets “Carrie.” Every show was just insane. In Kansas, the stage got lit on fire, and in Wisconsin, the leader of Slipknot got maced a few hours before the show by the head of security at the venue. This is the craziness of the tour — it turned out that the year before Slipknot had performed there with Ozzfest and didn’t like how they’d been treated so it was off to a bad start. That show, Wisconsin, had the worst vibe ever.
Were you worried at all then?
That show, yeah I was scared — but I was scared the whole tour, cause I just had a nightmare that someone was going to die at one of our shows. The problem was we were playing alternative venues — not amphitheaters. Playing at amphitheaters was like going to a five-star hotel after you’ve been camping. Mostly, we were playing at parks where you had to set everything up from scratch. That’s the part that really wore us down — setting up the stage at a Texas rodeo in August — it was 110 degrees. It wasn’t meant to support a music show and people don’t like to go to alternative venues because they’re not known.
Though we didn’t have any problems with our fans. They knew what they were doing. The EMTs told me that the metal fans usually don’t get hurt — it’s the shows like Blink 182 or Green Day that attract younger kids and they can get hurt.
Had you wanted to do a second year?
Yes! But basically, everyone screwed us the second year — Slipknot’s manager and Sharon Osbourne. We were going to do Slipknot and Marilyn Manson but Ozzfest just doubled every offer. We were in the position where we’d have to pay three to four times what the show was worth and still play in rodeos. Plus, Clear Channel owned thousands of radio stations and were able to keep us off the radio. That’s something that hasn’t changed one bit — the music industry is run by a very small group of people. They spent millions to stop us in our tracks.
There is some satisfaction in that though — that they spent so much money to do that.
Absolutely, I get a lot of satisfaction out of it. Getting it off the ground and being one of those people that made it real sort of changed me. That was in some ways more important to me than anything. Obviously I would have loved to have sustained it for 20 years like Warped Tour and made all that money but it just didn’t work out that way. That’s why we shifted gears and did the first tattoo convention in Massachusetts.
When did the law change in the Commonwealth?
Once I saw that we weren’t going to put out a second tour — which was just crushing — I saw that the law had just changed in Massachusetts. I decided to put on the first tattoo convention in the fall of 2001. We drew like eight or nine thousand people. We had artists from all over the world, and guys who did hand tattooing from Borneo — it was a really successful show.
What inspired you to write the book?
I sketched out an outline of what became this book in the year following the tour. I wrote a memoir in 2020 and my plan was to write a few of them about my life. The next one was going to be about the time 30 years ago, when I worked at an AIDS hospice during the AIDS epidemic in New York City — a heavy book. Then the pandemic hit, and I wanted to write a book but I didn’t want to write that one — so I settled on Tattoo the Earth.
What did you learn from this whole experience?
I was out of my mind for the majority of trying to get this off the ground. It was a crazy vision quest. A part of what I learned is to trust my own instincts. Now, I’m much more comfortable with who I am and what makes me up.
“Caravan of Pain” will go on sale on March 15.
Famous Metal Musicians React to the Breakup of Every Time I Die
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Why does the breakup of Every Time I Die feel so different from the breakup of other popular bands? Part of it is certainly the drama that has developed around the split — but I don’t think that’s all of it. Plenty of band breakups are less-than-amicable, after all.
No, I think what makes this particular dissolution “special,” for lack of a better word, is that Every Time I Die were about as close to being universally beloved as any metal or hardcore band has ever been. I’m sure there are people who did/do not appreciate their music, and this being the Internet, I’m sure there are people who talked a lot of shit about them. But those shit-talkers are few and far between; ETID were never the constant target that so many of their peers have been.
This being the case, news of the split has lead to an especially emotional outpouring from prominent members of the metal community. We’ve collected some of those reactions below; we’ll continue to update this post as more come in.
Underoath
Doc Coyle (Bad Wolves, ex-God Forbid)
Buz McGrath (Unearth)
This @everytimeidie nonsense has to be some sort of “gimmick” i refuse this news.— buz with 1 Z (@buzmcgrath) January 18, 2022
Laura Jane Grace (Against Me!)
I took every chance I could to see @everytimeidie play on warped tour 2006. Their live show energy amped me up. Was always happy for their success and longevity, loved seeing the group grow and change. Great band— Laura Jane Grace (@LauraJaneGrace) January 18, 2022
James Hart (18 Visions)
EVERY TIME I DIE. What a career! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽— james hart (@JamesHartagram) January 18, 2022
Bryan Garris (Knocked Loose)
Kevin Kaine (Knocked Loose)
ETID took a chance on KL in 2017 and brought us out and it quickly turned into one of my favorite tours, quickly turned into one of my favorite bands and favorite people. That tour led to another, and another. Hate to see em go but will cherish the memories we have. Til next time— Pac (@TheCandyKaine) January 18, 2022
Thomas Williams (Stray from the Path)
They did the same thing for stray. Always put over new bands. A philosophy that they taught me over time and will continue to do https://t.co/QpmwnfBnkl— Tom from stray (@tomfromstray) January 18, 2022
Craig Reynolds (Stray from the Path)
every time they died 😢— craig reynolds (@reynlord) January 18, 2022
Brian Slagel (Metal Blade Records)
So sad to see what’s happening with Every Time I Die. Such good dudes and such a legendary band #ETID— Brian Slagel (@brianslagel) January 18, 2022
The World Alive
Thank you Every Time I Die for taking us to Australia for the first time
For always being humble and kind to us and our crew
For being one of the sickest live bands who inspired us to always want to get better
Long live ETID =>— THE WORD ALIVE (@TheWordAlive) January 18, 2022
Telle Smith (The Word Alive)
If every time I die is done that’s a loss for the entire music world not just the heavy music scene
Very few bands as beloved as ETID this is a sad day 😔— T E L L E (@tellesmith) January 18, 2022
Within the Ruins
Jordan “Gwarsenio Hall” Olds (Two Minutes to Late Night)