2021 Festival Announcements, Including Louder Than Life & Aftershock

Some hopeful news - from my inbox. We'll see if any of these shows really happen. I'm most skeptical about Inkcarceration because it is in July. The others are deep enough into the fall that they will probably be okay. Time will tell.

As the music industry looks to bring live events back to eager fans in 2021, leading independent live entertainment producer and promoter Danny Wimmer Presents is excited to announce its upcoming festival calendar for the year.  The event lineup includes the return of fan favorites Louder Than Life and Welcome To Rockville, alongside the previously announced Aftershock, and new to the DWP family, Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival.

Louder Than Life, the largest rock festival in America, will take place September 23-26, 2021 at Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky and will be adding a Thursday night celebration event to kick off the weekend.  All current pass holders will receive admission to the newly added Thursday night kickoff celebration for free.

Welcome To Rockville will return with an expanded 4-day festival weekend that furthers its reputation as Florida’s biggest rock experience, and will move to a new weekend for 2021, November 11-14. Rockville will also have a new home, relocating to the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.  Due to the festival date change from May to November, current Welcome To Rockville ticketholders will have the opportunity to request a refund or use their passes for the upcoming November festival.  All fans who defer their passes to Rockville 2021 will receive complimentary access to the newly added 4th day.

Danny Wimmer Presents is also pleased to announce a new partnership formed with the creators of the fan-favorite Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival. Inkcarceration is scheduled for July 23-25 at the famous Ohio State Reformatory (aka “Shawshank State Prison” from The Shawshank Redemption) in Mansfield, Ohio. The previously announced Aftershock, the West Coast’s Biggest Rock Festival, which has sold out for the last five consecutive years, will be bigger and better than ever, taking place October 7-10 at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California.  Aftershock 2021 will be headlined by Metallica (performing two unique sets, one on Friday and one on Sunday) and My Chemical Romance (Saturday), who were both confirmed for the sold-out postponed 2020 event. The diverse Aftershock 2021 lineup will also include: Limp Bizkit, Rancid, The Offspring, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Volbeat, Machine Gun Kelly, Mastodon, Gojira, SEETHER, Parkway Drive, and many more.  Several other longstanding events within the Danny Wimmer Presents portfolio will take a hiatus in 2021, with a commitment to return bigger than ever for the 2022 season, including Epicenter (Charlotte, NC) and Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival (Columbus, OH).        

Comments

[Bkallday]

Unfortunately there’s no way our weak ass governor will allow this to happen.

[Him]

Bkallday, how do you judge the strength of a butt? Is it tensile? Or is it something like IRM? I just ask because I am curious and like to get the advice of experts. Thanks in advance.

[Bryon]

I've got my tickets for Louder (held them over from last year) and should be really pumped for this, but I'm trying to keep my excitement in check. We really don't know whether it will actually happen. Hopefully we can get most people vaccinated by then.

[Steverox]

Louder Than Life may happen ... far enough into the year.

More curious about M3 at this point ... still scheduled for last weekend April.

[Gary]

@Him. I believe the formula Einstein used was:

[ss2 X fer = tap] (or, in laymen’s terms):

“Sphincter strength squared multiplied by flatulence ejection rate equals total ass power.

Richard Fyneman had a variation of this formula, but I can’t quite recall it...

[Him]

Gary, you added something extra to the equation! I love how you Bohr down into the discussion. You always seem to remove any potential for uncertainty, on principle no less.