Mikey In The Pit

01/14/2026

12/02/2025

2026 is locked. 🎸 $1 down gets you in — GA, VIP, even camping now. Let’s go.

12/02/2025

🚨 2026 on!
The lineup’s still a mystery, but passes are on sale now starting at just $1 down. Because why wait to go broke when you can start today?

🎸 4 days of rock, punk, and metal
📍 Discovery Park, Sacramento
📆 October 1–4, 2026
🎟️ GA, VIP, and Capital Club SVIP if you’re fancy
🛻 NEW for 2026: Camping at Cal Expo! Tent, car, or RV ⛺️

If you already know you’re going (you are), now’s the time to lock it in. Prices go up, passes sell out, and nobody wants to be that person begging me for wristbands in a Facebook group next fall.

I’ll be there, as always covering the madness from the pit, the porta-potties, and wherever else the music takes us.

🔥 Passes + camping info: aftershockfestival.com
📸 Follow — Sacramento’s Official Unofficial Aftershock Insider

11/18/2025

2026 full lineup!

11/17/2025

11/04/2025

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11/03/2025

Shinedown Just Announced a Festival… With Hanson. The Hell Is Going On?

Shinedown is launching their own festival. Cool. Makes sense. They’ve sold out arenas all year, dropped a chart-crushing single (Three Six Five), played the Grand Ole Opry like it was no big deal, and now — apparently — they’re throwing a three-day party in Florida.

They’re calling it The Lunatic Ball, and the lineup is solid. Mostly.
• Shinedown (headliners and hosts)
• Bush (still yelling)
• Flyleaf w/ Lacey Sturm (back and belting)
• Living Colour (legends)
• From Ashes to New (high energy)
• Guardians of the Jukebox (covers )
• Neon Mooners (no clue, sounds sweaty)

And then… Hanson.

Let that sink in.

Somewhere between Sound of Madness and Everything Zen, they sandwiched the kids who sang MMMBop. This isn’t satire. Hanson is on the actual poster.

Listen, I’m not here to gatekeep weird. I’m here for it. I just want to be in the pit when MMMBop kicks off and some bearded dude from Jacksonville loses his mind like it’s Bodies by Drowning Pool. I want to see the crossover chaos.

This festival’s happening October 23–25 in Miramar, Florida. Three days. Rock, nostalgia, covers, comedians, DJs, probably a couple midlife crises. Shinedown’s running the show, so expect it to be tight, big, and loaded with pyro.

Presale, VIP, and “stand next to Brent while he adjusts his sunglasses” packages are up now. Hunt them down.

🧨 2026 is coming. Shinedown’s loading the chamber early.

11/03/2025

Before playlists, before algorithms — it was just riffs and rebellion.💥

The sound that defined an era just joined your 2026 lineup with Staind, Drowning Pool, Buckcherry, 10 Years, Sick Puppies, and Fozzy bringing it back louder than ever.🔥

⏰ Daytona becomes your 2000s rock time machine this May. Turn up the radio and grab your early bird passes for only $1 down: on.welcometorockville.com/trk/ArtistDrip7

10/28/2025

Columbus is about to get wrecked! the four-day, five-stage beast returns May 14–17 with a lineup that looks like someone dumped a Hot Topic, a mosh pit, and a history book of metal into a blender.

🧨 Headliners: My Chemical Romance, Shinedown, Bring Me The Horizon, and Tool.
That’s emo, arena rock, apocalypse-core, and actual gods — all on one weekend.

💀 Backing them up?
Megadeth and Sepultura (both on farewell runs), Anthrax, Halestorm, Godsmack, Rise Against, Good Charlotte, Architects, Public Enemy, and like 130 more.

And yes five stages. Because apparently four wasn’t enough for the madness is planning this time.

🎟 Tickets are live now at sonictemplefestival.com.
Get ‘em or spend that weekend watching TikToks of everyone else losing their minds in Columbus.

I’ll see you in the pit. 🤘

10/24/2025

(Hed) PE or Hope? 🤷🏼‍♂️

10/23/2025

Spineshank at Aftershock Festival 2025

10/21/2025

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