all the noise that's fit to blog
With Innings Festival kicking off tomorrow, there may be some artists who haven't yet hammered down their setlist just yet.
That's ok, who among us isn't prone to a little procrastination leading up to a big gig?
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Rahema Shifa Alemeda was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. Her family comes from the Gurage tribe which inspired her stage name, spelled Alemeda so it would be easier to Google.
Like many, she moved to LA around to pursue music full time, posting covers on SoundCloud, and other parts of social media. Her 2021 independent single “Gonna Bleach My Eyebrows,” did pretty well on TikTok and she later signed a deal with Top Dawg Entertainment whose flagship artist is Kendrick Lamar.
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The very first Innings Festival launched at Tempe Beach Park, Arizona in March 2018 as a spring training celebration timed just days before the start of the official MLB season.
The goal was to mix the laid-back casualness of pre-season baseball with a chill outdoor music festival. The musical performances spread across three stages. In between and all around were fun activities like batting cages, a home run derby, and speed-pitch challenges.
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Echoing the Spirit of '76, Bruce Springsteen belted out a rallying cry yesterday as he announced his first round of tour dates for he and the E Street Band for 2026.
“Brothers and sisters, fans, friends, and good folk from coast to coast, we are living through dark, disturbing, and dangerous times," the 76-year old superstar said sitting on the hood of a mid century Chevy Z28 in what appeared to be his garage.
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Cardi B opened her Little Miss Drama Tour last Tuesday (2/11) at Acrisure Arena in Thousand Palms, California, which sits about 15 miles northeast of the home of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
Cardi is finally touring and riding the wave of her much anticipated sophomore LP, Am I the Drama?, which dropped in September nearly 8 years after Invasion of Privacy (2018) took the world (and our hearts) by storm.
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On Presidents Day of 1996, the wacky and talented Seattle trio, The Presidents of the United States of America, hauled their stripped down setup to Mount Rushmore to stand in the shadow of their namesakes and sing songs about felines and fruit.
Riding the unlikely wave of success from their self titled debut, the quirky lo-fi band boasted a bass with only two strings, a guitar with just three, and a drummer who wasn't afraid to ride the cowbell.
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Henry Rollins was born Henry Lawrence Garfield on February 13, 1961, in the nation's capitol where he quit college in his first year to immerse himself in DC's emerging hardcore scene.
By the late 1970s, he was a fixture at local shows. And in the '80s he would emerge as an iconic figure for both fronting Black Flag and later Rollins Band.
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When Christopher B. “Stubb” Stubblefield returned home to Texas in 1968 after serving in the Korean War as a mess hall sergeant, the 2x Purple Heart recipient opened a bar-b-q joint in Lubbock.
The food was so good musicians reportedly would play for free in exchange for Stubb's ribs, brisket and/or BBQ chicken topped with what would become a world famous sauce.
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Billy Strings opened his Winter Tour 2026 with the first of a pair of nights at Akins Ford Arena in Athens, Georgia, on Thursday (2/6), with a two-set performance that moved between his own catalog and bluegrass standards.
The 33-year-old guitarist and singer was joined by Billy Failing (banjo), Jarrod Walker (mandolin), Royal Masat (bass), and Alex Hargreaves (fiddle) on their opening night in the 8,500-capacity room.
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Miguel soft launched the CAOS Tour to Washington DC on Tuesday (2/3), with live keyboards, percussion, strings, and close harmonies for a tight set inside the famous NPR Tiny Desk office.
The LA native cruised through seven songs with his talented band in just under half an hour, giving the audience some gems from his past as well as a few numbers from his latest album, CAOS which dropped October of 2025.
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Even though all the members of Green Day are now firmly in their 50s, the trio (and the new guy) have maintained a youthful vibe and punk rock behaviors which include yelling truth to power.
So when the Bay Area trio were invited to rock the Super Bowl pregame, the buzz was "what will Billie Joe say?" "will someone wear an offensive shirt?" "will they play a defiant cover from Rage Against the Machine?"
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Nine Inch Nails played the second show of the 2026 North American leg of their Peel It Back Tour on Saturday (2/7) at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, fully locked in after their kickoff earlier in the week in New Orleans.
The downtown VyStar seats about 15,000 fans, and those who filled it were rewarded when Trent Reznor and company opened with a three-year-old song they had never performed live before.
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