Have a break from everyday troubles with The Rift

How to chill out and find relaxing atmosphere in these troubled times? Music has the power to bring you down. This new video is the perfect way to combine something to relax, to sing along to it and have a creative and retro-like time out.

It is meant as a  tribute to bands such as Metallica, Tool, Deep Purple, and 80's video games.

The Rift states, “We want listeners to escape from their reality for a little while. We want them to connect on a deep level, so they have something inspiring to fall into.”


The band recently inked a deal with Zombie Shark Records and has been hard at work creating new music for an upcoming release.

Front man Aris Anagnos adds, “We wanted to make songs that hit hard, but you can sing along to at the same time. Sometimes, we go bluesy-rock and other times there are tinges of punk and metal. We explore different styles while keeping a solid, real sound.”

Check the band's homepage for all the further things going on.

Watch Rock am Ring festival 2016 via Livestream

The open air season goes on! This weekend the legendary Rock am Ring festival will take place. For all those who cannot make it there it's surely great news that their will be a livestream of that event already starting TODAY!

The portal ARTE concert has announced to stream the following bands or set up videos as a stream on demand service (all times are MEST)

Friday 03. June 2016

15:35 - 16:30h  Amon Amarth
16:55 - 17:50h  Breaking Benjamin 
17:50 - 18:45h  Frittenbude    
18:45 - 19:45h  Disturbed   
19:50 - 21:20h  Tenacious D.
21:20 - 22:00h  Panic At The Disco
22:00 - 00:00h  Volbeat  
00:00 - 01:10h  The 1975 (Recording)

Saturday 04. June 2016
Foals / Trivium / Billy Talent / Heaven Shall Burn / Red Hot Chili Peppers / Bullet For My Valentine

Update for day 3 of the Rock am Ring livestream: the organizers have decided to close the festival due to another massive warning on the weather forecast and the city Mendig having taken down the permission for the festival. So there will be no performances and no broadcast. The linked stream page offers some of the shows of the past days as video on demand (scroll down to the bottom of the website).

Update 2 on the Rock am Ring livestream: the concerts and the broadcast will continue on 21h (MEST). The exact schedule is to be confirmed yet. Please check the subpage of the livestream for details.

Update for the Rock am Ring livestream Saturday 04. June 2016: currently the livestream shows only recorded material from yesterday. There has been a electric power failure but the staff is working hard to get the live broadcast back online again. Current plans say that it should be back at 20h (MEST) but a thunderstorm has been announced in the weather forecast so changes are always possible. The current schedule looks like this:

19:50 - 21:20 Uhr: Billy Talent

21:20 - 22:00 Uhr: Killswitch Engage

22:00 - 23:10 Uhr: Heaven Shall Burn

23.13 - 00:45 Uhr: Red Hot Chili Peppers

00:45 - 02:00 Uhr: Bullet For My Valentine

Sunday 05. June 2016
Wirtz / Johnossi / Bring Me The Horizon / SDP / Korn / Alligatoah / Biffy Clyro / Fettes Brot

The performance of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers will also be broadcasted on german television!

Stay tuned to this page as I update it wth info as soon as possible. Or have a eye on my Facebook page that I'll update with the latest info, too.

You'll find the stream of the Open Air and the on demand stuff on the website of ARTE concert.

Rock im Pott to be streamed from Rockpalast.de

Wow, I thought the festival season might be over but it ain't. :-)

This weekend the Rock im Pott festival takes place in Gelsenkirchen at the Veltins Arena.

The website of the TV show Rockpalast has announced to stream some of the big bands that will play at the festival on their website and afterwards broadcast footage from AREA4 festival at the german TV station WDR. Here are the band-names and streaming-times, look at the picture on the website for detailed CEST times.

Kraftklub - 15:00Uhr

The BossHoss - 16:15Uhr

Jan Delay & Disko No. 1 - 17:30Uhr

Placebo - 19:10Uhr

Red Hot Chili Peppers - 21:15Uhr