The Darkness

The Ocean City, Maryland fest also has The Hives, Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, Lisa Loeb, Guster, and more.

Featuring: The Replacements, New Order, Acetone, The Lemonheads, The Dream Syndicate, Fun Boy Three, Kirsty MacColl, and more.

Plus: Bad Bunny, U2, Styles P, Glassjaw, Motion City Soundtrack, Kurt Vile, Gold Dime, and more tour and festival news.

This show had it all: catsuits, headstands, solos played on the shoulders of roadies, hit after hit.

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The Darkness‘ over-the-top debut holds up remarkably well 20 years later.

The ‘Permission to Land…Again‘ reissue and box set will be out on October, just in time for The Darkness‘ 20th anniversary tour.

“Squeeze yourselves into those inappropriate leggings, back-comb your mullet, splash on a big handful of attitude, and come celebrate with us!” -Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins

Liam Gallagher opened the star-studded Wembley Stadium show fronting Foo Fighters with 2 Oasis hits, and guests also included members of Queen, AC/DC, The Police, Oasis, Supergrass, The Pretenders, reunions of Them Crooked Vultures and The James Gang, and more.

Smashing Pumpkins, Slash, Steve Albini, Gene Simmons, Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Idol, Garbage, Jimmy Eat World, Lars Ulrich, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, and many more also paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer.