Festival Noize: Rock On The Range, Essence, Welcome To Rockville

Rock On The Range lays out its 2014 schedule.  Set for May 16-18 at Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, the three day celebration of thunderous power chords and ear-candy riffs will open its doors at 11 a.m. daily with the first acts firing up their amps at noon.

Friday, May 16
Monster Main Stage
Redlight King – 1:10 p.m.
Black Stone Cherry –  2:15 p.m.
Killswitch Engage – 3:35 p.m.
Black Label Society – 4:55 p.m.
Seether – 6:20 p.m.
Staind – 8:00 p.m.
Guns N’ Roses – 9:30 p.m.

Ernie Ball Stage
Devour the Day – 12:00 p.m.
Kyng – 12:40 p.m.
Thousand Foot Krutch – 1:45 p.m.
We Came as Romans – 3:00 p.m.
Reignwolf – 4:20 p.m.
Living Colour – 5:45 p.m.
Down – 7:15 p.m.

Jägermeister Stage
Kill Devil Hill – 12:00 p.m.
Werm – 12:40 p.m.
Truckfighters – 1:45 p.m.
One OK Rock – 3:00 p.m.
Butcher Babies – 4:20 p.m.
Lacuna Coil – 5:45 p.m.

The Old Milwaukee Comedy Tent
Keith Bender – 6:20 p.m.
Sumukh Torgalkar – 6:35 p.m.
Chuck Zumock – 6:50 p.m.
Michael Harrisson –7:10 p.m.
Jim Florentine – 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 18
Monster Main Stage
Rev Theory – 1:15 p.m.
Fuel – 2:30 p.m.
Pop Evil – 3:50 p.m.
Theory of a Deadman – 5:10 p.m.
Chevelle – 6:35 p.m.
Slayer – 8:15 p.m.
Avenged Sevenfold – 9:35 p.m.

Ernie Ball Stage
Stars in Stereo – 12:00 p.m.
We As Humans – 12:40 p.m.
King 810 – 1:55 p.m.
Texas Hippie Coalition – 3:15 p.m.
Nothing More – 4:35 p.m.
The Pretty Reckless – 6:00 p.m.
Suicidal Tendencies – 7:30 p.m.

Jägermeister Stage
FOX Rocks Winner – 12:00 p.m.
Wilson – 12:40 p.m.
Crobot – 1:55 p.m.
Avatar – 3:15 p.m.
Fozzy – 4:35 p.m.
Exodus – 6:00 p.m.

The Old Milwaukee Comedy Tent
Brian Kenny – 6:35 p.m.
Bill Squire – 6:50 p.m.
Bill Crawford – 7:25 p.m.
Joe Howard – 7:25 p.m.
Don Jamieson – 7:45 p.m.

Sunday, May 19
Monster Main Stage
Trivium – 1:15 p.m.
Adelitas Way – 2:25 p.m.
Wolfmother – 3:40 p.m.
Mastodon – 4:55 p.m.
Alter Bridge – 6:15 p.m.
Five Finger Death Punch – 7:45 p.m.
Kid Rock – 9:15 p.m.

Ernie Ball Stage
Ernie Ball Winner – 12:00 p.m.
Gemini Syndrome – 12:40 p.m.
Heaven’s Basement – 1:50 p.m.
We Are Harlot – 3:05 p.m.
Miss May I – 4:20 p.m.
Of Mice & Men – 5:40 p.m.
Jason Bonham Led Zeppelin Experience – 7:00 p.m.

Jägermeister Stage
Sleepwave – 12:00 p.m.
Monster Truck – 12:40 p.m.
Twelve Foot Ninja – 1:50 p.m.
Jim Breuer Band – 3:05 p.m.
Kvelertak – 4:20 p.m.
Gojira – 5:40 p.m.

The Old Milwaukee Comedy Tent
Darrell Dawson – 6:15 p.m.
Chris Coen – 6:35 p.m.
Aaron Kleiber – 6:55 p.m.
Jim Breuer – 7:15 p.m.

Weekend general admission tickets are still available.  Click here for more info.

The folks at Monster Energy’s Welcome To Rockville want you to know that the April 26-27 festival at Metropolitan Park in Jacksonville, Fla. – which featured performances by Avenged Sevenfold, The Cult, Rob Zombie, Korn, Five  Finger Death Punch, Staind and others – attracted 40,000 fans, resulting in a sold-out fourth year.

“Rockville #4 is in the books and was a perfect way to kick off the World’s Loudest Month.  Two full days of rock, sweat and beers – aka the perfect storm of good times,” said Loudwire Nights host Full Metal Jackie.

“We are proud to report, that for the second year in a row, downtown hotels were sold out during the festival weekend and business was dramatically increased in the area,” Rockville producer Danny Wimmer said.  “The fact that we’ve increased attendance at the festival by 60 percent in one year shows that there’s a demand in the market and that we have room to keep expanding.  We’ll continue to do everything we can do to keep rock alive at Met Park and build Jacksonville as a destination music city not only for rock music fans, but for the artists themselves.”

The Essence Music Festival in New Orleans has added another day to its original July 4-6 plans for the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, La.  Appearing on the festival’s July 3 “NowPlaying” concert at the venue will be Nas, K. Michelle, Trey Songz and Jazmine Sullivan. 

Ticket, which are sold separately from Essence festival passes, are available right now.  Click here for the skinny.