Carolina Rebellion Lineup Announced

An expanded Carolina Rebellion returns May 4 & 5 at Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, just outside of Charlotte. After uncharted success in 2012, the Mid-Atlantic’s biggest rock festival is growing to two full days in its third year and will feature more camping and VIP space at its new location. 

Carolina Rebellion 2013 features a lineup full of rock heavyweights, including: Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Limp Bizkit, Rise Against, Bush, Deftones, 3 Doors Down, Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Bullet For My Valentine, Buckcherry, Volbeat, Halestorm, Asking Alexandria, All That Remains, Steel Panther, Device (with David Draiman), Hollywood Undead, Sick Puppies, In This Moment, Escape The Fate, Pop Evil, Nonpoint, Otherwise, Aranda, Thousand Foot Krutch, Red Line Chemistry, Young Guns, Tracer, American Fangs and Heaven's Basement.

The bands listed above will perform on one of the three festival stages: the Monster Energy ‘Carolina Stage’, the Monster Energy ‘Rebellion Stage’ and the Jägermeister Stage.  In addition, f.y.e will have a special artist tent where bands will stop by throughout the day to meet fans and sign their CDs.

"After wrapping up our last U.S. tour, we were planning on recharging our batteries for awhile, but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to play with the mighty Soundgarden in what will be one of the only shows we'll play in the U.S. this year," says Tim Mcllrath of Rise Against.

Michael Poulsen of Volbeat comments, "In Europe and the U.S., we have enjoyed the experiences that come from being a part of the festival environment, just as the fans do. Looking forward to Carolina Rebellion!”

"The ‘Rebels’ spoke and we listened,” says Gary Spivack, Co-Executive Producer of the event for Right Arm Entertainment. “More days, a new venue, huge bands…It’s our mission for Rebellion to be the biggest and best rock festival in the entire Mid-Atlantic region. We have our home at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and can't wait for May 4 and 5!" 

Full Weekend General Admission tickets for Carolina Rebellion go on sale to the public Friday, February 8 at 10am EST, as do Single Day General Admission tickets, all at www.CarolinaRebellion.com. Full Weekend tickets will be available starting at $99 plus fees, and Single Day tickets will start at $59.50 plus fees. Parking is included with all tickets.

To get access to the special internet presale, which will be held from Wednesday, February 6 through Thursday, February 7, go to the Carolina Rebellion Facebook page (www.facebook.com/CRebellion) or www.CarolinaRebellion.com and sign up to receive the Rebellion newsletter. Those who sign up can purchase the Full Weekend General Admission tickets for just $89 plus fees during the presale only.

Once again, ticket discounts will also be available for active military. For full details about military ticket discounts, go to www.CarolinaRebellion.com. 

Carolina Rebellion will feature an even greater variety of Camping, Hotel and VIP Packages and upgrades. All Camping and Hotel Packages will also include access to the Friday night campground party. Details for all Camping, Hotel and VIP packages can be found at www.CarolinaRebellion.com.  

“Holding Carolina Rebellion at Charlotte Motor Speedway gives us the ability to create an even better experience for our fans,” comments Joe Litvag, Co-Executive Producer of the festival for AEG Live.  “We have more space to expand, easier access in and out, upgraded tent and RV camping opportunities, and lots of participating hotels to cater to our crowd.  But most importantly we’re able to continue to offer incredible value by keeping our ticket prices low while the festival grows in stature each year.”

The daily band lineup for Carolina Rebellion is as follows:

Saturday, May 4

Alice In Chains, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Bullet For My Valentine, Halestorm, Asking Alexandria, Sick Puppies, In This Moment, Device (with David Draiman), Young Guns, Otherwise, Aranda, Tracer, Monstro

Sunday, May 5

Soundgarden, Rise Against, Bush, 3 Doors Down, Buckcherry, Volbeat, Hollywood Undead, All That Remains, Steel Panther, Pop Evil, Escape the Fate, Nonpoint, Thousand Foot Krutch, Red Line Chemistry, Heaven’s Basement, American Fangs

Carolina Rebellion is proud to be sponsored by Monster Energy, Jägermeister, U.S. Army and f.y.e.  Carolina Rebellion is produced by Right Arm Entertainment and AEG Live, the same team that produces the highly successful Rock On The Range in Columbus, OH. 

Rock City Campgrounds at Charlotte Motor Speedway is located at 7301 Bruton Smith Blvd. in Concord, NC, just outside Charlotte, and less than two hours from Raleigh/Durham, Columbia and Greensboro. Visit www.charlottemotorspeedway.com for directions and additional venue information.

Carolina Rebellion marks the second event during the 2013 World’s Loudest Month. Created in partnership by AEG Live and Right Arm Entertainment, the World’s Loudest Month features the biggest names in rock music performing in five distinct U.S. concert atmospheres: Welcome To Rockville, Carolina Rebellion, Rockfest, Rock On The Range, and Rocklahoma. In 2012, the World’s Loudest Month featured over 100 artists playing for more than 200,000 rock music fans across the country on five consecutive weekends, confirming that rock music is as vital as ever.  

Comments

[Rock-It]

Sounds rather uninspiring... And the same weekend as M3.

[Metalboy!]

Totally with you there, Rock-It. Besides, the better bands are on Sunday.

Who the h*ll wants to stick around on a Sunday, if it's at all avoidable? Unless you're going to plan your vacation around this. And who wants to do that considering the yawner of a line-up.

M3 does it right -- An abbreviated but action packed Friday night line-up and then a full day Saturday line-up, including the festival's headliners.

At least that's the formula though they haven't got the totally killer headliner yet. Should I hold my breath? I'm concerned the M3 promoters may be establishing a precedent -- Halfas*ing the line-up every other year.

Explained: Last year was killer -- RATT as the big performer with a legendary performance. The year before -- Mediocre with Twisted Sister and Whitesnake as the headliners. The year previous to that -- Fantastic line-up with Scorpions and Cinderella headlining.

[Him]

If I had to guess, they blew their wad on the the two headline acts. Which isn't to say this isn't a packed line-up. It is. But it definitely starts to fade as you go down the list each day.

This seems, as time goes on, to be an issue with many AEG sponsored and co-sponsored events. They have a stable of acts that they squirt out each summer on command. And while it is getting more and more difficult to pack a show with nostalgia acts or to set a consistent tone mixing newer and older ones, it smacks of quantity over quality.

Compare it to the 90s Ozzfest (a fairly consistent focus on older and newer metal acts, though with an occasional odd choice . ... Primus) or even Coachella (set up from the word "go" to be a diverse trip through varied genres). In contrast, AEG picks a couple of known bands and some used to be known acts (Bush) and then floods the rest of it with stuff (and, granted, some people like the stuff).

[Metalboy!]

Great observations on the "Modern Rock" Festival Strategy of AEG, HIM.

You also bring up another template to further consider...

The success of the format of Ozzfest mixing older and newer acts.

Now reimagine that for M3... If the organizers and promoters of M3, for example, really had vision, they would add the new Swedish Glam Metal acts plus the likes of Black Veil Brides into the mix.

Imagine a line-up consisting of W.A.S.P., Black Veil Brides Cinderella and Crash Diet among others, for example.

The music and style of each band feed off one another, bringing what would be a multi-generational audience together.

[Brian L]

I like that idea, Metalboy. I've said it many times, that bands from over in Europe should be included over ion the States. Those bands should seek out rock events like M3. Imagine, Crashdiet, WigWam, Kix, and WASP opening up the weekend.

[Metalboy!]

Exactly, Brian L! But who would you suggest for Saturday? Twisted Sister and Brett Michaels aren't really decent headliners...

p.s. How about Black Veil Brides, Cinderella, Sixx A.M. And Poison?

[Chessie]

Hoo boy, I can see a mess for the Kanapolis/Concord NC area. That is also "Speed Weeks" month when NASCAR comes in for about 2-3 weeks for the All Star event and whatever-the-sponsor-is 600 to be held on Memorial Day weekend. Local services are going to already be strained to the max because of the racing people. They should hold it a couple of months after May before the next Charlotte races in September or October (can't remember which right now--I'm lucky to remember Richmond International Raceway's schedule!).

Besides, there's not one darned act that I want to see.

>^..^<

[Metalboy!]

Look for the BBG! sponsored car, Chessie.

[Him]

I like the idea Metalboy! Cross-fertilization and some energy to boot.

I have nothing against corporate rock doing what corporate rock does: if it sells, then why wouldn't they do it? But I love the idea of European-style festivals here in the States or at least more European acts (as Brian noted).

But there are logistical issues all over the place. Rocklahoma had a great concept but not enough lucre to keep it going without binding themselves to AEG. Rock n' America had the potential to be a replacement along pretty clear metal lines. But the promoter lost his shirt (and the promotion wasn't well-planned either). I also think it is harder for bands to jump back and forth across the pond these days if they are up and comers.

And even Europe is experiencing some issues with all the festivals. Several got cancelled. Others got co-opted. So its a bit of old and new working to keep "Slam Juice Thunk Drink" Fest and "Cool Stuff We Tell You To Like" Fest as the major options in the States each summer . . . the corporations have the money. Luckily, M3 and ROTR are trying to inspire a different vibe.

[Metalboy!]

HIM, so right. If AEG was smart, they would foot the bill to popularize the Swedish bands here. Those bands OUTROCK nearly any of our bands (save for maybe Buckcherry and Black Veil Brides) and AEG needs the product.

[dj]

i totally agree they should mix multi generational bands older and newer to have a multi generation audience, that would be badass, well said Him and Metalboy! My ideal of that would be like on Saturday have the new school. Black Veil Brides, Steel Panther, Avenged Sevenfold, BUllet For My Valentine, Crashdiet, Hardcore Superstar,siter sin, halestorm and so on, then on sunday have Wasp, Twisted Sister, Poison, Bret Michaels or vince neil and gnr or skid row for a headliner.

[dj]

as for this lineup i dont mind it, it would be ok, excluding a few bands though, id see alice in chains, in this moment, bfmv, halestorm, papa roach, maybe....asking alexandria, im kinda mixed on them. sundays is ok too, steel panther is great, buckcherry are awesome....

[Metalboy!]

According to your line-up, DJ, I would just skip Sunday and go Saturday only.

[Metalboy!]

Uh, let me partially retract that...

I would totally go if it was W.A.S.P., Skid Row and Poison, not that I wouldn't be stoked to see G'n'R, just don't know who they could afford of the legacy acts, if they got them, however. Then again, G'n'R could headline along with a couple of the newer bands like Crash Diet and Hardcore Superstar opening for them on Sunday and then both days would ROCK!