Day One

"Day one of Bluesland featured Bad Notion, Manu Lenvin and Mike Sponza, and the night was crowned by the arrival of the slender queen of modern blues rock, the superb Ana Popovič, who gave everyone a proper little guitar lesson in how to…

"Right out of the gate, day one of Jazz Cerkno 2019 served up an incredibly colorful cross-genre melting pot of three acts, and it flew by in a flash!"

Location: Tolmin / Sotočje / Slovenia Date: 07/23/2018 Metaldays, which has been putting Slovenia on the map as a country with big metal festivals ever since 2004, is always a pleasure to come back to. Over the years it has become…

"The response was truly lukewarm, even though the crowd was visibly enjoying itself throughout the show. Marilyn Manson sensed this flatness quickly and started acting extremely formal. Just enough to »pocket« another gig and a few rustling…

Location: Balingen / Messegelände / GermanyDate: Thursday, 13.07.2017 The nineteenth Bang Your Head festival is here, and with it a new RockLine expedition to Balingen, Germany. One of Europe's most important summer festivals, known…

Location: Seebronn (Rottenburg am Neckar) / Festplatz / Germany Date: Friday, July 29, 2016 Up next was the eleventh edition of the Rock of Ages festival, put on by the crew behind the German music magazine “Heavy, Oder Was?”. That same…

"If I may add a personal note: after years of waiting, seeing Tesla again finally made it happen, even though I'd have loved to hear at least a few more songs than the "modest" thirteen. Tesla, Rockline is already looking forward to your…

Location: Tolmin (the confluence of the Tolminka and Soča) / SloveniaDate: August 6, 2012 We moan every year, and we moan all year long. We (rightfully) complain about a lineup that looks like the roster of Nuclear Blast and/or the…

Location: Rieden - Kreuth / GermanyDate: 08/27/2009 A whiff of the traditional Wacken Open Air festival, which has been going for 19 years now in the far north of Germany, finally reached us in a slightly scaled-down version, a bit…

"The first day of the festival had no trouble earning the flattering nickname "Operation: Balingen". It made plenty of people's dreams come true, even though Queensryche already played the whole of "Operation: Mindcrime" live in Balingen…

"Quite a few people headed back to the "camp" to snore after Robert Plant. The appetite just ran out before Roxy Music. But the "headliner" role of the evening fell to Roxy Music more than deservedly. They set the place on fire above all…