When We Were Young festival has a stacked lineup, with Panic! At the Disco and Blink-182 at the top of the list, and the lineup has drawn a second date, adding Oct. 19 to make it a back-to-back two day fest with the same bands playing each night. The bands …
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The All-American Rejects will no longer play at When We Were Young in Las Vegas. On Friday, the band revealed they bowed out of the event next week since the fest’s management “won’t be able to accommodate” them. “We have spent months tirelessly preparing a once-in-a-lifetime show that we were …
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The ultimate emo festival, When We Were Young, will return for its third year in 2024 with a slight change to its format: each set will feature the top-to-bottom performance of a defining album from each act. My Chemical Romance — who helmed the event’s first year in 2022 — …
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Avril Lavigne may not have been part of the line-up for this year’s When We Were Young Festival, but the pop-punk princess made a surprise on-stage appearance during All Time Low‘s set, to the delight of fans. While the crowd initially thought they were being played a recording of Lavigne’s …
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Avril Lavigne and All Time Low took the stage in Las Vegas at the When We Were Young Festival for a cover of Blink-182‘s “All The Small Things” on Sunday. ATL frontman Alex Gaskarth and guitarist Jack Barakat jumped on stage with the “Sk8er Boi” singer for a nostalgic homage …
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Hayley Williams took to Instagram Stories to reflect on how far she and Paramore have come in a scene that she described as one that once “threatened to reject us” before the band performed at Las Vegas’ When We Were Young Festival on Sunday. The fest was forced to cancel …
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Las Vegas’ alt-rock nostalgia festival When We Were Young was forced to cancel its entire opening day slate Saturday due to a high wind warning in the area. “When We Were Young Festival organizers have spent the last several days proactively preparing the festival grounds for a windy Saturday,” organizers …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The When We Were Young festival, a monument to the glory days of emo/pop-punk nostalgia, is set to kick off this weekend in Sin City. The Vegas-based fest …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The inaugural When We Were Young festival hasn’t even happened yet, but the emo/pop-punk nostalgia blowout is already looking ahead to next year, announcing the newly-reunited Blink-182 and …
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