News Archive June 2010
From: The Press Enterprise
Posted: June 22, 2010
Eminem, KISS and blink-182 top the lineup of the Epicenter festival, a rock event set for Sept. 25 and 26 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.
The festival will be a homecoming of sorts for blink-182's drummer Travis Barker, who grew up in Fontana and later lived in Corona. He will also be performing a solo set.
A reunion of 1990s alt-rock band Bush, Suicidal Tendencies, Rise Against and A Day to Remember are also on the initial lineup. Bad Religion, 30 Seconds to Mars, Papa Roach, New Politics, The Knux, B.O.B. and The Black Pacific will also perform.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday through Ticketmaster. A two-day pass will cost $149.50 and a single day ticket is $79.50. A VIP ticket will cost $395.
The festival has added a second day since its inception in 2009, when it featured headliners Linkin Park and Tool and was held at the Pomona Fairplex. The bands will play across two stages at the Speedway.
Los Angeles-based radio station KROQ 106.7 FM announced the lineup at 5 p.m. Monday, but San Bernardino's X103.9 FM had information about the lineup and dates on its website early in the afternoon before pulling down the information.
KISS -- still fronted by Gene Simmons -- will play the Epicenter Festival in Fontana in September.
The festival is put on by Right Arm Entertainment, which also organizes Ohio's Rock on the Range festival and used to help produce KROQ's Inland Invasion, which took place at what is now known as the San Manuel Amphitheater in Devore before going on hiatus a couple of years ago.
