{"id":338748,"date":"2026-05-30T06:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T06:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T06:17:08","slug":"unsigned-bands-can-win-an-aftershock-stage-slot-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/338748\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsigned bands can win an Aftershock stage slot in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

The organizers of the annual Aftershock festival are giving unsigned and independent bands a chance to perform at the West Coast\u2019s largest rock, punk and heavy metal festival.<\/p>\n

Any band not signed to a major label is eligible to submit a song<\/a>, concert promoter Danny Wimmer Presents announced. Fans can vote for their favorite submissions, and festival organizers will announce the winners on their Twitch channel<\/a> every Sunday at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Aftershock recently announced its 2026 lineup,<\/a> which includes more than 150 acts across five stages. Headliners include My Chemical Romance, Limp Bizkit and Tool, as well as hip-hop acts Public Enemy and Wu-Tang Clan.<\/p>\n

The four-day festival will return to Discovery Park in Sacramento beginning Oct. 1. For the first time in its 14-year history, the festival will offer on-site tent and RV camping.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Lempres<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Daniel Lempres is an investigative reporter at The Sacramento Bee focused on government accountability. Before joining The Bee, his investigations appeared in outlets like the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organizers of the annual Aftershock festival are giving unsigned and independent bands a chance to perform at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-338748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}