{"id":484283,"date":"2019-04-04T08:34:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817623"},"modified":"2019-04-04T08:34:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:34:19","slug":"guns-n-roses-join-lineup-for-2019-louder-than-life-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/guns-n-roses-join-lineup-for-2019-louder-than-life-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns N\u2019 Roses Join Lineup for 2019 Louder Than Life Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/guns-n-roses-louder-than-life.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Guns N\u2019 Roses will continue the long-running, partial reunion of their classic-era line-up \u2014 singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan \u2014 at the 2019 Louder Than Life festival. The hard rock band are the first act announced for the event, which runs between September 27th and 29th at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Louder Than Life will be the band\u2019s first concert since their December performance in Hawaii benefitting the Andy Irons Foundation. Rose, Slash and McKagan first reunited for the \u201cNot in This Lifetime\u2026 Tour,\u201d marking their first live shows since their 1993 <em>Use Your Illusion<\/em> dates; running from April 2016 through December 2018, it became one of the highest-grossing treks in history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere are only a handful of bands through the years whose music not only resonates with fans, but changes the entire face of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.&nbsp;Guns N\u2019 Roses&nbsp;is one of those true icons,\u201d Louder Than Life producer&nbsp;Danny Wimmer said in a statement. \u201cEvery year we want to come back bigger and better, and we can\u2019t wait to welcome&nbsp;Axl, Slash, Duff&nbsp;and the rest of&nbsp;GN\u2019R&nbsp;to the&nbsp;Louder Than Life&nbsp;stage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The festival will announce its full lineup on Monday, April 8th, and tickets will go on sale at 9:00 a.m. ET the same day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McKagan recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/duff-mckagan-new-guns-n-roses-album-799258\/\">promised that Guns N\u2019 Roses are (slowly) also working on a new album<\/a>, the band\u2019s follow-up to 2008\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/chinese-democracy-255370\/\"><em>Chinese Democracy<\/em><\/a> and their first since 1993\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/the-spaghetti-incident-246570\/\"><em>The Spaghetti Incident?<\/em><\/a> to feature both McKagan and Slash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s never been that band that there\u2019s a direct schedule of how we do things,\u201d the bassist said in a February interview with Trunk Nation. \u201cI\u2019ve heard some magnificent stuff that Axl has, really cool stuff he\u2019s been working on. So I\u2019m excited about the possibilities with that, of course. I don\u2019t mean to get anybody rabid. Our day will happen when it happens, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/guns-n-roses-2019-louder-than-life-festival-817623\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guns N\u2019 Roses will continue the long-running, partial reunion of their classic-era line-up \u2014 singer Axl Rose, guitarist Slash, bassist Duff McKagan \u2014 at the 2019 Louder Than Life festival. The hard rock band are the first act announced for the event, which runs between September 27th and 29th at the Highland Festival Grounds at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 15:04:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}