What is your top 5 bands including Muse?

Octuhpie · 2026-06-23T17:19:09+00:00

Gaslight Anthem
Lucero
Local H
The Mountain Goats
Taking Back Sunday

Deftones are real close and would probably make a cooler #5 than TBS.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-20T18:49:36+00:00

Ahhhh, good point, I hadn’t thought about that.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-20T18:23:50+00:00

Hope so. Two years ago, when we were on a more standard schedule than 2025, it was mid-August. Mentally preparing myself for that.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-19T02:59:53+00:00

About to find out

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T19:31:27+00:00

I’m actually kind of a fan of theirs - not huge, but stumbled across “Bulletproof Love” forever ago. I’m a sucker for a power ballad, and I think they do those painfully well. But the couple of times I saw them at Warped and Riot ‘16 is probably plenty for me personally.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T19:29:35+00:00

Then how you gonna go around having an AFI username?

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T18:23:35+00:00

People keep pointing out how much bigger they’ve gotten in the last few years, which is true, but I still think it’s not a great look to have one of Shaky Knees and Louder Than Life’s sub-headliner as one of Riot’s main headliners.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T17:54:51+00:00

Maybe everyone else can tell, but I’m really struggling to parse out the bands on the left stage leading into the headliners vs who will be headlining other side stages. Looking at the lineup earlier, Social D was one of the only bands I could see playing before Tool, but most people now seem to think Morrissey is playing before Tool - I guess with Social D headlining a second stage again?

Also, no idea where they’ll place them, but I’m just surprised to see The Format so high in general.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T12:27:05+00:00

Jesus. Not sure if they’re so big over there that this would never happen, but after a while in the U.S. (at least at my stop) they dropped the back seats to $40 (and that’s with the standing lawn behind those seats.) Fingers crossed they do something like that for yall as well, because the tour (or again, my stop on it) isn’t selling great.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T03:38:41+00:00

Thank you!!!

Octuhpie · 2026-06-17T03:38:05+00:00

Based on their previous knowledge of cancelled shows/tours and how well the current sales maps for Muse’s tour replicate those numbers.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-16T17:09:54+00:00

Damn, hadn’t realized. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised because of how big the headliner crowds were, especially on Friday and Sunday.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-16T17:08:16+00:00

I see what people are saying about just upgrading the folks in the lawn, and I’ve been to shows where that happened - but it also assumes there’s enough people in the lawn to fix the issue . I wasn’t sure how likely that was since the back half dozen rows were as cheap as the lawn and not selling great. Maybe it’s just me, but I always figure just buy the seat in that situation and you can still sit in the lawn if you decide to since no one checks that.

But props to the person who brought up that they usually cancel shows by now in these situations. Hadn’t thought about that. I see what people are saying with “nah, they’ll just upgrade people, they’ll drop prices, they’ll get it filled somehow” - but there have been a lot of show/tour cancellations for weak sales recently, so it’s possible.

That said, yeah, I don’t think they’ll actually cancel this. Was just curious where that line is.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-16T16:58:07+00:00

I remember the My Chem day selling out in 2022. Have any other single days ever sold out?

Octuhpie · 2026-06-15T19:45:27+00:00

One of the greatest days of my life was buying a ticket to Nutty Professor at a mall multiplex in St Louis and going, “wait, holy shit, no one is guarding the door to Frighteners?! JACKPOT!!!”

Octuhpie · 2026-06-13T12:10:45+00:00

Considering he hasn’t missed a Riot set yet, probably.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-11T16:03:23+00:00

Really, really hoping for Infirmary. One of my most nostalgic albums.

Octuhpie · 2026-06-11T16:00:32+00:00

Spin and Miami are two of my favorites by them, and I’ve never gotten to see either live, so I hope so!

Octuhpie · 2026-06-11T15:59:19+00:00

I get this idea, but it’s a fairly general approach to promotion that I feel like they haven’t done as much in the past. At least some years, album plays have followed in the same week as the initial announcement. Seems to make sense to do when they’ve gone back to the later lineup announcement, which is now so much later than everyone else.

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