Shadow Ridge Music Festival

After three decades, over 24 million records sold, a GRAMMY® nomination, 1 billion streams, and a string of #1 hits, BUSH stand tall as enduring rock outliers. Turn on rock radio, and it won’t be long before you hear “Glycerine” or “Machinehead.” Their music also pulses through blockbuster franchises like John Wick. Onstage, they continue to pack amphitheaters and ignite festival crowds.

Their seminal 1994 debut Sixteen Stone went six-times platinum and remains a modern rock cornerstone, hailed by Rolling Stone and Stereogum. Its follow-up, Razorblade Suitcase, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and featured “Swallowed,” earning a GRAMMY® nod for Best Hard Rock Performance. The band’s catalog spans from the platinum The Science of Things [1999] to 2020’s acclaimed The Kingdom, including standout tracks like “Flowers On A Grave” and “Bullet Holes.”

In 2022, they released their ninth studio album, The Art of Survival. With 25 consecutive Top 40 Modern and Mainstream Rock hits and seven #1 entries, BUSH now celebrates their legacy with Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994–2023, arriving this Fall.

The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado, formed in 2002 by schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King. Their debut studio album, How to Save a Life (2005) was released by Epic Records and received quadruple platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), as well as platinum certification in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Its release was supported by their first hit single, “Over My Head (Cable Car),” which peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. The band saw their furthest success with the song’s follow-up, “How to Save a Life,” which peaked at number three on the chart and was also a hit in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Both songs received Grammy Award nominations: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group, respectively.

The group’s self-titled second album (2009) debuted atop the Billboard 200, received platinum certification by the RIAA, and gold certification in Australia and Canada. Led by their third top ten single, “You Found Me,” the album was also nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards. While both albums were commercially successful, critical reception was generally mixed. The Fray was ranked No. 84 on Billboard’s Artists of the Decade list. Their third and fourth albums, Scars & Stories (2012) and Helios (2014), were both met with continued mixed reception and trailing commercial response, peaking at numbers four and eight on the Billboard 200, respectively. The band’s greatest hits album, Through the Years: The Best of the Fray (2016), served as their final release with Epic. Slade left the band in 2022, and the band returned as a trio to release their sixth extended play (EP), The Fray Is Back (2024).

The Fray’s mood has been described as austere, theatrical, cinematic, poignant, and ethereal; their lyrical content is based around introspection, with themes of yearning, regret, and angst. The band’s use of the piano as the lead instrument in their music has led critics to compare the band with similar British bands such as Coldplay and Keane. The band lists its influences as Counting Crows, Better Than Ezra, and U2.

Just as the nineties dissolved into the 21st century, Lit charged up rock ‘n’ roll with uncompromising punk energy and a power pop punch. However, the Orange County-born band left an imprint on popular culture that only fissured wider over the years like a California fault line. Who could forget the immortal lyric, “Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?” or the time Pamela Anderson devoured the band whole in the “Miserable”.

The group outlasted the next two decades as well. They stood out as the rare act whose presence could be felt loud and clear at Woodstock ’99. Twenty years after its initial release, the Billboard Music Award-winning “My Own Worst Enemy” not only went double-platinum, but Post Malone also covered it on Instagram Live as did Kelly Clarkson and Jimmy Fallon on his late night show. Further speaking to their enduring influence, they’ve inspired think pieces by everyone from American Songwriter to Kerrang! while Consequence of Sound named them one of the “100 Best Pop Punk Bands.” Not to mention, their music blared through American Reunion, Central Intelligence, Parks and Recreation, Rock Band, and beyond as they also impressively averaged over 2.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify. The guys have amassed a catalog highlighted by fan favorites such as the platinum A Place in the Sun [1999], Atomic [2001], Lit [2004], The View From The Bottom [2012], and These Are The Days [2017]. Meanwhile, they teased the next chapter with “Yeah Yeah Yeah” in 2021, arriving to acclaim from Loudwire, Alternative Press, and more.

Now, the quartet—brothers Ajay [vocals] and Jeremy Popoff [guitar], Kevin Baldes [bass], and Taylor Carroll [drums]—continue to do what they do best on their seventh full-length album and 2022 debut for Round Hill Records, Tastes Like Gold.

“We made a conscious decision to go back to when we had arrived at what we represented musically,” says Ajay. “It took a little bit of time to cleanse the palette and hit reset. However, the creativity flowed better than it had in the past couple of decades.”

Fuel is an American rock band from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The band was formed in 1993 by guitarist-songwriter Carl Bell, vocalist Brett Scallions, drummer Jody Abbott, keyboardist Erik Avakian, and bassist Jeff Abercrombie. After several independent releases, the band signed with 550 Music and Epic Records to release their debut studio album Sunburn (1998), which was supported by their first hit single, “Shimmer.” The song peaked at number 42 on the Billboard Hot 100, while their 2000 single, “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” peaked at number 30. The latter, along with the moderate hit “Bad Day,” appeared on the band’s second album Something Like Human. The band’s third album, Natural Selection (2003), was met with moderate success and is their last album to feature Carl Bell and Brett Scallions together.

The band has since undergone several lineup changes. In 2010, Bell and Scallions entered into a ten-year agreement where Bell leased the name and branding of Fuel to Scallions, who had left the band in February 2006. Scallions subsequently reformed Fuel with a new lineup and released the album Puppet Strings in 2014. This agreement ended in 2020 and Fuel’s naming rights reverted back to Bell, who formed a new lineup that featured original drummer Kevin Miller. Bell and Miller’s attempts to reunite with Scallions proved unsuccessful, with Scallions claiming he would never again perform under the Fuel name.

Fuel saw considerable commercial success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Sunburn was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), while Something Like Human has been certified double-platinum. Fuel has had multiple music videos in frequent rotation on MTV, performed on numerous live networks in the US, Canada, and Australia, and recorded songs for film soundtracks such as Scream 3, Daredevil, Godzilla, and A Walk to Remember. In 2013, “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)” was named the No. 6 Alternative Rock song of the past 25 years according to Billboard’s Alternative Chart 25th Anniversary: Top 100 Songs.