PipemanRadio Interviews Hollywood Undead at Aftershock 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Hollywood Undead at Aftershock 2025

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Aftershock 2025 Draws Record-Breaking Crowd Of Over 164,000 Fans, The Largest In The Festival’s History  

The West Coast’s Ultimate Rock, Punk & Metal Destination 115+ Bands • 4 Unforgettable Days • Fans From Every Corner of the Globe

Danny Wimmer Presents’ record-breaking 2025 festival season concluded October 2–5 with the largest Aftershock in history — drawing over 164,000 fans from all 50 states and more than 30 countries to Sacramento’s Discovery Park, generating an estimated $35 million in local economic impact.  

The West Coast’s biggest rock, punk, and metal festival reached new heights in 2025.

Debuting in 2025, Aftershock introduced several new fan-favorite experiences that elevated the  festival weekend to new heights. The Capitol Club offered an all-inclusive oasis with premium amenities and elevated views of the main stage, while Tremors Dive Bar kept the energy high with a pop-up set by  DJ Rock Feed with surprise guests My Darkest Days, and a special Sunday takeover by Sacramento’s own The Jungle Bird. Fans also discovered spontaneous performances at Beatbox and a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it speakeasy hidden beneath the underpass — each adding to the sense of discovery and excitement that defined this year’s festival.  

To celebrate DWP’s cultural and economic impact to the region, Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, Senator Angelique Ashby, and Assemblymember Maggy Krell honored Danny Wimmer Presents with official recognitions from the City of Sacramento, the California State Senate, and the California State Assembly. The proclamation and resolutions celebrate Aftershock’s decade-long legacy, recognizing its profound cultural, economic, and charitable contributions to the Sacramento community and beyond, and highlighting how the festival has firmly established the city as a premier destination for live music in California.  

The 2026 dates for Aftershock will be announced in the coming months along with early bird tickets, allowing fans to lock-in lower level pricing and maximum payment plan options. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to the festival’s official social media channels and AftershockFestival.com.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Aftershock featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Animal Place, Astral Tequila, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft, Body Art Express, California Army National Guard, Coors Light, Don Julio, Eargasm, Freak On a Leash, Fxck Cancer, Golden State Cider, Hyatt Vacation Club, Jack Daniel's, Jeffree Star Cosmetics, Little Rocker Clothing, Mortus Viventi, Nowhere Fast, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Sierra Nevada, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Pretty Cult, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, Topo Chico Hard Seltzer, and Waterloo Sparkling Water.  

Aftershock is proud to partner with Visit Sacramento and is produced by Los Angeles-based Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.  

For more information on Aftershock please visit:
Website: www.aftershockfestival.com
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you love done too?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yes, that's true.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
See why crazy young.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe manw
four c Y Radio at Aftershock and I'm here with.

Speaker 4 (00:26):
Jay Dog and Danny.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
What up? This is Danny from Hollywood Undead.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yes, and this is the end of your Danny Wimmer
festival tour for twenty twenty five. Because you've done Sonic
Louder and now after Shock.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Yeah, it's awesome. Danny Wimer. We're talking abou him last night.
We've known him for a very long time. He really
like figured these festivals out, man. I remember, like the
catering was like hot dogs and hamburgers. The porta potties
were overflowing, and festivals used to not be cool and
fun and they were just like disgusting. Somehow he like
stepped in and changed all of it. There was like
we're always like europe festivals are better. Any I don't
know if he studied European festivals. He probably did, but

(01:02):
came back and figured it out and brought it to America.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
I have an answer to that because I cover Hellfest.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
He came to hell Fest one year.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, just as it like to observe to observe spectator
and yes to bring that. That's what's cool about Wimer
is that he realizes that people say things like, oh,
the European festivals are better, so he goes over there
and finds out what.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Makes them better? Yeah, totally from their perspective.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, Like how many promoters, you guys do a lot
of festivals. How many promoters actually will want to see
what the fans perspective is?

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Sure? Not many? I don't.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
I couldn't see a lot of wealthy guys wanting to
do that, right.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
I'm not going to name names, but there's been festivals
where like I was like, man, this dude like looks
like he lives in a castle on a hill somewhere
and we're just peasants, you know, Like he couldn't be
bothered by the bands that are there. Wimer's like, very cool.
It remembers everybody like he's doing it right.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, in like sixteen years of doing his festival, the holes,
I've never heard of artists say one bad thing about
him or his festivals.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah, because he's doing it right for sure.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
And how does he treat you as artists? Forget everything else?
That makes it great? How about you the artists.

Speaker 5 (02:14):
He treats you just like he would probably like one
of his family. He comes up, he's like, hey, I'm
over here, come visit me in the office at this time.
I'll be free from then and then I want to
catch up.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:23):
He's always just very like like when you talk to him,
his attention is on you, right, And that's a cool
feeling when you're talking to somebody.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
That is yea and band guys are simple, dude. You
put like good coffee backstage, open bar, like decent food, pepper,
some influencer girls back there, and like every band's happy,
you know what I mean, Like it's easy.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
There, it is there, it is.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
I heard you guys talking over in another interview about
Insane Clown Posse.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
Oh dude, their show is like wild and louder than life.
We went and watch them and like kind of like
watch them get ready on the stage, and I was
blown away. I've never seen them live and I was like,
this is one of the coolest shows I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 (03:03):
Yeah, I wasn't expecting all of that. It was like
it was such a spectacle. It was really cool the
way that they were like they had this technique where
they would shake the two leaders of the Fuego yep,
is that what it is? Yeah, Pola, and then they
just like shoot it like rockets into the crowd and
it was just like.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
And it's like a badge of honor if you get
hit with that kind of like getting hit.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
By guards whatever their blood.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
It's really cool.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
We were talking to their DJ before they went on
stage and he was just like, yeah, it's crazy, like
we're cool, Like it's look at this, you know, and
there's I think they probably had the biggest audience of
the day.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
It was wild and like we watched so many bands,
I'm like, oh, that's cool, but watching them, I was
actually getting hyped up to play the show. I was like,
I want to go on stage after watching this, and like,
I don't remember the last time I felt like that.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I see me.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
I Actually, that's one of the things I love about
your Guys Live show, because I've seen you a lot
of times at the festivals, and I think you that
same excitement that they do.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I think very similar.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
I feel that everyone's like, man, I didn't understand your
band until I saw it live, right, And it's very
easy to say that about ICP as well, like I
didn't get it, but you see them live, I was like, dude,
I will go to their shows forever ever. Seeing that
that was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
You guys should do a tour together. I like the
most badass tour.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
If they like knighted me as a jugglo, I'd do
it right, Like I want to be put on game
by them.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
By them nice and only them. The heads.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
I love it, Yeah, the head Jugs.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Let's talk about your newest song, Savior. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
So, how do you feel that's evolved from your previous music?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
What makes it unique?

Speaker 4 (04:40):
It's just different because like I feel like it's more
of a mature sound, but it's staying true to us.
And every band's gonna give you the same answer, which
is exactly that. But it's like to me, I feel
it's one of the best songs we've ever done, and
it's like, how do you get better but still sound
like you? Is the struggle every band has, and I
feel like we actually did it.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
It's like heavy, it's still us.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
There's a lot of people on the song just have
to listen to it, like a lot, even like my
own kid. Finally, like after visiting us on tours, like, Man,
that song so much better.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Than I thought.

Speaker 5 (05:05):
I noticed Marley was like singing Savior on the bus
and I'm just like, why are you singing safe?

Speaker 1 (05:09):
She's like, well, I was listening to it and like
it came out a month ago.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's great.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Yeah, And of course during the mixing process and all that,
we're listening to it a thousand times. But yeah, man,
Savior is a really special one for me too, and
we're really stoked on it.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
We're seeing the response live.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
A lot of people are really just like connecting with it.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
It's good.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
That's the most important part right there. Yea, Especially in
the world we live in today. That's where we need
music more than ever and people to be able to
connect to it.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
I mean, if we don't like the song ourselves, we
won't release it. We've trashed so many songs and people
like this one might do well at radio. Let's put
it out. And we're not like that. If we don't
like it, we're not putting it out. We've trashed a
lot of songs.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
I love that about you, because you gotta be true
as an artist. There's two types of artists. There's arts
that they're just true artists, and they're very picky about
their own art. Yeah, and then there's those that think
they're gonna become a rock star, which doesn't even existing.

Speaker 5 (06:02):
Yeah, it's like gut it has to pass, like our
gut test, Like is this us? Is this the best
week in show that represents us? Now?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
And if it's not, fuck it, get rid of it.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Otherwise how can you even have a good live show?

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Like exactly if you're not.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
If you're not believing it, how are we believing it?

Speaker 4 (06:19):
If you swing and miss, you look stupid? Like this
is gonna be big at radio and it's not big.
I'm like, you just released a watered down version song
of yourself and it didn't do well.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Now people will hold it against you for like a mile.
That's why you gotta be true yourself as an art.

Speaker 4 (06:33):
We learned the hard way. We had a lot of
pressure back in the day from labels and manage and everyone,
like they'd be like, we're not We're so poorer and broke.
They're like we're not gonna give you like an advance
if you don't do what we say, and like I
couldn't even pay my rent, so I was like I
don't have a choice but to listen to them.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
They'd hold us like that, Yeah, totally.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
Kept us broken poored so they could control us. And
finally I was like, you know, this ain't worth it.
I'm gonna do what I want.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
See That's why I love better about music today.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Like in the eighties, it was like that with all
the bands when they would set used to be there
on the sunset strip backstage, and they're like telling these
bands what their music should sound like. And I think
the business people should handle the business end and the
artists should handle the creative.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
In period, man, we've.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Had a lot of charathow shape, but managers be like
you everything about doing this with the song. I'm like,
do you even play an instrument?

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Right? Like?

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And you're telling me what we should do on like
the bridge, I was like, get out of here, like crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
To me, you're just like chiming in. Just to say
they chimed in.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
They're trying to A and R the song when it
wasn't asked for.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
I find this is like the only industry where people
don't have to have experience and whatever. They're telling other
people what to do. Like you go into any business
environment you're not telling somebody that's been doing what you're
doing above you how to do things.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
You have to climb the ladder. And I think same here.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Like you said, if I was a guitarist, I would
never have somebody that never picked up a guitar in
their life telling me how to play guitar.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yeah, yeah, straight up, bro right.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
Yeah, this is the one industry that's yeah, dude, that's insane.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's weird because.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
All the times. Another weird thing is like, so one
industry is okay to like publicly berate people and be
little like I'm talking about the crew guys behind the scenes,
Like you could just yell at someone in front of
everyone and threaten them and call them names. Imagine doing
that in an office. I don't like that stuff. I
don't like them when people humiliate and bully other people.
So like the crew guys will be yelling at someone
in front everyone, and I'm like, dude, like I'm gonna
have to knock you out, like because that's not cool. Well,

(08:30):
they messed up. I'm like, imagine doing that in an office.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
You know what, Like we all mess up. It's all
how you handle it.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Like, yeah, but you're not allowed to do that anywhere.

Speaker 5 (08:39):
Try not to make the same mistake again. And yeah,
but belittling and shit, we don't we won't stand for it.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Bro Our crew guys are like our bus drivers. Like
I've never seen the line blurred between band and crew
so hard. Your crew guys act like they're in the band.
The ship they say to you, guys, blows my mind.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
I love hearing that because there are live artists out there,
like what you were talking about before. So I always
love when I talk to people that work for or
with the artists and they're like talking about how great
they're treated. That's like my favorite thing because without the
whole crew, the show does not go on.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's it, man.

Speaker 5 (09:14):
I think honestly, our crew it's like a family too.
We've been with our crew for so long. Our stage manager,
guitar Tech, he's been with the band since the very beginning.
I don't know of any other bands that have somebody
that's been with them from the very beginning of twenty
year career.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Hey, yeah, we let them do whatever they want. As
long as you do your job. I don't care how
hammered you get every night, Like, just don't mess the
show up.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Exactly, as long as you do your job and do
it right exactly. And I've sat side stage on your
shows and I've watched the people up there working. You
could tell that they really care and they're really on it,
and they're making sure that you guys ye have the
best performance pot.

Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, our guitar tech he's talking about.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
We call him King Dawn.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yeah, he's worked for all the bands in the eighties.
And someone gets on stage, he's still like a bullet,
runs at him and tackles him like he that guy
moves when he needs to.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
He did become famous on Ship Rocked.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Like everyone, like the promoter was like, I've never experienced
anything like that in my life, Like that was the
most famous guy to ever stepped foot on that boat.
I'm like in my it was in my room and
there the PIA system's talking about King Dawn, like right, yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
Even when we were leaving to get off the ship.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
It was like they were calling him like Kingden or
something like that. Kingden. I was like, king Don, it's
king Don.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
He did the family feud with us, yes, and he
got the last answer to win the game, right, and
it was strippers.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
That that, Yeah, and it made him and he was
so fricking drunk. Yeah too.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
It was like he pounded his talkin instead of well, well,
we were like, let's get him drunk. We gave him
a bottle of tequila at nine am. Let's get him hammered.
And it worked.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
It did work, for sure, but it made him like
to start a whole Ship's made him. Everybody you'll remember
from ship Rock came on and what a rivalry between
you guys in Parkway Drive with that family FEUDU.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
Yeah, I hope they still because I feel like they
wanted to beat us really bad and at the corn
hole and all that.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
After I've talked to Wednesday a couple of times after,
he's just mad as bad because none of them could
get the answers.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Right, Yeah, that that whole like the y they literally
like handed at the wind, they handed at the King
down on a platter. I was like, that was the
easiest answer, Like come on, like, I love totally.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Yeah, So would you say that's your favorite story of
twenty twenty five words or one better?

Speaker 4 (11:28):
He doesn't get better than King down on that boat man, right,
I was like, and I'll never forget. And he was
walking through the ocean with his shoes on and his
clothes and everyone's like, why are you have all your
clothes on the ocean. He's like, because I'm a nube.
And I was in the airport afterwards, people are coming
up to me like can you take a photo of me?
And King Donald was like, yeah, yeah, sure, Like they

(11:50):
don't care if I'm in the band, they want his photo.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's I loved watching that for him.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Right, it was so much fun. But then I watch
him up on stage with you Got and he's on
it man, like oh yeah, yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
He moves what he needs to.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Yeah, Like he beats say the younger people working hands.

Speaker 4 (12:09):
Down our crew, like looks like the Devil's reject poster,
you know, like a like a rob zombie film. It
just looks like they look like they shouldn't even be alive,
and like something's animating their bodies.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Like love it?

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Anything else you want to talk about that's happened the
rest of the year twenty twenty six.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Releasing a street tracks, not a single per se like
before the end of this year. I can't say too
much about it. We're like waiting on the behind the
scenes stuff. But we got one more song coming out
this year.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Nice.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Yeah, and just thank you guys for the support. We
love you. We couldn't do it without you.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Well, thank you for giving us such great entertainment and
music and art because you guys kick ass. And I
already said that, I said Jaden to I'm like, we
gotta go see how we would undeck.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
You guys are like the best live show and that's
where we.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Hear that a lot, and that's what we strive to all.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Right, man.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah, I say this every time. I'm like, my wife
calls me pipe man.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Well, thanks for being the pipe.

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Man too, pipe Man. Dose.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
There it is, and thanks for being here.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
Yeah, thanks for having us and I look.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Forward to your set because you're going to kick some
asks here after shot on.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
Thank you pipe Man.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Thank you for being on the Adventures pipe Man. Thank
you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man on
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