Photo gallery: Shinedown w/ Bush & Morgan Wade | 08.15.25, Enterprise Center

Photo of Shinedown’s Brent Smith by Paul Liggett

People say rock is dead, but you’d never know it from the huge crowds, massive sales numbers, and constant radio play that Shinedown has been able to achieve over their nearly-quarter-century-long career. No less an authority than Billboard named them #1 on their Greatest Of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists chart due to their dominating 19(!) #1 hits on the chart. The band—founding members Brent Smith (vocals) and Barry Kerch (drums) alongside stringslingers Zach Myers (guitar) and Eric Bass (bass, perhaps unsurprisingly), who both joined in 2008—are still prepping their impending follow-up to 2022’s Planet Zero, but they hit the road anyway for their Dance, Kid, Dance Tour, which kicked off way back in April and wraps up at the end of this month. Their Enterprise Center set, as you’d expect, was heavy on heavy riffs and huge pyro, and included plenty of those massive radio singles, from early tunes like “Save Me” and “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)” to more recent hits “A Symptom of Being Human” and “Dance, Kid, Dance” to their cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Simple Man.”

Joining Shinedown for the show was fellow legendary radio rock stars Bush, with Gavin Rossdale and his squad celebrating the recent release of Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994–2023, the post-grunge pioneers’ first-ever best-of compilation, playing classic early hits like “Machinehead,” “Everything Zen,” and “Glycerine” alongside newer singles like “Flowers on a Grave” and “The Land of Milk and Honey.” More unexpectedly, the show kicked off with a set from Nashville-based country/Americana singer-songwriter Morgan Wade. | Jason Green