Bands Announced for Sturgis Buffalo Chip 2025!

Update (5/16/25): Citizen Soldier on Aug. 4

The planning and prep for the Buffalo Chip - Best Party Anywhere - is in full swing for 2025! Here's the concert lineup...so far for the 85th Annual Motorcycle Rally with more updates and announcements soon:

Friday, Aug. 1: ZZ Top (Be one of the first 100 to reserve and enjoy the ZZ Top in the amphitheater with your bike!)

Sunday, Aug. 3: Gene Simmons Band. Yes...That Gene Simmons. KISS may have retired from the road but Gene wants to party at the Chip!

Monday, Aug. 4: Citizen Soldier / Five Finger Death Punch

Tuesday, Aug. 5: Jason Aldean (don't hit any bikes with that Big Green Tractor)

Wednesday, Aug. 6: Josh Ross / Nickelback

Thursday, Aug. 7: Marilyn Manson will perform at the Buffalo Chip for the very first time!

Friday, Aug. 8: Stone Temple Pilots

Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - This guy and his super-charged ride gets a lot of look on Deadwood's Main Street.

To get camping/concert tickets for any or all of the shows, click here, safely and securely.

“The 85^th Anniversary is shaping up with amazing music! It’ll be good times, loud tunes and spending time together rocking out to Stone Temple Pilots, Nickelback, Five Finger Death Punch, and so many others!” ~ Sturgis Buffalo Chip CEO Rod Woodruff.

Spread across eight locations, including local bars, campgrounds, and indoor/outdoor stages, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally regularly lures approximately 500,000 to a million people to South Dakota every year. Reports show the occasion also brings around $800 million in revenue to the area.

With three-quarters of a century of history and millions of attendees, who started it all?

The founder is generally considered to be Clarence "Pappy" Hoel. He purchased an Indian Motorcycle franchise in Sturgis in 1936 and formed the "Jackpine Gypsies" that same year.

Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - Gene Simmons of KISS will perform at the Buffalo Chip in 2025!

The first rally was held on August 14, 1938, by the "Jackpine Gypsies" motorcycle club, who still own and operate the tracks, hill climb, and field areas where the rally is centered.

The first event was called the "Black Hills Classic" and consisted of a single race with nine participants and a small audience. The focus of the motorcycle rally was originally racing and stunts.

Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - Foreigner's historic reunion concert held at the Buffalo Chip with founding and current lineup of the classic rock greats.

The event has grown to be one of the largest motorcycle rallies in the world.

Enjoy some of my favorite moments from several years at the Rally!

Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - Deadwood Main Street

Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - Foreigner's historic reunion concert held at the Buffalo Chip with founding and current lineup of the classic rock greats.

B1027's Danny V and actor Kevin Sorbo hangin' out in Deadwood's Square before the Legend's Ride.

Photo by Scott Smith, Townsquare Media - our B1027 Camaro is always a fun ride through the hills during Rally week. Watch for us and give us a wave!

Photo by Scott Smith, Townsquare Media - You'll see Michelle at the famous and sudsy Bikini Bike Wash every year making sure your bike is ready for showtime.

Photo by Scott Smith, Townsquare Media - Mai joins the broadcast every year! She's a very familiar face around the Chip during the Rally

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Photo by Danny V, Townsquare Media - Buffalo Chip

From Blockbusters to Hidden Gems: 35 Movies That Take Place in South Dakota

When it comes to South Dakota and Hollywood, we've seen our fair share of films that have used our state as the backdrop for a number of productions over the years. They may not have always filmed here, but movie folk love to set stories here.

We're all familiar with the blockbusters like 1990's Dances With Wolves, 1959's North By Northwest, and more recently, 2007's National Treasure: Book of Secrets. But our state's life on the big screen goes back nearly 100 years.

According to IMDb, it all started with Courtin' Wildcats, a 1929 film which, like so many of the 29 films on this list, is a Western set in the time before South Dakota became a state in 1889.

Gallery Credit: Jeff Harkness/B1027.com

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