Following the success of multiple tour runs in 2025, Hit The Lights have announced the 20 year anniversary tour to celebrate their debut album, This Is A Stick Up Don’t Make It A Murder. The band will be joined by Major League, who will be celebrating the 15 year anniversary of The Truth Is—Public Works, Rematch, and Latewaves. Listen to New Music on idobi Radio “‘Stick Up’ was a huge stepping stone for HTL as a band and as songwriters,” frontman Nick Thompson shares. “This record paved the way for so many opportunities and experiences that very much made us… Read more »
“Like the ocean breeze you came along, to lift my sails, to take me home.” Something tells us the pop punk demigods aren’t happy with the state of the genre today, because this year all of our favorite punk as f*ck bands are coming back our way. From Good Charlotte to American Hi-Fi to Blink 182, the forefathers of this great scene are calling us home. The latest addition to the lineup is mid-2000s act Hit The Lights, with their new EP Just To Get Through To You. One of the last bands to keep the genre afloat in its… Read more »
While a complete return to Skip School, Start Fights would have felt stale and continued down the same path as Invicta by alienating many fans, Hit The Lights find the perfect middle ground with Summer Bones.
With their third album, Invicta, Hit The Lights have broadened their sounds while still keeping the same pop punk sensibilities that fans have come to love.
Fans attending the March 7 stop of LIGHTS’ current tour were treated to an unexpected throwback when the singer-songwriter performed a cover of “Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)” by Taking Back Sunday. Watch the video of her performance below. The moment is part of a growing trend on the tour, where LIGHTS has been slipping nostalgic covers into the setlist. At other stops, she has also performed “All The Small Things” by blink-182, another crowd-favorite that instantly turns the room into a full-voice sing-along. LIGHTS is currently on the road on the COME GET YOUR GIRL TOUR.… Read more »
Marking his long-awaited return, KennyHoopla kicks off 2025 with “NORTHERN LIGHTS//,” his first release in nearly a year—and it’s unlike anything he’s dropped before. Departing from the raucous pop-punk energy that’s defined much of his catalog, the new track leans into an ambient, cinematic atmosphere that feels extremely intimate. Built around his hushed, almost whispered vocals and a twinkling guitar line that evokes the vast quiet of the Midwest emo/indie movement of the late ‘90s/early 2000s, “NORTHERN LIGHTS//” reveals a more introspective and experimental side of Kenny’s artistry. He shares the next chapter of his journey on social media. “I… Read more »
After teasing “ALIVE AGAIN” in January, Lights has officially released the single in its entirety, and it was so worth the wait. And that’s not all—the artist also announced her forthcoming record A6, arriving on May 2. Of the new song, Lights explains, “‘ALIVE AGAIN’ is kind of a last hope anthem. It’s about the lows we hit and the demons we carry and from that vantage point sometimes we gain clarity about what we want, out of people or our lives. We all have demons, we might as well learn to party with them. Oh and try to catch… Read more »
Following the release of summer’s “Sunshine,” which was co-written with MGK, MOD SUN is back with his new song, “Hotel Lights.” Prior to its release, MOD SUN took to Instagram to share, “Been trying to make a song like this my whole career. Sonically, it’s beautiful. Lyrically, it’s storytelling. Vocally, it’s powerful + delicate. Love is like a drvg…I’m falling for you + it’s a long way down.” Interestingly, many people connected with the song upon its release. MOD SUN shared a social media post detailing, “I’ve had 4 ex girlfriends hit me about my song coming out tonight saying… Read more »
Following their recent success on the road with Bad Omens, Kim Dracula, and Hawthorne Heights, I See Stars have unleashed their pummeling new single, “SPLIT.” The group debuted the new release on the road this summer and performed it during select tour dates. “’SPLIT’ takes you through the highs and lows of our journey as artists, from being signed at 15 and leaving high school to pursue our dreams to exploring the mental toll and constant self-doubt,” vocalist Devin Oliver explains in a press release. “It highlights how the industry once felt divided by the machine, splitting artists up and… Read more »
Following the release of the reflective single “Oil & Water,” issued earlier this year, PVRIS has teamed up with LIGHTS for the punchy, in-your-face new single “The Blob.” Additionally, PVRIS has announced the pending arrival of her new, female-centric project titled F.I.L.T.H. The mixtape will feature the previously launched “BURN THE WITCH” featuring Tommy Genesis and Alice Longyu Gao, as well as her recent collaboration with LIGHTS. “At its core, I just wanted to make a fun project full of some bad bitches in music that I love and create a space where we can express whatever we want and… Read more »
