In anticipation of their forthcoming full-length, All You Embrace, arriving this Friday, May 17 via Run For Cover Records, One Step Closer has issued their latest offering “Blur My Memory.” With a quick-paced opening that instantly demands your attention, the blistering instrumentation allows the electrifying anthem to unfurl. The earworm chorus bursts forth with fervor and passion: “Then blur my memory, keep it on your shelf. I’m used to spending days running from myself.” Check out “Blur My Memory” below. One Step Closer are gearing up for the second run of their co-headlining tour alongside Anxious and Koyo, with Prize… Read more »
One Step Closer has announced their new album, All You Embrace. The hardcore group’s second LP will be released on May 17 via Run For Cover Records. In the wake of the announcement, they’ve released a new song called “Giant’s Despair.” In the track, the band embraces shoegaze sounds with intricate hardcore chords that are re-fitted into a modern mix of emphatic emo. This is just a taste of what to expect from their upcoming full-length. Vocalist Ryan Savitski says this is who the band is on a deeper level. “I wanted to showcase One Step Closer in its fullest… Read more »
One headlining band isn’t enough! Koyo, One Step Closer, and Anxious have announced their triple headliner spring tour. The triple-header bill will be joined by Life’s Question and Stateside on select dates. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Friday, December 15 at 10 AM ET. Read more: Charlotte Sands Stands In The “blindspot” With Her Latest Single All three bands have been busy with touring this year and have often been the openers for countless acts such as The Wonder Years and Stick To Your Guns. Even with being on multiple runs, it hasn’t stopped the groups from putting out new… Read more »
Lots of artists recovering from severe medical ailments like to take it slow and easy. Not Linkin Park, who have numerous projects and a major tour lined up for the summer. Singer Chester Bennington was admitted to the hospital on May 30 for intense back and stomach pains and remained there for nine days. Doctors told him not to sing until at least this past Tuesday. So on Wednesday Bennington bounced out of bed and rushed to a Los Angeles studio to film a full day of scenes for the group’s next video. The band will release the clip later… Read more »
“Let’s just say the doctors know more about me than I know about me,” Lance Bass told reporters convened for a press conference at Moscow’s Savoy Hotel. For the last four months, the ‘NSYNC star has endured a battery of physical examinations in the pursuit of becoming the next civilian in space. On Friday (May 31), he announced that he’d finally passed the medical component of qualifying for a seat on a Russian rocket mission this fall. “With such a thorough physical, you’re going to find things that you might need to take care of,” Bass said, explaining an outpatient… Read more »
— Today we talk about the tragic loss of Stephen Boss, Fall Out Boy’s message to fans, and The 1975’s show announcement. — Stephen “tWitch” Boss’ Passing Family, friends, and fans of Stephen “tWitch” Boss are shocked over the news of his passing. The 40 year old entertainer was found dead on Tuesday morning in a LA hotel room, according to TMZ. His wife Allison Holker went to LAPD when she discovered he was gone but had not taken his car. It was in their search that they discovered he had passed, due to an apparent gunshot wound. An autopsy… Read more »
The 2001 Family Values Tour boasts two acts – Linkin Park and Staind – with triple-platinum albums currently in the Billboard top 10, though neither group is the headliner. That distinction goes to Stone Temple Pilots, who met the challenge at the tour’s second stop Friday, at the Allstate Arena near Chicago. Led by Scott Weiland, Stone Temple Pilots played like a band with something to prove to the young crowd of some 15,000 fans, which – nearly a decade after the release of their debut album, Core, and in an era dominated by rap-rock and nü-metal – they do.… Read more »
Linkin Park is teaming up with turntable masters the X-ecutioners both in the studio and the live setting. The pairing will first be witnessed on a nationally televised performance of Linkin Park’s “One Step Closer” on the 2001 MTV Music Video Awards September 6. Then, the fans will get to hear a studio collaboration between the groups via the rock group’s guest appearance a guest appearance on the X-ecutioners’ Loud Records full-length debut, Built From Scratch, due in January. Built From Scratch also features cameos from Everlast, the Tom Tom Club, Big Pun, Xzibit, Pharaoh Monch, Inspectah Deck, Mad Skillz,… Read more »
Linkin Park is showcasing their longstanding career and giving fans a treat with the release of Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023). This series of greatest hits also features new previously unreleased fan-favorites “Friendly Fire” and “QWERTY.” In fact, the band dropped an official visualizer for “QWERTY,” a Minutes To Midnight-era B-side, in tandem with Papercuts‘ release. In the uniquely aggressive track, Chester Bennington‘s and Mike Shinoda‘s voices are both unrelenting and utterly soar. Check out the gritty, industrial-tinged, nostalgia-inducing track below. Currently, Papercuts (Singles Collection 2000-2023) is available on all streaming platforms and is also available on CD and vinyl. Secure… Read more »
Meeting your heroes can change your life. And that’s what’s happening to the upcoming act, New Aesthetic. The San Diego, CA-based band received a message from frontman J.T. Woodruff of Hawthorne Heights to work together. “There’s a kid holding a sign that says, ‘Let me play guitar on ‘Ohio Is For Lovers,’” the emo vocalist explains in an Instagram Reel. He continues that he met a fan during one of their stops on the 2017 Warped Tour run. “Flash forward, that kid’s name is Dylan he’s now an adult. He now has his own band called New Aesthetic.” He then… Read more »
