— As UK music festivals go, the Phoenix Festival doesn’t have the storied history of Glastonbury or Reading. It only ran for five years, between 1993 and ’97, but it was located pretty close to my home in the Midlands region of England when I was growing up, and so I went to the 1995 event and the two that followed. The 1996 Phoenix Festival is the festival that I judge all festivals on. So high was the bar it set, I’ve yet to see it be bettered (and I’ve attended Glastonburys, Readings, Coachellas, Riot Fests, Rocklahomas, Download/Doningtons, and more… Read more »
idobi photographer Yising Kao covered the 8123 Festival in Phoenix, AZ. The lineup included The Maine, State Champs. The Summer Set, Tessa Violet, 3OH!3, and many more. Check out photos from the entire weekend down below!
Today we have news about Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson, and Dustin “Screech” Diamond. – Evan Rachel Wood and Four Other Women Accuse Marilyn Manson of Abuse Actress and singer, Evan Rachel Wood, along with four other women, has come forward with abuse accusations against Marilyn Manson. The two dated from 2007-2008, when she was 19 and he was 37. More than 10 years later, in 2019, Wood spoke to the California Senate Public Safety Committee in support of The Phoenix Act, a bill created to give victims of abuse more rights and time to come forward. The Westworld actress… Read more »
Another try at the Dark Phoenix story from the X-Men comic books and an ending to the 20th Century Fox movie franchise.
The Classic Crime’s independently-released Phoenix embodies melodic rock intensity with its driving beats and epic build-ups, but also manages to tone down the energy at key points to flavor the album with softer emotion precisely when required.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix, who played Johnny Cash on the big screen, is cutting an album with Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess, Billboard.com has learned. But whether the set will be released remains unclear. According to U.K.-born Burgess, who has lived in Los Angeles for several years, the album came about after Phoenix learned to play guitar in preparation for his role in the 2005 film “Walk the Line,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination. “Once he learned guitar, he found that he had quite a lot of demons inside himself that he wanted to expel through music,” says Burgess,… Read more »
Multi-platinum Island Records group Fall Out Boy kicks off the new year with “****LIVE IN PHOENIX,” their first long-form CD+DVD two-disc package, set to arrive in stores on April 1st. The core of the program will be their full-length Honda Civic Tour concert of June 2007 from the Cricket Pavilion in Phoenix, with all 22 songs contained on both the CD and DVD layers. In addition, the DVD layer will include all 8 of Fall Out Boy’s Island Records video clips in chronological order — from their debut single “Sugar, We’re Going Down” (MTV2 Award winner for 2005), “Dance,… Read more »
After releasing singles “Suffocate” featuring Poppy, “Don’t Reach For Me,” and “Blinding Faith,” Knocked Loose have officially released their third studio album, You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To via Pure Noise Records. On social media, the band noted, “After 5 years, our 3rd LP is available everywhere now. We’ve never worked harder on anything. Please enjoy ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To.’ It’s yours.” The record is already raking in perfect album reviews, and for good reason. With heavy-hitting, introspective lyrics, crushing chords, insidious riffs, and overwhelmingly vicious vocals from frontman Bryan Garris, the LP just reached a… Read more »
Wallows is gearing up to release their third album Model on May 24 via Atlantic Records. However, before the big day, Wallows is giving us one more taste of what’s to come with their new single, “A Warning.” The illuminating new song is preceded by “Calling After Me” “Your Apartment” and “Bad Dream.” Featuring glistening, yet melancholy, indie pop instrumentals, the chorus says, “You could’ve given me a warning ‘cause you had me holding out for nothing/Oh, you could’ve given me a warning if you knew that all your walls would cave in/Yeah, I could’ve given it some more, but… Read more »
Ahead of the May 24 release of their forthcoming LP Clancy, twenty one pilots are hosting listening parties across the globe from May 18-23. More than 200 independent record stores and venues are set to play the full record a week ahead of its official release. Plus, if you do attend a party, you just might get twenty one pilots wristband and poster. Additionally, participating stores are sharing special CD pre-orders for Clancy with alternate artwork and an extended 20-page booklet. Additionally, some listening party locations will open pre-orders for Clancy vinyl featuring an exclusive LP sleeve. You can find… Read more »
