Silverstein is gearing up to trek across North America for their 25 Years Of Noise Tour beginning on January 10. Earlier in the fall, they announced that they’d be joined by Thursday and Split Chain. Today, they announced that Arm’s Length will also offer support on the tour. Silverstein is celebrating more than two decades of music with two full albums, Antibloom / Pink Moon. The band’s double-album will roll out beginning on February 21 via UNFD with Antibloom. Pink Moon will be released at a later date. Pre-orders for Antibloom are now available here. The band shares, “In 2025, we will be celebrating 25 years as a band. For… Read more »
After inking a deal with Pure Noise Records, Arm’s Length has announced the arrival of their sophomore full-length, There’s A Whole World Out There, slated to drop on May 16. To preview the release, the group has also dropped their new single, “Funny Face.” “‘Funny Face’ is about how discouragement from a trusted loved one can shape who you are as a person and your overall outlook on life,” vocalist/guitarist Allen Steinberg shares in a press release. “It’s one of our darkest, heaviest tracks. Lyrically, I wanted to illustrate the narrative of being entangled in a toxic codependent relationship, whether… Read more »
Harms Way have announced the details of ‘Common Suffering’, their first full-length in five years, and it’s set to be an absolute monster.
On October 31, Pinkshift unleashed their new heavy rock and pop-punk-infused track, “ONE NATION.” Previously, the group released “Knead” in September, their cover of Illuminati hotties’ song for Hopeless Records’ Hopelessly Devoted To You. “ONE NATION” sees the band sending a major message to those in political power who refuse to protect their people and people abroad. Underneath their lyric video, the band says, “It’s difficult to watch the suffering of Palestinians, the suffering of all those who are oppressed and disenfranchised by imperialism, alongside the repression of free speech and our right to protest in the US.” They continue,… Read more »
Ahead of the arrival of their fourth studio album, Feeling Not Found, scheduled to drop on September 28 via Counter Intuitive, Origami Angel has unleashed two new singles, “Dirty Mirror Selfie” and “Where Blue Light Blooms.” Bleeding together at the three minute and 43 second mark of the video, “Dirty Mirror Selfie” and “Where Blue Light Blooms” offer a throughline to the duo’s punchy pop-punk/emo amalgamation. “Dirty Mirror Selfie” is a playful, steady track with a strikingly placed guitar breakdown courtesy of guitarist/vocalist Ryland Heagy. While the latter opens through mesmerizing drum work via Pat Doherty that acts as the… Read more »
Knuckle Puck have announced the details of their fourth full-length ‘Losing What We Love’, focusing on and facing life’s hard truths head on.
A U.S. court hammered the final nail in the coffin of maverick music service Napster on Tuesday when it blocked a bid by German media group Bertelsmann AG to buy the one-time cult and now defunct Web site. Killing off a deal to revive the bankrupt service that millions of fans used to swap music over the Internet, a U.S. bankruptcy court rejected Napster’s sale to Bertelsmann after record labels and songwriters opposed the deal, saying the offer price was not fair. Faced with no financing, no revenues and no other buyers, Napster said it would most likely be forced… Read more »
For years recording artists and the executives who promote their work have had a love-hate relationship. Executives at recording companies, which make billions of dollars a year distributing music on compact discs and in other formats, say their business is risky and they should be compensated for taking chances on young talent. Recording artists, for their part, have long grumbled that companies are too controlling, lining their pockets by exploiting musicians unschooled in business. Now, while the debate in the music industry has focused on how recording companies should deal with the public online, the controversy has also reheated long-simmering… Read more »
