Fresh off their From Ashes To New spring tour, Point North is gearing up for round two. The band has announced a massive fall tour with support from Nevertel, Elijah, and RIVALS. Commencing in Phoenix, AZ, on September 12, these bands will rock 23 stages across the U.S. throughout September and October. Along the way, Point North will be hitting the stages of major music festivals like Louder Than Life and Aftershock. Of the tour announcement, the band shares on their Instagram, “You asked for it, so we are doing the damn thing. POINT NORTH HEADLINER 2024.” Read more: Laura… Read more »
To celebrate the release of “Say Yes”, we asked Mike Herrera and Kalie Wolfe to sit down for a special video called “3 Ways to Say Yes”!
Lost in a never-ending cacophony of American-inspired guitar squeals, hammering drum beats, and amped-up vocals, the third release from the Swedish-based Her Bright Skies is an angsty young adult power piece whose volume is fit for an arena but whose calamitous structure and predictable composition should be left in the garage.
Media industry executives and analysts have expressed surprise and alarm at last week’s decision by EMI, the record label, to start selling music videos without the protection of anti-piracy software. The decision was a little-noticed part of the company’s ground-breaking deal with Apple that made all of EMI’s catalogue available on iTunes in a format that can be copied and played on any digital device without restriction. That deal, announced with fanfare by EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli and Apple founder Steve Jobs, was hailed as ushering in a new digital music era. EMI is expected to begin announcing deals… Read more »
Los Angeles – Will it be a blue Christmas in the music business? The first eight months of 2004 were a romp, when labels and retailers were measuring their progress against the soft numbers from the first two trimesters of 2003. The question looming then was how numbers would hold up when we got to September, which was the point last year when same-week increases bloomed for the first time in almost three years. The answer so far? Not so great. Even with collective sales of this week’s top 10 on the Billboard 200 outweighing that from the comparable week… Read more »
Creed again has weathered the January sales drought, moving almost 166,000 copies of its Wind-up disc “Weathered” to stay atop the nation’s sales chart for the seventh week in a row. And the seven Grammy nominations India.Arie received Friday put her “Acoustic Soul” (Motown) disc back in the top 200 at No. 139 on sales of 11,000, according to SoundScan information issued Sunday. The top 10 for the week ended Sunday was jumbled a little, but the titles remained essentially the same as the previous week. Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” (Warner Bros.) remained No. 2 on sales of 124,000; Ludacris’… Read more »
Ahead of their Louder Than Life set today, September 26, Point North has dropped their latest offering, “WORLD {vs} PEACE.” “The sentiment behind ‘WORLD {vs} PEACE’ touches on the struggle or the battle that somebody—either you or someone you love—can go through while they’re trying to find their own inner peace,” the band explains in a press release. “It’s almost like a defense mechanism, it’s like you’re so used to these detrimental or traumatic scenarios where inner peace is so unfamiliar that you just naturally want to fight it off.” They continue, “It’s almost like you have this Stockholm syndrome… Read more »
Following the first wave of artists announced to perform at the debut Ceremony Music Festival in Nashville, TN, this December, the fest has announced the second wave of performers. In addition to headliner KennyHoopla, jxdn, MOD SUN—performing a special acoustic set, John Harvie, Natalia Taylar, and Slow Shiv will join the festival on Saturday, December 14. “Music is bigger than a sound, it is literally and genuinely the connection between the people behind the noise,” jxdn shares. “Ceremony, will be exactly that. I have found joy in the friendships I have made, so to be able to have a whole… Read more »
If you thought Beartooth‘s The Surface era was done, think again. The act just released The Surface (Deluxe Edition) via Red Bull Records. It features live tracks, unique mixes, and their new song, “ATTN.” with its own music video. Lead vocalist Caleb Shomo shares of the new track, “‘ATTN.’ is about the ultimate conclusion that I’ve come to after this whole album cycle and living with these songs for as long as I have now. I think self-love has led to a deeper understanding of my value as a person, to myself and to others. He continues, “I will always… Read more »
Tampa-based rockers Nevertel are freshly back from a massive run with Beartooth. Now, they’ve unleashed their new single, “Losing Faith.” The recent Epitaph signees previously released full-throttle tracks “SYM” and “Sacrifice.” Of the new track, the band explains, “In the music industry, we’ve found that you meet a lot of people that like to make friends only to help their own lives and careers. This song touches on the experience we’ve all had of realizing that maybe the person you’d die for might not even reach out a hand to save you.” Check out Nevertel‘s rap-infused hard rock track “Losing… Read more »
