“Callwood at the Cooler” sees Brett Callwood waxing lyrical about events in the news, pop culture and the etc. This week’s topics include: The Grammys, Lady Gaga, and embracing pop music.
Lock your doors, hide yo’ kids, and prepare to witness the weird, wild, and downright wicked winter holidays from around the globe!
Yeah, we get it — hating everything your parents love is a rite of passage growing up. But every once in a while, you have to admit when they’ve gotten it right.
Kings of Leon is “almost finished” with its fifth album, the follow-up to 2008’s platinum and Grammy Award-winning Only by the Night, according to drummer Nathan Followill.
idobi’s top songs from 2009: Green Day – Know Your Enemy Owl City – Fireflies We the Kings – Heaven Can Wait Paramore – Ignorance The White Tie Affair – Take It Home Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk The Sounds – No One Sleeps When I’m Awake Jack’s Mannequin – Swim The Years Gone By – You Might As Well Be In Space Eye Alaska – Walk Like A Gentleman Nevershoutnever! – Bigcitydreams Cartel – Let’s Go All Time Low – Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) Holiday Parade – Southern Skies Say Anything – Hate… Read more »
ALTop 20 The following are the Top 20 songs for the week ending July 4, 2009: 1. Green Day – Know Your Enemy 2. Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad 3. 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me 4. Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas 5. Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody 6. The Fray – Never Say Never 7. Green Day – 21 Guns 8. Taking Back Sunday – Sink Into Me 9. Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch 10. Linkin Park – New Divide 11. Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked 12. Anberlin – Feel… Read more »
All Time Low has just confirmed a string of dates on the main stage of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, along with earlier support dates for We the Kings. The band will be touring in support of its forthcoming release, Nothing Personal, in stores July 7. Having just recently finished a tour with Fall Out Boy, the Maryland foursome will jump on Warped Tour in Oceanport, N.J., and remain on until the the tour concludes in Los Angeles. Prior to these dates, the band will do a short headlining tour with We The Kings and Cartel, hitting several cities… Read more »
The memo on waning Jonas Brothers mania apparently has yet to reach Lima, Peru. Riot police were called to the city’s oceanfront Marriott Hotel Sunday when more than 1,000 fans took to the streets to form a tearful, shrieking and otherwise order-be-damned welcome wagon for the Jonas Brothers. “There are thousands of fans outside the hotel,” Kevin, Nick and Joe wrote on their website. “The police were called in to control the crowd… can’t wait to meet everyone!” The feeling was apparently mutual. “We just woke up to the sounds of fans screaming downstairs outside of our hotel,” the siblings… Read more »
There was a point – midway through the writing process of Paramore’s new album – when they almost gave up. Racked by doubts that they had anything left in the tank, struggling to write material that matched the ferocity of their breakout Riot! album and smothered by unspoken tensions that had simmered ever since they nearly split in early 2008, they were treading water in their hometown of Franklin, Tennessee. And with deadlines – not to mention a tour with No Doubt – looming on the horizon, the situation was getting dire. “We went through a lot of heavy stuff… Read more »
Honestly, given the amount I write about Digital Rights Management, you’d think that I’d rather the industry kept using it, just so I’d continue to have fodder for writing and writing–and occasionally talking–about it. As I was looking into the trajectory of DRM in this past year for my latest look at DRM, a pattern began to emerge. We’ve seen the prevalence of DRM-free music skyrocket over the last twelve months, with vendors like iTunes, Amazon, and Napster all joining the legions of the undamned. In fact, it’s practically gotten to the point where it’s news when a company launches… Read more »
