Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova is known for making music that serves as a form of activism. It is now being said that she has been put on Russia’s Most Wanted List. The Russian group recently released live footage of a piece of theirs from last year titled “Putin’s Ashes”, where they destroyed a portrait of the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. While it hasn’t been said what exactly landed her on this list, she has faced criminal charges for speaking out against Christianity. In Russia, it is considered a criminal offense to “offend” another person’s religion. She even spent two years… Read more »
More than 10 years after the iconic Bamboozle festival packed away their gear for the last time in 2012, we now have day-to-day lineup details for their 2023 event (cue our uncontrollable excitement)! In January, Bamboozle announced their lineup via an old-school, faux Myspace page. Rather than leaning into the nostalgic emo era Myspace was famous for, the lineup includes a plethora of genres and performances. The festival will be resurrected on May 5-7 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, NJ, and will allow you to purchase single-day tickets. You can buy tickets for all three days and single-day passes… Read more »
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Underøath, Hawthorne Heights, Owl City, and more.
We love music. We love movies. We really love when both of these worlds collide. Actors playing in bands isn’t new, from Jared Leto with 30 Seconds To Mars to Jack Black with Tenacious D. But today I want to talk about the actors you had no idea used to be or still are in bands.
Tonic is a mental health charity for musicians that is gaining more attention and deserves even more. Babyshambles’ Adam Ficek recently spoke to NME about why Tonic is such an important resource to have. He said, “The reason I started working with Tonic was the emphasis put on not only those struggles, but how music can also help. The industry itself is predominantly late nights, there’s an abundance of alcohol. There’s the social environment, then there’s the psychological environment of where people have come from with their own wounds and how that interacts with that.” The organization was founded in… Read more »
After seven long years, Pierce the Veil is finally gearing up to release The Jaws of Life.
— Death Cab for Cutie is reimagining their latest album, Asphalt Meadows and giving us an acoustic version this March. The original version of their 10th studio album dropped this past September and we’ve been in love ever since. Now we get to experience it all over again on March 10th. Two tracks have already been released: the acoustic version of “Pepper” can be heard here and their cover of “The Plan”, by Low, can be heard here. On recording “The Plan”, frontman Ben Gibbard said, “I first saw Low in 1994 opening for Sunny Day Real Estate at the… Read more »
Wednesday’s SuperBand detailed within.
This week’s Singles Lost in Time features songs by Uh Huh Her and Probot.
Properties featured: Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, Fortune Feimster: Good Fortune, Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, Wendell & Wild, Big Mouth, Drink Masters, Central Park, Interview with the Vampire
