Here’s to a less irritating 2016—this year, we got together all of our least favorite pop culture icons and begged them to please, please give us a break this year. They dominated in 2015, and we deserve some time off, or at least some serious attitude changes, dammit.
It’s pretty apparent that we’re writing to you from a time warp, because we’re certain it’s still 2008 even though we’re discussing the biggest moments of 2015. Anything that happened this year that had you happy, sad, or anywhere in between can probably be found below. Check out what our staff remembers most from 2015, then let us know what you’d add to the list on Twitter.
TheBillboardChart Needs a Streaming Makeover With All Time Low’s number one album debut debunked by the new Billboard standard, many people in our scene posed the question if we need to rethink the way Billboard included streaming into it’s tallies. Right now, every 1,500 streams of a song off an album = 1 album sale. Thomas Nassiff of Absolutepunk wrote a wonderful short piece on the matter. In my opinion, it’s crap. A successful single does not an album make. If that were true, Vanilla Ice would have probably been much more successful and have never gotten arrested for stealing.… Read more »
When I was a kid there were two debates: Star Trek or Star Wars? If your answer was “Star Trek” it was immediately followed by a second question: Original or Next Generation (Enterprise)? The Star Trek universe didn’t stop there, though. It meandered with Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and then, finally, a full cinematic reboot was bestowed upon us with the original characters given new life by J.J. Abrams. Which leads us to now… Which leads us to today. The actor who played one of the greatest characters of all time has passed away. Leonard Nimoy, known most commonly as… Read more »
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.
Letters band join Mike this week! @lettersmen Bremerton, band life, current events, shootings, advertising, Friday the 13th, 13 tats tradition, Social Media, Vine, Star Wars, selfie. Thanks for listening! Join the conversation: #MikeHerreraHour @mikeherreraTD The Mike Herrera Hour – every Friday 8pm EST/ 5pm PST here on Idobi.com. Visit mikeherrera.net and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming shows in your area!
Jason Hockney Zeimet, @thetravelogue Mxpx tour, Kumare, parenting, teen stabbing, school shootings, religion, Justin Beiber, Hollywood, Best Life, YouTube, Your Questions, Star Wars Thanks for listening! Join the conversation: #MikeHerreraHour @mikeherreraTD The Mike Herrera Hour – every Friday 8pm EST/ 5pm PST here on Idobi.com. Visit mikeherrera.net and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming shows in your area!
Ben Hilzinger is back on the podcast this week! Follow him on Twitter: @benhilzinger Violent Femmes, House of Cards, Lifetime Airline Pass, Producing/Engineering, Movies: Grand Budapest Hotel, Catching Fire, Star Wars. Thanks for listening! Join the conversation: #mhh @mikeherreraTD The Mike Herrera Hour – every Friday 8pm EST/ 5pm PST here on Idobi.com. Don’t forget to visit mikeherrera.net and be sure to keep an eye out for upcoming shows in your area!
Travis Barker has spoken recently about blink-182’s current difficulties with getting together and creating music, but a new layer to these this issues has been revealed: news of Mark Hoppus’ choice to become Amish has finally surfaced.
The industry gets upset when anyone calls this a “tax” so I’ll use the “voluntary license” term, even though tax is much more accurate. A true voluntary license wouldn’t require everyone having a certain provider to opt-in, but that’s exactly what this plan would require. In fact, as the slides indicate, eventually it would basically require all ISPs to “opt-in” forcing all of their members to “opt-in.” Suddenly, everyone has to pay. That’s not a voluntary license. It’s a tax. However, even if we step back and pretend it’s really a voluntary license, and even if we grant the premise… Read more »
