— As UK music festivals go, the Phoenix Festival doesn’t have the storied history of Glastonbury or Reading. It only ran for five years, between 1993 and ’97, but it was located pretty close to my home in the Midlands region of England when I was growing up, and so I went to the 1995 event and the two that followed. The 1996 Phoenix Festival is the festival that I judge all festivals on. So high was the bar it set, I’ve yet to see it be bettered (and I’ve attended Glastonburys, Readings, Coachellas, Riot Fests, Rocklahomas, Download/Doningtons, and more… Read more »
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Paramore, The Maine, Meet Me @ the Altar, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from The Devil Wears Prada, The Early November, Carly Rae Jepsen, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from The Summer Set, Armor for Sleep, Anti-Flag, and more.
A Viking version of Conan with a dash of Lion King and creative use of the camera to tell a very violent revenge tale.
idobi’s staff put together their best of 2017 music picks, and shared some of the moments that made it all better.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Fall Out Boy, Seaway, Against The Current, and more.
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 »
Bonnaroo festival announced their 2013 lineup, including Paul McCartney, Mumford and Sons, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Wilco, and tons more!
BEIJING — Oasis will not play in China for economic reasons and not because of any connection with the Tibet issue, an official at the promoter of the shows said. Oasis had said China blocked shows scheduled for Shanghai and Beijing after they found out that band member Noel Gallagher had appeared at a “Free Tibet” benefit concert in the United States in 1997. But a promoter from Beijing All Culture Communication Co Ltd, a small event company which promotes more ballet and traditional Chinese concerts than rock concerts told Reuters by telephone it was canceled due to a “tough… Read more »
