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.
Fat Wreck Chords has announced its 25th anniversary celebration tour, Fat Wrecked. The tour will feature NOFX, Lagwagon, Swingin’ Utters, The Flatliners, Masked Intruder, toyGuitar, and Bad Cop/Bad Cop, plus more to be announced.
The Fest 14 announces initial lineup for its 2015 festival weekend in Gainesville, Florida, on October 31st and November 1st. The festival expects to announce 100 more bands in the coming months.
Here are idobi’s Favorite Songs of 2014. Hear the idobi Megamix 2014 on Spotify now, and tune in to hear the Megamix air this Saturday at 12pm ET, and again on New Year’s Eve!
We’re stoked to be teaming up with This Legend (the new band from former Yellowcard drummer Longineu Parsons III and guitarist Ben Harper) to announce that they’ve finished recording their debut album and are heading out on tour with Lagwagon this fall.
Fat Wreck Chord reports that No Use For A Name singer, Tony Sly, has died.
Season 10, Episode 3. What is Dead May Never Die. Music from The Roots, Florence + the Machine, Lagwagon, Foster The People.
Season 5, Episode 9. Seb and Pat… Back together… Music from Zebrahead, Kings of Leon, New Found Glory, Kanye West, Lagwagon, Joey Cape.
Green Day, Bad Religion, and Blink 182 are among the bands that will appear in a forthcoming documentary about the punk rock music scene in the 1990s. Australian independent production company Robot Academy Films is producing the film, One Nine Nine Four, which is slated for a 2008 release. The two filmmakers have been residing in Los Angeles conducting interviews and collecting archival footage of the bands before heading back to Australia next month to complete the editing process, according to PunkNews.org. The film will be narrated by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk, and will also feature bands including Rancid, the… Read more »
Drummer Derrick Plourde – a founding member of Southern California punk band Lagwagon – and Hideaki Sekiguchi – who slapped the bass for Tokyo garage-punk band Guitar Wolf – both died Wednesday, news that sent shockwaves throughout the underground punk rock world. Plourde was 33, and Sekiguchi was 38. Fat Wreck Chords, which released Lagwagon’s earliest material, confirmed Plourde’s death in a statement posted to the indie label’s Web site, which read, in part, “March 30th was a sad day for the Fat Wreck Chords family, as we learned about the passing of Derrick Plourde. We consider him one of… Read more »
