It’s hard enough to make it in a competitive industry when you’re young. But if you’re also a person of color and/or part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, it can feel next to impossible. For Meet Me @ The Altar—a trio of young women of color, two of whom are queer—the only way around those industry hurdles is through them. “We’re the perfect mesh of like almost every single type of person in the world,” says vocalist Edith Victoria. I’m catching up with the band over Zoom, the day before their debut full-length, Past // Present // Future, is set to… Read more »
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about the Supreme Court’s move to overturn Roe v. Wade.
For decades some of the most talented drummers in the music industry have been the women. These drummers were born with the beat, taking their talents and their empowerment and spreading them across the industry. They’ve changed the way things are done with big banging beats and the indomitable spirits that go along with them. Jess Bowen We could only start this list off with our favorite drummer: Jess Bowen. She absolutely kills it in every project. Jess most famously played for The Summer Set and NEKOKAT and joined 3OH!3 for the entirety of the last Warped Tour. Now she’s… Read more »
Listen in as Geek Girl Riot’s Sam Devotta tells you all about one of her favorite authors, V.E. Schwab.
Fallstar vocalist Chris Ratzlaff gives a track by track breakdown of the band’s new record, ‘Future Golden Age’.
httpvh://youtu.be/9gOuJMUz8AM A single first played on idobi Radio’s Eddie Jason & Chris, “NY Anthem”, is a collaboration between indie rockers Faulkner, and RZA from the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. Since the song’s release, it has made a big time television appearance on ESPN NFL’s mini-series Draft Academy, and is now set to be used at every New York Yankees home game. You’ll find this cut on Faulkner’s new Americaneur EP. The music video features a look inside the legendary recording studio where it was produced (Rick Rubin’s Sangri-La Studios), woven together with the city the song pays homage to. Tune-in to… Read more »
Step right up, because it’s time to call the rookies up from the bench for Warped season. In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we’ve put together an idobi All-Star Rookie Squad of artists you absolutely cannot miss as they make their first official appearances on Warped Tour this summer.
2014 is already shaping up to be an insane year for music, and some of our favorite bands are on their way to huge things this year. For our inaugural Tuesday Ten column, check out our list of ten bands you need to have your eyes and ears on in 2014.
When the culture began to change in the late 1960s – when the old one-liner comics on the Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the War in Vietnam – George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America. By the time he died Sunday night (of heart failure at age 71), the transformation he helped bring about in stand-up had become so ingrained that it’s hard to think of Carlin as one of America’s most radical and courageous popular artists. But he was. Carlin started doing stand-up… Read more »
It was a tight race for the #1 spot on Billboard ‘s next albums chart, one that pitted enigmatic indie rock outfit Modest Mouse against soulful British songstress Joss Stone. And no matter how it all played out, someone was going to score the first chart-topping debut of their career. While Stone was a solid contender for the top spot, Modest Mouse take the crown on next week’s chart by a margin of 10,000 scans with their latest offering, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, selling nearly 129,000 copies. But Modest Mouse’s conquest was perhaps more significant because… Read more »
