What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Taylor Swift, PVRIS, The Front Bottoms, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from PVRIS, Hey Violet, The Killers, and more.
Take one part Vampire Weekend, two parts The Bravery, a dash of The 1975, finish with a spritz of Two Door Cinema Club and you’ve got yourself SoCal rock band Bad Suns’ debut EP, Transpose.
What do you call a five-piece, unsigned, alternative rock band from coastal California? You could call them a “critically overlooked act†like MTV did, or you could call them “one of the top 16 unsigned bands in North America†like Rolling Stone Magazine did. But whatever you do, don’t call them “indie.”
The following is the ALTop 20 for the week ending October 3rd ALTOP20 1 Neon Trees – Animal 2 Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man 3 Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory 4 Allstar Weekend – Hey Princess 5 Linkin Park – The Catalyst 6 Paramore – The Only Exception 7 Summer Set – Young 8 Anberlin – Impossible 9 Kings of Leon – Radioactive 10 We The Kings – We’ll Be A Dream 11 The Almost Free Fallin 12 Black Keys – Tighten Up 13 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 14 Phoenix – Lisztomania 15 Cage The Elephant… Read more »
The following is the ALTop 20 for the week ending September 25th ALTOP20 1 Neon Trees – Animal 2 Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man 3 Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory 4 Allstar Weekend – Hey Princess 5 Linkin Park – The Catalyst 6 Paramore – The Only Exception 7 Summer Set – Young 8 Anberlin – Impossible 9 Kings of Leon – Radioactive 10 We The Kings – We’ll Be A Dream 11 The Almost Free Fallin 12 Black Keys – Tighten Up 13 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 14 Phoenix – Lisztomania 15 Cage The Elephant… Read more »
Here is the ALTop 20 for the week ending September 11th (Tune in next week for a special edition of the show!): ALTOP20 1 Neon Trees – Animal 2 Paramore – The Only Exception 3 Cage The Elephant – In One Ear 4 Allstar Weekend – Hey Princess 5 Mumford and Sons — Little Lion Man 6 JEW – My Best Theory 7 Anberlin – Impossible 8 Linkin Park – The Catalyst 9 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 10 Black Keys – Tighten Up 11 AM Taxi – Fed Up 12 Weezer – Memories 13 BWBB – Make This Count… Read more »
Here is the new and improved ALTop 20 countdown for the week ending August 29th 1 Neon Trees – Animal 2 Linkin Park – The Catalyst 3 Paramore – The Only Exception 4 Cage The Elephant – In One Ear 5 We The Kings — We’ll Be a Dream 6 Allstar Weekend – Princess 7 Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man 8 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 9 Phoenix – Lisztomania 10 AM Taxi – Fed Up 11 Black Keys – Tighten Up 12 Anberlin – Impossible 13 Rise Against – Savior 14 Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory… Read more »
Here is the ALTop 20 countdown for the week ending August 14th 1. Neon Trees — Animal 2. We The Kings — We’ll Be a Dream 3. Allstar Weekend — Hey Princess 4. Paramore — The Only Exception 5. Phoenix — Lisztomania 6. Plain White T’s — Rhythm of Love 7. Phoenix — 1901 8 Brandon Flowers — Crossfire 9. 3OH!3 — My First Kiss 10. Linkin Park — The Catalyst 11. Broken Bells — The High Road 12. The Script — The Man Who Can’t Be Moved 13. 30 Seconds to Mars — This is War 14. Rise Against… Read more »
Brandon Flowers is having trouble explaining himself. Maybe it’s because nothing about him adds up: a couture-wearing synth-pop fanatic who wants to be Bruce Springsteen; a devout Mormon who sings in a decadent Las Vegas rock band. Maybe it’s because when Flowers talks, he tends to get in trouble – like when he bragged that Sam’s Town, the previous album from his band, the Killers, was “one of the best albums in the last 20 years” before anyone heard it. Or maybe it’s because, as the Killers prepare to release their third album, Day & Age, he’s still not sure… Read more »
