“Like the ocean breeze you came along, to lift my sails, to take me home.” Something tells us the pop punk demigods aren’t happy with the state of the genre today, because this year all of our favorite punk as f*ck bands are coming back our way. From Good Charlotte to American Hi-Fi to Blink 182, the forefathers of this great scene are calling us home. The latest addition to the lineup is mid-2000s act Hit The Lights, with their new EP Just To Get Through To You. One of the last bands to keep the genre afloat in its… Read more »
This is the story of how idobi photographer Gaëlle Pitrel fell in love with ROAM one gig at a time without even trying.
Regardless of whether you love or hate pop music, Hell’s Kitchen Angel will reshape your thoughts on the current state of the industry.
idobi staff have pitched The 1975’s latest album against their debut in order to help you decide for yourself: Team Black or Pink?
You’ll catch both Ryan Scott Graham stage right for State Champs, and center stage for Speak Low If You Speak Love.
Though the exact memory from ten years ago might be a little fuzzy, we all do remember loving every moment spent with this record. Well, who didn’t love this one, right? Everything in Transit is about as perfect as records come.
I guess it’s true what they say, you can never go home. For some of us home isn’t a place, it’s a place in time. A time where everything made sense and we all fit in. A time where the scene was our family. The Matches video for their song “Life of a Match” is like a high school reunion where we suddenly realize everyone has grown up and everything has changed. The video features all of our favorite bands from the glory days of pop punk and emo as they time travel forward to sing along to that… Read more »
One of the most anticipated pop-punk releases of 2015 has arrived. Around The World And Back, Albany pop-punk frontrunners State Champs’ sophomore full-length record, is finally available to stream. A little over two years ago to this day, the five-piece released their debut studio album, entitled The Finer Things, via Pure Noise Records. This record served as the band’s first Billboard-charting album, and has been very well received across the globe — transcending their musical careers into having toured with some of the industry’s biggest names like All Time Low and 5 Seconds Of Summer. You can listen to Around… Read more »
Throughout the past year, State Champs has grown from a small town pop-punk band, to cultivating a relentless, and strong core fanbase, to having one of the most anticipated alternative albums of 2015.
Séb Lefebvre (Simple Plan) and Canadian TV personality Patrick Langlois talk about life, love, family, music, and tell their wildest stories too.
