Do you have what it takes to be the next Wallflowers or Christina Aguilera? If so, your big break could be right around the corner. The American Music Awards ® (AMAs) and The Coca-Cola Company, together with dick clark communications (DCC) and The CMJ Network (CMJ), today launched “The American Music Awards presents the Coca-Cola New Music Award” competition. This brand new award category will honor the best unsigned band or artist in America and the winner will perform live on The 29th Annual American Music Awards telecast in January 2002 on ABC-TV, an unprecedented opportunity for emerging talent. To… Read more »
The Used are getting back on the bus for a full US tour this fall! And they’re taking Sleeping With Sirens and Dead American with them.
Fresh off the success of their 2022 full-length album, Complete Collapse, Sleeping With Sirens is back with a thrilling summer tour, joined by the talented acts Dead American and TX2 as support. The 5-show tour will kick off at …Is For Lovers Festival in Orange County, CA, on Saturday, August 26. Sleeping With Sirens will continue their tour through Labor Day weekend, concluding on September 3 in Houston, TX. Read more: Magnolia Park Announce Two EPs, Share Track With nothing,nowhere. Immediately following their short tour run, Sleeping With Sirens and Dead American will join The Used as support through the… Read more »
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about Richard Marx.
To Lars Frederiksen, his band Rancid, his label-mates on Epitaph and Hell-Cat Records, and his favorite bands are all about being part of a family – a punk rock family. Fresh off a tour playing with tour with two, high-powered Hell-Cat bands, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and the Dropkick Murphys, Frederiksen is set for Rancid’s stint on this summer’s Vans Warped Tour and readying a new, high-tech Rancid release. There’s no time to rest for this tattooed, mohawk-sporting, family man. Rancid will join the roving punk festival on June 22nd in Phoenix along with Epitaph label-mates Pennywise, the Bouncing… Read more »
There’s a chill in the air signifying that fall is on its way. This can only mean one thing…it’s Halloween season, baby! And what better way to celebrate the spookiest time of the year than with your favorite witches, ghosts, and vampires? Specifically, it’s time for an annual Twilight rewatch. For fans of Edward and Bella, fabulous news just dropped. According to Netflix’s official Twitter/X account, a new Twilight series is on the way. Their post reads, “Midnight Sun, an animated series adaptation of Stephenie Meyer’s novel and the retelling of Twilight from Edward Cullen’s perspective, is officially in development.”… Read more »
On the brink of the release of their upcoming album Five Dice, All Threes, Bright Eyes have dropped their latest single from the full-length “Rainbow Overpass” featuring Alex Orange Drink of The So So Glos. Known to go big, it makes sense for the band to also announce an extensive North American Tour. The track follows their June release of “Bells And Whistles.” Where that song utilized easy-going instrumentations, “Rainbow Overpass” features gritty hits and fast-moving rhythms. Though they’ve collaborated before, vocalist Conor Oberst says this is the first time Alex has sung on one of their tracks. “He’s kinda… Read more »
Following the release of “I Died” on June 5, Cassadee Pope and Daisha McBride officially dropped their spooky music video for the song. Set to appear on Pope‘s forthcoming LP Hereditary, available July 12, the song is a dark rock track about scorched-earth breakups. Pope says, “I knew nobody would be able to execute my idea for this video better than my friend Ed Pryor. We wanted the aesthetic to really lean into the lyric about feeling like someone has made you feel like a ghost by cutting you off.” She continues, “We flipped the lyric on its head and… Read more »
Cassadee Pope is giving us another glimpse into what to expect on her forthcoming record Hereditary, which arrives on July 12. Today, the “Three Of Us” singer shared a dazzling collab with “The Rap Girl” Daisha McBride, “I Died.” In fact, the unique genre collab came from Pope shooting her shot on social media. “I remember DMing Daisha on a whim last year, letting her know I was a fan and would love to write sometime,” she says on Instagram. “Not only did we get a great song together but we both got a new friend in the end.” Read… Read more »
There’s good news, and there’s bad news for I Prevail fans. The bad news is that lead singer Brian Burkheiser needs a little extra time at home to recover from surgery. The good news is, the rest of the band is still touring in May throughout the Midwest and in the UK and Europe. Eric Vanlerberghe and Dylan Bowman will cover for the frontman. Read more: House Of Protection Debuts Single, “It’s Supposed To Hurt” The band recently released a statement: “Brian recently underwent surgery for a longstanding medical issue in February. The doctors involved were confident this timeframe would… Read more »
