The alt-pop songstress Sky Ferreira has recently announced the details for three California tour dates with additional dates to follow, as part of LA promoter Minty Boi‘s 5th-anniversary celebration. These three dates mark Ferreira‘s first live performances of 2023. In addition to her newly announced tour dates, Ferreira will also perform a handful of shows in June at The Fillmore in Silver Spring on June 29 and The Queen in Wilmington, DE, on June 30. Read more: blink-182 Announce Rescheduled Tour Dates, Tease New Music These performances come in preparation for Ferreira‘s forthcoming sophomore album, Masochism, which fans have been… Read more »
This week, Basslines and Protest Signs looks at journalistic integrity, and how it is severely lacking in places that it should be vital.
Turns out, Welcome Skateboards are the saviors of the broken, the beaten, and the damned. Today, the board company launched an exclusive collaborative collection with My Chemical Romance to pay homage to the band’s storied career. The collection features three decks inspired by the band’s first three studio album releases: 2002’s I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love, 2004’s Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, and 2006’s The Black Parade. Of the collaboration, Welcome Skateboards shared on their collection page, “Welcome is honored to announce our collaboration with the incomparable My Chemical Romance. As they return to the… Read more »
Woe Is Me are back in business, and have shared “Ghost”, their first new song in a decade. Vocalist Michael Bohn and bassist Cory Ferris talk us through how it came to be.
Pussy Riot‘s Nadya Tolokonnikova is known for making music that serves as a form of activism. It is now being said that she has been put on Russia’s Most Wanted List. The Russian group recently released live footage of a piece of theirs from last year titled “Putin’s Ashes”, where they destroyed a portrait of the Russian ruler Vladimir Putin. While it hasn’t been said what exactly landed her on this list, she has faced criminal charges for speaking out against Christianity. In Russia, it is considered a criminal offense to “offend” another person’s religion. She even spent two years… Read more »
“I don’t know where you begin but it’s where I wanna end” Is there anything better than a beloved band returning after years away and delivering a no-skip album? I don’t think so—and apparently, Beach Weather agrees. Formed in 2015 and releasing two (excellent) EPs before going on hiatus in 2017, Beach Weather—Nick Santino, Reeve Powers, and Sean Silverman—re-emerged in late 2021 and now they’re officially back with their debut full-length, Pineapple Sunrise. Before we get any further, I have to confess that I’ve been a Nick Santino stan (a Stantino, if you will) since I started listening to his… Read more »
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week
There’s something wonderfully honest and ultimately vulnerable about Arizona indie-emo band Breakup Shoes.
Almost the same Disney Pinocchio you remember but with some perplexing changes.
Properties featured: 9-1-1, The Great Christmas Light Fight, That’s My Jam, Lost in Space, The Power of the Dog, Candified: Home for the Holidays, Baking It, Alex Rider, Pen15
