Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week’s topic is Rock Against Racism.
This is the sound of an artist, a songwriter, becoming more and more comfortable slowing things down, allowing for subtlety, and openly aching.
Kevin Lyman is ready to see where the Warped Tour will go from here. When I talk to him, it’s days after he announced the end of “punk rock summer camp” in 2018. The music industry is still in a funk—we’ve returned to middle school levels of emo—which has Kevin feeling like he’s walked in on his own funeral. “I’m not going away, I just have to readjust the way we’ve been doing things,” he assures me. “It just might manifest itself it different ways.” For now, Warped has its final tour on the books, and plans for a 25th… Read more »
What happens when music meets culture? You get BMG’s first book: The “Odessey”: The Zombies in Words and Images.
U.K. pop-punk band ROAM have been building up anticipation for over a year after signing to Hopeless Records, releasing an EP, and touring almost non-stop in 2015 with bands such as Handguns, State Champs, and Man Overboard.
Even if you’re convinced that a band changing their sound is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, it’s perfectly natural for someone’s music to develop and shift from album to album. But every once in a while, those shifts are so dramatic that the early work ends up sounding like it was released by an entirely different band than the more recent material.
The Glastonbury festival has released their 2013 lineup, and there are still more acts to be announced so stay tuned!
President Barack Obama presented Paul McCartney with a lifetime achievement award for his contributions to popular music on Wednesday night.
What’s one way to ensure your mega music festival is well attended in the middle of a recession? Book a reunited Phish. The jam band’s legions of ardent followers sell out arenas in minutes, so with little difficulty they will flood the Tennessee fields of the Bonnaroo Music Festival, which begins Thursday and runs through Sunday. In its eighth year, Bonnaroo – arguably the country’s biggest festival – will have a distinctive Phish flavor. Oh, and a guy named Bruce Springsteen is playing, too. With that lineup, organizers expect that tickets to sell without a hitch along the way, in… Read more »
According to the Chinese calendar, 2008 was the year of the rat. But if you ask us, ‘08 belongs to a different animal: The Collabo. And no artists cross-pollinated more than Fall Out Boy’s Patrick Stump (he got down with Questlove!), Elvis Costello (he went emo!) and T-Pain (he was permanently attached to a vocoder!) Here’s your guide to this year’s most collabo-happy stars: Patrick Stump Collaborations: Gym Class Heroes; Tyga; Pete Wentz protégées the Cab. And Stump’s stamp was all over hip-hop – he teamed up with Ne-Yo (”Finish Your Food”), the Roots (”Birthday Girl”) and T.I. (”Out in… Read more »
