Andrew McMahon has released a new song entitled “After The Fire” from his upcoming EP The Pop Underground, due out this coming Tuesday. Click “read more” to listen!
Every Avenue have announced they will be going their separate ways and heading out on a farewell tour on December. Supporting Every Avenue on the road for these dates are their friends Set It Off, Conditions, Wilson, and Car Party.
Every Time I Die will be heading out on a headline tour this fall with support from The Chariot, letlive., and Kills & Thrills.
We’re stoked to be giving away 1 pair of tickets to every show on the Vans Off the Wall 2012 Spring Tour, featuring Set Your Goals, Cartel, Fireworks, Hit the Lights, Mixtapes, and Super Prime! We’re also going to be announcing a really cool grand prize in the next few days.
“Corporate radio stations need to show musicians the money” is the title of a piece written by SoundExchange executive director John Simson, published in the San Jose Mercury News back in August. But internet song aggregator Orchard suggests it needs to start following its own advice. Orchard’s Greg Scholl fired off a letter to the Copyright Board, and published in Billboard, arguing that it was time for a major audit of the service, which supposedly is supposed to collect royalty money for redistribution to rights holders. Scholl says it’s very difficult to figure out what SX is doing with the… Read more »
Alexisonfire inherited the screamo crown of Canada this year, knocking it right off the emotionally hardcore heads of their peers. Their sophomore disc, Watch Out!, which the band describes as sounding like “two Catholic high-school girls in mid-knife-fight,” went gold in under three months, even though the band received little radio play. We caught up with lead screamer George Pettit to talk about the finer points of fronting the band and how his success is finally allowing him the chance to move out of his parents’ house. ChartAttack: You guys have had a crazy-good year. Has the success been any… Read more »
Alexisonfire inherited the screamo crown of Canada this year, knocking it right off the emotionally hardcore heads of their peers. Their sophomore disc, Watch Out!, which the band describes as sounding like “two Catholic high-school girls in mid-knife-fight,” went gold in under three months, even though the band received little radio play. We caught up with lead screamer George Pettit to talk about the finer points of fronting the band and how his success is finally allowing him the chance to move out of his parents’ house. You guys have had a crazy-good year. Has the success been any different… Read more »
The 10 finalists for Takeover Records’ “Sign My Band” contest have been announced! Check out the contest webpage at http://contest.takeoverrock.com to see who made the cut. Voting begins on November 15, so get to know the bands because you’ll be choosing the winner. From Nov. 1 through Nov. 15th the bands will have the opportunity to promote themselves as much as they can and get fans to register to vote at PureVolume.com. Voting will begin November 15 to registered listeners. Each week, two bands will be eliminated. After four weeks, the winner will be announced. The winning band will be… Read more »
The Backstreet Boys are in sync again. “It’s been like three years since we’ve all been in the studio together, so it’s like the fire was rekindled,” is how Nick Carter described the reunion during a recent break from recording. “We’re in there experimenting and really cool stuff’s coming out. It’s not gonna be the same Backstreet. I mean, you’re always gonna have Backstreet Boys, but the music’s gonna change.” The group plans to update the teen-pop sound it mastered in the late ’90s with a more mature approach to production and songwriting. “We’re just not doing it like we… Read more »
Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl flash lasted less than three seconds, but the impact continues to ripple through Viacom, the media giant that broadcast the game. Congress, the Federal Communications Commission, right-wing radio commentators and outraged citizens are calling for stricter decency standards – and the artists and executives who make a living from edgy music, performances and videos are in retreat. MTV in particular, which produced the Super Bowl halftime show, is in the midst of a wide-scale re-evaluation of its musical, news and dramatic content. Within a week of the game, MTV – no stranger to criticism, most recently… Read more »
