Nine years after No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls went double-platinum, Canada’s Simple Plan is back with their fourth studio album. With Get Your Heart On!, the band embrace the spirit that ushered five kids from Montreal into worldwide fame nearly a decade ago.
As Record Store Day approaches on April 16, the fourth annual event continues to be an increasingly valued channel through which to sell music.
The number of stores expected to participate will be about the same as last year: about 1,400 around the world.
Sub City has announced the Take Action Volume 10 charity compilation. The tour compilation will be available at shows, at Hot Topic stores and most retailers on April 26, 2011.
Music triggers the same pleasure-reward system in the brain as food, sex and illicit drugs, according to McGill University researchers who have been peering into minds of music lovers.
As expected, The Federal Communications Commission — by a vote of 3-2 — has passed the Net Neutrality rules pressed for by Chairman Julius Genachowski. The vote was held this morning in an Open Agenda Meeting at The FCC following a presentation called “Preserving The Open Internet.”
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Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed and more pegged as “criminals” in Kentucky campaign for County Attorney.
Aerial7 and idobi Radio is giving away 4 Aerial7 Tank headphones this month. During the month of November, you can submit your playlist to First Person with Josh Madden. If Josh selects your playlist for his show, you win one of four Aerial7 Tank headphones.
Rich Cronin, the former frontman for boy band LFO, known for the 1999 hit “Summer Girls,” died September 8 of leukemia. He was 35.
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows dishes about the second “Traveling Circus & Medicine Show,” the current state of the music industry and more.