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On Being Kind and Forever Emo: A Conversation with Mayday Parade


A lot can change in ten years: personalities, tastes, relationships. For Mayday Parade the last ten years have been a chance to grow as a band, explore new ways to entertain, and to connect with their fans. Which is why—almost exactly a decade after seeing them live for the first time—I’m sitting on a tour bus in Chicago, chatting with frontman Derek Sanders. We’re at the back of the bus. On one side of Sanders, guitarist Brooks Betts is fiddling around on a laptop, on the other, bassist Jeremy Lenzo pre-signs a stack of Sunnyland CDs. The window is cracked… Read more »

Editorial

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Conversation with The Maine’s John O’Callaghan


Not every band can release a song on a Wednesday, then have everybody in the audience scream each word back at them live on the following Friday. And not every band can put together a festival in their hometown and bring in fans from around the world in the middle of January. But The Maine is not like every band. “We’ve been so fortunate and lucky to experience what we have,” says vocalist John O’Callaghan. We’re sitting in a building inside Civic Space Park in Phoenix, AZ on the second day of 8123 Fest. Through the windows, This Century plays… Read more »

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Rise Rock n’ Shine Presents: The Nerve-Racking Video for Spazz Cardigan’s “Nerves”


It’s been a long road to “Nerves”, the latest song from Nashville’s Spazz Cardigan. Staying true to the “Millenial post-genre landscape” he subscribes to, the song is hard to explain. However we will tell you it’s addictive, interesting, and the video is freaking strange—in all the best ways. When “Nerves” first took shape, it was just a b-side. “The song was originally going to be a last-minute addition to my first album, I, which was complete at the time but unreleased,” Spazz Cardigan tells us. It was a friend who convinced him to drop it before he released the album,… Read more »

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