Say Anything and Eisley will be hitting the road this summer with fellow Equal Vision labelmates HRVRD, Northern Faces, and I the Mighty. The tour is in support of Say Anything’s record All My Friends Are Enemies: Early Rarities which is out now!
idobi editor Eleanor Grace sat down with Philip Jamieson and Erin Burke-Moran of Massachusetts post rock quintet Caspian at the Toronto stop of their winter tour last week. The band touched on important topics like pizza and the weather as well as the complexities of their writing process, the incredible response to their most recent album Waking Season, South By South West, and much more.
On January 25, PropertyOfZack.com confirmed that Fall Out Boy was reuniting. The announcement was met with cheers, dismissal, denial from the band, and possibly a death threat. The Gunz Show reached out and spoke with Zack Zarrillo for the background on the scoop. Fall Out Boy officially announced they are back together on February 4 – with a new album, Save Rock And Roll, ready to drop worldwide in May.
With a couple hits and misses, the Acoustic EP effectively reveals another dimension in City Lights’ sound.
A Rocket to the Moon will be releasing their new record Wild & Free on March 26th.
Blink-182 have proven through their latest EP that, while they may not be as angsty or unruly as they were a decade ago, they are still the same musicians, simply growing up and moving forward with their sound.
With his debut LP It’s Not An Excuse, It’s A Reason, Marcio Novelli proves that great music isn’t written with intentions to impress the masses, but as a personal anecdote by the musician. Recorded in just two weeks and produced by Jim Wirt (Incubus, Jack’s Mannequin), Novelli’s debut is a revival of simple pop rock with meaning, the kind that has been fading out since 2005.
Full of anger and personal regrets, Handguns use their debut full-length to get everything off their chests. With creative punk thrills and pop punk driven chord progressions, Angst is sure to make pop punk fans everywhere happy.
The xx’s second album Coexist feels a bit like floating aimlessly through space with no propulsion of energy in any particular direction. While some of the songs manage to maintain a simmering sensuality with Romy Madley Croft’s sweet voice delivering honest lyrics and enough repetition to elicit the feelings through heartfelt laments, most of the songs seem to remain unadorned and flat or build up to only thin air and the feeling that you’ve just barely missed out on the point.
We got the chance to catch up with Broadway vocalist Misha Camacho before the band heads out on tour to talk about the road, their new album Gentlemen’s Brawl, and all the struggles of the past three years.
