Jay Z. Beyonce. Rihanna. Madonna. Kanye West. Over the past few years these figures, among others, have been deemed members of the upper-upper echelon of music royalty: the kings and queens capable of doing whatever they damn well please. With the launch of Tidal, these entertainment powerhouses, along with 11 more of their peers, hoped to be the first to finally eliminate freemium as a standard in the streaming world. The initial announcement was brief, awkward, full of vague grandiose statements, and it was a bit of an elite circle jerk as they all stood there grinning at each other.… Read more »
While a complete return to Skip School, Start Fights would have felt stale and continued down the same path as Invicta by alienating many fans, Hit The Lights find the perfect middle ground with Summer Bones.
Timbaland’s R&B remix of OneRepublic’s “Apologize” helped the band break through to mainstream radio. Reimagined as a crisp and gritty song by Silverstein, this week’s (Un)covered looks at the rock cover recorded for Punk Goes Pop Volume 2.
Celebrate Valentines’ Day with a cover as sweet as candy conversation hearts. This week, New Found Glory cover “Kiss Me”, originally by Sixpence None the Richer.
With all the millions of songs out there, it’s inevitable that a few will end up sounding similar to one another — but sometimes, the resemblance gets a little too close for comfort.
If one thing is certain about Metro Station’s new EP Gold, it’s that the electro-pop tunes will make you “Shake It†like it’s 2007.
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 days may be long gone of rushing to the local record store, money in hand, to grab the latest radio hit’s 45rpm single, but the excitement of flipping that record over and discovering the non-album track that lay on the other side will never wear off. In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we’re exploring some of our writers’ favorite b-sides.
idobi managing editor Eleanor Grace checked in with Nick Santino at the Toronto date of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour to talk about going solo, his former band A Rocket To The Moon’s beginnings and eventual end, the importance of fan connection, and much more.
Dig up your time machine — EJC’s Eddie and Rock The Walls’ Patrick Walford are taking you back to 2007 for Music Monday.
