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Get out your flat iron, your headband and your neon t-shirt, it’s time to party — Texas power-pop style.
Think about if someone approached you in a record store asking for something that blends the unique vocal sound of Hit the Lights, the emo power of The Early November and the homegrown pop-punk sound that The Starting Line have perfected. If that person were savvy enough they would hand you a copy of Think Fast from Just Left, the band’s second album and debut for Victory imprint Standby Records.
BURBANK, Calif. – Alpha Rev, the Austin, Texas based band led by charismatic singer-songwriter Casey McPherson, will make its major label album debut on Hollywood Records with New Morning.
There was one truth apparent while walking through the merchandise area one hour after the doors opened at the Starland Ballroom last Wednesday evening: the crowd was ready for all that was to come.
Avenged Sevenfold drummer James Owen Sullivan was found dead at his Huntington Beach, Calif. home Monday. He was 28 years old.
Adding to the heap of awards already bestowed on her, Taylor Swift has been voted The Associated Press entertainer of the year.
Radiohead plans to return to the studio in January to continue work on its next album, which began over the summer.
IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW… Catch The Gunz Show on Sunday, December 20th! Gunz will be talking with Jonathan Cook, lead singer of the band Forever The Sickest Kids! It all starts at 10PM EST/7PM PST on idobi Radio! Listen at idobiradio.com or on iTunes (Radio>Alternative>idobi Radio) Talk to Gunz! AIM: gunzidobi AIM Chatroom: thegunzshow FACEBOOK: facebook.com/thegunzshow TWITTER: twitter.com/thegunzshow MYSPACE: myspace.com/thegunzshow BALLINNNNNNNN’ -Gunz (Image used in courtesy from Jennifer Kuhn, © 2007 Jennifer Kuhn)
TORONTO – As music lovers approach a new decade in this still-young century, a recording technology once considered old and obsolete — vinyl — has been making a strong comeback.
Moments before the opening curtain of “American Idiot,” the musical theater debut of the punk band Green Day, a t-shirted house manager took the stage at Berkeley Repertory Theater for the tradition of reminding audience members to turn off their cellphones and unwrap their candies. This being a musical by Green Day, though, it wasn’t your typical curtain speech. “Are you ready to rock tonight?” shouted the house manager, John Gay. And sure enough, the crowd roared back, “Yeah!” Such is the rowdy mood surrounding “American Idiot,” a rock opera drawn largely from Green Day’s multiplatinum 2004 album of the… Read more »
