This week I have drummer Pete Parada on my show, he’s played for many bands that I’ve loved over the years, he’s played for such bands as: Face To Face, Saves The Day, My Chemical Romance, The Offspring, and now he shares his new project The Defiant. I learn Pete’s story about how he got to LA and did the drum thing, and it reminded me of myself, we had a good conversation and I learn a lot about his journey.
A band formed during the pandemic, poptropicaslutz! came onto the scene fast and hard. Quick after their inception, the duo signed to Epitaph Records in the summer of 2020 and began releasing music at a rapid rate. poptropicaslutz! is a genre-surfing hyperpunk band at their core, but both draw considerable inspiration from a variety of genres and decades. They showcase their glitched-out, auto-tuned melodies with the feel of 2010’s SoundCloud Rap, Myspace era indie pop and over-produced alternative rock. Today the group has announced a lengthy US tour with support from Chloe Lilac, Sophie Powers and DJ aldrch. The tour… Read more »
A Kiss For The Whole World demonstrates how Enter Shikari still have the means to surprise, delight, and inspire after all these years.
This week we had a fascinating chat with one of Billboard’s top business managers in music, Kristin Lee! Kristin is a celebrity money manager who has clients with a net worth of up to $50 million!
There was criticism over Frank Ocean‘s highly anticipated set last weekend at Coachella. The artist was set to headline Coachella in 2020, and we all know what happened there. After Coachella weekend 1, fans expressed their disappointment with his performance, to later find out he had to rework his set last minute due to an injured ankle. He also had to wrap his set early because of the noise curfew. Read More: Is ‘Twilight’ Getting Rebooted Into A TV Series? Now, Ocean has dropped out of Coachella weekend 2 and will no longer be performing his headline set. According to… Read more »
Wilmette are going to be releasing their debut album later this year. For now, they’ve shared a brilliant new banger to tide you over.
The Dead Krazukies have created a perfect blend of punk and metal with a nostalgic 90s feel. After not releasing new music since their hit album, Icarus in 2020, they are back with a brand new single. “Maniac” brings the exact energy you would expect from a punk/metal song with that name. The song is their take on the 1983 song from Flashdance, by Michael Sembello. The cover takes the song to entirely new levels. In fact, it’s as if this song was always meant to go this hard. The electricity the guitar gives off absolutely sends your brain on… Read more »
Seattle-born/LA-based artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Max Bennett Kelly has shared a brand new song “Superinlove (Roll Credits),” and it is a summer-soaked dream. The track comes as a teaser to his debut EP Junk Male out later this summer via AWAL. Along with the song, Max Bennett Kelly has also released a new music video that imagines him to be the protagonist of a romantic comedy, but a melancholy one where he doesn’t get the girl. He takes us through a retrospective of their tumultuous odyssey of a relationship, which spanned across the city of Los Angeles and sprawled and ambled like… Read more »
If you’re not already foaming at the mouth over Waterparks’ latest full-length album Intellectual Property, get your salivary glands ready. While Waterparks has a substantially storied career, in such a short period of time, too, Intellectual Property may be the band’s greatest venture to date. Vocalist Awsten Knight stopped by the idobi Studios in North Hollywood to celebrate the release of Intellectual Property and go in-depth on the album’s creation with Fish. You can watch Knight’s full interview with Fish below. I had this whole thing prepared. I was gonna be like, I have author, fashion designer, singer, songwriter, dog… Read more »
Pulling inspiration from a wide variety of artists including My Chemical Romance, 100 gecs, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, and even Lil Peep, LA-based Eli Hurts has released his highly-anticipated debut solo album, Ouch. Arriving today via Rude Records, Ouch has been brewing in Hurts since childhood. After releasing his debut EP, Future Accountants of America, Unite in 2020, Hurts set the tone of his forward-motion career through an array of alternative, emo, pop, punk, and a dash or two of synth. The culmination of these musical influences results in a motley of songs that are meant to be played at full
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