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Album Review: American Authors – Oh, What A Life
Although American Authors are receiving a lot of attention from pop culture, they’ve adopted none of the restrictions that come along with the limelight.
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Although American Authors are receiving a lot of attention from pop culture, they’ve adopted none of the restrictions that come along with the limelight.
Step right up, because it’s time to call the rookies up from the bench for Warped season. In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we’ve put together an idobi All-Star Rookie Squad of artists you absolutely cannot miss as they make their first official appearances on Warped Tour this summer.
In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we talk about some of our favorite sonically unmistakable bands and what sets them apart in 2014’s flooded musical climate.
With a certain industry critic quipping recently that the album format is dead, the success of The Visual Album goes to show that the album format is only as alive as the artistic creativity and expression that it possesses from front-to-back, and that that such creativity and talent is still rewarded in the music industry.
Hawthorne Heights have signed with the Sony / RED distributed Red River Entertainment and are currently recording their new LP with producer Brian Virtue (30 Seconds To Mars, Chevelle, Audioslave), which will be released this summer.
Here is the countdown for the week ending December 25th!
The following is the ALTop 20 for the week ending October 3rd ALTOP20 1 Neon Trees – Animal 2 Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man 3 Jimmy Eat World – My Best Theory 4 Allstar Weekend – Hey Princess 5 Linkin Park – The Catalyst 6 Paramore – The Only Exception 7 Summer Set – Young 8 Anberlin – Impossible 9 Kings of Leon – Radioactive 10 We The Kings – We’ll Be A Dream 11 The Almost Free Fallin 12 Black Keys – Tighten Up 13 Brandon Flowers – Crossfire 14 Phoenix – Lisztomania 15 Cage The Elephant… Read more »
idobi’s Jamie McGrath sat down with the The Wonder Years at Starland Ballroom Saturday evening during their “Ship of Fools†tour with Streetlight Manifesto.
Kanye West might not be able to tell you the complete background of one of his newer artists, Big Sean, but he can see his guy’s future. Sean may be the next mainstream hip-hop star coming out of Detroit. “He put out mixtapes… His story for me was I heard him rap, he killed it and he got signed,” West said. One cannot script Sean’s introduction to West any better. Sean took a page right out of fellow Detroit native Eminem’s handbook and lost himself in the moment. When he was alerted by a friend that West would be at… Read more »
They might not know much about running the ball at fourth and goal, but they’ve got it covered when it comes to runnin’ down a dream. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been tapped to headline the Super Bowl XLII Halftime Show Feb. 3 at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. The “Free Fallin’ ” rockers join an illustrious lineup that, in the last five years, has included Prince, Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Diddy, Kid Rock, Jessica Simpson and Shania Twain. (Some shows being more memorable than others, of course.) Petty’s last album with… Read more »
