An outspoken and instantly recognizable voice, letlive. frontman Jason Butler is reigniting the fire of modern punk rock with the band’s unequivocal message to the masses. One of music’s most unmistakably charismatic frontmen, the band has been tearing up stages across the country all year on Warped Tour and alongside bands like Every Time I Die and Bring Me The Horizon. idobi writers Alex Rudisill and Alexa Gallo spent some time with Jason at their appearance at South By So What?! to discuss the current state of music as well as his personal musical background.
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.
I spoke with my buddy Tay Jardine of We Are The In Crowd about their current tour with Yellowcard/The Wonder Years, about how Disney movies rule, and the regular chaos that ensues when Tay joins The Gunz Show.
Panic! At The Disco arrived at Gallivan Plaza in downtown Salt Lake to headline the X96 FM Big Ass Show without their lead vocalist, Brendon Urie. Luckily, Panic!’s bassist Dallon Weekes found in frontman Ransom Wydner the onstage persona he needed to fill in for Urie.
There’s no doubt that Cash Money Records has solidified its status as one of hip-hop’s most successful labels. With such acts as the Hot Boys, Juvenile and Birdman laying the foundation, Cash Money has since powered up a franchise that includes hot upstarts Drake and Nicki Minaj through its Young Money imprint.
If you follow the entertainment business at all, you’re probably well aware of “Hollywood accounting,” whereby very, very, very few entertainment products are technically “profitable,” even as they earn studios millions of dollars. A couple months ago, the Planet Money folks did a great episode explaining how this works in very simple terms. The really, really, really simplified version is that Hollywood sets up a separate corporation for each movie with the intent that this corporation will take on losses. The studio then charges the “film corporation” a huge fee (which creates a large part of the “expense” that leads… Read more »
It’s all about The Power of Madonna this week on the Billboard 200 albums chart where the soundtrack from last week’s Madonna-themed episode of Fox TV’s “Glee” debuts at No. 1 with 98,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Tonight on Bitch Slap Radio we talk about why we don’t give a shit about the Academy Awards, and why you shouldn’t either! We talk about why girls with huge foreheads big enough to land a plane on are just not very attractive. Later on we talk about the Bitch Slap radio date off, and some new developments in it to ensure our Bitch Slapers get to have a little fun. We talk about a little football free agency, and why our team the dolphins might have a sick chance this year to do something big. We saw the new… Read more »
Miramax, the former indie movie studio that churned out big time commercial hits such as “Pulp Fiction,†“Good Will Hunting†and “Chicago,†was shut down yesterday by Disney.
The World Trade Organization’s top arbitrators upheld a ruling that China is illegally restricting imports of U.S. music, films and books, and Washington pushed forward with a new case accusing China of manipulating the prices for key ingredients in steel and aluminum production.
