Hannah Hines spoke with Take This To Heart Records owner Joe Urban to outline his journey and get some great insider advice, and give you song recommendations from the label.
Bert McCracken steps outside his massive tour bus on parked just up the street from The Crystal Ballroom. Last night the self-titled record was performed front to back. Tonight is the entirety of In Love and Death.
Read letters from our team as they say their goodbyes to Yellowcard, and listen to the band’s new track, “The Hurt Is Gone”.
We spoke to Sorority Noise vocalist Cam Boucher about music, touring, and why you shouldn’t write Sorority Noise off as just another “sad” band.
Until a music video is released, a song is open to the theatrics of your mind. If you’re anything like us, all your favorite songs have a storyboard of your own creation to go along with them—that is, until the official video is released. It’ll wipe away your mental picture, and if they’ve done it right, you’ll be happy to let it go. The following nineteen videos accomplished just that, as told by the idobi staff.
Honesty hurts, sometimes in the best way possible and sometimes it is just what we need.
Tom Delonge Released A New Video And I’m Done I’m not going to get over it. I will never let go. The music is supposedly supposed to be meant as a Blink-182 track, and the video is filled with anger directed a drum sets and a bass guitar! Real subtle, DeLonge. Seriously considering getting him a kiddie pool for all of his tears at this point. In all honesty, it’s just bad form to force your band’s hand and then come out with a music video that seems as if you are blaming them completely. I tried to watch the… Read more »
Brand New Give Us More… The most perfect band in life, Brand New, finally announced some more West Coast shows this spring with Circa Survive and Desaparecidos alternating on specific dates. Their news was the biggest of the week for me. Over the past couple of years Brand New have toured consistently, and they’ve fueled rumors they’re in the studio working on a 2015 release–no doubt with an insane name. No word yet on when they will release an album or if they just want to toy with us forever… because they can. This means after six long years of… Read more »
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.
We’re excited to unveil another new column, Double Take. In this bi-weekly editorial, idobi writer Marina Oliver explores the subtle connections between two musical concepts from different moments in time, finding the threads that tie the two together. For the column’s debut, we delve into two quintessential summer albums that are musically different from one another but turn out to have a lot in common: Jack’s Mannequin’s Everything In Transit and The Antlers’ Burst Apart.
