Whether you like it or not, Machine Gun Kelly is an anomaly of the music industry, seemingly capable of anything he sets his mind to. After starting his career as a Cleveland rap sensation, the 32-year-old artist started to marry his rapper roots with pop-punk influences as evidenced by his 2019 full-length album Hotel Diablo before releasing two true-to-form pop-punk albums—2020’s Tickets To My Downfall and 2022’s mainstream sellout. Respectively, Tickets To My Downfall has been certified Platinum while mainstream sellout has been certified Gold, and both albums boast massive features including Halsey, blackbear, Bring Me The Horizon, WILLOW, and… Read more »
This week, Basslines and Protest Signs looks at journalistic integrity, and how it is severely lacking in places that it should be vital.
Cameron Hurley has had a storied career since joining We Are The In Crowd in 2009. After the band’s success across Warped Tour, Hurley has furthered his guitar skills and artistry alongside bandmate Taylor Jardine under the stage name Sainte and has even played alongside Avril Lavigne and State Champs. Now, Hurley has hurled himself into his own passion project—a complete cover album of blink-182’s 1997 album Dude Ranch under the moniker new.wav. As evidenced by Hurley’s social media presence, he is a massive fan of the pop-punk trio having created multiple mashups of other popular tracks, including Billie Eilish’s… Read more »
The Chicago-based alt-pop trio, Better Love have announced the release of their brand new LP I Don’t Want To Make It Hurt out July 14th via Secret Friends Music Group and we are very excited. The band are certainly bringing something fresh to the genre. Better Love are Jackie Heuser, Brad Harvey, and Kay Provencher, who came together with a goal to write songs about connection and the human experience. Upon first listen, their music is driven by upbeat arrangements, unforgettable melodies, and the layering of Heuser and Harvey’s vocals. However, it’s the transparency and vulnerability of their songwriting that… Read more »
Geek Girl Riot is revisiting the Sandman universe and one of our Rioters’ (many) conversations about femme empowerment. While you relive the episode’s magic, keep scrolling to read the latest reviews, featuring: Dead Ringers, Mrs. Davis, The Covenant, Beau Is Afraid, Evil Dead Rise, and The Diplomat.
10 years after the Lambert family escaped “The Further” for the first time, they will be forced to revisit their past and uncover the horrors of their suppressed memories. Today Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, M3GAN, Paranormal Activity) has shared the trailer for the brand new installment in the Insidious film series, Insidious: The Red Door. The trailer follows the Lambert family 10 years after their son, Dalton fell into a coma that resulted in bizarre paranormal events. The family experienced unexplainable and imaginable horrors within their own home. In attempts to escape the demonic entity terrorizing the family, parents Josh… Read more »
Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is bringing back the annual Ohana Festival this fall to Dana Point, CA, and he’s bringing some renowned friends with him this year. Returning to California from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 at Doheny State Beach, the latest installment features Vedder headlining alongside The Killers, Haim, The Chicks, Foo Fighters, and Pretenders. Spread across 3 days this fall, Ohana Festival will also feature performances from Japanese Breakfast, Suki Waterhouse (who recently starred in ‘Daisy Jones and The Six’ as keyboardist Karen Sirko), Amos Lee, and plenty more. Check out the day-by-day lineup breakdown below. Presale tickets will be… Read more »
Our big question at the moment is…does Machine Gun Kelly (Colson Baker) ever rest? In 2022, following the release of his Gold-certified album mainstream sellout, Machine Gun Kelly embarked on the massive 52-show North American and European headline tour. The Cleveland native wrapped his Mainstream Sellout Tour with a hometown performance at FirstEnergy Stadium, which is also home to the NFL’s Cleveland Browns. Now, the genre-fluid artist has announced the details for his next venture. For one day only, on May 13, Kells will unleash ‘Machine Gun Kelly: Mainstream Sellout Live from Cleveland: The Pink Era’ exclusively in theatres across… Read more »
Epitaph Records newest signing, Roe Kapara, has taken the scene by storm. You may recognize him from one of many viral videos featuring Kapara sitting stoic in front of a vintage television that is playing an old cartoon or classic movie. Usually with guitar in hand, he drones the soft melodies to the viewer with lyricism that is reminiscent of a perfect blend of The Front Bottoms, Microwave and Jeremy Zucker. With many popular songs like “Preacher“, “Everyone’s Dying (Grandma’s Drunk Again)“, and “Everything’s Fine (Nuke Song)” featured on the album, Kapara still finds away to make the other tracks… 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 »
