After announcing his signing to Pete Wentz‘s DCD2 Records and PULSE Records in September, glimmer rock artist Vienna Vienna has finally dropped his debut EP, Wonderland. He previously released tracks “Beauty Queen” and “Vienna (Everything’s Fine).” The artist explains, “Wonderland is a bit of a time capsule. Coming-of-age stories have always fascinated me—how and when people discover themselves. I looked at my life and thought I was finally becoming, so I wrote it down. Wonderland was a tinnitus-inducing show where I snuck out back and pretended to have smoked a cigarette before; the pain I’d been burying tearing its way… Read more »
Indie-rock trio half•alive shared a new track from their dazzling new Persona era. Today, the group revealed the high-energy, chaotic track “Automatic” featuring a music video full of furry friends. In fact, these monster mascots have names: Sonny and Cher. And they’re inspired by the world of @blatant.space. Lead vocalist Josh Taylor shares, “We had a lot of expressive songs on the record, but nothing angry. An angry song is a bit challenging for us, actually. We can write songs you can dance or nod your head to all day, but a song where you can thrash around or run fast to… Read more »
Following the release of their highly-acclaimed August-released record Paradise State Of Mind, Foster The People are ready to hit the road in 2025 on an expansive North American tour. The tour excitingly kicks off on January 25, 2025, in Seattle at The Paramount Theatre and wraps up on March 6, 2025, at the Dallas House of Blues. Good Neighbours are heading out on the road to support, too. Of the record, lead vocalist Mark Foster shared, “I think the trickiest part about this record was trying to be authentic about what had been going on with me without writing something… Read more »
Fans of British pop-rock, we are so unbelievably back. McFly and Busted are coming together to perform a massive double-headlining arena tour throughout the UK and Ireland. On a social media video, the two artists said, “Every saga has an ending. BUSTED VS McFLY Tour 2025. The ultimate battle of the bands.” The tour is set to showcase the artists behind “Year 3000” and “Star Girl” going head to head. Frankly, the real winners are everyone who gets tickets to see these guys. The tour kicks off on September 16, 2025, at Birmingham’s BP Pulse Live and wraps up on… Read more »
Following the release of three new American Idiot tracks and revealing their Punk Bunny Coffee holiday offerings, Green Day has a unique drop in honor of Dookie‘s 30th anniversary. The band has collaborated with BRAIN—the wild and wonderful art studio that brought you Fall Out Boy’s CRYNYL—to make DOOKIE DEMASTERED. Each song will be given new life by being put into formats that are “inconvenient” at best when it comes to listening. Examples include Big Mouth Billy Bass singing “Basket Case,” Teddy Ruxpin playing “Chump” and much more. Listen to your favorite song in a bizarre, nostalgic object by entering to… Read more »
This election season has seen its share of intense highs and lows, rampant disinformation (THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS!), and dangerous rhetoric surrounding abortion rights, along with real challenges that demand our collective resolve. With the 2024 Presidential Election less than 30 days away, Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Governor Tim Walz, are leading the polls over former President Donald Trump and J.D. Vance. However, the too-close-for-comfort, razor-thin margins of the 2020 election and the tumultuous 2016 result, where Trump claimed the presidency without the popular vote, which went to Hillary Clinton, it is absolutely crucial to vote… Read more »
Have you ever wondered where the term “Hardcore” came from? Well that will be answered for you this week on my show as I have Canadian hardcore punk legend Joey Shithead of DOA on my show! We talk about stories from the early hardcore days and a whole lot more. This one is for all the hardcore and punk lovers!
Fans are eagerly anticipating the release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of American Idiot due out October 25. Green Day has just revealed three more tracks that will appear on the release. The additions include “Shoplifter,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams – Live at Irving Plaza, New York, NY 9/21/04,” and “Jesus Of Suburbia – Demo.” Uniquely, the iconic nine-minute American Idiot hit, “Jesus Of Suburbia,” began as a two-minute-long demo. Check out the demo below. With the release, Green Day has curated a variety of limited-edition box sets available in eight vinyls and 4 CDs, and each box set also includes… Read more »
America’s local band Cheekface surprised fans with a biting, darkly funny beachy indie pop bop, “Flies.” Previously, the L.A.-based trio released It’s Sorted in January 2024 featuring 10 dazzling tracks. Here, you may even feel as if you’re at a ska show. Jeff Rosenstock added a bit of his own flair with a baritone sax cameo. Vocalist and guitarist Greg Katz shared, “This song is about living the dream in a room full of flies. Me and [bassist Amanda] Mandy [Tannen] wrote this song in our practice space a few months ago, but the title lyric was literally written in a… Read more »
Today, Long Island based upstarts Koyo have announced the release of their Mile A Minute EP. In addition, the band has released the first single of the EP, “Ten Digits Away (Deluxe),” one of two tracks from their previous work that appear on the EP, reimagined and reinvigorated.
