Photo via Facebook Got plans this weekend? Cancel ’em. You’re going to be hanging out with Mayday Parade on idobi Radio instead. “It Is What It Is” and in this case it’s really good. The band will be hosting a Release Day Listening Party for their first self released single called (you guessed it) “It Is What It Is”. They’ll take over idobi airwaves on Friday at 7pm ET to spin some music, chat about the song, and maybe even share a surprise or two. Set your alarms, mark your calendar, and tell all your friends (even the ones with… Read more »
Calling all Mayday Parade fans! Frontman Derek Sanders is releasing his first solo EP on Valentine’s Day and we’re already in love after hearing one song. We all know that Mayday Parade loves a good cover song—they recently finished an entire tour built around covers—so it’s not surprising that Sanders chose to reimagine some of his favorite songs for his first EP, My Rock and Roll Heart. And it’s also not surprising that he does an incredible job. The first single, a heartbreaking rendition of Jimmy Eat World’s “A Praise Chorus”, will get you all up in your feels in… Read more »
A lot can change in ten years: personalities, tastes, relationships. For Mayday Parade the last ten years have been a chance to grow as a band, explore new ways to entertain, and to connect with their fans. Which is why—almost exactly a decade after seeing them live for the first time—I’m sitting on a tour bus in Chicago, chatting with frontman Derek Sanders. We’re at the back of the bus. On one side of Sanders, guitarist Brooks Betts is fiddling around on a laptop, on the other, bassist Jeremy Lenzo pre-signs a stack of Sunnyland CDs. The window is cracked… Read more »
Gunz talks with Derek Sanders about how the band keeps things fresh on tour.
Mayday Parade have released a new song called “The Problem With the Big Picture is That it’s Hard to See”, taken from the special 10 year anniversary edition of their debut EP Tales Told By Dead Friends.
With a summer on the Vans Warped Tour on the horizon, pop punk/emo favorites Mayday Parade have announced the release of their new music video.
idobi photographer Gaelle Pitrel covered the Mayday Parade show at Backstage By The Mill in Paris.
Black Lines is difficult to get a grip on, because it’s so emphatically different from anything Mayday Parade has ever done. It’s nothing like the kind of “happy heartache†pop-rock a listener might come to expect. It’s much more aggressive, but worth hearing.
Mayday Parade are streaming their newest song “Letting Go†over at Rolling Stone today. The song is from their upcoming album Black Lines.
Gunz chats with Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade about Warped Tour adventures and the band’s killer main stage set. Listen in, and check them out on the Vans Warped Tour all summer long!
