Razor & Tie have signed Queens, NY metalcore act Sylar. The band will release their debut full length, To Whom It May Concern, on the label in the Spring. You can listen to the new song “Mirrors” off the upcoming album below. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVWGZvadg0
Catch Foster the People early this spring on their North American tour with St. Lucia.
The 2014 Take Action Tour has been announced. The tour, now heading into its 12th year, will feature The Devil Wears Prada, The Ghost Inside, I Killed the Prom Queen and Dangerkids. It will kick off March 12th in Ventura, CA at the Ventura Theatre and continues through April 2nd, wrapping in Columbus, OH. Tickets for all dates will be on sale Friday, January 17th. This year’s tour will benefit the Living The Dream Foundation which is a non-profit organization that provides hope and inspiration to children and young adults afflicted with life threatening diseases. 10% of ticket sales will… Read more »
South By So What!? is back in 2014 for its biggest and best year yet. The festival will take place at Quiktrip Park in Grand Prairie, TX on March 14-16th. The festival features a wide variety of alternative, pop-punk, metal, and hardcore bands including Taking Back Sunday, The Used, Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice & Men, The Devil Wears Prada, The Story So Far and Comeback Kid.
Female-fronted power metal quintet Huntress recently wrapped up a tour with metal titans Testament, Killswitch Engage, and Lamb of God, who they’ll be heading to Europe with in the new year. Frontwoman Jill Janus plays hardball and is certainly one of the boys. Classically trained and positively wicked, Janus sat down for some girltalk with idobi writer Alex Rudisill at one of their final dates with such a legendary lineup.
Fun.’s Nate Ruess has grabbed a feature spot on Eminem’s new album The Marshall Mathers LP 2. This will be Eminem’s first album since 2010’s Recovery. It seems that fun. have been everywhere recently, just getting off of their Most Nights tour with Tegan and Sara, and performing on stage with the legendary band Queen. Take a look at the MMPL2 tracklist below. 1. Bad Guy 2. “Parking Log” (Skit) 3. “Rhyme or Reason” 4. “So Much Better” 5. “Survival” 6. “Legacy” 7. “A–hole” (featuring Skylar Grey) 8. “Berzerk” 9. “Rap God” 10. “Brainless” 11. “Stronger Than I Was”… Read more »
What do you call a five-piece, unsigned, alternative rock band from coastal California? You could call them a “critically overlooked act†like MTV did, or you could call them “one of the top 16 unsigned bands in North America†like Rolling Stone Magazine did. But whatever you do, don’t call them “indie.”
Lamb Of God and Killswitch Engage will head out on a co-headlining tour this fall. The tour launches October 22nd in Toronto and canvases much of the U.S and Canada. Support for the tour will come from Testament and Huntress.
We posted about the Fearless/Hopeless Records mashup album that SoundCloud user Dr Brixx released, but we stumbled across another mashup that sounds all too familiar to our pop-punk honed ears.
A Day to Remember, Pierce the Veil, and The Ghost Inside will be touring this August in Canada. View the dates by hitting “Read More.”
