Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s new column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week examines the rise of political punk in the US.
Congratulations to our winner, Taylor Dionne from Maine, who’s about to take the best summer vacation ever! Rock with them at Sad Summer Fest in Anaheim, CA. Thanks to everyone who entered the #Sad4Summer contest! Win tickets to the Sad Summer Fest featuring State Champs, Mayday Parade, The Maine, Mom Jeans, Stand Atlantic, + Just Friends. Some people want to spend their summer on an island. Some people want to spend their summer travelling across the world. But us? We just want to get sad. Sad Summer Fest is gearing up to spread emo joy across the US with bands… Read more »
The Shaky Knees Festival kicks off today in Atlanta Georgia. Beck is sure to be a show stopper tonight promoting his upcoming album “Hyperspace” and his new single “Saw Lightning”. Along with the low-fi psychedelic folk rocker are Incubus, Cage the Elephant, and Tame Impala. There is a little bit of everything rock at Shaky Knees with four stages, a couple dozen food vendors, and sponsored giveaways. Summer Music Festival season looks exciting with this late spring kick-start.
Sometimes things fall together better than you ever could have planned. Fuel On Fire knows this well. From playing fairs and festivals as a part of the family band to landing residencies in Florida, their life has been a whirlwind of performances and instruments. Now the brothers find themselves in Nashville, reimagining rock classics like U2’s soaring ballad “With Or Without You” for their new EP. “The song is about the struggle to reconcile personal life with band life. We totally related to that.” The meaning of the song took them back to their first days in Key West and… Read more »
The coffee is brewin’, the speakers are bumpin’, it’s time to Rise Rock n’ Shine…
Grab your toast and your jams, it’s time to Rise Rock n’ Shine.
It’s been a long road to “Nerves”, the latest song from Nashville’s Spazz Cardigan. Staying true to the “Millenial post-genre landscape” he subscribes to, the song is hard to explain. However we will tell you it’s addictive, interesting, and the video is freaking strange—in all the best ways. When “Nerves” first took shape, it was just a b-side. “The song was originally going to be a last-minute addition to my first album, I, which was complete at the time but unreleased,” Spazz Cardigan tells us. It was a friend who convinced him to drop it before he released the album,… Read more »
Castle Rock is a story driven by the delicious ingredients of suspense, mystery, and quirkiness, to leave you looking around every corner suspiciously.
Rejoice, rock fans! The first wave of the 2018 Riot Fest has been announced and it’s big.
The 26th annual KROQ Weenie Roast Fest is to be held on May 12th in Los Angeles, California.
