This week on Add To Library, a show where hosts Shawn Kupfer & Brian LaCour bring you deep dives into awesome Heavy Music Albums both new and old, the guys talk all about Youth Code’s 2016 album Commitment To Complications! The guys manifested a YC reunion as the day after this episode was recorded, the band announced they were back with new music! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook & Instagram Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new album breakdowns each and every week!
Your perfect sunny weekend playlist just arrived. This week’s new songs are turning up the volume with glowing indie-pop à la Lights, supercharged hardcore from genre royals Turnstile, plus a haunting grunge offering from Splitview. Download the free idobi App and catch these new releases spinning all weekend long. You don’t want to miss this lineup! And if you needed one more reason to jump in on the app, idobi just launched a brand-new series of free games—starting with Word Mosh. For a limited time, top scorers will be entered for a chance to win the sold-out Build-A-Bear Emo Axolotl. Yup, it’s real… and it… Read more »
Following the breakout virality of her haunting alt-pop hit “In My Room” and its biting follow-up “Jennifer’s Body,” dark-pop auteur Julia Wolf returns with her rawest release yet—“Loser.” The single offers a third, striking preview of her forthcoming sophomore album Pressure, due out May 23 via AWAL. Where previous tracks leaned into eerie elegance and infectious hooks, “Loser” dials directly into emotional self-ruin. Built on a bed of slow-burning vulnerability and squealing guitar lines, “Loser” captures the psychological spiral of loving someone you don’t feel worthy of. Wolf’s vocals waver between restraint and desperation as she excavates insecurity in its… Read more »
Ahead of the May 23 release of their EP, Outrun You All, House of Protection is back with their new song and music video for “I Need More Than This.” Previously, iconic duo Aric Improta and Stephen Harrison released singles “Fire,” “Braindead,” and “Afterlife.” House of Protection noted, “‘I Need More Than This’ is us exploring a mood between really heavy/fast and slow/chill. We don’t really have a song like this so it was fun to push ourselves in this way.” Improta and Harrison showcase their range of soothing, clean vocals and gritty, urgent yells. This experimental track is exactly… Read more »
Following the release of their album Sweet, Mayday Parade kicked off their highly anticipated Three Cheers For 20 Years anniversary tour in April. On May 1, Mayday Parade hit a tour stop in Dallas, and this time, they brought out a special guest. “Thank you for the love and support that has carried us through 20 years,” Derek Sanders said. “When we started in 2005, there were six members of this band. The five of us you see onstage and Jason Lancaster.” They then invited up former Mayday Parade co-vocalist and Dallas resident Lancaster. He served in the band from… Read more »
This week on Add To Library, a show where hosts Shawn Kupfer & Brian LaCour bring you deep dives into awesome Heavy Music Albums both new and old, the guys talk all about a 1985 classic as this episode is all about Behind The Realms of Madness by Sacrilege! Subscribe to Add To Library on Apple Music and Spotify Follow Add To Library on Facebook & Instagram Tune in live Fridays @ 9pmET for new album breakdowns each and every week!
Your perfect sunny weekend playlist just arrived. This week’s standout tracks are turning up the volume with nostalgia-inducing indie-pop à la Bad Suns, a face-melting single from PSYCHO-FRAME, plus a raw Midwest emo track from Arm’s Length. Download the free idobi App and catch these new releases spinning all weekend long. You don’t want to miss this lineup! And if you needed one more reason to jump in on the app, idobi just launched a brand-new series of free games—starting with Word Mosh. For a limited time, top scorers will be entered for a chance to win the sold-out Build-A-Bear Emo Axolotl. Yup,… Read more »
Warped Tour is back, and the road to their monumental return is growing shorter every day! During our debut episode of idobi Warped Radio—the official radio and podcast partner of Warped Tour—we held an exclusive, in-depth conversation with founder Kevin Lyman. During the interview, Lyman pulls back the curtain on one of the festival’s most unexpected success stories. Reflecting on the parking lot commerce culture that became synonymous with Warped, he shares, “Going back to the early days, that was those brands like Volcom and Hurley, some of those brands growing up in there. Then it turned into Glamour Kills.… Read more »
Green Day may have performed one of the most iconic Coachella headliner sets ever, but the act, of course, are punk-rock veterans who deserve all the hype in the world. Cementing their status as rock legends in the ’90s with Dookie, Green Day has a whopping 14 studio albums under their belt with no signs of wrapping up soon. Fresh off the release of 2024’s Saviors, trio Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool never fail to constantly push the envelope sonically, all while staying true to their punk ethos. (Ex: Changing the lyrics of “American Idiot” to dig… Read more »
This week on Babes Behind the Beats we chat with singer songwriter Boy Jnr about her work on socials, writing music, the future of the music industry and more.
