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Our Last Night announce fifth studio album
Our Last Night will be releasing their fifth studio album, Younger Dreams, on June 16th.
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Our Last Night will be releasing their fifth studio album, Younger Dreams, on June 16th.
It’s Irish alternative rock band Kodaline vs. electronic pop vocalist Ellie Goulding on this week’s (Un)covered! Taking on the beautiful but heartbreaking song “All I Want,” Goulding brings new light to the music with her ethereal tone and impressive vocal range.
Refused are back for a second reunion, including an upcoming summer tour and the release of the band’s first album in 17 years. ‘Freedom’ will release June 30th through Epitaph records. Stream the new single “Elektra” now.
idobi senior writer Catherine Yi sat down with vocalist Brent Martone at the Los Angeles stop to discuss their DIY roots, writing sad songs, and the best thing to order at In-N-Out Burger.
‘Future Hearts’ is an album for the fans, pure and simple—the ultimate declaration of appreciation for listeners new and old.
Spencer Smith, drummer for Panic! At The Disco, has released his official departure statement from the band.
Thursday, March 19th I flew into South by Southwest this afternoon. Tonight, I strode 6th Street. amid the scene here in Austin. I felt a tension between, and within, the musicians, attendees, and the city. The dichotomy is an inclination toward indie values, opposed by the gravitation of commercialism. I realize this as I happen on IFC’s Fairgrounds, which features a music stage, interactive attractions such as a Velcro wall, and food trucks and a beer stand. It’s like a festival within a festival and it is a microcosm of SXSW. It’s an insular fantasy realm manifested by marketers and… Read more »
Since the homogenization of South by Southwest by the mainstream, it has become fashionable among music critics and self-anointed culture commentators to dismiss music festivals as passé. They claim media conglomerates, bringing bloat, have diluted the musical variety which could be counted on at SXSW to make it palatable to general tastes. These observers conclude that the principles of independence and community that SXSW was conceived upon have been subsumed by the now ubiquitous forces of corporatization. Coinciding with this sentiment is anxiety among locals who cleave to an idealization of Austin as a bastion of open-mindedness and creative experimentation;… Read more »
Against the Current features Set It Off in their hot new cover of “Uptown Funk,” originally by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars. It may have come out late last fall, but you’ll want to spin this song and its cover all winter long.
Tom Delonge Phones Home You’ve heard the story. Tom, co-founder and ex- member of Blink 182, is convinced he made contact with aliens. This is not the time for an Aliens Exist pun. This is a completely serious matter and we should be concerned about the government tapping his phones because he knows about the aliens, and trust him when he says that people are confiding in him top-secret government alien information. In all seriousness, although I truly do believe (because of science) that there is the possibility for other habitable planets with intelligent life forms in the universe. I… Read more »
