idobi is proud to be teaming up with our friends in Lo Fidelity to bring you the first annual Raleighpalooza Music Festival. The event is taking place Saturday, May 5th at the Raleigh Convention Centre and will feature two stages of live bands, meet and greets, idobi broadcasts from the festival, video games, a half pipe, and much more!
In honor of the release of Say Anything’s fifth studio album, “Anarchy, My Dear,” we’ve teamed up with Say Anything and Eisley for a prize pack giveaway!
In an unprecedented display of Internet force, thousands of websites went dark or censored themselves Wednesday to protest twin antipiracy measures pending in Congress.
We are bringing this installment of FAR BEYOND FOOTBALL to you guys from the final Midwest leg of the Crush ‘Em All tour. This has been an incredible tour for all of the bands that were a part of it. We’d like to thank every single person reading this that had the chance to come out and share the experience of having all these great bands together with us. Tomorrow is the final show in Minneapolis, MN…it will be a sad day to depart from one of the best tours we’ve ever done and we’re lucky… Read more »
The NY Post reports that Citigroup is close to the sale of record company EMI. The deal reportedly splits the company in to, with recording artists going into one, and it’s publishing arm sold separately in a deal estimated between $3.3 to $3.5 billion.
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died today, the company said in a statement.
Music triggers the same pleasure-reward system in the brain as food, sex and illicit drugs, according to McGill University researchers who have been peering into minds of music lovers.
The Counting Crows will be doing a special performance at the John Anson Ford Ampitheatre in Los Angeles on Friday, October 1st. The comedy troupe Broken Lizard (Beerfest, Super Troopers) will also be performing that evening. The unlikely pairing with lead singer Adam Duritz’s Underwater Sunshine Flicks teamed up for the film Freeloaders. The movie will also be showcased during the evening. The movie is a sort of tongue-in-cheek story about a group of loveable slackers living in the home of their super famous rock star friend…and what happens when they have to move out. Purchase tickets for 20$ here.
The XX has won the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for its debut XX (Young Turks/XL Recordings).
Scientists have discovered two potent human antibodies that can stop more than 90 percent of known global HIV strains from infecting human cells in the laboratory, and have demonstrated how one of these disease-fighting proteins accomplishes this feat. According to the scientists, these antibodies could be used to design improved HIV vaccines, or could be further developed to prevent or treat HIV infection. Moreover, the method used to find these antibodies could be applied to isolate therapeutic antibodies for other infectious diseases as well.
