For the last 2½ years, Bill Armstrong, co-founder of local rock label SideOneDummy Records, has been working on a side project. His vision was to create a website for independent labels to give away free music.
Transit talks with Rock The Walls about their new record and the state of pop punk.
Apple co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs died today, the company said in a statement.
Proving unable to come to an agreement with all the major labels for the music service it originally wanted, Google is going to pull an Amazon and unveil a digital music locker service without any licensing deals at all during a keynote today at its I/O conference in San Francisco, Google execs tell Billboard.
On June 21, 2011, Less Than Jake are unleashing a whole lot of energy by way of a four DVD digipack called Anthology on the band’s own label, Sleep It Off Records. With over eight hours of music spanning six records, Anthology is a collection of live performances of each of the band’s albums in sequence.
Mike Ness is the sole remaining original member of Social Distortion, the southern California rockabilly punk band that rose to prominence during the 1980s.
The group turned June Carter Cash’s “Ring of Fire” into a staple of rock radio, and Ness’ hardscrabble youth inspired such hits as “Story of My Life” and “Prison Bound.”
Social Distortion’s first album in more than six years, “Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes,” recently debuted at No. 4 on the U.S. pop chart, the highest ranking in the band’s career. The road warriors will begin a U.S. tour in Albuquerque on Tuesday, and then hit Europe for the summer festivals.
A collection of bands have come together to release a compilation of rare tracks to benefit the victims of the earthquake and its after effects in Japan. Artists that have contributed include The Wonder Years, Valencia, Title Fight, La Dispute, Man Overboard, Transit and more.
Hoping to quell the increasing excitement for the band’s first new music in over three years, Yellowcard have instead poured gasoline on the flames by releasing the new song “For You, And Your Denial” which is streaming exclusively on AbsolutePunk and is up for sale on iTunes and Amazon.
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows dishes about the second “Traveling Circus & Medicine Show,” the current state of the music industry and more.
After removing four songs from a potential full-length album, Hey Monday has decided on releasing Beneath It All as an EP.
