A lot can change in ten years: personalities, tastes, relationships. For Mayday Parade the last ten years have been a chance to grow as a band, explore new ways to entertain, and to connect with their fans. Which is why—almost exactly a decade after seeing them live for the first time—I’m sitting on a tour bus in Chicago, chatting with frontman Derek Sanders. We’re at the back of the bus. On one side of Sanders, guitarist Brooks Betts is fiddling around on a laptop, on the other, bassist Jeremy Lenzo pre-signs a stack of Sunnyland CDs. The window is cracked… Read more »
Not every band can release a song on a Wednesday, then have everybody in the audience scream each word back at them live on the following Friday. And not every band can put together a festival in their hometown and bring in fans from around the world in the middle of January. But The Maine is not like every band. “We’ve been so fortunate and lucky to experience what we have,” says vocalist John O’Callaghan. We’re sitting in a building inside Civic Space Park in Phoenix, AZ on the second day of 8123 Fest. Through the windows, This Century plays… Read more »
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 »
“Callwood at the Cooler” sees Brett Callwood waxing lyrical about events in the news, pop culture and the etc. This week is all about The Wildhearts.
If you tuned in Thursday, you can relive Fish + co-hosts Chase Atlantic’s crazy antics (see what we did there?) below.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Kesha, With Confidence, Four Year Strong, Lights, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Imagine Dragons, Fall Out Boy, Owl City, and more.
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Paramore, State Champs, Bleachers, and more.
New Jersey-based Wyland dropped their Snake Hill EP last month and it’s everything we want in an alternative rock album.
Simon Neil talks about the differences between American and European audiences in part one of our interview with Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro.