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Album review: ‘Smile Kid’ solidifies We the Kings’ pop-punk image
This past December witnessed more than snow and sleighs when We the Kings re-emerged with Smile Kid.
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This past December witnessed more than snow and sleighs when We the Kings re-emerged with Smile Kid.
Though 2008 bared just four albums worthy of our highest acclaim, 2009 delivered the following 10 essentials: Boys Like Girls Love Drunk The Friday Night Boys Off the Deep End Fun. Aim and Ignite Green Day 21st Century Breakdown Michael Jackson This is It Paper Route Absence Paramore Brand New Eyes Say Anything Say Anything The Secret Handshake My Name in Lights Third Eye Blind Ursa Major
idobi’s top songs from 2009: Green Day – Know Your Enemy Owl City – Fireflies We the Kings – Heaven Can Wait Paramore – Ignorance The White Tie Affair – Take It Home Boys Like Girls – Love Drunk The Sounds – No One Sleeps When I’m Awake Jack’s Mannequin – Swim The Years Gone By – You Might As Well Be In Space Eye Alaska – Walk Like A Gentleman Nevershoutnever! – Bigcitydreams Cartel – Let’s Go All Time Low – Damned If I Do Ya (Damned If I Don’t) Holiday Parade – Southern Skies Say Anything – Hate… Read more »
ALTop 20 The following are the Top 20 songs for the week ending July 4, 2009: 1. Green Day – Know Your Enemy 2. Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad 3. 3OH!3 – Don’t Trust Me 4. Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas 5. Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody 6. The Fray – Never Say Never 7. Green Day – 21 Guns 8. Taking Back Sunday – Sink Into Me 9. Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch 10. Linkin Park – New Divide 11. Cage The Elephant – Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked 12. Anberlin – Feel… Read more »
Vans Warped Tour kicks off its 15th year of rocking up summer in Pomona, Calif. on June 26, and this year Fearless Records has four acts heading out for two months of punk rock mayhem. The Maine continues a killer year with a headlining slot on The Hurley Stage, while both A Skylit Drive and Breathe Carolina will play the entire tour on the SmartPunk Stage. Also joining them on select dates will be Every Avenue, which is set to take Warped by storm for a second year from July 24 – August 23. The Fearless tent will be… Read more »
2night on S&M we willbe airing our interviews from the 2009 Do Something Awards fearturing Akon, Boys Like Girls, cast members of Gossip Girl, and many more! We also have NYC promotor Troy Gordon with us talking about how to party at the hottest NYC clubs and will also be speaking about his FB Blog “Troys NYC Gossip.” The weather is hot the time starts at 10 30 PM EST! www.youtube.com/SandMRadio
Quietdrive’s sophomore release Deliverance debuted last week at #1 on Billboard‘s Alternative New Artist Chart, beating out other releases by We The Kings, The Secret Machines, Ludo, Mayday Parade, Ra Ra Riot and Black Kids, among others. Deliverance is currently streaming in its entirety exclusively on Purevolume. Head over to www.purevolume.com/quietdrive to listen to the album now. Tour stalwarts hailing from Minneapolis, Quietdrive feels completely at home on the road which is where they’ll be spending most of their time promoting Deliverance. It’s the life they’ve dreamed of and it’s the life they can’t give up. Having played well over… Read more »
The Maine has accomplished more in one year as a band than many do in a decade. The band signed to Fearless Records in 2007, released two EPs and a full-length is due in July. Did I mention that The Maine is going on tour this summer with Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte this summer? The Arizona gents will be kickin’ it on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Show tonight at 7pm PST (10pm EST). You can tune in for free on Idobi Radio. Beat Union will be calling us during the show to talk about its secret plans for the… Read more »
Paris and Nicole spending the summer traveling across the country together in a rented caravan…Where have we heard that one before? The on-again BFFs may be entering rerun mode this summer, potentially joining their respective beaux on the road when pop-punk rockers Good Charlotte embark on a 32-date North American tour. Joel and Benji Madden, along with below-the-line bandmates Billy Martin, Paul Thomas and Dean Butterworth, are set to coheadline the Soundtrack of Your Summer tour along with rockers Boys Like Girls. Whether the Madden boys are joined by their celebutante paramours or even still with them (we’re looking at… Read more »
Recently, Maureen Callahan wrote a piece for the New York Post about Crush Management, the NYC cadre that shepherds the careers of Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, the Academy Is … , Boys Like Girls and Armor for Sleep (or, as Callahan puts it, “basically any band that a 13-year-old girl with a blog and a Hot Topic habit obsesses over”). Aside from providing readers with some genuinely bananas quotes from songwriter/ rock-and-roll vampire Butch Walker about credibility (especially considering this is on his résumé), the article is excellent primarily because it floats the hypothesis that the artists… Read more »
