That quiet time between Thanksgiving and Christmas where you’re either pretending to work but are really shopping online, or studying for exams and can’t wait to take some time off. Josh Madden returns tonight with some brand new jams to tickle your ears. So take a break from rampant consumerism and gather some friends to check out the “next best thing”.
The Wonder Years release Sleeping on Trash: A Collection of Songs Recorded 2005-2010 through No Sleep Records on February 12th, 2013. The album consists of 18 tracks featuring various rarities, original demos, and cover songs.
idobi editor Eleanor Knowles had the chance to catch up with Now, Now at the Toronto date of their tour with Motion City Soundtrack earlier this week. The band talked about being on the road with some of their best friends, their appearance on Jimmy Fallon, writing plans for after the tour, airport sleeping habits, and much more.
We sat down with Lydia frontman Leighton Antelman in Toronto to talk about their tour with The Maine, their most recent album, dealing with the pressures of coming back after their hiatus, and much more.
YouTube video blogger and singer/songwriter Alex Day has sold 52,881 units of his song Forever Yours in the last week – enough to bag the No.4 spot on tonight’s Official Christmas Singles Chart.
Tune in tonight to First Person w/ Josh Madden and take a break from your holiday shopping. It’ll be the best hour of our week.
If anyone in attendance had doubts about the recently reformed Taking Back Sunday, they were certainly put to rest on October 11 in Des Moines, Iowa. Let’s hope that Taking Back Sunday stays this way for a long, long time.
Simple Plan’s touring plans for the next few months will take them across the continent. Forever The Sickest Kids, The Cab, and Marianas Trench will join them for the trek through the US, then after taking some time off for Christmas they’ll head out across Canada with All Time Low, Marianas Trench, and These Kids Wear Crowns.
Christmas came early for Lady Gaga fans this week, as Amazon sold downloads of the singer’s brand-new LP, “Born This Way,” for just 99 cents on Monday and Thursday of this week.
Industry sources told Billboard on Friday that Amazon sold some 440,000 downloads of the album – nearly all of which were the 99-cent version. Billboard will include the count normally for their weekly Billboard 200 chart.
The Foo Fighters finally got their first No. 1 album in the United States on Wednesday as their eighth studio release led a field that also included strong debuts from Alison Krauss and Paul Simon.
The band sold 235,000 copies of “Wasting Light” during the week ended Sunday, according to tracking firm Nielsen SoundScan. It ranks as their second-largest sales week, trumped only by the No. 2 launch of “In Your Honor” in 2005, which began with 311,000. Their last studio album, “Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace,” debuted at No. 3 in 2007 with 168,000.
