Autumn is just around the corner, and that means one thing: it’s almost time to throw on your comfiest sweater and trade in the upbeat sunny anthems you’ve been singing the past four months for something a little more chilled out. It’s always fun to return to your usual favorites, but it’s even more exciting to add something unexpected to the playlist — which is why for this week’s Tuesday Ten, we asked our writers about ten songs they didn’t like until they heard them acoustic.
This past Thursday night, Motion City Soundtrack played a special set to a crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg as part of the Converse Rubber Tracks Live series.
Each month For The Record is here to bring you the best places to find your next favorite band in different cities all over the world—right to your screen. This month we’re diving into Grand Rapids, MI.
Let’s not beat around the bush here—learning is cool, but school is usually much less cool. Thankfully, your homework pile will never be taller than your stack of records, and the right song can help you get through even the most impossible assignments. We asked our writers to share their favorite songs from their first year of college, high school, middle school, or elementary school for a special back to school playlist in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
We’ve arrived at the final article of The Radical 90s. Throughout the series, we’ve revisited our favorite trends, contemplated the family lineage between the best bands of today and the kings of the 90s, chatted about our most loved TV shows, and poked more than a little fun at the eccentric qualities of the decade.
The audience at This Good Robot’s NYC headliner last week got a special treat — former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero jumped on the show unannounced for his first gig with his new band, Frank Iero and the Cellabration.
While it does boast one of the most impressive festival lineups of the year, Riot Fest isn’t just about the music — it’s also home to the most punk rock carnival around. And as we prepare ourselves for the wild ride of this year’s fest, we asked ourselves a question that few have dared to ask before: what if the artists playing this year’s Riot Fest were carnival attractions?
NGHBRS have grown to become a band that need no introduction, and they escalated themselves to a whole new level this Friday by headlining The Bowery Ballroom in New York City with support of Brick + Mortar, Made Violent, and Modern Chemistry.
I was honored enough to speak with a person who has pretty much been a part of some of the biggest pop punk hits and albums that this, “Scene,” has seen in the past 10 years + .
John Feldmann, lead singer of ska-punk heroes Goldfinger, called into The Gunz Show to talk about his producing of the +1 album in the world, 5 Seconds of Summer’s self-titled album. He addresses the critics of 5SOS from the ever-so-intelligent trolls on the Internet, and has an idea for what they can do to themselves.
The 90s were the era of innovation. Change came quickly, and there were enough fads to fill three decades. The fashion of the day sometimes meant colorful, eccentric patterns, and at other times meant dark hues and oversized fits. Wherever you were, it never took long to come across somewhere wearing alarmingly thick makeup of the richest colors, in pursuit of being compared to Jennifer Anniston or Cindy Crawford. Leather became the fabric to beat. Music videos were in the process of killing the radio star with MTV rising to power. It almost seemed as if the visual trends of… Read more »
