When you’re trapped in the hellish nightmare of a busy mall in December, it’s not unusual for the tinny sound of Christmas music to make you wish you would get trampled to death by a thousand frantic shoppers just to put an end to your suffering. Thankfully, hearing your favorite bands cover the same songs has the opposite effect.
The Punk Goes Pop series is six volumes deep at this point, celebrating the release of its most recent compilation this week — but what if we were able to flip the script and pull in artists from the world of mainstream pop to take on music from our scene?
To celebrate the launch of our brand new station, we’ve teamed up with SOL REPUBLIC to give away seven PUNK speakers.
Indie pop songstress Allison Weiss and her backing band were involved in an accident yesterday morning. Their van rolled at approximately 10AM due to dangerous weather. Luckily, all passengers walked away without any serious injuries.
Every music fan has a closet full of band tees — but how many can say they douse their lunch in a band’s branded hot sauce and eat it with a band’s branded plastic fork?
What exactly makes an artist a certain genre? Here’s a handy guide to help you figure it out.
Today might be the last day of the 2014 CMJ Music Marathon but there is still a full day and night of events to go. We’ve made our final “Four Play†picks but it hasn’t been easy narrowing down our choices the last five days. Whether you were able to attend this year in person or are sitting at home looking for some new music, you should check out all of the great artists who played CMJ this year. You might just find your new favorite band among the local, national, and international talent showcased this year.
Crowdfunding. Is it good? Is it bad? How does it function in the music world? There are a lot of questions surrounding this campaign platform, and we’re here to get to the bottom of the basics.
With all the millions of songs out there, it’s inevitable that a few will end up sounding similar to one another — but sometimes, the resemblance gets a little too close for comfort.
While Lil Wayne has, to the best of my knowledge, spent around 70% of his career so far behind bars, you don’t need to share his level of passion for drugs and weapon possession to end up in an orange jumpsuit. In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we look at some of the other crimes that have landed musicians behind the ever-so-flattering lens of the mugshot camera.
