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Album Review: Elder Brother – Heavy Head
With Dan Rose (Daybreaker) and Kevin Geyer (The Story So Far) at the helm, Heavy Head is an enormously impressive debut album of smart, catchy indie rock.
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With Dan Rose (Daybreaker) and Kevin Geyer (The Story So Far) at the helm, Heavy Head is an enormously impressive debut album of smart, catchy indie rock.
A little over a week into their winter tour crossing the U.S. with Reggie and the Full Effect, Mike Hansen of Pentimento joins us this week to give us his top ten tour survival tips.
Taking Back Sunday and The Used will head out on a co-headlining tour in March. Support for the tour will come from Tonight Alive(3/18-4/27) and Sleepwave. The tour will kick off at South By So What in Grand Prairie, TX and wrap up April 27th in Orlando, FL. Both bands have new albums coming out this year on Hopeless Records. Pre-sale tickets can be bought here and you can see the tour dates below! Tour Dates: 3/14 Quiktrip Park – South By So What Dallas, TX 3/15 Backstage Live San Antonio, TX 3/16 Bayou Music Centre – HWHAP Fest Houston,… Read more »
2013 was the year of the reunion, with everyone from Fall Out Boy to Knapsack teaming back up with their old bandmates, whether it was for a one-off anniversary tour or a full-blown comeback. Still, even with all of those reunions, there are still a handful of bands left who we wish would bless us with one last tour or some new music. Here are the top ten bands we wish we could see a reunion from – no matter how impossible our dreams may be.
Have Mercy and Daisyhead have teamed up to release a four song split EP via No Sleep Records on February 25th. Each band has released a song off the Split over at Purevolume, and you can hear those tracks below. On coming together for the split, the bands stated: “Before this split, to me, Have Mercy was just a band that helped me destroy my apartment at a party we threw on July 4th of 2013,” says Daisyhead’s Michael Roe. “When Chris mentioned us doing a split with them, I couldn’t help but laugh. This will be a good way… Read more »
Brand New have announced a European tour in spring 2014 and may continue playing discography sets at these shows, though they haven’t made an official decision yet.
With a certain industry critic quipping recently that the album format is dead, the success of The Visual Album goes to show that the album format is only as alive as the artistic creativity and expression that it possesses from front-to-back, and that that such creativity and talent is still rewarded in the music industry.
idobi writer Catherine Yi caught up with New Beat Fund to discuss their unique sound, the craziest nights on tour, the current Los Angeles music scene, and more.
Better Off’s nostalgic emo punk effort is a remarkable display of skill and maturity that you wouldn’t usually expect on a debut album.
idobi editor Eleanor Grace sat down with Citizen guitarist Nick Hamm and drummer Jake Duhaime in Toronto to talk about the writing and recording of their debut full-length Youth, the band’s own youth, winter tour survival tips, bowling analogies, and much more.
