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Each day, we’re bringing you the top events to catch at the CMJ Music Marathon. Today’s cheat sheet includes previews of rad shows, sessions with industry professionals and legendary showcases.
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Each day, we’re bringing you the top events to catch at the CMJ Music Marathon. Today’s cheat sheet includes previews of rad shows, sessions with industry professionals and legendary showcases.
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.
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?
In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we’re exploring the connections between some of our favorite bands named after lyrics and the songs they’re titled for.
It’s easy to close a song by repeating the chorus or slowly fading the music out, but every once in a while a song comes along whose ending takes you somewhere completely unexpected.
It’s that time of year where all you want to is curl up under a pile of blankets and escape the winter blues with a few good movies. To celebrate the next month of your life being spent in bed watching Fight Club for the twentieth time, here’s our list of the top ten songs from movie soundtrack in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
For Today will be hitting the road in early 2014 for their Fight the Silence album release tour. They’ve got some heavy hitting openers as well, including Like Moths to Flames, Stray from the Path, The Plot In You, and Fit for a King. Fight the Silence is scheduled to be in stores on February 4th. Tour Dates: 1/30 Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades 1/31 Pomona, CA @ The Glass House 2/3 Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theatre 2/5 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall 2/6 Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s 2/8 St. Louis, MO @ Fubar 2/9 Columbus, OH
A Day to Remember, Pierce the Veil, and All Time Low will be heading out on the “House Party” tour this fall. Check out the dates by clicking “Read More.” For their second studio album Floral Green, Title Fight stuck to what they do best – doing whatever they very well please. Produced by Will Yip (Citizen, None More Black), the album is pristine yet raw and shows an originality many bands today lack.NewsA Day to Remember, Pierce the Veil, All Time Low announce massive fall tour
NewsTitle Fight – Floral Green: Album Review
