This is the fairy tale pop punk has been waiting for, and As It Is are the knights in shining armor. Hop on the bandwagon now, because they’re bringing pop punk the happily ever after it so well deserves.
TheBillboardChart Needs a Streaming Makeover With All Time Low’s number one album debut debunked by the new Billboard standard, many people in our scene posed the question if we need to rethink the way Billboard included streaming into it’s tallies. Right now, every 1,500 streams of a song off an album = 1 album sale. Thomas Nassiff of Absolutepunk wrote a wonderful short piece on the matter. In my opinion, it’s crap. A successful single does not an album make. If that were true, Vanilla Ice would have probably been much more successful and have never gotten arrested for stealing.… Read more »
idobi senior writer Catherine Yi sat down with OWEL to discuss the emotional rollercoaster of crowdfunding, touring smart, and playing the Michael Cera equivalent of a show.
Tom Delonge Released A New Video And I’m Done I’m not going to get over it. I will never let go. The music is supposedly supposed to be meant as a Blink-182 track, and the video is filled with anger directed a drum sets and a bass guitar! Real subtle, DeLonge. Seriously considering getting him a kiddie pool for all of his tears at this point. In all honesty, it’s just bad form to force your band’s hand and then come out with a music video that seems as if you are blaming them completely. I tried to watch the… Read more »
Since their last release, Sleeping With Sirens have been through a line up change and plenty of growth, but with Madness, they’ve only proven they’re still swinging just as hard.
Thursday, March 19th I flew into South by Southwest this afternoon. Tonight, I strode 6th Street. amid the scene here in Austin. I felt a tension between, and within, the musicians, attendees, and the city. The dichotomy is an inclination toward indie values, opposed by the gravitation of commercialism. I realize this as I happen on IFC’s Fairgrounds, which features a music stage, interactive attractions such as a Velcro wall, and food trucks and a beer stand. It’s like a festival within a festival and it is a microcosm of SXSW. It’s an insular fantasy realm manifested by marketers and… Read more »
We are usually skeptical about the influence of sponsors in underground metal and hardcore but we suspend our criticism when Game Of Thrones is involved. HBO is serving Killswitch Engage-flavored Kool Aid and we are shamelessly drinking every last drop. The extended version of “Loyalty” has the audio from this unforgettable scene (spoiler alert) in season 4. In all honesty, the song itself is much heavier than we expected. The yarling chorus is there, we expect that from commercially successful hard rock bands, otherwise “Loyalty” hangs with some of the hardest songs on this playlist. Theories returns to Howl’s top… Read more »
If you’re ready for a new post hardcore EP to rock to, look no further than Not Tonight Josephine’s latest release. The quartet released their self titled collection earlier this week.
We try to keep our featured tracks as hype-free as possible. Our playlist should reflect the very best (and ideally, newest) metal and hardcore out there right now. That’s why we waited for Stick To Your Guns‘ Disobedient release week to pass before we revisited the album for consideration at the top of our featured tracks. Sure enough, this album strikes the critical balance between fast hardcore and clean vocals that every melodic hardcore or metal band ultimately tries to achieve. Also worth praise is the minimal presence of samples that once preceded many tracks in older Stick To Your… Read more »
Rotting Out lands a top berth on Howl’s featured tracks this week, possibly with the help of hardcore’s most charming smile and sheer intimidation. More of what we’re talking about in the video for “Born“. Stick To Your Guns returns to the spotlight with the release of Disobedient which has a cameo from the aforementioned friendly, muscular Walter of Rotting Out. We hope two mentions in one review will keep us safe from that gentleman. Ensiferum, 36 Crazyfists and Dr. Living Dead! debut both on Howl and among our features. If you think you know what Dr. Living Dead! sounds… Read more »
