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Riot Fest: Denver – A Punk Rock Woodstock?

An essay by Chris Barr, from The Eddie Jason & Chris Show This felt like a significant event, even if it was a minor significant event. This past Saturday, September 21st, 2013, was the first day of what is sure to become the annual Riot Fest: Denver music festival, here in the home-town of idobi Radio’s Eddie, Jason, and Chris Show. That evening, as I took in the spectacle of something like 200 people scrambling up onto a stage to cavort with the eternally leathered Iggy Pop, fronting his seminal proto-punk band the Stooges, I had a horrible revelation: The… Read more »

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Rock The Walls: Inside The Music with Live The Story

Today is the first of many special segments you can expect going up over the next bit! Every week on Rock The Walls I run a feature called Inside The Music. Since 2008, I have been getting bands to explain the meaning behind a couple of their songs for you, the reader/the listener. I’ll be posting a wide variety of them from new and old releases in Metalcore, Pop Punk, Punk, Hardcore, and even some Indie music. Today’s segment features Toronto Pop Punk band Live The Story. The band dropped their Free EP Everything I Am this past Tuesday via… Read more »

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SideOneDummy corrals indies for free music site

For the last 2Â½ years, Bill Armstrong, co-founder of local rock label SideOneDummy Records, has been working on a side project. His vision was to create a website for independent labels to give away free music.

First Person

First Person tour of punk rock

Tonight on First Person, Josh Madden takes you on a romp of punk rock history. Tune in tonight at 8pm EST, and sit back, relax, and get some punk rock education. About Josh Madden Josh Madden is a Music Producer, Remixer, and DJ; Co-Founder of DCMA COLLECTIVE clothing line with brothers Benji and Joel; stylist for artists such as Good Charlotte, NYLE, Pierce Brosnan, Metro Station, White Tie Affair as well as for KANGOL, BEN SHERMAN, and HOUSE OF CASSETTE clothing lines; and a writer for nylon.com & evilmonito.com. Josh has been featured in magazines such as PEOPLE, NYLON, TIME… Read more »

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How to bankroll a rock band

Even early in their careers, the Beatles led charmed lives. Sure, they spent hundreds of nights playing the clubs of Hamburg before their inherent talent and practiced skill were discovered. But once they were waved into the privileged sanctum of the signed recording artist, they commanded the worldâ€™s attention.

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Indie band pays fans to download album

Indie rock band Officer Roseland is paying fans one dollar to download their new album as part of a marketing campaign motivated by tough economic times and a cluttered music marketplace. The band will offer fans two option: The first called “TAKE” pays one dollar to download the album “Stimulus Package.” The second “GIVE” donates that dollar to the charity Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. In either case, the fan receives the album at no cost to them. Formed in 2000, Officer Roseland is a four-piece independent rock band from Philadelphia, Penn. The band has recorded four studio albums, has… Read more »

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Talk With The Jakes, A Rocket to the Moon on DJ Rossstar Tonight

The Jakes will be tonight’s studio guest on DJ Rossstar’s Punk Show at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET). The SoCal indie-rock band has a new EP out August 1 and will be playing some new songs from it during our interview. The band begins its West Coast tour on August 4. Powerpop solo act (and recent TRL performer), A Rocket to the Moon, will be calling in during the show to discuss The Summer of ’07 EP, upcoming tour with Hit The Lights and what he has planned for the rest of 2008. If you have questions for The… Read more »

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Rock band Interpol recharges for summer festivals

New York rock band Interpol will return to duty this summer for a run of European and North American festival dates, beginning July 3 in Norway. The trek will likely be the last in support of the band’s 2007 album, “Our Love To Admire,” before it gets busy on its next album. The only North American date confirmed so far is the Pemberton Festival in British Columbia on July 26. “We didn’t really do much of the summer festivals last year,” drummer Sam Fogarino told Billboard.com. “It will be the last hit-it-home, end-on-a-good note.” The new album, its first for… Read more »

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Sean Lennon scoring indie vampire movie

Sean Lennon will score the indie vampire comedy “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead,” which stars fellow celebrity spawn Jake Hoffman and Devon Aoki. Hoffman (son of Dustin) plays an unemployed actor who gets his big break directing a bizarre off-Broadway version of “Hamlet.” But there’s a catch: The adaptation is written by a Romanian (John Ventimiglia, best known as chef Artie Bucco on “The Sopranos”) who happens to be undead. Aoki (daughter of Benihana steakhouse king Rocky Aoki) plays Hoffman’s love interest. Ralph Macchio will play a mob boss who ends up fighting vampires. Jeremy Sisto plays a bumbling detective… Read more »