After a two-year break-up, Crime In Stereo have announced that the band will live on again. They have plans to release new music and will play their first show back Saturday November 24th at The Gramercy Theater in NYC with I Am The Avalanche.
The Federal Trade Commission has approved a Sony-led consortium’s purchase of EMI Music Publishing, without having to make any divestitures, the FTC said on Friday.
U.S. antitrust regulators gave the nod to the $2.2 billion deal in a brief letter to the companies.
idobi caught up with John O’Callaghan and Pat Brown of The Maine at the Toronto date of the Pioneer World Tour to talk about their new album, their touring plans for the rest of the year, and how they balance their new sound with their older material.
Tom Gabel of Against Me! will begin living as a woman after years of privately dealing with gender dysphoria. Gabel will take the name Laura Jane Grace and begin hormone therapy and electrolysis treatments as part of the transition process.
idobi is proud to be teaming up with our friends in Lo Fidelity to bring you the first annual Raleighpalooza Music Festival. The event is taking place Saturday, May 5th at the Raleigh Convention Centre and will feature two stages of live bands, meet and greets, idobi broadcasts from the festival, video games, a half pipe, and much more!
Such Gold, The Story So Far, and Divided By Friday will join Hit The Lights and The Dangerous Summer for the Take The Fall Tour. Such Gold will drop off at the end of November to head back into the studio, at which point The Story So Far will join.
Christmas came early for Lady Gaga fans this week, as Amazon sold downloads of the singer’s brand-new LP, “Born This Way,” for just 99 cents on Monday and Thursday of this week.
Industry sources told Billboard on Friday that Amazon sold some 440,000 downloads of the album – nearly all of which were the 99-cent version. Billboard will include the count normally for their weekly Billboard 200 chart.
Last week, idobi contributor Ashley Holman had the opportunity to speak with three of the four members of Permanent Ability, a funk- rock band based in Los Angeles, California. Their latest EP, Bring It On!, debuted in 2010 and secured them the title “best band of the week†from rockitoutblog.com.
As Record Store Day approaches on April 16, the fourth annual event continues to be an increasingly valued channel through which to sell music.
The number of stores expected to participate will be about the same as last year: about 1,400 around the world.
Record-store owners owe Apple iTunes a tremendous debt of gratitude for being an uncaring, scatter-brained, inhuman little jukebox: It’s saving their skin right now.
The running narrative in the music world during the past decade is that the physical album is dead, and file-sharing, downloads and, most notably, Apple’s iTunes killed it. Yes and no.
