Riot Fest has announced full lineups for each of its dates in Chicago, Denver, and Toronto this fall. Chicago will feature a surprise reunion from The Academy Is… to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their album ‘Almost Here’!
State Champs will headline a tour in Europe this fall, with support from Knuckle Puck and Roam. The tour kicks off September 15th in Belfast, UK and runs through early October.
Yellowcard and New Found Glory are touring together this fall, with special guests Tigers Jaw. The tour kicks off October 8th in Arizona and runs through late November. Don’t miss it!
The Story So Far are leaders in this genre, and for good reason, as they consistently put out solid albums with this one being no exception.
While Get Lost, Find Yourself isn’t groundbreaking in the “easycore†genre, it’s full of catchy hooks that showcase the growth and development of CNCC over the past eight years.
Refused are back for a second reunion, including an upcoming summer tour and the release of the band’s first album in 17 years. ‘Freedom’ will release June 30th through Epitaph records. Stream the new single “Elektra” now.
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 »
UK’s As It Is are streaming their new album ‘Never Happy, Ever After’ in full today a week early. They also have a new video out for “Cheap Shots and Setbacks,” which can be seen embedded in the album stream.
Behind all the sugar and sweetness surrounding American Candy, The Maine just gave a huge fuck you to any critics while awarding diehard fans with a highly anticipated, saccharine collection of savory pop-rock songs.
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 »
