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Runner Runner signs with David Letterman’s new label
Runner Runner has signed with Capitol Records by way of Clear Entertainment, a new record label started by David Letterman, the band announced Wednesday.
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Runner Runner has signed with Capitol Records by way of Clear Entertainment, a new record label started by David Letterman, the band announced Wednesday.
In the promotional run-up to the April 13 release of its new album, Ohio experimental rock group Foxy Shazam tapped a curious outlet to promote the release: Chatroulette.
The Take Action Tour is back for another run in 2010. Join your favorite artists and do your part to give back! idobi will be covering several dates on the tour, so stay tuned for photos, videos, interviews and reviews. Make sure you say hello if you see us at a show. TOUR DATES Jan 25: The Masquerade – Atlanta Jan 26: Rocketown – Nashville Jan 27: Bogart’s – Cincinnati Jan 28: House of Blues – Chicago Jan 29: Station 4 – St. Paul, Minn. Jan 30: The Rave II – Milwaukee Jan 31: The Crofoot Ballroom – Pontiac, Mich.… Read more »
Kiss will kick off their 35th anniversary tour, dubbed “Kiss Alive 35,” in “Rock City” Detroit. The Gods of Thunder will play two concerts at Motor City’s Cobo Arena, the venue where the band recorded their classic Alive! live album in 1975. To mark the occasion, Kiss will perform Alive! in its entirety at the Cobo shows, as well as their greatest hits and songs off their upcoming album Sonic Boom, out as a Walmart exclusive starting Oct. 6. As this is a Kiss show we’re talking about, in a statement Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley are promising “new battle… Read more »
New York’s most talented alternative musicians are making a big splash with the debut full-length from fun. The Format’s Nate Ruess, Anathallo’s Andrew Dost and Steel Train’s Jack Antonoff have teamed up to bring you Aim and Ignite, a “fun” album just in time for schools to reopen. Tour Dates: Aug. 19 Anaheim, Calif. @ Chain Reaction Aug. 21 Santa Barbara, Calif. @ Velvet Jones Aug. 25 Seattle, Wash. @ Chop Suey Aug. 26 Portland, Ore. @ Hawthorne Theater Aug. 30 Long Beach, Calif. @ Fingerprints Sept. 8 Salt Lake City, Utah @ Kilby Court Sept. 9 Boulder, Colo. @… Read more »
Let’s Get It joins the Fearless Records family ahead of an Aug. 4 debut release. “We couldn’t be more excited to sign with Fearless,” vocalist Joe Gilford says. “We’ve been really focused and are grateful to have a label support to help us reach our full potential. This is the next big step for us and our music.” This five piece pop/rock band from Dayton, Ohio is setting the scene on fire and catching eyes as they go. “With creativity of this caliber and a broad but focused emphasis on making something new, their sound is perhaps better described as… Read more »
All Time Low has just confirmed a string of dates on the main stage of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour, along with earlier support dates for We the Kings. The band will be touring in support of its forthcoming release, Nothing Personal, in stores July 7. Having just recently finished a tour with Fall Out Boy, the Maryland foursome will jump on Warped Tour in Oceanport, N.J., and remain on until the the tour concludes in Los Angeles. Prior to these dates, the band will do a short headlining tour with We The Kings and Cartel, hitting several cities… Read more »
All Time Low is heading out on select Warped Tour shows this summer! Are you one of the lucky few?? See where they’ll be playing and meet up with other All Time Low fans on WarpedTour.com. All Time Low dates: July 19, 2009 – Oceanport, NJ July 21, 2009 – Boston, MA July 22, 2009 – Virginia Beach, VA July 23, 2009 – Charlotte, NC July 24, 2009 – Orlando, FL July 25, 2009 – Miami, FL July 26, 2009 – St.Petersburg, FL July 28, 2009 – Atlanta, GA July 29, 2009 – Cincinnati, OH July 30, 2009 – Milwaukee,… Read more »
A pair of the biggest bands in rock, Radiohead and R.E.M., hit the studio recently to begin work on their next albums. While both groups are in the beginning stages of writing and recording, they offered up some early details in a series of interviews. Radiohead have reconvened with longtime producer Nigel Godrich to start work on the follow-up of 2007’s In Rainbows. The band is reportedly in the early stages of recording, according to bassist Colin Greenwood. “It was very noisy and chaotic and really fun. It’s at the stage where we’ve got the big Lego box out and… Read more »
Despite the success of online retailers, explosion of Internet downloads and high-profile closings of Virgin Megastores and Tower Records stores, bricks-and-mortar record stores are not all spinning toward oblivion. Although hundreds of independent music retailers have gone out of business in recent years, about 2,000 are still around, and many are thriving. The survivors will celebrate Saturday, as acts such as Erykah Badu and Franz Ferdinand gather to pay homage to the hometown record store. Record Store Day was the idea of Chris Brown, a music guru from Bull Moose, a chain of 10 record stores in Maine and New… Read more »
