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Tuesday Ten: Songs We Didn’t Like Until We Heard Them Acoustic

Autumn is just around the corner, and that means one thing: it’s almost time to throw on your comfiest sweater and trade in the upbeat sunny anthems you’ve been singing the past four months for something a little more chilled out. It’s always fun to return to your usual favorites, but it’s even more exciting to add something unexpected to the playlist â€”Â which is why for this week’s Tuesday Ten, we asked our writers about ten songs they didn’t like until they heard them acoustic.

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(Un)covered: All Along The Watchtower

â€œAll Along the Watchtowerâ€ is stripped to the bare bones of a song and a story, but itâ€™s still enough to make it a timeless classic and inspire an incredible cover by the one and only Jimi Hendrix, and later, Envy on the Coast.

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(Un)covered: Torn

Natalie Imbrugliaâ€™s â€œTornâ€ is a staple 90s pop song that dominated charts worldwide when it was released in 1997. But did you know that the song is actually a cover?

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Tuesday Ten: Valentine’s Day Edition

Whether you’re forever alone or have managed to find happiness with someone, there’s one thing we can all agree on: Valentine’s Day is the worst. To help you through it, our writers have compiled their top picks from bands like Brand New, Dashboard Confessional, and Lydia for our list of the top ten songs to listen to while alone in your bed eating ice cream.

idobi News

The Gunz Show, November 7, 2012

Tonight on The Gunz Show; The Summer Set, We Are The In Crowd, and Candy Hearts. Gunz will also be giving away copies of Punk Goes Pop 5 from Fearless Records. Tune in tonight at 9pm ET, only on idobi Radio.

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Rock The Walls Tonight Featuring: Blessthefall, The Word Alive, and Chunk! No, Captain Chunk

Tune into Rock The Walls with Patrick Walford Tonight from 8-10pm ET to hear the latest and greatest in Pop Punk, Metalcore, and Hardcore music. This week’s show I’m joined by some of the bands out on the Fearless Friends Tour. I’ll be speaking with Bert Poncet of French Pop Punk/Hardcore band Chunk! No, Captain Chunk around 8:30, Telle Smith of The Word Alive (where we talk all about their upcoming album) around 9, and Beau Bokan of Blessthefall at 9:45. In addition to interviews with 3 of the bands out on the Fearless Friends Tour, we will have… Read more »

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Sparks The Rescue to support The Dangerous Summer on tour

Sparks The Rescue will join The Dangerous Summer as direct support on the “2011 American Tour,” heading out across the U.S. this spring. This nationwide run will kick off in New York, NY on March 15 and run through the end of April.

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20 Best Songs Released in 2025

2025 was full of magical musical moments, including the arrival of a new Hayley Williams album, Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party, and a Panic! At The Disco reunion. Aside from an array of band reunions and dazzling records, this year also featured an incredible amount of singles and EPs that advanced the alternative genre forward. From Pierce The Veil’s bonus tracks, including “Kiss Me Now” to The All-American Rejects’ “Easy Come, Easy Go,” and beyond, these 20 songs from 2025 marked the best of the best. Pierce The Veil — “Kiss Me Now” Pierce The Veil revealed the deluxe version of their… Read more »

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21 Albums Turning 15 in 2026

As the calendar flips toward 2026, an entire generation of albums that helped shape the sound, style, and emotional vocabulary of the early 2010s hits a major milestone. These records soundtracked Warped Tour summers, first heartbreaks, and long drives with the windows down—and somehow, they’re all turning 15. From pop-punk revival cornerstones to scene-defining debuts and genre-crossing breakthroughs, these albums haven’t just aged well—they’ve grown into blueprints for the alternative landscape we’re still living in today. Here are 21 monumental albums turning 15 in 2026. Go Radio — Lucky Street Lucky Street marked Go Radio’s major-label debut on Fearless Records and… Read more »

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15 Alternative Musician Birthdays To Celebrate This September

School is back in session, and Halloween season has officially begun. To keep the spooky vibes flowing, it’s time to crank up your alternative playlists while you grab some pumpkin-flavored treats. For some playlist inspo, these Virgo and Libra babies have made some of the most iconic emo, pop-punk, and indie tracks, and for that, they deserve the best birthdays ever. From the always iconic Avril Lavigne, to Mayday Parade‘s Jake Bundrick and Alex Garcia, all the way to My Chemical Romance‘s Mikey Way, here are some September musician birthdays to mark in your cals this month. Joe Trohman — September 1 Fall… Read more »