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What We Think: Green Day’s New Song “Bang Bang”
Today kicked off with a Bang Bang…because Green Day just dropped a new song, and of course, we here at idobi had a lot to say about it.
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Today kicked off with a Bang Bang…because Green Day just dropped a new song, and of course, we here at idobi had a lot to say about it.
When you think true-blue, rock’n’roll roots punk, you think DIY ethics. Whiplash inducing guitar work and gnarly vocals filled with passion (or resentment) have always gone hand in hand with flyering for your own shows, loading your own equipment, and making unfiltered music with no one’s opinion but your own.
Whether he’s discussing his personal life or wailing at the mic, it’s clear that Vinnie Caruana is thoroughly enjoying himself.
It’s not all fun and games being in a ska band… Okay, maybe there is a lot of fun involved, but there’s also long nights of touring, a noise no headphones could cancel, and fear of being eaten alive in a tent—before we get to that, though, let’s introduce the world’s most skankin’ ska band, Reel Big Fish.
Since GK first strutted onto the scene in 2004/2005 it has become a symbol, representing the look of pop-punk but also, unexpectedly, the sound of alt-rock. But last year, just short of a decade later, the journey derailed. Today, Glamour Kills is fighting its way back.
It all started as an acoustic project, and has turned into shared stages with Handguns, Mest, and more.
Long before Tumblr became a lifestyle, pizza culture reigned, and Glamour Kills was the unofficial stylist of every dude you know, lived Good Charlotte. The band formed twenty years ago, and found their way to the top of every chart back in pop punk’s glory days.
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Check out the exclusive track premiere of “Hipster Mom” off MC Lars’ new full-length The Zombie Dinosaur LP. It’s early on a Monday morning when I get a phone call from rapper MC Lars. There’s a scholarly greeting from the brilliant rapper who seems more prepared than ever to share his newest music with the world. The Stanford graduate turned “nerdcore” hip-hop mogul is back this November with a brand new full-length LP The Zombie Dinosaur LP. This particular album reflects a lot on his life as a rapper in his 20s and how he transitions into his goals in… Read more »
A lot of life has happened in the past ten years. Just think about everything that has consumed the world since 2005—graduations, weddings, the rise of the smartphone, and an entire language understood only by twelve year olds (**insert fourteen emoticons to thank Instagram here**).
