In between playing Sad Summer Festival, State Champs have been filling up gaps on tour with their own headliner tour with supporting acts Hot Mulligan and My Kid Brother. The tour made a quick stop at The NorVa in Norfolk, VA. We were lucky enough to have idobi photographer Crystal Huffman catch the show last minute and provide her sick shots below!
When I get a chance to catch up with Pinkshift, a Baltimore-based band full of BIPOC people—including a singer the same color as me—I can’t help but gush for a few minutes.
“We want to push pop-punk into new heights. We want to do something special and leave a positive mark on the genre.”
Basslines and Protest Signs is Brett Callwood’s column looking at the intersection of music and politics. This week talks about artists’ opinions on getting the COVID-19 vaccine.
A lot can change in ten years: personalities, tastes, relationships. For Mayday Parade the last ten years have been a chance to grow as a band, explore new ways to entertain, and to connect with their fans. Which is why—almost exactly a decade after seeing them live for the first time—I’m sitting on a tour bus in Chicago, chatting with frontman Derek Sanders. We’re at the back of the bus. On one side of Sanders, guitarist Brooks Betts is fiddling around on a laptop, on the other, bassist Jeremy Lenzo pre-signs a stack of Sunnyland CDs. The window is cracked… Read more »
A show with WALKNEY, Kyd The Band and Gavin Haley is here for ya! WALKNEY called in to give a first listen to his new single “Say”, then Gavin and Kyd The Band played in studio for your ears’ pleasure.
The Maine have announced The Mirror Tour this fall, an “immersive audio and visual experience unlike anything The Maine has done before.”
Are you excited for Sad Summer Fest? You will be after the latest episode of The Gunz Show. This week, Gunz invited John O’Callagahn of The Maine and Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade to the air to give you a little taste of the fun that’s about to go down this summer. Tune in below!
Dexter And The Moonrocks are dominating the alternative rock world with their country-tinged grunge, and we are so here for it. After hitting No. 1 on the alternative rock chart with “Sad In Carolina,” the blue-collar Texas rockers are ready to steal your hearts again with the release of Happy To Be Here, as well as a music video for the EP’s title track. Per the band’s bio, “A fry cook, an oil field operator, a concrete surface decorator, and a kids’ baseball coach came together in West Texas, blending the country and western of their childhoods with the grunge… Read more »
It’s mayday, aka May 1, aka Mayday Parade day! And to celebrate, the iconic sad boy pop-punkers have announced that they’ll be joining Warped Tour in DC and Long Beach. Warped Tour shared with a hilarious announcement video, “we’d listen to this band from tallahassee, fl, and we’ll be listening to them in DC and Orlando this year! please welcome the teenage heartbreakers, @maydayparade, to warped 2025” Mayday Parade is currently on the road for the Three Cheers For 20 Years anniversary tour with Microwave, Grayscale, and Like Roses. You can check out the band’s touring schedule below, including the… Read more »
