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!
Believe it or not, spooky season is here. The Halloween aisles are packed, the air feels just a little crisper, and the latest alternative, indie, and metal drops are setting the perfect vibe. Girl Tones deliver grit and groove, while Stain The Canvas brings darker tones on their high-energy release that fits right into your fall playlist. Looking for even more new music to fuel your haunted season? idobi Radio is your soundtrack for spooky season, delivering your favorite songs and the future of alternative. Download the free idobi App for new music every minute, every hour, every day. Did… Read more »
Following the release of “She Is Afraid” and “You Know Who The Fuck We Are” from their forthcoming album, The Same Old Wasted Wonderful World, Motion City Soundtrack has unleashed their latest offering, “Your Days Are Numbered,” featuring Mat Kerekes of Citizen. Motion City Soundtrack shares, “‘Your Days Are Numbered’ is a special song for us. It’s one we carried with us as a band for a long time, letting it grow until it was ready to be shared. The last few years have been hard on all of us personally, with the loss of family members and loved ones.… Read more »
