Monique Powell (Save Ferris)
Darrin chats with his old friend and the singer of ska band Save Ferris, Monique Powell. Later, TS with weed news and Darrin with music news.
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Darrin chats with his old friend and the singer of ska band Save Ferris, Monique Powell. Later, TS with weed news and Darrin with music news.
Bill & Ted are getting a third movie called ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music.’
Tillie came back to the studios to play more tracks, so we never have to stop jammin’.
In a world full of crime and misfortune, what we could use are some real life video game superheroes… Kind of like the guys in Double Experience.
Whether you’re catching your all time favorite band or seeking out something new, here are a handful of the 2016 tours you’ll want to save the date for.
U.K. pop punk act Save Your Breath have released a music video for “Harrow Road.” The band are currently on tour in the U.K. supporting We Are The In Crowd and will make their way to the United States this Spring, including some show at South By South West. Check out the video below! httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQVudjJkZEk
Record-store owners owe Apple iTunes a tremendous debt of gratitude for being an uncaring, scatter-brained, inhuman little jukebox: It’s saving their skin right now.
The running narrative in the music world during the past decade is that the physical album is dead, and file-sharing, downloads and, most notably, Apple’s iTunes killed it. Yes and no.
Late last year, Fall Out Boy fans were shocked when Pete Wentz posted a series of rather grisly photos on his official site, showing him sporting a mean shiner, a knock on his head and a bloody gash across his nose.
Early in July, Rusty Shaffer, the founder of Optek, a small music company in Reno, Nev., visited Salon’s offices to show me his invention, the Fretlight guitar. Though it looks and feels like a standard, rock ‘n’ roll-ready instrument, the Fretlight contains a set of LEDs invisibly embedded inside its fretboard — connect the guitar to a computer and the lights spark up to indicate where to put your fingers in order to play a chord. Shaffer is certain that his guitar is a great leap forward for the normally tech-averse guitar industry; the Fretlight, he says, will transform guitar… Read more »
Biggie and Tupac, Jay-Z and Nas, Axl and Kurt, Oasis and the bulk of humanity… some musical beefs are sublime, and some are ridiculous. The latest, between Weezer and Saves the Day, is a little bit of both. When reports surfaced that Weezer wrangled Jim Henson’s Muppets for their new video, “Keep Fishin’,” last month, the “emo and puppets” premise gave their former opening band a case of déjà vu. Nearly two months ago, Saves the Day – who opened for Weezer in February – wrapped a video for their second single, “Freakish,” featuring (surprise, surprise) a supporting cast of… Read more »
