idobi managing editor Eleanor Grace checked in with Nick Santino at the Toronto date of this summer’s Vans Warped Tour to talk about going solo, his former band A Rocket To The Moon’s beginnings and eventual end, the importance of fan connection, and much more.
People were taking pictures at shows for years before someone at Oxford decided it’d be a good idea to add the word “selfie†to the dictionary, but the advent of the smartphone has made it more popular than ever. Even our writers have a few show selfies tucked away on their hard drives, and we’re sharing some of our favorites with you in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
idobi managing editor Eleanor Grace caught up with Garrett Nickelsen and Kennedy Brock of The Maine at the Vans Warped Tour’s Toronto stop to talk about the tour, branching out musically, the 8123 family (including hints about their latest signing), and much more.
You know when Oscars season hits and suddenly it’s the only thing anyone can talk about? That’s how we feel about the first Gibson Brands Alternative Press Music Awards – Fueled by Monster Energy Drink. With less than two weeks left until the awards show makes its July 21st debut, at Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we’ve all been picking our favorites and placing our bets—which is exactly what this show is all about.
Yeah, we get it — hating everything your parents love is a rite of passage growing up. But every once in a while, you have to admit when they’ve gotten it right.
Great Mission: Life proves that hard work mixed with sweat, talent, and shear creativity can blend seamlessly into a brilliant travel kit for Part One of an epic journey.
It’s a struggle most of us have experienced with our families, at least to some degree — the parents think the kids’ music is unlistenable garbage, and the kids think their parents’ music was recorded by the first dinosaurs to ever hold guitars. But when you find those rare few bands that occupy the middle ground between everyone’s tastes, it’s a special moment that brings the family together way better than getting a pet fish ever could.
It’s Independence Day, and here on Warped idobi Radio that means it’s also Warped Weekend! Celebrate with us by keeping your browser locked on idobi.com through all your Fourth of July festivities. All weekend long, we’ll be broadcasting every moment of Warped idobi Radio so far. Tune in to relive it all: the Q&A’s, the takeovers, the interviews with hard working Warped Tour non-profits. We have nineteen hours to recap, and we hope you’ll join us for each and every one of them.
June 23rd, 2014 – Allegaeon vocalist Ezra Haynes skypes into Metalix as we preview tracks from Elements Of The Infinite, out tomorrow on Metal Blade. Ezra talks about creating the video for 1.618, crabcore and reacts to the multitude of complaints his band received for posting a meme of Marilyn Monroe with the text “Stop quoting me girls, I was a whore not a philosopher.” Metalix airs Mondays 9-11 pm ET at idobi Howl
The Wonder Years have released a full-band version of “Living Room Song,” originally an acoustic b-side from 2011’s Suburbia: I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing.
