Album review: Hey Monday suffers sophomore slump with new EP
After removing four songs from a potential full-length album, Hey Monday has decided on releasing Beneath It All as an EP.
After removing four songs from a potential full-length album, Hey Monday has decided on releasing Beneath It All as an EP.
John Vesely, the man behind the ballads of Secondhand Serenade, returns as the same emotive musician with the album Hear Me Now.
Deryck Whibley, frontman for Canadian power pop band Sum 41, was reportedly attacked last night in Japan, and sent to hospital with injuries.
The terms “raw” and “glam” are seldom used to describe the same band, but they suit New York’s queer-core Semi Precious Weapons quite well.
Understated may have been the best way to describe Wednesday night’s performance at the Black Cat.
Sixpence None the Richer brings the reunion it started in 2008 to fruition this summer with the Aug. 24 release of Strange Conversation, the Nashville pop group’s first new album in eight years.
Front flips over a piano, a Lady Gaga cover and a laser light show were just some of the highlights from the sold-out 30 Seconds to Mars performance at Roseland Ballroom Wednesday night.
The mood inside the Sound Academy was tense. Two bands on the Snocore Tour had already canceled their sets, the loudspeaker was playing songs on repeat, and instead of the first band starting at its scheduled time, a confused-looking roadie walked across the stage and babbled away on his cell phone.
Glancing up momentarily from his guitar, Kevin Devine grinned at the crowd. His repeated proclamation of “Awesome!” mixed well with a guitar riff to produce a one-word song between him and the crowd, which by that point had effortlessly filled up all three levels of Melbourne’s Palace Theatre.
Los Angeles is well-known for its hidden surprises, the trademark hole-in-the-wall places and inconspicuous, rickety buildings that genuinely shock people the moment they rush inside.