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How Losing My Record Deal Helped Me Feed My Family
Matt MacDonald is the frontman and principal songwriter for Vocal Few and The Classic Crime. This is his story.
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Matt MacDonald is the frontman and principal songwriter for Vocal Few and The Classic Crime. This is his story.
Ladies and gentlemen show your appreciation for: the ultimate face off between UK legends Enter Shikari and… Enter Shikari. No, this isn’t some kind of Inception/Parent Trap-style stunt, this is a musical experiment.
Mayday Parade are streaming their newest song “Letting Go†over at Rolling Stone today. The song is from their upcoming album Black Lines.
Photo credit: Gaëlle Pitrel. Full gallery here. Had my mother not thrown out a box labeled “Emotionless Catalyst” during my parents’ most recent move, someone would’ve stumbled over dozens of composition notebooks filled with Sonny Moore fanfiction, and my feelings would have spilled out. If you had the patience to flip past New Found Glory drawings and lyrics and managed to find a September 17, 2005 date, you would probably see the day I more than likely fell out of love with Fall Out Boy. For other seasoned fangurls, you might be racking your brains now, trying to piece together… Read more »
Didn’t get your Hogwarts letter when you were 11? Me neither. It’s been over a decade, but I’m still upset. Not to worry though: I’m old enough to drown my sorrows at The Lockhart.
Absolutely see this movie in the theater; it is a spectacle to behold on the big screen.
TheBillboardChart Needs a Streaming Makeover With All Time Low’s number one album debut debunked by the new Billboard standard, many people in our scene posed the question if we need to rethink the way Billboard included streaming into it’s tallies. Right now, every 1,500 streams of a song off an album = 1 album sale. Thomas Nassiff of Absolutepunk wrote a wonderful short piece on the matter. In my opinion, it’s crap. A successful single does not an album make. If that were true, Vanilla Ice would have probably been much more successful and have never gotten arrested for stealing.… Read more »
Blending the perfect bits of Pinback, Q And Not U, Cap N’ Jazz, and their own personal driving, noted, guitar charged breakdowns—we can’t get enough of Dryjacket’s latest EP.
idobi senior writer Catherine Yi sat down with vocalist Brent Martone at the Los Angeles stop to discuss their DIY roots, writing sad songs, and the best thing to order at In-N-Out Burger.
The Selfie Sticks Have Been Banned From More Music Festivities A couple of months ago I told you about a venue in the U.K. banning selfie sticks. Well, it just got better. Both Coachella and Lollapalooza have now also banned the death sticks that people use to take selfies with (side note: I totally wasn’t using one at the Grand Canyon last weekend or anything…) Anyway, this is a VERY good thing. Music festivals often involve an abundance of of alcohol, crazy people, and unmentionables with medical cards that validate their “back problems”. We don’t need to add metal poles… Read more »
