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Album Review: Itch – The Deep End
The Deep End feels like an amalgamation of every current trend in pop and electronic music, but while the album is no doubt entertaining, it leaves you unsure of Itch’s intentions.
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The Deep End feels like an amalgamation of every current trend in pop and electronic music, but while the album is no doubt entertaining, it leaves you unsure of Itch’s intentions.
In this week’s Tuesday Ten, we talk about some of our favorite sonically unmistakable bands and what sets them apart in 2014’s flooded musical climate.
Kids In Glass Houses have announced they’ll be breaking up after one last tour of the UK this October.
It’s that time of year where all you want to is curl up under a pile of blankets and escape the winter blues with a few good movies. To celebrate the next month of your life being spent in bed watching Fight Club for the twentieth time, here’s our list of the top ten songs from movie soundtrack in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
With their fourth full-length, Of Mice & Men have affirmed that they aren’t just another name in the constantly growing roster of great metal bands – they’re the kings of the genre.
Female-fronted power metal quintet Huntress recently wrapped up a tour with metal titans Testament, Killswitch Engage, and Lamb of God, who they’ll be heading to Europe with in the new year. Frontwoman Jill Janus plays hardball and is certainly one of the boys. Classically trained and positively wicked, Janus sat down for some girltalk with idobi writer Alex Rudisill at one of their final dates with such a legendary lineup.
SoCal heavy-hitters Rotting Out are on the road right now with pop punk youngsters The Story So Far. Taking cues from their idols the Suicidal Tendencies, Rotting Out are carrying on the tradition of aggressive West Coast punk and hardcore. idobi writer Alex Rudisill spoke to frontman Walter Delgado after their set at the Philadelphia date of the tour and discussed the band’s history, his permanent love for Tegan and Sara, the next great merch idea, and much more. How did Rotting Out get started? This is not the original lineup. We started in about ’08. We used to be… Read more »
Sad news today on the Conditions front. The band have announced that they’ll be breaking up. They’ve currently got a run of Midwest dates in December with Lions Lions that they’ll still be going out on, and are currently planning one last farewell tour in May of 2014, but after that they’ll be finished. Read a statement from the band below. To our wonderful fans, friends and family — After many long conversations and a lot of time to think, we as a collective unit have decided that it is time that we walk away from Conditions. At the turn… Read more »
Two weeks ago we introduced our new bi-weekly column Double Take, in which we explore the subtle connections between two seemingly-unrelated musical items. For our second installment, idobi writer Marina Oliver looks at the common themes shared between Panic! At The Disco’s mixed-reception sophomore release Pretty. Odd. and Neutral Milk Hotel’s classic In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
Go Radio have announced that they’ll be calling it quits. You can see a statement from the band as well as more information about what projects some of the members will be involved below. “It is with heavy hearts that after 7 years of making music and touring the world, Go Radio has come to an end. For some of you this comes as a huge shock and for our friends and family this will be a certain sense of closure. There is no easy way to write something like this so we won’t beat around the bush. Earlier this… Read more »
