There’s just something special about The Maine isn’t there? So, while the band has made their mark over the years, we’ve narrowed it down to five… or six times we think they were really cool as shit.
Dear You,
Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. As a scene, we have always been more inclined to be open about mental health, and more understanding towards those who are depressed, anxious, or suffer from any and all mental health issues. It is important that we take the opportunity today to share this outlook with the rest of the world.
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 »
We compiled a list of special artists we think rule and labels should be paying attention to.
Happy New Year! Or, more realistically, Happy First Day of the Pressure to Completely Change Your Life This Year. There are a million articles out there on the resolutions you should be trying to make—but here at idobi, we think you should abandon them altogether this year. Here’s why.
When you’re trapped in the hellish nightmare of a busy mall in December, it’s not unusual for the tinny sound of Christmas music to make you wish you would get trampled to death by a thousand frantic shoppers just to put an end to your suffering. Thankfully, hearing your favorite bands cover the same songs has the opposite effect.
The Punk Goes Pop series is six volumes deep at this point, celebrating the release of its most recent compilation this week — but what if we were able to flip the script and pull in artists from the world of mainstream pop to take on music from our scene?
Each month For The Record is here to bring you the best places to find your next favorite band in different cities all over the world—right to your screen. This stop we’re in New Orleans.
After years of trucking it out as an independent band, California’s From Indian Lakes teamed up with Triple Crown Records for their latest effort Absent Sounds; we checked in with frontman Joey Vannucchi on the pros and cons of going the label route after being independent for so long in this week’s Tuesday Ten.
Each day, we’re bringing you the top events to catch at the CMJ Music Marathon. Today’s cheat sheet includes previews of rad shows, sessions with industry professionals and legendary showcases.
