*Music Industry Insight
From October 10 – 13, Sacramento’s Discovery Park welcomed the head-banging, pyro-launching, speed-drumming return of Aftershock this past weekend for a four-day festival of all things heavy metal. Thursday through…
Fresh off the release of their fifth studio album, Inhale / Exhale, Australian dance music titans RÜFÜS DU SOL have revealed the full itinerary for a massive 2025 world tour…
Laura Jane Grace has tried for years to get an Operation Ivy set to happen at Riot Fest. Eventually, she took matters into her own hands when the venerable Chicago…
Tyler, the Creator is nothing if not unique, and that trend continues with today’s (Oct. 17) announcement that he will release his next album, CHROMAKOPIA, on short notice and off…
The Epic Records soundtrack to Zach Braff’s 2004 directorial debut, Garden State, helped make indie rock a mainstream concern thanks to the presence of the Shins, Iron & Wine, Frou…
On the road this summer with Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid, the young ladies of the Linda Lindas had important questions for their elders. So, at one tour stop,…
“A lot of people who grew up there don’t end up leaving the neighborhood,” says drummer Eliza Enman-McDaniel of the Beaches, the area of Toronto she and fellow bandmates, sisters…
Elvis, Lennon, Cobain, MJ, Bowie, Prince — the death of these cultural icons left a seismic hole in the hearts of music fans. In Canada, north of the 49th parallel’s…
Not surprisingly, songs about heroin are a dime a dozen. Skag has been fueling songwriters for yonks and, being the frisky little devil it is, occasionally nominates the odd one…
One Direction‘s Liam Payne died today (Oct. 16) after falling three floors from the Casa Sur Hotel in Buenos Aires, according to media reports. He was 31. The circumstances of…