Archive for March, 2016

UTG PHOTOS: Asking Alexandria in Grand Rapids, MI (03/09/16)

Asking Alexandria made a midweek stop at The Intersection with supporting acts Seraphim, The Broken Scene and Elan Vital. This show may have fallen in the middle of the week but the Grand Rapids music scene forever remains loyal and showed up with a lot of anticipation and energy. Following one of our first nice Spring […]

Taste Of Chaos unveils full festival lineup feat. Dashboard Confessional, Taking Back Sunday, more

The 2016 edition of Rockstar Energy Drink’s Taste Of Chaos festival will return to San Bernadino, CA at the San Manuel Ampitheater Festival Grounds on July 16 after a successful 2015 showing. Dashboard Confessional and Taking Back Sunday will be headlining. Other acts include Quicksand, The Get Up Kids, Saosin with original vocalist Anthony Green, The […]

Deftones add U.S. dates for August, select joint dates with Refused

With an already extensive tour that include stops at Download Festival and Rock Am Ring, Deftones will embark on an August U.S. tour kicking off on August 2 in Bethelem, Pennsylvania, where the Sacramento, California band will continue to support their upcoming eighth album, Gore, which will be released April 8 via Reprise records. Swedish hardcore band Refused will […]

Boston Underground Film Fest 2016: ‘Kill Your Friends’ and ‘Little Sister’

Film: Kill Your Friends Starring: Ed Skrein, Nicholas Hoult, Rosanna Arquette Directed by: Owen Harris Music industry satires seem to be a semi-popular thing to do today. Vinyl, the Scorsese-produced HBO show, is now in its fifth or sixth week of characters doing cocaine and bumping into famous bands. While Kill Your Friends doesn’t go […]

REVIEW: Amon Amarth – ‘Jomsviking’

Artist: Amon Amarth Album: Jomsviking Label: Metal Blade Genre: Death metal While there are a number of bands out there that blend metal and their Nordic heritage, you would be hard-pressed to name one who has done so as consistently well as Amon Amarth. By eschewing the traditional folk music influences and committing to the […]

Blink-182 confirm new single is coming in April, tease forthcoming album details

Blink-182 will soon return with new music. The band will push a new radio single—their first featuring Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba in place of Tom Delonge—in April, according to a new report from KROQ. Maybe April 26? [thinking man emoji] Lisa Worden, KROQ’s Music Director who has heard eight new Blink songs, teased some details […]

Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties return with new EP, release “’67, Cherry Red”

Aaron West & The Roaring Twenties, the solo project of The Wonder Years frontman Dan Campbell, is back. You can listen to a new Aaron West track titled “’67, Cherry Red” below. The song is track one on Aaron West’s upcoming EP, Bittersweet. Judging by the narrative in “’67, Cherry Red,” it seems like Campbell is […]

A$AP Ferg drops killer single and video for “Let It Bang” feat. Schoolboy Q

We’re less than a month away from Always Strive and Prosper, A$AP Ferg‘s second studio release. We’ve already been eagerly awaiting the album, and today’s release of “Let It Bang,” a collaboration with Schoolboy Q, has pushed our anticipation to a whole new level. “Let It Bang” finds Ferg and Q rapping about what them […]

‘War Dogs’ trailer finds Jonah Hill and Miles Teller selling guns, trading barbs

It’s fair to say that most of us would love to make millions of dollars while we’re still in our 20s. Arms dealing probably didn’t cross your mind when it comes to jobs for getting rich, but that’s exactly what Jonah Hill and Miles Teller do in the newly released trailer for War Dogs. The […]

You’ll need a hug (or two) after watching I The Mighty’s new video for “Slow Dancing Forever”

There’s nothing like a good cry. Until that cry turns into a sob. And then that sob turns into a bawl… I The Mighty have managed to take their already heartbreaking song, “Slow Dancing Forever” – one that’s only two-and-a-half minutes long, no less – and paired it with an even more heartbreaking and perfectly […]

RYDER stuns on “Fade Away”

With vocals powerful enough to dominate a Billboard-charting single, it’s only a matter of time before RYDER becomes a household name. Case and point: “Fade Away.” A swelling epic that never climaxes in a traditional sense, the indie-pop artist’s first release of 2016 makes the transition from moody, contemplative slow-jam to lighter-raising, electro anthem with an infectious […]

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’ is flat out bad

Film: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice Directed by: Zack Snyder Starring: Henry Cavill, Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Affleck If I were to take Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice’s text verbatim, then I’d be led to believe that a group of people with supernatural capabilities hold the power to defending the world from annihilation. Well, […]