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UTG LIST: Records We Overlooked In 2014

Everyone has a moment where they stumble upon a release that hits them in a certain way; it changes the way the rest of your day, week, month, even foreseeable future will feel and look like. But, within this sonic euphoria, how defeated does one feel to find out that said album was released a […]

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SURPRISE: Brian Marquis Drops ’90s-Influenced Cover EP

Brian Marquis, singer-songwriter bad-ass and head-dude-in-charge of the Vans Warped Tour‘s Acoustic Basement, gave the world a little, but nonetheless awesome, present this morning in the form of a ’90s cover EP. Premiering exclusively with Allston Pudding earlier today, the record contains renditions of famed tracks from Weezer, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Radiohead and Fiona […]

Rozwell Kid Release Ridiculous “Kangaroo Pocket” Music Video

Rozwell Kid are the new Weezer, or at the very least they are the latest promising young band to be so influenced by early Weezer that members of the global music press cannot help relating everything they do to the brainchild of Rivers Cuomo. Either way, they rock, and their latest music video is only […]

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80/35 Is The Best 60 Bucks You’ll Spend All Summer

The eighth annual 80/35 music festival, held in Des Moines, Iowa, has packed some major bang for your buck in this year’s lineup. At 59 dollars for a two-day pass, you get graced with artists such as Wilco, Weezer, Jenny Lewis, Run The Jewels, and many others. Not into two days for the event? One […]

REVIEW: The Maine – ‘American Candy’

Artist: The Maine Title: American Candy Label: 81twentythree Genre: Indie-Rock, Alternative One of my music professors once asked me what I thought made a good record. Being the visceral musician, I told him that I hadn’t had coffee and that mumbling the theoretical jargon he wanted out of me would result in a completely skewed judgement […]

The World Is A Beautiful Place Sign To Epitaph Records

Connecticut emo revivalists The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die have just announced that they are now a part of the Epitaph family. The label is also currently home to Bad Religion, Weezer, Joyce Manor and many more. TWIABP has reportedly just entered Silver Bullet Studios in Burlington, […]

UTG INTERVIEW: Tanner Jones of You Blew It! Discusses Hyper-Personal Songwriting & Getting Robbed on Tour

You Blew It! have certainly kicked things into high gear this past year and half. In the time that most bands put out an LP and rest on it, this Orlando, FL group decided to slap on a Weezer covers EP and  four-way split onto their discography. At the very beginning of 2014, they put out Pioneer of Nothing […]

Canada’s Amnesia Rockfest Announces 2015 Lineup, Thrice Fans Everywhere Rejoice

Monetebello, Canada’s Amnesia Rockfest has slowly grown into the annual envy of fans of any type of loud music across the globe. Celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year, the festival has just announced another typically strong lineup headlined by massive names like Linkin Park, System of a Down, The Offspring and Slayer. But as far […]

UTG INTERVIEW: Sullivan Discuss ‘Heavy Is The Head’

Last year, the guys in Sullivan announced the end of their seven-year hiatus, and shortly after confirmed the details of a brand new album. The group signed to Spartan Records, and dropped one of my personal favorite albums of 2014 – Heavy Is The Head. Since they got back together they have kept themselves busy […]

Stream Charli XCX’s New Album, ‘Sucker’

Having grown more and more successful as the year progressed, British pop singer-songwriter Charli XCX is ending 2014 on a high note as we near the impending release of her newest full-length record, Sucker. She was first heard on the radio as a co-writer for Icona Pop‘s “I Love It” and featured on Iggy Azalea‘s […]

You Blew It! Share “Lanai”

After what seemed to be an endlessly busy year for You Blew It!, releasing one of the better albums of the year in January and then putting out an EP covering Weezer’s Blue Album and endless touring, it seems that the band is back with another EP set for early 2015, which will be entitled […]

UTG INTERVIEW: Everlost Discusses His New EP, ‘The Hardest Things To Say’

Everlost, the solo project of Orlando, Florida’s Jared Kay, wrote and recorded his debut EP, entitled The Hardest Things To Say, just this past summer. His inaugural effort was released in September and has steadily been gaining traction with fans of Something Corporate, Yellowcard and the vast majority of the Warped Tour scene. We had […]