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Web Exclusive: A conversation with Funeral For A Friend's Matt Davies
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND may have achieved a bit of early crossover success thanks to Seven Ways To Scream Your Name, a compilation EP released by Ferret Music in 2003 that provided a prime and pristine example of early-2000s screamo. Over the course of four full-lengths, the U.K. mainstay have slowly developed and focused their […]
Metal vocalist attests to argument for non-metal fans: "Screaming is easy. Singing is hard"
When it comes to the debate between metal and non-metal fans, the concept of screaming is always a popular topic. On one side, you have those who claim incorporating aggressive vocals into music is more difficult than singing. And on the other hand, you have those who state the opposite. Now, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy […]
Max Bemis on comics, crashing and... Say Anything?
Back in the summer of 2008, Say Anything founder Max Bemis was invited to speak at a panel discussion about Warped Tour held at the Guitar Center on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. The panel also featured Kevin Lyman, Epitaph’s Brett Gurewitz and some other punk-scene luminaries, as well as this writer. Prior to the […]
Review: "No Room For Rockstars" successfully captures the agony, ecstasy of the Vans Warped Tour
There are two overarching mindsets regarding the Vans Warped Tour, America’s longest-running touring music festival. The first perspective espouses Warped’s bang-for-the-buck value and the community it fosters: For a fair ticket price, fans can check out a wide swath of bands, from scene stars to struggling upstarts across all genres; get free music and assorted […]
15 bands you probably didn’t realize are supergroups
There was a time when the “supergroup” was super obvious. When the world saw legendary axman Ted Nugent making his guitar squeal with the guy from Night Ranger to his right and a guy from Styx to his left, we all knew there was something special afoot. (Classic-rock lovers will recognize this ’80s band to […]
Track By Track: Mixtapes, 'Even On The Worst Nights'
Known for their playful pop punk and no-one-is-safe internet banter, Mixtapes are releasing their debut full-length, Even On The Worst Nights, through No Sleep on June 26. After a slew of EPs, Worst Nights brings a full 16-song onslaught of tunes detailing the full emotional spectrum of 20-something suburbia. While vocalist/guitarist Ryan Rockwell may open the album spouting […]
We Came As Romans release video for "The World I Used To Know"
Detroit rockers We Came As Romans are set to release their self-titled, fourth album through Equal Vision Records tomorrow, July 24. Today, the band has shared a new music video for the album's lead single, “The World I Used To Know,” directed by Nathan Williams. You can check out the visuals below. When “The World I Used To […]
Fan arrested for posting lyrics to Facebook: “They knew I wasn’t dangerous”
Last week, we heard about James Evans, a music fan in Kentucky who was arrested after he posted lyrics from the Exodus song “Class Dismissed” to his Facebook page. Evans was arrested for ‘terroristic threatening” and released from jail eight days later. “It's surreal,” Evans told Billboard in a new interview. “I didn't think anything would come of it.” […]
"It could have been all of us. It was all of us"—A French music fan reflects
On Friday night, for the first time in my life, I felt unsafe at a music show. I’ve been to hundreds of them—including crust punk concerts in dirty basements and violent, dodgy hardcore shows. But as a white, straight, cisgender man, I am privileged and fortunate enough never to have had to worry about what […]
Metallica fans gather for huge street performance of "Sad But True"
Although Metallica are one of the world’s biggest heavy metal bands, a Russian flash mob group named Rock-n-Mob found a way to make the band’s massive sound even bigger. The group organized around 250 musicians to perform Metallica’s 1991 hit “Sad But True” at a busy intersection in Moscow. While it’s difficult getting any number of musicians to play in […]
