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Getty Image You’ve heard of meatless Mondays, but have you ever heard of meatless Fridays? This week, Indiecast hosts Steven Hyden and Ian Cohen are forgoing the meat of the episode in order to focus on the biggest indie news of the week. That’s right — it’s all banter to celebrate the last double-digit installment …
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Getty Image In honor of Machine Gun Kelly’s Hulu documentary, Life Is Pink, as well as his sold-out show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, The Empire State Building lit up pink yesterday. According to the 1,451-foot-tall tower’s website, the building did so as “a symbol of strength, perseverance, and hope in partnership …
Getty Image/Ralph Ordaz When Mike Ziemer launched the inaugural So What Festival in 2008, social media was in its infancy. There was no Instagram for him to purchase advertisements, no TikTok to share videos, and no music streaming platforms, as Spotify hadn’t arrived to the US. By way of MySpace, word of mouth, and building …
Warner Bros. It was hampered by a massive delay mid-shooting due to a certain once-in-a-century public health crisis. It ran three hours long. It was dropped on HBO Max less than two months after release. An actual bat got loose at one of its screenings. And yet The Batman proved a bona fide smash, becoming …
Getty Image Last night’s Grammy Awards were supposed to be big for Lil Nas X. He was nominated for five awards including Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Music Video, and Best Melodic Rap Performance (the latter with Jack Harlow for “Industry Baby,” which they performed together at …
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Let’s be honest, they were the blueprint. Formed in 1992, this band consisted of members Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus. The group quickly made a name for itself with albums like Dude Ranch and Enema of the State, and is commonly cited as an inspiration for many pop-punk bands today. Tom DeLonge left the band in 2005, citing different priorities from …
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Mainstream Sellout, the Machine Gun Kelly album previously known as Born With Horns, is set to drop in March. Last week, he and Willow teamed up on “Emo Girl,” and now they’ve shared a new video for the track. In the clip, Travis Barker plays a teacher taking his young students to a museum, where …
Last summer, Machine Gun Kelly proudly announced that his sixth album would be titled Born With Horns. He shared the news by revealing matching tattoos he got with Travis Barker, who is set to contribute heavy production to the project. Well, that was last year. Now, MGK is ready to release the album but with …
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1. Davey Havok from A.F.I. then: Jason Merritt / FilmMagic / Getty Images Davey Havok now: Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images 2. Chris Carrabba from Dashboard Confessional then: Christina Radish / Redferns / Getty Images Chris Carrabba now: John Lamparski / Getty Images Chris Carrabba’s Instagram: 3. Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy then: …
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Getty Image Sunny Day Real Estate has been real on-and-off since they became a defining emo band in the early ’90s, a status they achieved despite a short initial tenure. Their original run was from 1992 to 1995, and since then, they reunited in 1997, broke up again a few years later, reunited yet again …
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Getty Image When the lineup for When We Were Young Fest came out last week, every emo kid past, present, and future went bananas. How could they not when Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Bright Eyes, Bring Me The Horizon, Avril Lavigne, and Jimmy Eat World were all prominently featured on the single-day fest’s lineup? Tickets …
Getty Image With new albums from bands like Dogleg and Foxing, emo music successfully underwent a revival in 2021. And while there’s plenty of contemporary music for a generation of emo fans, there’s a new festival with a mission to pay homage to the early aughts artists who made it all possible. When We Were …
