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News: Scene Queen Announces Debut Australian Tour
Scene Queen’s Shake Your Aus Tour is set to turn the east coast upside down this September
Photo Gallery: Slow Joy – Mission Theater – Portland, Oregon 2024.06.19
By Anthony Moore Slow Joy the solo project of Dallas based artist, Esteban Flores brought their take on the midwest emo genre to the Mission Theater in Portland, Oregon this past Wednesday. Flores mixes melancholic lyrics of heartbreak with upbeat guitar riffs, working through songs of love and loss. You can hear the influences of …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Bayside – Roseland Theater – Portland, Oregon 2024.04.23
By Anthony Moore This past Tuesday Bayside brought the “The Worse Things Than Being Alive” tour to the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon. The New York based punk group brought along emo veterans Finch and Armor for Sleep, with relative new comers Winona Fighter opening up the nights festivities. Having seen Bayside no less than …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Alkaline Trio – Crystal Ballroom – Portland, Oregon 2024.03.25
By Anthony Moore This past January Alkaline Trio released their 10th studio album Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs and have been touring the United States the past two months in support of the album. The Crystal Ballroom in Portland, Oregon hosted Alkaline Trio this past Monday with support from Drug Church and Worriers. The crowd was …
Track: A Swift Farewell are ‘Out In The Storm’ – a new thundering pop punk anthem
‘Out In The Storm’ marks the return of Eora/Sydney trio A Swift Farewell with another thunderous pop punk blast that eviscerates the ears and sets the pulse racing. With a hint of humour and self-deprecation, the song ebbs and flows through various moods bookended by an epic and very loud chorus. The band says of …
Premiere: Be Safe prep debut album with the brief and brilliant ‘Replaceable Man’
In vocalist/guitarist Matt Wojcik, this Frostburg, MD band contain a former member of Perfect Future – a band who put out three fantastic records before vanishing in the wake of 2014’s swansong Manifesto – Be Safe seem to have sprung up as quickly and unexpectedly as that prior project wound down. The name and approach …
Premiere: ‘Don’t You Dare Go All Sentimental On Me’ – open up the False Peak Records Advent Calendar window as Dänmark are back with another brooding delight ahead of the label’s 5th Summit Instore Crawl
It’s that time of the year again when the illustrious False Peak Records deliver a tempting Advent Calendar of delights in the lead up to Christmas – 24 mysterious offerings released progressively over the next month. We are very honoured to premiere the first treat in the form of the new single from the enigmatic …
Live Review + Photo Gallery: Story of the Year – Knitting Factory – Spokane, Washington – 11.11.2023
Story of the Year is currently on tour supporting the 20th anniversary of the their debut album “Page Avenue” and in honor of the milestone they will be playing the entire album each night of the tour. This past Saturday the tour arrived at the Knitting Factory in Spokane, Washington. Looking out through the crowd, …
Track: Enter Shikari link up with multi-disciplinary Australian star AViVA for new single ‘STRANGERS’
Pic Credit – Paul Harries. All Rights Reserved Today sees Enter Shikari sharing their new collaborative single ‘STRANGERS’, which features AViVA, a multidisciplinary artist from Sydney, now based in LA. She’s scheduled to play Download Festival 2024, so you can check out her emo-pop/alt-rock music for yourself. This exciting coming together of two genre-blending artists …
Live Review: Fall Out Boy – AO Arena, Manchester 29/10/23
2023 sees Fall Out Boy celebrate their 20 year milestone since debut album, ‘Take This To Your Grave’ and 10 years since their ‘Save Rock and Roll’ album (which followed after their 4 year hiatus) and following the chart topping success of new album ‘So Much (for) Stardust’ the band are currently touring the UK …