There is no denying that there has been a wave of '90s nostalgia in the music world lately, and some of the most beloved bands from 20 years ago are reuniting and releasing music to cash in on the craze. But some bands from the decade have been consistently going strong and evolving without slipping into obscurity. One such band is The Offspring, those punk-drenched dudes from California with huge hits like “Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)” and “Come Out And Play,” among many others. The band is not only celebrating the 20th anniversary of its second album, “Ignition,” this year, but...
October 29 - Pittsburgh - Planet Trog Entertainment Complex Ghost Thrower will making an appearance in Pittsburgh tomorrow to promote 10 Songs, their new full-length album. The ten track album features five brand new songs, as well as five songs from the band’s debut EP Get Miserable, which was released digitally earlier this year. The five new Ghost Thrower songs are available separately as a digital EP entitled …Has A One That Got Away. Ghost Thrower will be releasing a limited, colored vinyl version of the LP through Black Numbers. Pressing information and release details will be anno...
10 Songs, the new full-length album from Boston, MA-based punk outfit Ghost Thrower, is now available through MerchNOW and at shows. The ten track album features five brand new songs, as well as five songs from the band’s debut EP Get Miserable, which was released digitally earlier this year. The five new Ghost Thrower songs are available separately as a digital EP entitled …Has A One That Got Away. Ghost Thrower will be releasing a limited, colored vinyl version of the LP through Black Numbers. Pressing information and release details will be announced soon. Ghost Thrower display...
Jay-Z and Kanye West, “Watch the Throne” A collaboration the hip-hop world has been waiting for. The duo got all H.A.M. on us back in January with their first single, giving us a taste of what was to come. Expect music fans to love or hate this release, as the hype on this one is over the roof. Portugal. The Man, “In the Mountain, In the Cloud” “In the Mountain, In the Cloud” is the band’s debut full-length on major label Atlantic Records and once again does not disappoint. Indie darlings Portugal. The Man have once again assaulted our senses with their psychedelic jam-ban...
Veteran punk rocker Joe Queer has made a career out of doing things his way, Sinatra style. Luckily for us, he hasn’t changed a bit, as he demonstrates with The Queers’s new album, Back to the Basement. Speaking tersely, and punctuating nearly everything with an expletive or four, he’s at the beginning of his new tour and things are looking positive. “We’re three for three so far.” he says optimistically—or cynically, I can’t tell. The Queers, often described as “Ramones-core”, formed in New Hampshire in ‘82. The band played intermittently throughout the ...
Slayer. Megadeth. Uhm...does it get more brutal? Oh. Yeah, Testament. The North American Carnage tour shoved off in January and is careening though Ohio on its twenty something dates. This holy metal trifecta of awesomeness can be found playing Tower City Amphitheatre, Aug 18th, doors at 7pm. This tour was originally put on hold because of back issues, Slayer’s vocalist/bassist, Tom Araya’s had to take care of ongoing health issues that required minimally-invasive treatments for Cervical Rediculopathy, an occupational hazard for aggressively swinging his long mane of hair while pe...
On Wednesday night Miniature Tigers, a four piece band hailing from Phoenix, hit the stage at Musica for a mellow show. The band took the stage just past ten o’clock after three opening bands got the crowd rocking. By the time Miniature Tigers began their set, there had already been almost three hours of great music before them. Even though Miniature Tigers aren’t from the area, they still made a real effort to relate to their crowd, talking about LeBron James and other issues that relate specifically to Akron area residents. It makes a big difference when a band tries to relate w...
By: Julia Kazar Shmalex, Joshy and Rawrb!, the members of the fun loving humorcore band Psychostick, are getting ready to wrap up their summer tour, but not before a stop at The Carriage House in Louisville. The concert takes place this Saturday, July 31st. Opening for the band is Look What I Did, a hardcore metal band from Nashville. Get ready for a night of head banging and eardrum shattering music. About a month ago I had the chance to talk to Rawrb! aka Rob Kersey, the band's lead vocalist, about the tour and what Psychostick is currently working on. “We recently releas...
By: Julia Kazar The Goo Goo Dolls are getting ready to release their ninth studio album, which should be available by the end of August. If you don’t want to wait that long to hear some new music from the band, you can download Waiting for the Rest of It from their website, or pick up the five song EP at one of their concerts this summer. Aptly titled, Waiting for the Rest of It is a preview of their album containing four new songs and a live version of their 1998 smash hit “Broadway.” The live version still sounds just as incredible as the original. The first single off th...
By: Julia Kazar --- SHOW CANCELLED - SORRY FOLKS - Check LiveNation.com for updates --- Tomorrow night, July 20th, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers will return once again to Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls. The show promises to be, as all of Petty’s shows are, incredible. This is one show you don’t want to miss. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are touring this summer in support of their newest album, Mojo, which was released June 15th to mixed reviews. While there are definitely some great aspects to the album, it doesn’t sound like the Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker...
By Julia Kazar To celebrate their unofficial one year anniversary on Saturday night at the Northsiade Bar & Grille Get On Up played some of their biggest hits that their fans have grown to know and love, as well as some new songs that they have been working on recently. If you’ve never heard of Get On Up, you might want to take a little time and listen to their songs on their MySpace page and read a little bit about them. They are an incredibly talented band that does covers of some of the biggest funk and soul songs ever to be released. They cover everything from Stevie Wonder and Ea...
d2fMKKGnZRM By Julia Kazar On Wednesday night Wang Chung made their triumphant return to Akron and gave everyone at the show that night one more chance to Wang Chung tonight when they played at Musica. Even though the band was showing their age a bit, they still put on a great show and most of the audience didn’t seem to notice, whether it was their first time seeing the band or they had been fans of them since the beginning. “It’s great to see them still performing” says one audience member, Luke Hackenbery, “and it’s great that they’re doing new music.” They open...
By Julia Kazzar Let’s face it, the jokes about Wang Chung-ing have been done to death ever since the song “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” first came out back in 1986, everyone from Frasier Crane on Cheers to the Gilmore Girls have made some reference to it. Whether you know what it is or not you will have one more chance to do it when Wang Chung comes to Musica on Wednesday. The band is touring this summer in support of their latest album, Abducted by the 80’s. The album consists of eight songs, mostly new songs, with the obvious exception of a new version of the bands biggest hit “...
cZFIRoT4qBI By Julia Kazar “It’s Jeffree bitch!” screams Jeffree Star, the gender bending singing sensation to open the show, and the crowd goes crazy. Many of them have been waiting through four opening bands to see this show, and they are ready to rock. Peabody’s in Cleveland is almost pitch black, and the crowd is packed together shoulder to shoulder. The whole place is uncomfortably hot, and because of the lack of fresh air in the club, and the number of people packed in, you could smell the sweat from both the performers and fans. But none of that mattered the moment Jef...
By Julia Kazar Pop-punk phenoms Just Surrender are preparing to release their third full length album, Phoenix on June 22nd. The album will include two songs that were originally released on an earlier EP called “Crazy” and “Stronger Now,” as well as ten brand new songs. The latest album sounds much like the bands earlier music, with everything from screaming vocals to acoustic melodies and everything in between on it. By far the standout track on Phoenix is “Carried Away.” The song opens with some of the best acoustic guitar playing on the album, and it only continues ...
By Tim Webb The best part about a Bad Religion album isn’t Greg Graffin’s sociopolitical quandaries, the punchy three-chord songs that are more like quick, frenetic sound spurts or the fact you can look forward to bouncing along to these song on Warped Tour every year. It’s that even if the album sucks you’ve still only wasted a half an hour of your life. Fortunately on “New Maps of Hell,” all of the former and none of the latter apply, making the re-release from these pioneering punks seem just as urgent and necessary as most of their eclectic catalogue. This reissue of “N...
