Flight of the Conchords announced a reunion tour taking flight June 2016, confirming new material has been written and will be ‘showcas[ed] on the road’ as per their Facebook status. The North American tour will be their first in three years. “I’m thrilled to get back on the road with over half the original band,” Bret […]
In the early 2010s a new music genre was born called vaporwave (also called vapourwave), and with it came aesthetic. Yung Lean was one of the biggest influences on aesthetic and vaporwave as a whole with his bucket hats, arizona tea, and buckets of sadness. Most, myself included, thought that vaporwave and Yung Lean would just […]
Easily one of the biggest success stories of 2015, the boys in Highly Suspect have experienced what could easily be described as a meteoric rise to fame over the last few months. Transplants from the picturesque beach town of Cape Cod, to the bustling city of Brooklyn, Highly Suspect sharpened their teeth in the unforgiving […]
I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of It. An unorthodox album name, that’s even more strange when you consider lead singer Matty Healy said in an interview that he actually said this to one of his ex-girlfriends. Plus, who uses for as a conjunction anymore? Despite the […]
Goo Goo Dolls have announced a headlining North American Tour, the tour kicking off July 8th in Portland, Oregon. Supporting the headliner are Collective Soul and Tribe Society, a select amount of cities to miss Collective Soul. The tour will be following Goo Goo Dolls’ eleventh studio release Boxes, the upcoming album expected to arrive this […]
Continuing on our Artists To Watch series of highlighting exciting new bands, I’d like to introduce to our readers the fast-paced adrenaline rush of a band that is From Ashes To New. Being in High-School when rap-rock nu-metal was seemingly at it’s pinnacle during the turn of the century, the sound has always stuck out […]
One of the most successful and popular pop-punk bands to come out of the pop-punk explosion of the early 2000’s, the Quebec based five piece Simple Plan are back with their fifth studio album Taking One For The Team, their first release since 2011’s Get Your Heart On! Featuring guest appearances by Jordan Pundik, R. […]
Arguably one of the best progressive rock bands to grace this generation of music, Coheed and Cambria boasts an impressive list of accomplishments: eight studio albums, three live albums, a complete series of comic books, a full-length novel, and multiple special edition releases all since 2001. Their most recent album, The Color Before the Sun, […]
Photograph by Jackie Papanier, taken from Howlish’s Facebook page. Earlier this week, AltWire introduced our readers to another artist to watch, Vitruvia. In an attempt to start a trend of introducing our readers to new music and helping to give exposure to local or lesser-known bands, I’ve decided to write about a band I believe […]
