It’s always the smaller shows where the venue gets loud, the people stage dive, dance, go insane with the music that always remains the best in my opinion. When the bands get big, that stage gets higher, the wall comes up and some of that magic is utterly lost. It almost becomes a separate entity. Like sitting in front of a radio imagining what the beast feels like. That’s why I love the shows that feel more like home, where the crowd becomes the sound, where the artist smile

Photo by Getty Images The White Stripes , the famed retired duo of Jack and Meg White, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on November 8. Although the Rock Hall is located in Cleveland, Ohio, the induction ceremony happened at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.  The band was officially inducted by punk legend Iggy Pop . Although known for being a duo, only Jack White was present to accept the award, as Meg has been out of the public eye since the band’s dissoluti

Ashley Osborne via Waterparks Waterparks  has been on a roll with new releases. After freeing themselves from the confines of genres and following a storyline or concept, the alt-pop trio from Houston, Texas dropped the emotional, bittersweet track, ANY MINUTE NOW . Stream the single here.  ANY MINUTE NOW  is a complete switch up from the blunt, tongue-in-cheek track that was released before, IF LYRICS WERE CONFIDENTIAL . ANY MINUTE NOW  speaks the words everyone related to a

On a cold day, what’s the best thing to help warm up? Heavy, thrashing, death metal of course! And on November 11th, through the frigid streets of Toronto was the Danforth Music Hall, where inside, death metal band Death To All  warmed the crowd with their ripping, chugging riffs with support from Phobophilic  and Gorguts .   Kicking off the set was Phobophilic , who describe themselves as a “nauseating death metal band from North Dakota” composed of Christian Alm (bass), Vin

This year, alternative rock legends The Used reached a major milestone: 2025 marks their 25 year anniversary as a band. To celebrate, the band hit the road for leg 1 of their 25 Year Anniversary Tour earlier this year, hitting major cities across the US, and later embarked on leg 2 this fall. This is not a standard tour, however; The Used is performing in each city for 3 nights in a row, playing a different album in full each night. Night 1 features a playthrough of their sel

New Single Arrives with the Band’s First Studio Album in a Decade, Last Night On Earth , Out Now via Better Noise Music Photo by Myles Erfurth Multi-platinum Canadian rock band Finger Eleven  returns in full force with the release of Last Night On Earth , their first studio album in ten years and debut with Better Noise Music. The record, available everywhere, marks a bold new era for one of Canada’s best-selling rock exports. Alongside the album, the band has unveiled their