Kara Maddox

In 2024, Seattle-based “heavy pop” band The Home Team’s third full-length album The Crucible of Life was released, and in June of 2025, the deluxe edition for the record was also unveiled. Starting in early November, the band finally embarked on an extensive North American headliner tour in honor of the album. Starting in early November, the band hit major cities across the country, with nearly all of the dates being sold-out. On November 19, The Home Team stopped at Philadelphia’s Theater of...

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 self-titled debut...

On October 24, pop-rock artist Taylor Acorn released her newest album Poster Child  via Fearless Records. After years of being independent, this marks her first album release under a record label. To celebrate the new release, Taylor hit the road last week to begin her extensive North American tour, which will run until December. On November 6, the second date of the tour, she stopped at New York City’s historic Gramercy Theater. With an 18-song setlist that spanned across the newer tracks...