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Tickets On Sale Now For Coheed & Cambria/The Used Tour

19Jun

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Events, Music

Tickets On Sale Now For Coheed & Cambria/The Used Tour

Sure to be one of the hottest tickets of the summer, Coheed & Cambria are teaming up with The Used on a co-headlining tour. The tour kicks off August 27 with a show in Los Angeles and continues through September 24th in Florida. Meet Me @ The Altar or Carolesdaughter will open up most of the shows on tour. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H49TZB_qs1k Coheed and Cambria last released an album in 2018, Vaxis - Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures. Fans are anxiously awaiting the sequel. The Used dropped Heartwork at the height of the pandemic in April 2020. This will be the first time Coheed & The Used have toured together since the early 2000s. Have you picked up your tickets yet? https://twitter.com/Coheed/status/1405903995130945541 Tour Dates: FRI, AUG 27 - LOS A...

Robert Smith Of The Cure Teases New Collaboration With CHVRCHES

31May

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Music

Robert Smith Of The Cure Teases New Collaboration With CHVRCHES

Be on the lookout this week for a collaboration you may not have been expecting. The iconic Robert Smith of The Cure has been engaged in a volley of tweets with the account of alt/rockers CHVRCHES. By the looks of things, we should be getting a new song on Wednesday. https://twitter.com/RobertSmith/status/1399186571342094338 News of this exciting new collaboration led to a YouTube viewing wormhole of Robert Smith collaborations. Besides the inevitable South Park videos that pop up, there are a few musical pairings worth mentioning. As far as new music from Smith's full-time band The Cure, the wait continues. On Blink 182's self-titled 2003 release, Smith is featured on a track called 'All of This'. Singles 'Feeling This' and 'I Miss You' led the album cycle off and the band ha...

Everclear Set To Take Special Guests Living Colour, Hoobastank & Wheatus On Tour This Summer

3May

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Events, Features

Everclear Set To Take Special Guests Living Colour, Hoobastank & Wheatus On Tour This Summer

The 2021 edition of the Summerland Tour is set to kick off Friday, July 2nd in Middletown, New York. Everclear will be joined on this year's tour with legends Living Colour along with Hoobastank and Wheatus. For full tour dates, view below. Summerland Tour is an annual traveling music festival founded by Everclear frontman Art Alexakis. Known for bringing along some of the best bands from the 90s, the likes of Eve 6, Fuel, LIVE, and others have been featured in previous years. Tickets are on sale Friday morning at 10 AM via SummerLandTour.net. For full tour dates, view below. V.I.P. and meet and greet packages are available if you want to live it up. More shows are expected as reductions in COVID restrictions are announced in additional states. Everclear https://www....

Todays Musicians Should Consider Releasing Music As NFTs

4Mar

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Features

Todays Musicians Should Consider Releasing Music As NFTs

First of all, what is an NFT and how can it benefit bands and musicians on the scene today? NFT stands for non-fungible token and it's all the rage at the moment. When you purchase a digital form of collectible whether it's music, art, or even a comic book, because ownership is recorded on a blockchain, each copy is unique and tied to the person who purchased the digital item. What this prevents is the pirating of any type of media sold as an NFT by the artist. According to Rolling Stone, Kings of Leon is the first high-profile act to release a full album as an NFT. Set to be released on Friday When You See Yourself is the band's first new music since the October 2016 release of Walls. The album will be available through all the conventional channels but it's the release through NFT sit...