Best of Riot Fest 2024 Photo Gallery + 3-Day Recap Video
So many great pictures, it’ll probably crash your tabsRiot Fest is over, and yeah, we’re bummed too. But don’t worry, the memories live on (and so do the porta-potty lines). There were crowdsurfing newlyweds, reunions, anniversaries, and of course, you beautiful maniacs. We’ll have a few more galleries, videos, and cool shit to share in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait until…
The Interrupters Fight the Good Fight to Keep Ska Exciting with New Album
Check out “She’s Kerosene” from ‘Fight the Good Fight’, coming June 29 via HellcatThe Interrupters are back, and they’re playing with fire. Yesterday, it was revealed that Fight the Good Fight, the always-fun LA-based power quartet’s first album since 2015’s Say It Out Loud, is coming our way June 29 via Hellcat Records. The new record was produced live to tape by longtime collaborator and friend Tim Armstrong from Rancid,…
Happy Cinco de Cuatro! Season Four of ‘Arrested Development’ has Been Remixed
Apparently they made a huge mistake when editing the most recent season of Arrested Development. Creator Mitch Hurwitz just announced on Twitter that this Friday, May 4, “a premature holiday the Bluth family know as ‘Cinco de Cuatro’, Netflix will be releasing a remix of season 4 of Arrested Development.” Why do a new edit now?…
Five Absolutely Berserk Bootlegs
Back in the dinosaur days of the record industry, bootleg albums played a unique and underappreciated role in popular music. On one hand, they pioneered formats—such as the live album, the odds-and-sods rarities compilation, and the box set—that would become lucrative staples for legit labels. On the other hand, bootlegs let fans get around carefully-planned…
Gibson Guitars has filed for bankruptcy protection
Gibson Brands Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. What does that mean? It means Gibson owes a lot of people a lot of money and plan to restructure the entire company to try and make the money they need to stay in business. Right now, the company owes about $500 million but other…
Did you know Jada Pinkett Smith has a nü-metal band?
We learned something new this week: Apparently, Jada Pinkett Smith is the lead singer of a nü-metal band called Wicked Wisdom. Yes, that Jada Pinkett Smith. I don’t know if we just forgot about this, or blocked it out; but we recently came across a video of this mysterious band posted on social media, and…