Giveaway: The Lawrence Arms Present: The 10th Annual War on Xmas
Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, you have a chance to win.To celebrate The Lawrence Arms’ The 10th Annual War on Xmas, we’re giving away one pair of tickets to night one and one pair of tickets to night two of the show. Send a letter to Santa (aka fill out the form below) for a chance to win. The Lawrence Arms Present: The 10th Annual War on Xmas…
German Music Festival Is Building A Beer Pipeline
The Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany is building a beer pipeline to pump the approximately 100,00 gallons of delicious golden liquid that will be consumed over the 3-day heavy metal music festival. At an estimated cost of $1.25 million, the beer pipeline will not only save the festival grounds from the damage of…
Get Up Kids & The Anniversary Alums Announce New Band Radar State With A Jam
Because you can’t spell “Radar” without “Rad”When it comes to the Kansas City/Lawrence indie rock torch, it’s safe to say that The Get Up Kids and The Anniversary helped to light it and have been running four minute miles with it ever since (sorry, couldn’t help it). It only makes sense that eventually they’d come together for forces of good, which…
You Can Get A Tarot Reading By Rochelle From The Craft
Rachel True, maybe best known for her movie roles as Rochelle from The Craft and Mary Jane Potman from Half Baked, has, for the past year, been working as a tarot card reader at House of Intuition in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California. Years before being cast as Rochelle in The Craft, True lived…
Shabazz Palaces Release New Song, “Since C.A.Y.A.”
Shabazz Palaces has previously announced the release of two new albums on Sub Pop in July, and now they’re sharing some music with us. “Since C.A.Y.A.,” the first track from the 1-2 punch of Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines, “features dazzlingly funky bass licks by the magnificent Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner and was…
9 Photos of Avocado Toast You Bought Instead of Riot Fest Tix
“When I was trying to buy Riot Fest tickets, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” a man who got a $34,000 loan from his grandfather said. “They want to eat out every day, they want to travel to Europe every year,” he said. “The people that buy Riot Fest…
Rob Zombie’s 2016 Riot Fest Set Mutating Into Live Album
If you opted to check out The So So Glos at Riot Fest Chicago last year instead of checking out Rob Zombie, or simply decided to camp out all day at the Riot Stage barricade for optimal Misfit-ing, your F.O.M.O. will soon be cured. If you’ll recall, Mr. Zombie dished out White Zombie’s lengthily-named (and…
Downtown Boys Release First Song Off Their New Album
Downtown Boys announced their new album on Facebook today, and released the first track, “A Wall.” The band describe the song as “A message to all our leaders who on this day and all days propagate racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to further destroy our world,” and added “Your walls are just walls and they can and will be torn down.”…
Elephant Crushes And Kills Elephant Hunter
According to the Washington Post, Theunis Botha, a 51-year-old veteran big game hunter, was crushed to death by an African Elephant he was trying to kill in western Zimbabwe. Botha started his hunting business in 1983 because of his “mutual love for Africa and its natural beauty,” and was well-known for his leopard and lion hunting…