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…
Vinyl and CDs Are Outselling Digital Downloads For First Time Since 2011
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), released its year-end revenue report for 2017 last week, and for the first time since 2011, sales of CDs and vinyl are outselling digital downloads. I guess we finally found one thing that millennials haven’t killed… yet. According to the RIAA report, “Revenues from digital downloads fell 25…
It Could Happen to You: We Asked a Reader to Review the Nicolas Uncaged V Festival
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing… Wise words from a wise, dinosaur skull-owning man. That man is none other than Nicolas Cage. He is a national treasure, a genius, and an iconoclast to be celebrated and admired. Last month, the members of his fanbase with some time to kill did just that as they left…
Rise Against, AFI, and Anti-Flag Announce Massive ‘Mourning in Amerika Tour’
Rise Against just announced the Mourning in Amerika Tour, a massive two-month trek across North Amerika America with AFI and Anti Flag. Still supporting last year’s viciously awesome Wolves album, Rise Against kicks off the run in Montreal with a headline appearance at the ’77 Montréal festival on July 27; the band then meets up with AFI…
Maclain and Chapman Way Discuss Creating The New Cult Classic, ‘Wild Wild Country’
Meet the directors of the sensational Netflix documentary series.The documentary directors discuss their new Netflix series, the separation of church and state, and what it was like to interview someone who’d been described by Oregonian ranchers and government officials alike as “pure evil.”
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of March 19th, 2018Some mildly entertaining stories you may have missed this week. And new music from Panic! at the Disco, The Lawrence Arms, Kevin Devine, Elway, and Pussy Riot.
Science Says Pizza Is A Better Motivator Than Money
Science is awesome. Pizza is awesome. Science + pizza is super awesome. In his new book “Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations,” psychologist Dan Ariely details how pizza is better than money in motivating people at work. Ariely ran an experiment at a factory with four separate groups. The employees in the four…
Fugazi Still Plays Music Together, But No They Aren’t Reuniting
Fugazi has reunited. Well, technically, Fugazi has reunited several times since they broke up in 2003, but only to play music together in private because the guys are still friends and sometimes that’s what friends do, they hang out together and play music. Does this mean they are planning on a reunion? No. Fugazi is…
Ryan Duggan’s Irreverent Illustrations Channel Ghosts of Chicago’s Past
For the last decade and change, Ryan Duggan has designed and printed posters in Chicago as Drug Factory Press. In that time, he’s cultivated a bold, handmade cartoon style that splits the difference between classic punk fliers, the heroes of Chicago underground comics (Ivan Brunetti, early Daniel Clowes), handmade urban sign-painting, and even the high/low…
