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…
George Clinton to retire from the Mothership
The founding father of funk will stop touring next year; P-Funk to continue freaking for the fans far into the future.Good afternoon. Do not attempt to adjust your computer, phone, or tablet. There is nothing wrong. We have taken control to bring you this special report: After serving for half a century as its commander, George Clinton is retiring from the Mothership.
Yodeling Walmart Boy got a record deal and you didn’t
If you’re in a band and reading this, you’ll probably never get signed to a major record label. However, 11-year old Yodeling Walmart Boy, seen in the above photo with unidentified fan, has one. Since going viral on YouTube (this dumb video had amassed 6,789,425 views as of press time), Yodeling Walmart Boy—whose real name is…
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 23rd, 2018New music from Dead To Me, Mad Caddies, Rat Scabies, Elway, ABBA and Prince. Poop news, karaoke etiquette, adoptable dogs, Double Dare, Dan Aykroyd, WWE, and more.
I got 10 of our favorite ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ anthems
The world of rock lost a very special person this week: composer, lyricist, and pianist Bob Dorough. As a bebop and cool jazz vocalist, he’s one of the few cats to have ever sang on a Miles Davis record. As a musical director for ABC’s educational TV series Schoolhouse Rock! in the 1970s, he penned a…
OMG it’s happening ABBA is releasing new music, planning tour
ABBA announced on Instagram today that they are set to release new music for the first time in 35 years. They are also planning a tour. “The decision to go ahead with the exciting ABBA avatar tour project had an unexpected consequence. We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun…
Check out this new album of Botswana music guitar that comes out today
Sometimes, YouTube is the greatest. Sure, it’s easy to get lost in bottomless quagmires on that godforsaken website—hell, while doing research for this piece, I started watching related videos and somehow ended up watching SNL sketches about the 2000 presidential debates half an hour later—but the upside of its endlessness is the possibility of uncovering wonderful,…