Music

Side projects have always been a way to prove that an artist can successfully approach music differently. During the Myspace era, it was easy for artists to start side projects. Many fans could easily find the side projects on the main band’s page. Here are 3 forgotten side projects from Myspace-era bands in the 2000s. Cinematic Sunrise Craig Owens became known as the unique vocalist of the post-hardcore band Chiodos. […]

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These days it seems like many pop songs are engineered in a lab to go viral, and in a lot of ways, that’s correct. The latest songs of the summer are pushed to radio stations, planted in unrelated Spotify playlists, used in commercials, and discussed endlessly on pop culture Substacks. But what makes those songs so hard to get out of our heads, even when we find them annoying? Some […]

Many associate post-punk with the 1980s, but the genre saw a revival in the 2000s. At the time, emo had broken into the mainstream, and dance-rock had emerged alongside it. Therefore, 2000s post-punk felt adjacent to third-wave emo, carrying over elements into the post-punk revival. As the 2000s are now 25 years in the past, millennials have forgotten about these post-punk songs of the decade. “An Honest Mistake” by The […]

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“She was keeping a Spanish tradition of music alive, which in a spiritual way felt akin to what we’ve tried to do with Irish music,” says the band’s Carlos O’Connell Read More RSS: News News