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Fueled By Ramen Is Ready To Suck You Into Its Revenue Stream

noah | May 5, 2008 4:00 am
noah | May 5, 2008 4:00 am

If you want to learn how to market your band/club/burgeoning multimedia empire in the late oughts, make time to read this New York Times profile of Fueled By Ramen, the label that, according to the Times, “has its acts promote one another as well as the company itself.” More »


noah | February 13, 2008 1:10 am
noah | February 13, 2008 1:10 am

As a Valentine’s Day present to people who love bitching about the record industry and super-huge, arena-styled choruses, Butch Walker is self-releasing a double live album tomorrow via his Web site. More »


The Academy Is… Less Ridiculous Than You Might Have Thought

kater | October 26, 2007 9:30 am
kater | October 26, 2007 9:30 am

theacademyis300.jpg Given my sordid history with The Academy Is… frontman William Beckett, Maura thought it was only appropriate to use her long-standing mafia connections to get us tickets to the band’s show at New York’s Nokia Theater last night. Maybe it was my pre-show Vitamin Water bottle full of wine that put a nice, happy glow on everyone and everything, but The Academy Is… was a suspiciously entertaining, unexpectedly competent live band, and the show was nothing that the fan fiction had ever promised, and so much more.

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Gerard Way Is So Over It

kater | September 21, 2007 5:10 am
kater | September 21, 2007 5:10 am

gerard.jpgIn a recent Q&A session published in The Maine Campus, Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance got sassy about the the much-disputed “emo” label:

Basically, it’s never been accurate to describe us. Emo bands were being booked while we were touring with Christian metal bands because no one would book us on tours. I think emo is Fucking garbage, it’s bullshit. I think there’s bands that unfortunately we get lumped in with that are considered emo and by default that starts to make us emo. All I can say is anyone actually listening to the records, put the records next to each other and listen to them and there’s actually no similarities. I think emo’s a pile of shit.

This got me thinking: How would Gerard’s hostility play out in the bandom universe? Here is my rough estimation:

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Idolator Meets The West Coast Fanbase Of The Academy Is…

noah | September 20, 2007 5:39 am
noah | September 20, 2007 5:39 am

Gawker Media’s West Coast videographer Molly McAleer was on the way to pick up her morning coffee in Los Angeles when she ran into a clump of kids standing outside The Wiltern, waiting for tonight’s show by bandom faves The Academy Is… More »


The Academy Is…Very, Very Horny

Brian Raftery | March 22, 2007 12:31 pm
Brian Raftery | March 22, 2007 12:31 pm

From Rollingstone.com’s RSS feed. Who says today’s young artists are afraid to take up important causes? More »


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