Subject: Warped Tour

• From the Rumor Mill: BYOP Break up?

  June 26, 2008

• Lefsetz of Center: The Pink Spiders Make the Letter

  August 2, 2008

• What happens when a label deal goes right and the band breaks up anyway? Answer: Be Your Own Pet.

  June 4, 2009

• No More Tours: R.I.P. Ozzfest 1996-2008

  Ozzy weeps.Do you remember the "even Steven" episode of "Seinfeld"? You know, one door closes another one opens. Last week I told you about the return of Limp Bizkit--one door closing. Well it looks like they might not have a tour to go on because guess what's not coming here this year? Ozzfest. You know why, because it's not coming anywhere--one door opening, as it was announced last week on ozzfest.com that: The two-time Grammy Award winner has decided that he will not be touring until he h

  February 20, 2009

• From Paramore to The Protomen, Kanye to Cream, 2008 was another memorable year in Nashville

  January 1, 2009

• Oh, What a Mangled Web We Leave

  July 31, 2008

• Not Playing Here

  April 10, 2008

• Our Critics' Picks

  August 9, 2007

• Our Critics Picks

  May 17, 2007

• Our Critics Picks

  April 12, 2007

• No Doubt

  Why are industry insiders picking a Franklin band to break out big in 2007?

  February 8, 2007

• Our Critics Picks

  The Casuals, Thursday 7^th

  December 7, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  Little Steven’s Underground Garage Rock Tour

  September 28, 2006

• Supervised Rebellion

  You couldn’t buy beer at Warped Tour, and you never detected a whiff of pot, but at the end of the night, the grounds were completely trashed

  June 29, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  God’s Trombones

  June 29, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  Thursday, 15th-Sunday, 18th * Bonnaroo Music & Arts festival

  June 15, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  May 18, 2006

• Our Critics Picks

  Death Cab for Cutie * Friday, 28th

  October 27, 2005

• T.I., Santigold, The Flaming Lips at Rites of Spring, The Protomen and more

  April 23, 2009

• The Del McCoury Band/Ralph Stanley ♦ Thursday, 7/12

  Music

  July 12, 2001

• Bring in the Punk

  Warped Tour continues to provide quality amidst quantity

  July 12, 2001

• Notes

  September 18, 1997

• Warped Tour Goes Country?

  D. Ricky Rodriguez According to this Billboard article (via Reuters) Vans Warped Tour co-founder Kevin Lyman has decided to apply his summer-fest savvy business model to country music with a "multi-act, multistage, sponsor-driven and conservatively priced" roadshow that will make its inaugural run in the summer of 2010. To put the tour together, Lyman has opened an office of his 4fini Productions in Nashville. His company's team visited Nashville in January to meet with labels, managers and a

  May 4, 2009

• Sonicbids: A National Concern

  The image above is screenshot of my Gmail when sorted by sender "Sonicbids." For those of you who don't know, Sonicbids is a pay-subscription based website on which you maintain an electronic press kit that you, for varying fees, submit to festivals, booking agents, publishers, magazines etc. Many music festivals require you to set up an account with and use Sonicbids as a means of submitting an application to perform. If, like me, you have made the tactical error of trying to forge a career i

  May 21, 2009

• It Got Awkward: The Be Your Own Pet Label Deal

  Steve already blogged about my cover story last week on local rock bands who rumble with the major-label beast. I wanted to highlight a companion story that we ran online alongside it but forgot to link to here. It's about Be Your Own Pet--a band whose deal went right and who stood to keep climbing the ladder of indie-rock fame (on major Universal), but broke up in the face of constant touring and the pressures of being overexposed. Sure, the label pulled a few classic label moves--putting the b

  June 8, 2009

• Paramore, 'Ignorance'

  This morning I was checking out the chart at We Are Hunted, and found Paramore at No. 31 with a new ditty, "Ignorance." The recording of the song at YouTube is kinda murky, a bootleg from a live show that includes some teenage voiceover, but you can make out a big, choppy intro riff that goes right into the chug-chugging verse not unlike the band's supermegaultrahit "Misery Business." Maybe I'm just in the '80s headspace for tonight's 8 off 8th, but on this song, Hayley Williams sounds a littl

  July 20, 2009

• Next Big Nashville Teams Up With Warped Tour

  VersaEmerge bring the emo to Next Big NashvilleThe band you see at the right is NOT Paramore, at least not in name. They're called VersaEmerge, and they're a symptom of the Paramore virus. They're playing Next Big Nashville along with this band from Boston. VersaEmerge is from Florida--a state that, last I checked, hadn't produced a good band since Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers--and they're the latest rising stars to join the Fueled by Ramen roster. Fueled by Ramen is the label that, among oth

  September 9, 2009

• Fall Guide: Concerts: From Springsteen and Leonard Cohen to Sharon Jones, a peek at fall’s best shows

  September 17, 2009

• Fall Guide: Music Festivals: In its fourth year, Next Big Nashville raises the bar and goes for it

  September 17, 2009

• Next Big Nashville 2009: Whatever your poison, NBN has a ruckus for you

  October 8, 2009

• Road Trip to Gainesville: The Fest 8, Oct. 30

  Editorial intern Lance Conzett took a well-deserved break from transcribing Gold's interviews to contribute this entry. Halloween was a lot cooler when you were 6 years old and you spent the night hustling candy out of your neighbors. I mean, realistically, what are your plans this year? Seeing Rocky Horror at midnight for the 90th time? (Suggestion: If you're hitting the Belcourt at midnight that weekend, opt for Scream Blacula Scream at 11:30 p.m. instead.) Sound Tribe Sector 9 at War Memoria

  October 21, 2009

• Paramore broke the Nashville Curse and never looked back

  October 29, 2009

• Neil Hamburger to Play The End, Feb. 1

  Every faction needs a Dean Martin. The hipster set has Neil Hamburger. A master of the anti-joke, Hamburger -- with a cheap tux, head full of pomade and glass of brandy in hand -- doles out zingers haranguing everyone from Osama Bin Laden to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. His timing is terrible, his delivery strident and his material tired. But, unlike Jeff Foxworthy and his ilk, in Hamburger's case that's exactly the point. This one-of-a-kind persona returns to The End on Mon. Feb. 1. Take a loo

  January 14, 2010

• MTV Jettisons 'Music Television' From Logo

  Just Television.​For years, people have complained -- rightfully so -- about the lack of music found on MTV. Well, the folks over at Viacom want you to stop bitching. So in an attempt to re-brand the network, MTV will, according to the L.A. Times, drop the "music television" tag from its logo. For anyone old enough to remember a time when the network actually played videos, this is a move that seems to come a laughable 10 or 15 years too late. First MTV was ruled by Michael Jackson, then b

  February 15, 2010