Blink 182 has reunited. In statements posted on their website and MySpace, the punk rock band talks about a tour...
We’ll talk more about this — including getting to the bottom of the Chris Brown situation, but for now here’s...
She’s just 20 years young and British songstress Adele is the Best New Artist at this year’s Grammy Awards, coming...
Boston band Vivian Darkbloom looks like most other rock groups, but if you look closely, something might catch your eye: the Nintendo Wii controller attached to the guitar. [...]
Some have gone so far as to credit Owen as being "The Inventor of the Chicago Indie Scene", but when Kinsella talked to Blast he said the accolade was far from the truth. In fact, he suggested "The Passenger of Chicago Public Transportation" or "The Consumer of Chicago Style Pizza" are more appropriate titles.
It’s only fitting that Urge Overkill perform cover of Neil Diamond’s “Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon” at the Grammy’s...
The bass is pumping, the symbols are splashing, the synthesizers are having at it in the first sounds of the new Franz Ferdinand album.
The Twilight Soundtrack has spent 12 straight weeks in the top 10 (settling currently at #5) and is about to...
Annie Lennox, former lead singer of 80’s super group the Eurythmics, is releasing her first retrospective album on February 17th...
Some may consider a cappella nothing more than a joke of modern popular culture, but the practice of singing without...
On their third album, The Camel’s Back, the London duo known as Psapp (Carim Clasmann and Galia Durant) continues its...
Get out the pink hair-dye, ladies (and gents)! The much-missed Grammy-winning rock band No Doubt announced plans for a 2009...
Despite how you might feel about Fall Out Boy, there is no denying they have a tendency to be infectious. Now their fourth album, "Folie A Deux," is out in stores and the first just-as-catchy single "I Don't Care" is already hitting the airwaves. Whether this latest record will go down in history as the biggest sell out of the generation or punk-emo martyrs for the masses has yet to be determined, but try and find someone who doesn't know the words to one of their songs. Just try.
Blast reporter Christine Cassis gives her top 10 of music that is going to hit it big in 2009.
This year, my picks (for the most part) are the result of separating the less mediocre from the more. The first four albums are wonderful records that I truly believe are worthy of a top 10 mention in any year. But in a year with better musical offerings on the whole, I doubt the final six would even crack my top 20. It was difficult to place them in order because none of them particularly stood out to me. They're all fine records, but I'm eagerly looking ahead to 2009 for a better musical buffet.
Though many may not have taken away a trophy Sunday night at the 21st annual Boston Music Awards, it was clear there were no losers. The focus and goal of the ceremony was to highlight and celebrate the music scene of the greater Boston area and anyone who helped support it was treated like a winner.
The craze for Semi Precious Weapons (SPW) has shot up like a bean sprout in a matter of months. This...
Tour stories from San Francisco based indie-pop group Loquat sound a lot more like a haphazard family vacation with a tight budget than a trip to perform in cities around the U.S. [...]
Tonight, CBS hosted the Recording Academy's "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! -- Countdown to Music's Biggest Night." The hour-long special combined the reading of nominees in six of the 110 Grammy categories with performances of previous Grammy winning songs by the top stars in America's music industry.
It's a packed floor, hundreds of sweaty bodies pressed together to get as close to the stage as possible. The lights go down and the screaming begins as the band takes the stage. When the lights go back up, William Beckett is standing martyr-like with a cheeky grin on his face before he starts crooning to the crowd. There's a pound to the drums by "The Butcher" and the sea of people begins to move, singing every word as guitarists Mike Carden and Michael Guy Chislet strum the initial chords to electrify the air.