
Several Chicago rockers are banding together at Lincoln Hall on Thursday, Sept. 1, for raise money for Girls Rock! Chicago . Mike Kinsella, of such revered emo groups Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc and Owen - just to name a few, will join Braid frontman Bob Nanna, Fall Out Boy's Joe Trohman, Spitalfield's Mark Rose, The Felix Culpa's Dustin Currier and Weekend Nachos' Drew Brown on stage to perform as 80s pop legends The Cure. This isn't the first time Kinsella has assembled friends to cover a uber-popular 80s artist for a Girls [...]
...while we're a couple days behind on getting this up to you, we just wanted to let everyone know about some Daytonians that are currently out on the road spreading the word. After a successful winter tour opening up for Hawthorne Heights, The Story Changes have teamed up with HH frontman JT Woodruff [on his [...]

Not surprisingly, Michael Jackson covers have been coming fast and furious these past few days. Whatever you thought of the man, you can't deny the music. CoverLayDown's got a good round-up of what's already been done, so we're going to try something a little different. Michael passed on Thursday afternoon. By concert time that evening, artists were already beginning to bust out Jackson songs in tribute, a trend that only intensified over the weekend. So here are some of those live covers, recordings of tributes performed since Jackson's death. They're in turns [...]
Seattle's Amber Pacific has a new singer and they have a new self-titled EP in preparation for (I'm assuming) a new full-length. Yeah, I'm a sucker for pop punk. MP3 | Amber Pacific - The Good Life Amber Pacific EP Val Emmich is a singer/songwriter guy whose crafty pop reminds me Brendan Benson, Pete Yorn, and Rick Springfield. You know, that really catchy poppy sorta shit that should be on the radio but ain't. [...]