Alt-Breakout Christian Leave Unveils New “10 Steps”
Did the Force Truly Awaken? My “Rant-Review”
(featured image appears courtesy of nme.com) First, before I start, let me give a disclaimer here: I am an “S.W. O.G.” (Star Wars O.G.) This means my geekdom does not end with A New ...
Product Review: Thumbs Up Touch Speaker Boombox Review
Altwire recently received this awesome touch speaker boombox from Thumbs Up out of the UK.ย Compatible with most smart phones and MP3’s with external speakers, it involves no pairing or cables. Instead, through using ...
KFace TV brings us Star Wars Rap Battles!
Click here for KFace TV’s YouTube Channel:ย KFace TV on YouTube! OK, I have a confession… This is hard for me, Darth Prefectus, to admit. I just found myself rooting for a Jedi and a ...
Beasts Behind the Beats Week I: Scotty Wu
Kansas City, MO โIt’s Happy Hour,โ the bartender informs me as she looks around at the people huddled together. Taking in the scene, she notices the 3 men in the corner wearing Skyrim shirts ...
‘The Hateful Eight’ Soundtrack Penned for Release
A soundtrack album to Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, has been announced for release on December 18, 2015 by Decca Records. The soundtrack, which features music from The White Stripes, David Hess ...
Album Review: Coldplay – A Head Full of Dreams
In what has become a rather predictable, but welcomed pattern in Coldplay’s lineage of studio albums, the band have yet again made a sharp veer to the left, this time onto the abstract, psychedelic ...
Album Review: Stone Sour – Straight Outta Burbank (EP)
Stone Sour has been a mainstay on rock radio for the last couple of years, with the band being sometimes incorrectly labeled by some casual listeners as Corey Taylor’s side project. While this is ...
Album Review: The Yavin 4 – Intergalactic Rock n Roll
Album Link:ย theyavin4.bandcamp.com/ Fact:ย Here’s an interesting tidbitย for all the Star Wars n00bs reading this. Yavin 4 is the moon where the rebel base was located in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope! ย I ...
The Ascension to Hip-Hop 2.0
I’ve got some bad news for all of you rappers out there. Apparently, we’re all zombies, walkers, biters, whichever you prefer. Hip Hop is dead…according to Nas. Nerdcore is dead…according to MC Lars. Watch ...
Single Review: Miley Cyrus’ “Lighter” Has Little Flame
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures, so I will readily admit that over the years I have developed a certain fondness for pop music’s free-spirited, nude-loving, glitter-covered girl, Miley Cyrus. I also have an ...
[Altwire Interview] Kaleo – “We Played Inside A Live Volcano…”
Kaleo has already made a name for themselves in their homeland of Iceland. They have recently relocated to the states where they have signed with Triple 8 Management and Atlantic Records. Their first single โAll ...
Linkin Park: 15 Best Linkin Park Songs
If you were asked who had the highest selling album of the year 2001, chances are you’d probably answer Britney Spears, or one of the other highly popular pop acts on the radio at ...
[Altwire Interview] Max Frost – “I Hope I Can Get Another Kite High Up In The Air…”
Over the weekend, we spoke with Austin’s own Max Frost to discuss his influences, creating a follow-up to his debut EP, and tacos! I was first introduced to Max by accident, really. It was ...
The Black Crowes: Top 10 Best Black Crowes Songs
25 years ago the rock and roll band The Black Crowes released their first single. The Marietta, Georgia-based rock and roll band have since released 8 studio albums and sold over 30 million records. ...
Imagine Dragons Pitch In to Aid the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Alt rockers Imagine Dragons have joined forces with iTunes, SAP and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to help aid the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. The band have released a new ...
Coheed And Cambria Release ‘Eraser’ Lyric Video
To all the Coheed And Cambria fans who are sick of going to A-Z lyrics and/or some other lyric website that takes way too long to load andย uses up way more cell phone data ...
Going to ACL Fest Weekend 2? Enjoy our ACL ’15 Spotify Playlist
Tomorrow kicks off Weekend Two, Day One of ACL which is taking place in Austin, TX and AltWire will beย live tweetingย and rocking out during the festival. Artists from Foo Fighters, The Weeknd, Of Monsters ...
NWA, NIN Among 2016 R&R Hall of Fame Nominees
Incase you’re feeling rather youthful today, here’s your daily dose of “I feel old” to shoot you down, and remind you that you too are indeed soon to be old and decrepit. Today, The ...
Album Review: Born Ruffians – RUFF
I like Born Ruffians. I’m a huge fan of the sweet lyrics and soft, carefree guitar and harmonica in “Little Garรงon” from their first album Red, Yellow & Blue. By their third album, Birthmarks, ...
Baroness Announces Release Date of Next Studio Album
Baroness, an American metal band from Savannah, Georgia, ย have recently announced that they will be releasing their fourth studio album, Purple, ย on December 15th, 2015. Despite the upcoming date, the band will be preparing ...
