by Downtown Magazine | Oct 20, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Hailing from Providence, Rhode Island, The Dear Hunter began as a side project for Casey Crescenzo in 2004 while there was downtime from his band The Receiving End Of Sirens. A few years later, after parting ways with TREOS, The Dear Hunter became his primary musical...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 20, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Formed in Edinburgh in 1995, 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of influential Scottish rock band Idlewild. With a string of gold albums in the U.K., the band finds themselves in a unique position of playing major festivals and theaters in most of the world, yet playing...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 16, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
Much like Dashboard Confessional is the project of Chris Carrabba or Alison Sudol is A Fine Frenzy, Cœur de pirate is the nom de plume of Béatrice Martin. Cœur de pirate – which is French for “pirate’s heart” – has been widely successful throughout Europe and her...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 15, 2015 | Book Club, Culture, Music
As the bassist of Alice Cooper from the band’s founding through 1974, Dennis Dunaway was around for a lot of amazing times. A co-writer of Alice Cooper classics like “I’m Eighteen,” “School’s Out,” “Elected” and “Under My Wheels,” Dennis is arguably one of the only...
by Kari Sonde | Oct 15, 2015 | Business, Culture, Music
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Condé Nast has purchased Pitchfork Media. Conde Nast, the media publisher located in the World Trade Center known for publications like Vogue, GQ, and much more, bought the independent Chicago-based online music magazine to...
by Downtown Magazine | Oct 15, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
New Found Glory formed in 1997 and had a record deal within three years. While the almighty record deal is often painted to be the end of the rainbow for a rock band, it is actually the beginning of the hard work ahead for a musician. 15 years after Drive-Thru Records...
