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Set Off More Fireworks, As Fireworks Is Back
Following reunions by My Chemical Romance and Rage Against the Machine, a lesser-known but also respected band has hopped on the comeback train: Fireworks. ...
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Thrice, Fireworks, The Gaslight Anthem And More Added To Skate And Surf Festival
The Scoop: Skate & Surf Festival is ready to invade the Asbury Park Oceanfront on May 16th and 17th. Some pretty big additions have been announced to the ...
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Fireworks Release Bonus EP Track “Oh, Common Life”
The Scoop: Indie-rock outfit Fireworks has released a track off their bonus EP titled “Oh, Common Life”, which you can check out now below. The Spin: The EP serves ...
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Album Reviews 0
Fireworks: Oh, Common Life
“I am what I am / Just not what I was.” Oh, Common Life, Fireworks’ third full-length, is filled to the brim with memorable lines. Frontman Dave Mackinder’s ...
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Fireworks Stream New Album Oh, Common Life
The Scoop: Indie rock outfit Fireworks is currently premring there forthcoming full length effort Oh, Common Life over at Red Bull Music. You can listen here, or check it ...
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Fireworks Premiere New Song ‘Flies On Tape”
The Scoop: Indie rock outfit Fireworks is currently premiering a brand new song titled “Flies On Tape” over at Stereogum. You can listen here, or check it out ...
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Fireworks Premiere New Song “Glowing Crosses”
The Scoop: Indie rock outfit Fireworks is currently premiering a brand new song tiled “Glowing Crosses” over at Pitchfork. The track comes off the band’s highly anticipated upcoming ...
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Defeater Forced To Drop Off The Wonder Years Headlining Tour; Fireworks Announced As Replacement
The Scoop: Hardcore outfit Defeater has announced that due to circumstances out of their control, they have been forced to drop off The Wonder Year‘s upcoming Spring US headlining tour. Indie ...
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Fireworks Announce New Album Oh, Common Life
The Scoop: Indie rock outfit Fireworks has announced that they will be releasing their brand new full length album Oh, Common Life on March 25th via Triple Crown Records. You can check out ...
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Album Reviews 1
Fireworks: Gospel
The amount of pop-punk albums out in time for summer is pretty staggering for 2011. The Wonder Years, The Swellers and Living With Lions are just a few ...
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Fireworks release new video for “Arrows”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMDDoJAIL3g[/youtube] Fireworks have released a new video for the song “Arrows” from their upcoming new album Gospel. The band are currently on the Manscout Jamboree tour with The ...
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Show Reviews 1
The Manscout Jamboree tour w/The Wonder Years and Fireworks @ The Loft
It is a very difficult task to express my undying love for Philadelphia, PA pop-punkers, The Wonder Years. It is also very difficult to explain why the very ...
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Fireworks Release New Song For Free Download, Begin Support Tour
Fireworks has just posted a free track titled “Summer” for download through their facebook page, in anticipation of the May 24 release of their Brian McTernan-produced full-length Gospel on ...
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7ScoreKnuckle Puck Sharpens Pop-Punk Style, Loses a Bit of Firepower on Shapeshifter
Pop-punk has been in a rut the past few years. You might even argue that the genre has been in a hangover since the early 2000s, with bands ...
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Interviews 0
Barns Courtney Discusses Early Career Setbacks, Music Festivals, and Becoming More Like Mick Jagger
Barnaby George “Barns” Courtney is an English born singer songwriter by way of Seattle who by the age of 26 has experience more heartbreak in the music industry ...
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What’s Happening At Dancefestopia 2016?
Dancefestopia is three days and three nights on September 9, 10, 11 and will be of some of the best EDM music both up-and-coming and long-standing artists. The music ...
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Editorials 6
MEB’s Top 40 Pop-Punk Albums of All-Time
The genre of pop-punk is known best for its hard-hitting melodies and slick hooks. Paralleling such musical contrasts with up-and-down lyrical disparities concerning adolescence, pioneers Blink-182 and Green ...
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MEB Mixtape 0
Nick’s Dope Summer Playlist
It’s the middle of July. It’s roughly 1,000 degrees outside at all times. School is out which means the youths are running around causing mayhem. You need something ...
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3 Of The Week 0
3 Of The Week: 40th Anniversaries
1976 was about much more than the invention of the ink-jet printer, it was a tremendous year for music and the development of punk rock. There were a ...
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Album Reviews 4
9.5ScoreMitski: Puberty 2
Indie rock needed a jolt of emotion, and 25-year-old Mitski was there with a bass guitar in her hand and a knife in her side. Whereas “Puberty 1” ...
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Senses Fail / Silverstein @ Starland Ballroom
I recall leaving my local date of this past summer’s Warped Tour. Every year, after the dust settles and we get to the car, my partner and I ...
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7 Minutes in Heaven: Surprises Galore!
On a regular Tuesday night in Cleveland, 7 Minutes to Heaven turned up the volume and got down to the business of fun. Timmy Rasmussen (vocals/guitar), Alex Rogers ...
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Zedd: True Colors
There was something alluring about Zedd‘s 2012 debut, Clarity. If you were at the landscape of electronic music at that time, Clarity was able to show that an ...
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Purple: 409
What do you get when you take an insane amount of energy assembled into a three-piece band from Texas? – I give you Purple. The whole time I was ...
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EOTY Lists 0
Nick’s Top In 2014
In all honesty, I wanted to put “Problem” by Ariana Grande in every blank, but there were things called “rules” and “guidelines” and “the fear that everyone would ...
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EOTY Lists 1
Top Albums Of 2014
It’s nearing the end of December, and we’ve made our way through another year of music. Check out what the MEB staff has kept on repeat throughout 2014 ...
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Show Reviews 0
Show Review: New Found Glory @ House of Blues in Cleveland
After hours in the silence of the library studying for midterms, I needed some loud music and a crowd of noisy people. The House of Blues in Cleveland ...
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Album Reviews 0
Cut Teeth: Night Years
I am the least punk. I might have a back patch of a big anthropomorphized rat smoking a fat one safety-pinned to my denim jacket, but I choked ...
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Glamour Kills Tour @ Starland Ballroom
Starland Ballroom always has a special place in my heart. It’s my New Jersey hometown venue and pretty much the only Jersey venue I go to (sorry, Wellmont). ...
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Editorials 1
Top Albums of 2014 So Far
It’s July 1st, which means we’re halfway through another year of music. Check out what the MEB staff has kept on repeat over the first part of 2014 ...
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Editorials 0
10 Songs That Should Be On Your Starred Playlist, But Probably Aren’t
All Spotify users have one thing in common: the Starred Playlist (SP). It’s sacred ground – a place for the best of the best. I personally use it ...
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Album Reviews 3
MaYan: Antagonise
Death metal has become a caricature of itself. As much as metalheads lament the cleancut image of ‘poser’ bands like Between the Buried and Me and August Burns ...
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EOTY Lists 2
The 2013 MEBBIES
2013 is over, and we have lots of music to show for it. What follows is a list of the best (and worst) of the year, as voted ...
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Album Reviews 0
State Champs: The Finer Things
As of late, my interest in the pop-punk genre has started to diminish. Though it was the style that would initially fuel my interest in alternative music back ...
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Nobody, Ever Streams New EP This Wall Is Dedicated To Liam And His Mates
The Scoop: Indie emo outfit Nobody, Ever is currently streaming their brand new EP This Wall Is Dedicated To Liam And His Mates in its entirety. The effort was officially released this ...
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3 Of The Week 0
3 Of The Week (7/4/13)
For me, the Fourth of July is the sort of American holiday that holds a twofold purpose. First, we should celebrate the founding of our nation and every ...
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Interviews 0
Interview: Rookie Town
Mind Equals Blown staffer Zac Lomas recently interviewed Rookie Town vocalist William Appert in anticipation of their participation on the MEB-sponsored Spring Fling Tour. The two discussed the ...
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Interview: The Wonder Years
Back in mid-March in Grand Rapids, Michigan, The Wonder Years’ lead singer Dan “Soupy” Campbell sat down with Mind Equals Blown to discuss their time spent on Soundwave, ...
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3 Of The Week 0
3 Of The Week: (3/26/13)
For this week’s edition of 3 Of The Week, I thought I’d explore how music can affect the way we look at certain seasons. That being said, the ...
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Album Reviews 0
Senses Fail: Life Is Not A Waiting Room
Life Is Not a Waiting Room is not Senses Fail’s only Top 5 album. Now, when I say Top 5, I am basing it solely on what other ...
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Interview: Handguns
MEB guest writer Sarah McGonagle recently had the chance to converse with the members of pop-punk stalwarts Handguns. They discuss the band’s debut full-length album Angst, Warped Tour, ...
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Interview: Patrick Bodmer of M.A.N.D.Y.
Just after Hong Kong’s fireworks ceremony commemorating Lunar New Year, I had the chance to speak with Berlin electronica pioneer, Patrick Bodmer of M.A.N.D.Y. at the highest bar ...
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Show Reviews 0
A Show In The Clouds With M.A.N.D.Y.
Lunar New Year – the biggest celebration in East Asia. As I watched the half hour-long fireworks show from Tsim Tsa Tsui, the smoke seemed to settle toward ...
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What The MEB Staff Is Jamming: 11/30/12
Jason’s Pick: “Appraisals and Omissions” – No Bragging Rights Having written them off on their last LP, hardcore outfit No Bragging Rights’ new full-length Cycles certainly has some ...
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Holy Recorded in a Garage, Batman! Foo Fighters Announce Hiatus.
And to think that I thought all these fireworks around Hong Kong were for Chinese National Day. That’s right folks – Foo Fighters’ leading man Dave Grohl announced through his ...
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Album Reviews 0
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
On the opening track to Strawberry Jam, the seventh studio album by experimental indie rockers Animal Collective, frontman Avey Tare sings, “It’s not my words you should follow ...
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Editorials 0
A Day in the [Warped] Life
Photo courtesy of Warpedtour.com The average date of Warped Tour usually houses between 15,000-20,000 people, depending on the venue’s regulations. With the tour having 43 dates, that means ...
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Album Reviews 2
Japandroids: Celebration Rock
In many ways, Japandroids are the epitome of current carefree punk rock. They are no-nonsense fast guitars, banging drums and loud life-affirming vocals. Celebration Rock is the perfect title ...
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MEB Ranks 5
MEB Ranks: Best Albums Of 2000
As a collective unit, our staff seems to have one universal thing in common: ranking things based on our opinions and passion for everything music related. Personally, I ...
