May 15, 2009 by Megan Vick
Filed under Entertainment, Music, The Magazine
Millions of fans rejoiced earlier this year when the legendary pop-punk trio Blink 182 announced that they would be re-uniting after two years of hiatus. Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Travis Barker have been in the studio for the past couple of weeks writing and recording new Blink songs but have just announced an epic [...]
May 6, 2009 by Megan Vick
Filed under Band Profiles, Entertainment, Music, The Issue, The Magazine
LOWELL — Samuel L. Jackson might have had enough of those motherfucking snakes on that motherfucking plane, but three years later, Cobra Starship (which outfitted the title song for the 2006 summer reptilian thriller) hasn’t given up the party.
Although many people initially thought the group was a joke promotional tool for the film, the boys [...]
May 2, 2009 by Megan Vick
Filed under Entertainment, Music, The Issue, The Magazine
LOWELL — The line of teenage girls and chaperoning parents around Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Mass. Tuesday was a quarter of a mile long. Anyone walking to the end of it is a witness to every color in the neon rainbow – on t-shirts, shoelaces, and even sections of hair. What could possibly have all [...]
January 15, 2009 by Megan Vick
Filed under Band Profiles, Entertainment, Music, The Issue
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.
September 16, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Entertainment, Music, Television, The Magazine
After 10 years, MTV is pulling the plug on its popular music video countdown show, “Total Request Live.”
The show will end with a two-hour special on a Saturday afternoon in November, said executive producer Dave Sirulnick on Monday. Sirulnick said the show wasn’t ending forever, but said now was the right time to give the [...]
August 26, 2008 by Blast Magazine Newsroom
Filed under Music
After headlining a concert on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Fall Out Boy announced they would release their enw album, Folie A Deux, on November 4, Election Day.
Fall Out Boy’s ‘Beat It’ nominated for Best Rock Video at 25th annual MTV VMAs
The first single will be the track “I Don’t Care.” Radio [...]
February 1, 2008 by Danielle Capalbo
Filed under Entertainment, Features, Music, The Blast Interview
Guitarist Joe Trohman doesn’t believe in idols.
“People always ask who mine are,” the 23-year-old said in a recent interview. “But that phrase, ‘I’m only human’ – it’s there for a reason.”
In the past seven years, Trohman’s band — Fall Out Boy — has exploded from an underground sensation to an internationally recognized pop-punk powerhouse, hitting [...]


