WEEKLY AIRPLAY
Octane Big ‘Uns Countdown – Week of 5/8/21 RANK ARTIST SONG 1 POP EVIL “Breathe Again” 2 BRING ME THE HORIZON “Teardrops” 3 ARCHITECTS “Animals” 4 OF MICE AND MEN “Obsolete” 5 BLACK STONE CHERRY “Again” 6 SEETHER “Bruised And Bloodied” 7 ATREYU/TRAVIS BARKER “Warrior” 8 PLUSH “Hate” 9 EVANESCENCE “Better Without You” 10 BLACK […]
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HRD Radio Report – Week Ending 5/1/21 Each week on HardRockDaddy.com. The HRD Radio Report digs deeper into the weekly Active Rock charts, providing commentary, reviews, recommendations and predictions. It also features opinion pieces on chart action and the music business in general. The following is the Active Rock Mediabase Chart for the week ending 5/1/21. All exclusive […]
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Written by Shaun Soho (Crash Midnight) The Crash Pad (Part 1) We called him “Jasper” (we never knew his real name). He was the door guy at our apartment, and during the three years we lived there, I can’t recall him ever saying anything but a very raspy version of the Matthew McConaughey “alright, alright” line […]
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By Joe Cotela (DED) I’ve been told that I used to run around singing “Born in the USA” by Bruce Springsteen when I was three years old, but I don’t remember it. I guess that would be the first hint that I would someday become a musician. As early as I can remember, my parents used […]
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By Marc Adam Kahn (Thirteen Reasons) Music has always been a blessing and a curse for me. The not-so-lighthearted concept of duality is one that has always remained a constant throughout my life. It’s funny, the first memory of music that I have is my father singing in the car while we were taking road […]
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Around the time that I turned ten, Queen released their classic album, Jazz. I knew nothing about the band yet, but as soon as my friend, Mike, showed me the cover of the “Fat Bottomed Girls” single on 45, I had to have it. Ultimately, the song ended up being one of my all-time favorite […]
The days of categorizing music by decades are long gone, largely due to technology. We are no longer confined to discovering music through commercial radio or MTV, where playlists are extremely limited. Nowadays, it is fairly easy to listen solely to the genres of music that appeal to us, which is why Farewell 2 Fear’s […]
“We are the crazy ones…we color outside the lines for fun…we march to the beat of a different drum…’cause we are the crazy ones.” Stellar Revival’s “The Crazy Ones” is a great hard rock song that, by all rights, should be playing on a 24/7 loop in my house. It’s Monday morning. The weekly grind […]
