Recent Articles

Recent Articles By Jonah Bayer

  • The Starting Line
    6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
  • Armor for Sleep
    7 p.m. Saturday, January 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
  • Commit This to Memory
    The Minneapolis-based pop-punk act Motion City Soundtrack proves that its success is no novelty.
  • Punk's Not Dead
    Against Me! Plays anarchist punk rock for the masses.
  • We Versus the Shark
    9 p.m. Thursday, October 11. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

National Features

  • Village Voice
    A Long Way Wrong?

    Another celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces.

    By Graham Rayman
  • LA Weekly
    Hoop Dawg

    Billionaire Donald T. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers and loves the ladies. And those are just two of his problems.

    By Patrick Range McDonald
  • The Pitch
    Children of the Porn

    Elvin Boone's sex-shop empire crumbles as his offspring feud.

    By Justin Kendall
  • Westword
    The Good Soldier

    When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, they messed with the wrong coward.

    By Joel Warner

Has your marginally successful emo band hit a glass ceiling? Well, maybe you should do what Midtown's Gabe Saporta did: Round up a couple of your famous friends, write the catchiest song of your career, and tie it in with the summer's most hyped flick. One million MySpace plays (and Snakes on a Plane jokes) later, Cobra Starship are embarking on their first tour alongside the Gym Class Heroes, whose frontman Travis McCoy raps on the track. Although honorary Cobras William Beckett (The Academy Is....) and Maja Ivarsson (The Sounds) won't be present on this tour, we're predicting the disco dance-party of the year for Warped Tour generation. Trust us: When Saporta sings, "Oh, I'm ready for it, come on bring it" during the song's breakdown, it's anything but campy.

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