Tom Gabel Talks Future of Against Me!

December 07, 2010  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Tom Gabel, frontman for Florida punks Against Me!, once wrote a song about navigating the music industry called "Unprotected Sex with Multiple Partners." As in, you can try to be a rock star, but you're probably going to contract a disease in an uncomfortable place.

Weezer Get Post-Ironic, Play Most Rock Star Show Ever at Osheaga

August 02, 2010  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Canada Tim Snow, Osheaga Weezer was a band that entered the mainstream by defying it -- they repped the nerdy underdog in a pop world ruled by the cool kids. Hell, they practically invented emo with their album 'Pinkerton.' But many years have gone by since Rivers Cuomo was first anointed King Dork by legions of awkward youth. Their career's second career ...

Rochester, the rock star and Heathcliff, the emo boy

July 28, 2009  //  Posted by: Content Keyword RSS  //  Category: Main Content
Reader and friend of BrontëBlog's Stephanie has alerted us to the existence of yet another Jane Eyre retelling to be published, Jane by April Lindner. From Publishers Marketplace : Julie Scheina at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has bought English professor April Lindner's debut YA novel Jane, for the Poppy imprint. The story is a contemporary retelling of Jane Eyre, in which a Sarah Lawrence dropout-turned-nanny falls in love with her employer, an iconic rock star on the brink of a c