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Interview – Street Drum Corps

Street Drum Corps are currently on the European leg of 30 Second To Mars' 'Into The Wild' tour. We had the chance to sit down and talk with singer Bobby Alt before the band's set at Wembley Arena. Words: Sophie Egboh and Claire Violin Top photo: Sophie Egboh Portraits: Claire Violin You're currently on your 1st European tour, how's it been going so far? Bobby Alt: Yes, this is our first European tour! I have to say that it's probably one of the coolest things I have ever been apart of in my entire life. Being out here with our best friends in 30 Seconds ...

Interview – You Me At Six

Ruled By Rock met up with You Me At Six to talk about slave labour, cheese on toast, Zac Farro's bum, baby wipes and Warped Tour. Words: Sophie Egboh and Talie Pemberton Let's start off by asking how you came up with the name You Me At Six? Matt Barnes: The dreaded question! Josh Franceschi: Why couldn't we have just called our band Tuesday or something? Then I can be like "It's named after a day of the week!" No, basically me and Max were making night arrangements and it's just an abbreviation of what we were doing. We didn't have a name, we had ...

Interview – Breathe Carolina

Ruled By Rock had the chance to interview Denver's Breathe Carolina on their first UK headline tour! Words: Sophie Egboh & Richard Heaven Your 2nd album hello fascination was released last year through Fearless records, how has the response been so far? Kyle Even: It's been really good David Schmitt: Yeah it's been awesome Kyle: It already has passed our first record with sales which is I think is always what any musician strives towards. Doing something different but also seeing if you can match what you've done before. It's been good man! Kids have been singing the tracks! What was it like working with noticeable ...

Interview – MC Lars

Words: Sophie Egboh and Richard Heaven How did you come by the name MC Lars, and the 'Post-punk laptop rap' tag? MC Lars came from a movie with Ben Stiller in 1996 called ‘Heavy Weights’. These kids go to this summer camp to loose weight, it’s like a fat camp, and there’s this counsellor from Germany named Lars and I thought that was so funny. I was about twelve when I saw that, I’m twenty-seven so that was fifteen years ago. So I called myself Lars Horris, and then I called myself MC Lars Horris, and then I dropped the Horris so it ...

Breaking News

09/03/2010

Dragonforce split with frontman

09/03/2010

Everytime I Die takes it to the pit with new video

08/03/2010

New We The Kings album stream on Myspace

04/03/2010

Punk Goes Classic Rock!

04/03/2010

Lower Than Atlantis post new video

04/03/2010

Outcry Collective announced as Young Guns support

04/03/2010

Me vs Hero post studio video diary

04/03/2010

Stigma post video diary

Festivals

10/03/2010

Lostprophets announce headline slot at 2010 Camden Crawl

04/03/2010

Hard Rock Hell IV confirms dates and first acts announced

17/02/2010

New Found Glory, Capdown, Four Year Strong and more announced for SLAM DUNK 2010

16/02/2010

DOWNLOAD Offers Emerging Bands A Chance On The Main Stage

16/02/2010

Aerosmith and Rage Against The Machine and more added to DOWNLOAD 2010 lineup

Chris T-T – Nintendo

4th March, 2010 by RBR

If the end of 2009 was anything to go by, then Chris T-T is in for one hell of year. With his ...

Owl City – Manchester Academy 1

4th March, 2010 by RBR

Owl City Support: Lights Manchester Academy 1 22nd February 2010 With his number one single fireflies, it was no surprise that the venue for the ...

30 Seconds To Mars – Wembley Arena

3rd March, 2010 by RBR

30 Seconds to Mars Support: Street Drum Corps, LostAlone Wembley Arena 23. 02. 10 Jared (vocals, guitar) and Shannon Leto (drums), Tomo Milicevic (guitar) and their ...