I talked with Oxymorrons at Riot Fest. The boys play Punk Rock Charades (acting out the titles of songs by bands playing Riot Fest). They also talk about their up-coming EP Mohawks & Durags out September 24th. The band is unabashedly as proud of the genre-bending as they are about advocating for mental health issues.
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Shad has released a video for the new song “Black Averageness.”
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Mom Jeans have released the new song “What’s Up.”
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Elway have released the two new songs “The English Wishbone” and “Kronos v. Kairos.”
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Grandmas House have shared a video for “Girl.”
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R. Kelly, the multiplatinum R&B artist whose musical legacy became intertwined with dozens of accusations of sexual abuse, was found guilty on Monday of serving as the ringleader of a decades-long scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex.
The jury in New York deliberated for about nine hours before convicting the singer of all nine counts against him, including racketeering and eight violations of an anti-sex trafficking law known as the Mann Act.
Tom DeLonge is the latest guest on the Peer Pleasure podcast.
Converge, Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm, and Stephen Brodsky of Cave In will be releasing Bloodmoon: I on November 19th. Today they’ve shared a video for the title track.
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The Starting Line have announced two holiday shows.
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The funny thing about debut albums is that they’re filled with so much promise, blissful ignorance, and a full beating heart filled with the utmost purpose. Washington, DC’s The Slang are able to capture that early magic that bands would kill for at this stage of their career. Divide, in a lot of ways, investigates where we are as a society today, but it’s vibrant guitar tones and uplifting choruses keep the material from sinking into the abyss. When I last caught up with the band for an interview, the band appeared to be completely flattered by my early praise of their album that I got an advance copy of. After explaining to The Slang (comprised of John Bobo and Felix Nieto) just how great their debut is, I hope I was able to instill some new-found confidence in this band that I feel everyone should turn their immediate focus onto.
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Drake still has the number one album in the country:
Drake’s Certified Lover Boy rules the Billboard 200 albums chart for a third consecutive and total week, as the set earned 171,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 23 (down 28%), according to MRC Data. The album opened atop the list two weeks ago with the year’s biggest week for an album: 613,000 units.
Middle Kids performed “Stacking Chairs” on Colbert.
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Tatiana Cirisano, writing for Billboard:
Over the past year, Roblox has hosted immersive virtual concerts with artists like Lil Nas X and Twenty One Pilots. Now, the gaming platform is inviting artists to stream entire albums in the metaverse through virtual listening parties.
For its first-ever listening party, Roblox is teaming with Grammy-nominated musical chameleon Poppy and her record label Sumerian Records to stream her brand-new album Flux in the gaming platform starting today (Sept. 24). Music from the album will be integrated throughout nine popular Roblox games — which collectively boast more than 3 billion lifetime visits — so that fans can listen as they dance in RoBeats, attend Robloxian High School or explore Creatures of Sonaria.
Every Time I Die has announced some new 2021 tour dates.
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Another teaser for the fourth season of Stranger Things has been released.
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