Welcome back to Track List, your monthly dose of 30 songs aimed to match the time of year, sequenced into a playlist for you to vibe out to however you see fit. Hopefully some names will be familiar, and hopefully some will give you a new discography to dive into. Drop me a line with some of your seasonal favorites and check back every month for a new playlist.
You can find the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music read more about the selections below.
Kerrang did an oral history of Taking Back Sunday:
We’d met Dave Stein, who was our lawyer for years, at a show and he gave me his card. He was like, ‘If you ever need a lawyer, let me know.’ He was kind of the New York hardcore lawyer. So once we started talking to Victory I reached out to Dave and asked him to look over the contracts. And he’s like, ‘Do not sign this.’ But at the time we weren’t thinking too far ahead – we just wanted to have a record out, so we did it anyway. And I don’t think we’d be where we are had we not been on Victory. They really gave us a large push and that really helped us.
Broadside have parted ways with their guitarist Dorian Cooke.
Casey Liss has released a new iOS app to quickly add photos to your contacts using their social media profiles. MacStories has a good rundown:
Unlike many other apps that aim to streamline the act of adding contact photos, Vignette doesn’t require access to any of your personal social media accounts. Commonly, apps will ask you to log in to Facebook, for example, so they can crawl your friends list to extract profile images and other data for your contacts. While this is an effective method, it also requires giving a third-party app special access to your social media accounts. Vignette takes a different approach.
Tegan and Sara have launched a new Teva sandal for LGBTQ+ pride.
In celebration of our LGBTQ+ friends and allies, we teamed up with fierce female musicians, Tegan and Sara, to create a limited-edition flatform just in time for Pride month. These rainbow sandals make a statement about equality and inclusion with a donation of $15 per pair* to the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an organization that stands for racial, social, and gender justice for LGBTQ+ girls and women.
The National are on the latest episode of the Kyle Meredith with… podcast.
Waterparks have signed a new record deal.
Vanity Fair has a bunch of new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker photos.
All Time Low will be playing the upcoming 5 Seconds of Summer charity show.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 did another Twitter Q&A last night and even said it’d be a “fantastic” idea to do a 20th anniversary show for The Mark Tom and Travis Show.
Taylor Swift and Brendon Urie performed “ME!” for the season finale of The Voice.
Sigrid covered Billie Eilish’s “Bellyache” for Sveriges Radio.
The Dangerous Summer have released a video for “Bring Me Back To Life.”
Hunny have shared the new song “Saturday Night.”
On March 17th, 2017, Washington, DC’s indie rock/emo pop band, The Obsessives made their mark on the scene with an already dense and musically packed debut record. Fast forwarding to today, the band has re-released their debut LP with an additional ten tracks for a more complete picture of their recording process during the self-titled sessions. Citing musical inspirations from bands such as Weatherbox and The Pixies, The Obsessives waste little time in putting their stamp on their re-imagined record.
Eddie Reyes, formerly of Taking Back Sunday, talks with Alternative Press about his new music project:
I don’t know what’s going to happen. I don’t [know] if those guys [in Taking Back Sunday] will ever turn around to me one day and go, “Hey, bud. We missed you. Come back.” That would be great. But at the same time, I can’t think about that. I’ve got to think about my sobriety, I’ve got to think about my family and I’ve got to concentrate a lot on this new band.
When I went on the first [FGAD] tour, I was like, “I’m going to see what it’s like. If I hate it, I’m done.” But then I realized, “Wow, this is what it used to be like when it was awesome,” you know what I mean? You don’t have to deal with favoritism because that will undermine your confidence and your feelings. You don’t have to worry about sounding perfect
