Peter Kafka, writing for Recode:
Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down as the streaming music company’s leader, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
Pandora hasn’t selected a replacement for Westergren, sources say; he will likely stay on at the company he founded 17 years ago until a new CEO is in place.
PVRIS played the game “Say What?!” on BBC’s The Playlist.
Nintendo will release the Super Nintendo Classic Edition on September 29th. It’ll come with 21 games, including the unreleased Star Fox 2. A full list of the included games can be found below.
Culture Abuse have signed with Epitaph Records and released the new song “So Busted.”
Portugal. The Man’s “Feel It Still” is now the number one song on alternative radio. The current top 20 can be found below.
LANY have released a new video for “Good Girls.”
Sainte will release their new EP, Smile, and Wave, this Friday. Pre-orders will be up tomorrow and the debut single “Eyes Are Open” can be heard on BBC Radio One.
The trailer for Pitch Perfect 3 has been released. I’m aca-ready.
Pkew Pkew Pkew have signed with Side One Dummy Records and released a new video for “Before We Go Out Drinking.”
Cyrus Bolooki of New Found Glory returns to Mike Herrera’s podcast.
Haim performed “Want You Back” on The Graham Norton Show last night.
Jason Isbell performed three songs on CBS This Morning. You can watch the performance below.
The Killers sat down with Entertainment Weekly to talk about their new album, Wonderful Wonderful:
While the band was trying to push their sound forward, they also started looking back. In the fall of 2016, they celebrated the 10th anniversary of their second album, Sam’s Town, with a pair of shows. “Playing those gigs, I realized how cohesive an idea [Sam’s Town] was,” Flowers says. “That reminded us that we really want to make a record here, not just slap a bunch of songs together…. I think we’ve done it again on this album. It’s the closest thing we’ve done to Sam’s Town.”
Smidley have released their new song “Under the Table.”
Peter Kafka, writing at Recode:
Music industry sources say the carmaker has had talks with all of the major labels about licensing a proprietary music service that would come bundled with its cars, which already come equipped with a high-tech dashboard and internet connectivity.
Label sources aren’t clear about the full scope of Tesla’s ambitions, but believe it is interested in offering multiple tiers of service, starting with a Pandora-like web radio offering.
Weird.
Billboard reports that Taylor Swift’s return to Spotify has been quite lucrative:
How much Swift herself would receive from that $329,000 depends on her deal with her label Big Machine.
Meanwhile, the publishing royalties generated from the streams would total a little more than $59,000, up from about $9,000 in the prior week. That revenue would be divided among Swift and her co-writers and their publishers depending on their pro-rata shares of the plays on the songs each writer was affiliated with.
Shawna Potter, writing for Noisey:
I bet a lot of people imagine the Warped Tour as a sea of white men (dude-bros to be more specific), endlessly combing their hair in front of their eyes or pounding beers or texting underage girls and sometimes playing music. That’s harsh, I know, and thank goodness it’s not really like that. Not totally. But for every kernel of truth in that stereotype, our band is happy to offer a true alternative, to talk and sing about reproductive justice, trans rights, and rape culture.
The Movielife have debuted their new single “Mercy Is a Sleep at the Wheel.” Pre-orders for their new album are now up.