The Menzingers recorded their new album with Will Yip. It will be titled After the Party and released later this year.
The Menzingers Record New Album With Will Yip
Saosin Stream New Album
Listening Parties for Grateful Dead Tribute Album
The National have announced some listening parties across the country for the upcoming Grateful Dead tribute album they helped put together. The venues can be found on the poster below.
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Sturgill Simpson on WTF Podcast
Sturgill Simpson is featured on the latest WTF Podcast with Marc Maron.
Bowling For Soup Launch PledgeMusic Campaign
Bowling for Soup have launched a PledgeMusic campaign for a new album called Drunk Dynasty.
Iggy Pop – “Sunday” Video
Chvrches – “Warning Call”
Chvrches have released their new song, “Warning Call,” which comes from the upcoming video game, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst.
Follow-up: iTunes Bug May Have Caused Missing Music
Serenity Caldwell, writing at iMore, on how an iTunes bug may be to blame for a small set of users finding their iTunes music deleted:
Apple Music is not automatically deleting tracks out of your Mac’s library, nor is it trying to force you to stay subscribed to the service. In this instance, it appears that Apple Music is an unfortunate scapegoat: The real problem may be a bug with the subscription service’s container application, iTunes.
I don’t want to incite mass panic, here: This bug appears to have affected a very small number of users, and if you didn’t have local files disappear after updating to iTunes 12.3.3, your library is likely just fine. You can check to see if your library is locally-stored by turning on the iCloud Status and iCloud Download icons; if you’ve been affected, I suggest restoring from a backup or following Apple’s Support document.
I’ve harped on it before but here I am again: please make sure you have backups of your data. I highly recommend something local (like a secondary hard drive) and also an off site backup like Backblaze.
Azealia Banks’s Twitter Account Gets Suspended
XXL is reporting that Azealia Banks’s Twitter account has been suspended.
XXL reached out to a Twitter rep, who told us they don’t comment on individual accounts for security and privacy reasons. They did, however, direct us towards a very specific part of their guidelines: “We may suspend an account if it has been reported to us as violating our Rules surrounding abuse. When an account engages in abusive behavior, like sending threats to others or impersonating other accounts, we may suspend it temporarily or, in some cases, permanently.”
Chris Martin on Beats 1 With Zane Lowe
Coldplay’s Chris Martin spoke with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 and mentioned that the band may no longer release albums in the conventional form.
I don’t think we’d split up as a band so hopefully we’ll try to work out something to do at some point. But also part of me right now just feels like yeah seven albums, that’s great and they form a kind of circle and they all make sense to me now and I feel really proud of them.
Judd Apatow to Produce Film Adaptation of ‘Juliet, Naked’
Judd Apatow is set to produce a film adaptation of Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked. Jesse Peretz will direct. I really enjoyed the book (about relationships, music, and obsessive music fans) and think it could translate well to the screen.
Issues – “Slow Me Down”
Issues have released their new song “Slow Me Down.”
Muse – “Aftermath” Video
Assassin’s Creed Trailer
The first trailer for Assassin’s Creed has been released.
Mark Hoppus Goes Down Under
Mark Hoppus sat down with Music Feeds in Australia to talk a little more about the upcoming Blink-182 album, his description of some of the new songs may excite you:
There’s a song called “Cynical” that’s really fast, really punk rock. There’s a song called “Rabbit Hole” that I think sounds like it should’ve been on Enema of the State that I think people will really love. Bored To Death is obviously a lot of fun to play.
There’s a song called She’s Out Of Her Mind that sounds like it could’ve been on Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. I think people are going to be really happy when they hear the full album. I can’t wait to play the songs live.