Gary Hustwit, director of Helvetica and Objectified, is Kickstarting a movie on legendary product designer Dieter Rams:
This Kickstarter campaign will fund the film and also help to preserve Dieter’s incredible design archive for the future. There’s a trove of drawings, photographs, and other material spanning Dieter’s fifty plus years of work, and it needs to be properly conserved.
Thursday have added a second date at the Starland Ballroom on December 29th. Tickets are now on sale.
Direct Hit! have released their new video for “Do the Sick.”
Bring Me the Horizon have released their new video for “Avalanche.”
Chvrches are featured on the latest episode of Song Exploder breaking down “Clearest Blue.”
Trash Boat’s new album, Nothing I Write You Can Change What You’ve Been Through, can be streamed below via Bandcamp.
Hank Shteamer interviews the Descendents for Rolling Stone:
During Descendents’ June visit to RS, it quickly became apparent that the band is much more than an escapist outlet for these four men in their early fifties. “I think there’s quite a bit on the record that’s kind of unflinchingly looking at getting older,” the heavily tattooed, gruff-voiced Alvarez says of Hypercaffium. “And it’s nice because I think a lot of rock bands aren’t very honest about that; they all want to exist in some universe where they’re perpetually between the ages of 21 and 35. We’re codgers; we’re not afraid to admit it.”
Fall Out Boy have released their version of “Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)” (feat. Missy Elliot). The song comes from the upcoming soundtrack due out tomorrow.
Atmosphere will release Fishing Blues on August 12th. They’ve released a video for the single, “Ringo.”
Mayday Parade’s new video for “Let’s Be Honest” can be found below.
Aaron Gillespie will release Out of the Badlands on August 19th. Pre-orders are now up.
Gerard Way will begin writing music again “this fall.”