Famous album covers redesigned to include the Star Wars’ characters? Yeah, of course I was going to post this.
Star Wars Album Covers
‘Zombieland 2’ in the Works
It looks like a sequel to Zombieland is in the works:
“That is breaking news that we’re on Zombieland 2 right now,” they said. “We’re sitting with Woody [Harrelson]tomorrow and are going to sort of walk him through some of the stuff we want to do. All the cast is pretty excited.”
Facebook Fires Trending Topics Staff; Decision Immediately Backfires
Facebook got rid of the human curators for their “trending news” section and then, predictably, had the algorithm shit the bed and surface a fake story:
Facebook cut its Trending Topics team on Friday in favor of employing algorithms to surface news stories on the social networking platform.
Then on Sunday a fake story about Megyn Kelly getting fired by Fox for being a secret liberal showed up among the Trending Topics after getting hundreds of thousands of likes.
The company didn’t take the story down until Monday morning.
toyGuitar – “Move Like a Ghost
toyGuitar have posted up their new EP, Move Like a Ghost, for stream. You can listen below.
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Penetrated State Election Systems
Michael Isikoff, writing for Yahoo:
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.
The Republic of Wolves Begin Teasing
The Republic of Wolves look to be doing a little teasing.
Bands on TV (Week of August 29th)
The notable artists on your television screen this week include: Glass Animals (Kimmel; 8/30), Tove Lo (Fallon; 8/31), Zara Larsson (Fallon; 9/1), The Kills (Corden, 9/1).
How Donald Trump Got His Start, and Was First Accused of Bias
She seemed like the model tenant. A 33-year-old nurse who was living at the Y.W.C.A. in Harlem, she had come to rent a one-bedroom at the still-unfinished Wilshire Apartments in the Jamaica Estates neighborhood of Queens. She filled out what the rental agent remembers as a “beautiful application.” She did not even want to look at the unit.
There was just one hitch: Maxine Brown was black.
Stanley Leibowitz, the rental agent, talked to his boss, Fred C. Trump.
“I asked him what to do and he says, ‘Take the application and put it in a drawer and leave it there,’” Mr. Leibowitz, now 88, recalled in an interview.
It is terrifying this man has any support for public office in our country.
Twenty One Pilots Make History on the Charts
Twenty One Pilots have become the first artist to have a different number one song on both the pop and alternative songs charts at the same time:
While Twenty One Pilots are the first act to top Pop Songs and Alternative Songs simultaneously with a pair of tracks, they’re the sixth to lead the Nielsen Music-based lists at the same time (the prior five having done so with the same song on both charts). The duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun is the first act to rank at No. 1 on both charts simultaneously in 11 years, since Green Day doubled up with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” for four weeks in March 2005. (That hit led Alternative Songs for 16 total weeks; the last four of those coincided with the song’s four-week reign on Pop Songs.)
Memphis May Fire Announce New Album
Memphis May Fire will release This Light I Hold on October 28th via Rise Records. They’ve also debuted the first song from the album, “Carry On.”
Frank Turner Announces UK Tour Dates
Frank Turner has announced some UK tour dates. They’re below.
Frank Ocean Tops Billboard Charts
Frank Ocean’s Blonde tops the Billboard charts this week.
Frank Ocean earns his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the arrival of Blonde. The set, which was released on Aug. 20, bows atop the list with 276,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 25, according to Nielsen Music.
Blonde logs the third-largest debut of 2016, behind only the arrivals of Drake’s Views and Beyonce’s Lemonade.
Emarosa Announce Fall Tour
Emarosa have announced a fall tour. Dates can be found below.
Sturgill Simpson Discusses Merle Haggard and the ACM Awards
Sturgill Simpson has posted a note on the passing of Merle Haggard:
Im writing this because I want to go on record and say I find it utterly disgusting the way everybody on Music Row is coming up with any reason they can to hitch their wagon to his name while knowing full and damn well what he thought about them. If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic cannon fodder bullshit they’ve been pumping down rural America’s throat for the last 30 years along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bullshit and start dedicating their programs to more actual Country Music.
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Of Mice & Men – “Contagious”
Of Mice & Men have released their new song “Contagious.”