Reel Big Fish will be performing their album, Turn the Radio Off, from beginning to end at all the shows on their fall tour. Dates can be found below.
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This is a pretty damn good week for new albums. Of course I’m going to recommend that new Against Me! album. Also: Bad Suns, Touché Amoré, Cymbals Eat Guitars, and Taking Back Sunday. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
This week’s episode of Encore is with special guest Deanna Chapman. (Thomas is on vacation and watching football games and stuff.) On this episode we talk about how the music scene has changed over the years and what first drew us to it. I’m always curious about what brought other people into this music scene, how it differs today, and the role technology and social media has played in shaping it. We also talk about Batman: The Animated Series, some of our favorite apps, Apple Music/Spotify/Bandcamp, and other fun stuff.
As always, thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy.
This week was the 10th anniversary of Sugarcult’s third album Lights Out. Guitarist Marko DeSantis wrote up a lengthy post on Instagram about the album and the label struggles that went along with it.
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Brian Eno has launched a “generative film” to accompany his recent album, The Ship.
Tame Impala performed “The Less I Know the Better” last night on Kimmel. You can watch that below.
Radiohead have released their new video for “Present Tense.”
Eisley’s new song, “Defeatist,” can be streamed below.
The trailer for the upcoming film, Ordinary World, has been released. The movie stars Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day.
Beach Slang covered the Japandroids’ “Younger Us” for an upcoming Polyvinyl Records compilation. You can stream that below.
She & Him will be releasing a new Christmas album this year. Christmas Party will be released on October 28th and the track listing can be found below.
Planes Mistaken for Stars’ new song, “Riot Season,” can be streamed below.
Jay Z wrote and narrated a video for The New York Times that looks at the war on drugs here in the United States. The film can be watched below.
This short film, narrated by Jay Z (Shawn Carter) and featuring the artwork of Molly Crabapple, is part history lesson about the war on drugs and part vision statement. As Ms. Crabapple’s haunting images flash by, the film takes us from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws — the draconian 1973 statutes enacted in New York that exploded the state’s prison population and ushered in a period of similar sentencing schemes for other states — through the extraordinary growth in our nation’s prison population to the emerging aboveground marijuana market of today. We learn how African-Americans can make up around 13 percent of the United States population — yet 31 percent of those arrested for drug law violations, even though they use and sell drugs at the same rate as whites.
Jimmy Iovine, head of of Apple Music, told Buzzfeed that the company is not interested in buying Tidal.
“We’re really running our own race,” Jimmy Iovine, who heads Apple Music, told BuzzFeed News in an interview. “We’re not looking to acquire any streaming services.”