Bon Iver has announced some new tour dates for the end of the year and through February of 2017. You can find those below.
Bon Iver Announces 2017 Tour Dates
Bruce Springsteen Announces Book Tour
Bruce Springsteen will be doing a handful of book tour dates behind his new autobiography, Born to Run. The dates can be found below.
The White Stripes – “City Lights” Video
The White Stripes have released a new video for “City Lights.”
The Gentle Hits Announce New Album
The Gentle Hints, comprised of ex-Dear and the Headlights members, will be releasing their new self-titled album on November 18th. They’ve posted a teaser video and pre-orders are now up.
Sponsor: Touché Amoré to Release ‘Stage Four’ This Week
Stage Four is the new album from the Los Angeles band Touché Amoré, and the title is an emblem of a band both living its dream and marred by loss. It comes out this Friday, September 16th and can be pre-ordered right now.
Formed in Burbank, California, across 2007 and 2008, the band’s urgent sound, with its melodic sonic assault and impassioned vocals, has grown tighter and more refined through a trio of full-length albums and a series of EP’s and releases. Since those early days, lead singer Jeremy Bolm, guitarists Nick Steinhardt and Clayton Stevens, bassist Tyler Kirby, and drummer Elliot Babin have created a trajectory for themselves through hard work and dedication. And now with Stage Four, their fourth and biggest album to date, they are cementing their status as one of punk music’s most talented, relatable, and visceral acts.
Brian Fallon Narrates Fox’s NFL Season Opener
Brian Fallon narrated and provided “A Wonderful Life” for Fox’s NFL Sunday and NFL Kickoff package this weekend. The video can be found here.
Review: John Mayer – Continuum
From the moment it was released, it seemed like John Mayer’s Continuum was poised to be a classic. That’s not because Mayer was particular respected at the time. Sure, Mayer hadn’t yet put his foot in his mouth by making stupid comments to interviewers. Still, though, the Berklee dropout turned pop sensation wasn’t exactly anyone’s first bet in the “guess who will have career longevity” game. It was obvious from early on that Mayer had chops, and equally obvious that he could write a damn sturdy pop song. (Listen to Room for Squares and tell me those tunes don’t still sound like hits.) But he was a teen pop icon first and foremost, and most of his songs seemed destined to become relics of early 2000s radio. You need only listen to “Your Body Is a Wonderland” once to realize how easily Mayer could have been a pop cultural punchline 10 years after the fact.
Interview: Jean-Philip Grobler of St. Lucia
Frontman Jean-Philip Grobler talks about St. Lucia’s second album Matter, his approach of exploring any and every idea, and realizing the importance of speaking out about what you feel.
Christopher Nolan Moderates ‘Heat’ Panel
Christopher Nolan recently moderated a panel discussing the incredible film, Heat — one of my favorites. About 30 minutes of the panel with Michael Mann, Rober DeNiro, and Al Pacino can be found on YouTube.
Neaux Debut New Album
Neaux’s new album, Fell Off The Deep End, can be streamed below.
A Day to Remember Perform “Private Eye” With Matt Skiba
A Day to Remember performed “Private Eye” live with Matt Skiba helping out. A fan-shot video has appeared on YouTube.
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Banned in the USA
Rob Harvilla, writing for The Ringer, with a retrospective look at bunch of the songs and artists that were “banned” after the events of September 11th, 2001:
But 15 years later, it’s the songs the radio wouldn’t play that tell you the most.
In the week after the attacks, Clear Channel Communications, the Texas-based radio empire then controlling nearly 1,200 radio stations reaching 110 million listeners nationwide, drew up an informal blacklist of sorts — more than 150 songs its DJs should avoid, so as not to upset or offend anyone. As a Snopes investigation subsequently revealed, adherence was voluntary, and many stations ignored it; at the time, sheepish anonymous employees described it to The New York Times as a corporate memo gone wrong, snowballing thanks to an “overzealous regional executive” who kept adding more songs and soliciting more input. A wayward reply-all email debacle made sentient.
Blink-182 Release New Tour Video
Blink-182 have released a new tour video featuring footage on the road.
Inside the Republican Creation of the North Carolina Voting Bill Dubbed the ‘Monster’ Law
Critics dubbed it the “monster” law — a sprawling measure that stitched together various voting restrictions being tested in other states. As civil rights groups have sued to block the North Carolina law and others like it around the country, several thousand pages of documents have been produced under court order, revealing the details of how Republicans crafted these measures.
A review of these documents shows that North Carolina GOP leaders launched a meticulous and coordinated effort to deter black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. The law, created and passed entirely by white legislators, evoked the state’s ugly history of blocking African Americans from voting — practices that had taken a civil rights movement and extensive federal intervention to stop.
This article makes my blood boil.
Sponsor: My Thanks to This Wild Life and Epitaph Records
I’d like to offer my sincere thanks to This Wild Life and Epitaph Records for sponsoring Chorus this week. The band just released their new album, Low Tides, and I spent most of yesterday listening to it. I like it. I was a big fan of what they did on Clouded and I’m impressed with where they’re taking their sound. It’s definitely worth giving a look if you want something new to listen to as we start our inevitable march into fall.
On September 14th in Los Angeles, This Wild Life begin their 25-city headlining “Low Tides Tour” with supporting acts Have Mercy and Movements. A full list of those tour dates can be found below.