The Japandroids played their first show in three years last night in Vancouver. The debuted five new songs, including one that was captured on camera called “Arc of Bar.” The full set list can be found below. Apparently they told the crowd a new album will be coming, “very, very soon.”
The Rolling Stones will release their new album, Blue & Lonesome, on December 2nd. It will feature a series of blues covers and is the band’s first studio album since 2005. They have released their cover of “Just Your Fool,” originally recorded by Buddy Johnson.
Planes Mistaken for Stars’ new song, “Clean Up Mean,” can be streamed below.
Trent Reznor hinted at new Nine Inch Nails music on Instagram yesterday. When asked about music coming this year, he replied: “2016 is not over yet.”
Lady Gaga has released her new single “Million Reasons.”
A lot of people probably thought Green Day were down for the count leading into 2004. They’d had a tumultuous decade of success in the 1990s, capturing the sound of a generation on Dookie and then writing the definitive graduation song with “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Their catalog was stacked with hit singles and earworm hooks, but they’d ushered in the start of the new millennium with little fanfare. 2000’s Warning got decent reviews but changed their sound in ways fans probably weren’t expecting and weren’t terribly psyched about by being more folk-pop than pop-punk. That, combined with the lack of a world-conquering single and the fact that Napster was busy taking a hatchet to the record industry, meant that Warning only ever went gold. Not bad for your average band, but not so great for a group that had gone either multiplatinum or diamond on their three previous albums. Add the 2003 theft of the record that was supposed to the follow-up to Warning, and Green Day seemed washed up and left for dead.
For the first time since Bamboozle in 2010, Piebald graced us with their presence for a string of eleven shows on the east and west coasts. Their eighth show landed them in Los Angeles, California at the Echoplex. After Facial and Limbeck opened, the crowd packed up against the stage anticipating the nostalgia of the set to come. As soon as Piebald opened up with “Karate Chops For Everyone But Us,” the singalong began. The set reached an emotional peak as the delicate strums of “King of the Road” were drowned out by the audience’s heartfelt singing. Travis handed his guitar off to Facial’s guitarist Cam for the fan favorite “American Hearts” as Travis wrapped up enough slack of his microphone cable for him to jump into the crowd to kick off the song. Frantic strobe lights, fist-pumping, and crowd surfing ensued.
We captured some video of the performance and you can find that below.
Korn have released a new video for “A Different World.”
A mysterious website, Alive2017, has appeared online. If you zoom in on the “I” it looks like a countdown to October 27, 2016. Speculation online is that this is related to Daft Punk:
Users on Reddit and tumblr have decoded a treasure-trove of hidden hints. The landing page is a simple black screen with “ALIVE” written in white text, but zoom in, and a countdown counter appears. Along the “I.” It ends on Oct. 27, 2016, a date labeled as “Wake Date” in the site’s metadata. There are also coordinates listed in the story-like code, corresponding to cities Paris, Los Angeles, London, New York, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Ibiza, and Indio.
Currently there’s no reason to believe it’s real, but … maybe?
Dia Frampton’s new single “Golden Years” can be streamed below.
Grimes has released a series of seven videos. Four are from her 2015 album, Art Angels, and three are by her friend and collaborator HANA.
Cameron Boucher, of Sorority Noise, covered Twenty One Pilots’ “Tear in My Heart.” You can stream that below.
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Scrubs went on the air on October 2nd, 2001, so it’s now been 15 years since the pilot. MoviePilot looks at what the cast has been doing since the show left us in 2010:
Now fifteen years since the first episode aired, the cast and the world look very different. iPods are smaller, Britney traded in her snake for a show in Vegas and Blink 182 are apparently still going, but inspiring infinitely less hoodie-wearing devotees. With such a colossal amount of change taking place over the past decade and a half, it’s high time we caught up with the cast of our most beloved medical dramady to discover what they’ve been up to since Scrubs flatlined back in 2010.
Sidebar: Based on the size of the crowds at Blink’s current tour, I think they’re doing just fine.
Joey Cape’s acoustic version of “The Burden of Proof / Reign” can be streamed below. The song comes from his recent acoustic album of Lagwagon songs.
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