All Time Low have released their new song “Last Young Renegade.”
All Time Low – “Last Young Renegade”
The Flatliners – “Indoors”
The Flatliners have debuted their new song “Indoors.”
New Interview With Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan did a wide spanning interview with Bill Flanagan for his website:
My voice cracking here and there wouldn’t bother me, bum notes or wrong chords would bother me more. On “September of My Years,” I didn’t fix anything. That would be impossible to pull off anyway because we were all in the same room playing together at the same time and there was a lot of leakage into other mics. You only fix things if you overdub the vocals separately and we didn’t do that here. If you mangle a lyric on records like this, you have to go back and start over. It’s a live recording. My voice cracking here or there just might mean it was recorded too early in the day, but it doesn’t hurt the overall effect, it wouldn’t bother me.
Medium Launches Memberships
Medium has launched a new membership program. It’s $5 and I feel like Ev Williams and I would get along really well:
We invite you to join us as a paid member and to help support an ad-free platform that delivers the right type of content: the type that can only be created when independent writers and publishers are rewarded based on value rather than clicks. Medium will remain free and open for anyone who wants to share ideas with the world.
Like the idea but for an awesome music website you may be reading right now? We’ve got a similar plan and motto.
‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ Trailer
The trailer for Netflix’s reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been released.
John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance.
Joe Coscarelli talked with John Mayer for The New York Times:
Across four hectic days this month, as Mr. Mayer, lucid and optimistic, finished his big-budget new album, “The Search for Everything,” and filmed a music video for what he hopes will be his next hit single, he seemed to especially relish reflecting on his 2010 undoing. Recalling the consequences of those infamous magazine articles — in which he used the phrase “sexual napalm,” chronicled his onanism in horrific detail, referred to his male anatomy as David Duke and somehow separately used a racial epithet — Mr. Mayer was vivid and virtuosic in his self-laceration.
Apple Purchases Workflow App
Apple has acquired one of my favorite apps: Workflow. Matthew Panzarino of TechCrunch got the scoop:
Apple has finalized a deal to acquire Workflow today — a tool that lets you hook together apps and functions within apps in strings of commands to automate tasks. We’ve been tracking this one for a while but were able to confirm just now that the ink on the deal is drying as we speak.
I hope this means we’ll see even more integration and automation advances in iOS in the near future.
Jason Isbell – “Hope the High Road”
Jason Isbell has released the new song “Hope the High Road.”
The Menzingers – “After the Party” Video
The Menzingers have released their video for “After the Party.”
Heinz Running Ads Created by Don Draper
Heinz Ketchup is running a bunch of ads based on Don Draper’s pitch from Mad Men:
Partly a PR stunt, partly just solid on-brand communications, the campaign is sure to delight fans of the AMC show, which in July will celebrate the 10th anniversary of its premiere. And in a nice touch, the ads are officially being credited to Heinz’s current agency, David Miami, and to Don’s fictional 1960s firm, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. (Draper and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, who approved the idea, are both listed in the credits.)
Heinz tells AdFreak that each one will get its own billboard in NYC. All three ads will also run in the New York Post, and the fries execution will run in Variety too. The ads will get support across Heinz’s social media channels as well.
Kendrick Lamar Shares “IV” Instagram Post
Kendrick Lamar is ramping up anticipation of a new album with a mysterious Instagram post.
Creeper Stream New Album
Creeper’s new album, Eternity, In Your Arms, can be streamed over at The Independent.
No Free Parents at Warped This Year
Warped Tour will not be offering their “free parent ticket” promotion this year:
In 2015 and 2016, we tested implementing a “Parent Get’s In For Free” program that allowed (1) parent to be admitted to the show for Free if they were bringing a child that had a paid ticket. Unfortunately in 2017 and moving forward, the tour is “going back to our roots” and with the booking of a more balanced lineup including many legacy acts, we are no longer offering the FREE Parent Ticket.
Wish instead I could dictate that zero of my dollars go to Attila. But, who am I kidding? I don’t wanna go stand in the sun all day to watch four bands anyway.
Aimee Mann Streams New Album
Aimee Mann’s new album, Mental Illness, can be streamed below via NPR.
Run the Jewels – “Legend Has It” Video
Run the Jewels have released a video for “Legend Has It.”