Nike is going to begin selling some of their products on Instagram and Amazon:
The partnership with Amazon is in its early stages and involves only a “limited” section of Nike products for now, Nikes CEO Mark Parker told investors on a conference call Thursday afternoon to discuss quarterly results, confirming recent media reports.
Foster the People have released their song “Loyal Like Sid & Nancy.”
Modern Chemistry’s new song, “Tripping Over You,” can be streamed below.
Our music forum has put together a cover compilation of Alkaline Trio songs. You can stream that below.
Variety reports that Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy will be doing various voice-over roles in the upcoming animated film Gnome Alone. He’s also working on the score and has written an original song for the movie:
Patrick Stump of the band Fall Out Boy performed multiple voice-over roles, composed the score and has written an original song to be performed by Becky G, whose character discovers that her new home’s garden gnomes are not what they seem, she joins the gnomes to fight against little monsters who have invaded through a portal from another world.
Nicholas Thompson, writing at Wired:
The algorithms that resulted were then tested on the one-fifth of the data that hadn’t been given to DeepText, to see how well the machines had matched the humans. Eventually, Instagram became satisfied with the results, and the company quietly launched the product last October. Spam began to vanish as the algorithms did their work, circling like high-IQ Roombas let loose in an apartment overrun with dust bunnies.
Jay-Z released his new album 4:44 on Tidal today. There’s also a new video up for “The Story of O.J.”
Haim performed “Want You Back” on Fallon last night.
The Juliana Theory are postponing their 20-year anniversary tour. Instead they’ve decided to reform the band and start writing a new album. Their statement can be found below.
Sainte have released a video for “Eyes Are Open.”
Arcade Fire’s new song “Signs of Life” is up on Spotify and Apple Music and they’ve released a new video for the song as well.
St. Vincent has debuted their new song “New York.”
On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined once again by special guest Craig Manning. This week our main topic is all about the best albums released in 2017 … so far. As we hit the midway mark of the year, it’s time for our annual tradition of discussing what albums we’ve fallen in love with during the first six months, what didn’t make the list, what we were anticipating and how those stacked up, and all that jazz. (There’s also a rant about movie theaters at the beginning because some people can’t put their phones away.)
What albums have you loved this year so far? We’d love to hear from you and see if there’s something new for us to discover as well. As always, thanks for listening.
Today sees new releases from LANY, The Japanese House, Sir Sly, and 88 Fingers Louie. 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.