Today’s got a pretty impressive string of albums coming out, definitely give Allie X, Rise Against, and Rancid a look. 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.
Jake Ewald of Modern Baseball has released a new song called “Building the Ark” under the moniker Slaughter Beach, Dog. You can stream that below. He also talked with Fader about the future of Modern Baseball and his upcoming EP Motorcycle.jpg:
We had a talk a few months before it happened — I don’t know if we’ve told anyone this. We all sat down and said, “We’re getting really tired. This is kind of crazy. We should slow down soon.” And then we did that European tour where we announced at the last-minute that [co-frontman Brendan Lukens] wasn’t going to come. When we made the decision to slow down, we already had a lot of tours booked. We were like, oh yeah we can make it through all of this, we’ll be fine. But then as we started to be confronted with those tours we realized we didn’t know if we were going to be able to go through with all of them. We were so burnt out, and ready to be done with it for a little while.
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Further Seems Forever’s How to Start a Fire has received a new re-press on vinyl from Tooth and Nail.
Taylor Swift’s music is returning to Spotify tonight. Billboard reports:
The pop star’s representative confirmed her full catalog will return to all streaming platforms Friday. Her official Instagram fan account, Taylor Nation, posted the news Thursday (June 8).
Dropkick Murphys have released a video for “Until The Next Time.”
Caterpillars have released a video for “The Wicked and Wonderful.”
Rookie of the Year have announced their first tour in seven years as a full band. You can find the dates below.
Andrew Belle will release his new album on August 25th. Today he’s released a new video for the song “Down” and pre-orders are now up.
One of the best parts about running my own website again is that I can work on improvements and changes and roll them out when they’re done instead of waiting for the never ending drudge of bureaucracy. Today I’m excited to bring you a collection of changes, improvements, additions, and new features that I am calling Chorus 2.0. Basically, I’ve spent the past year or so learning about what makes this website work, what doesn’t work, what needs to be improved, and how to better organize the information we push into it each day. And of course, how you, the reader, are using it. I’ve taken what I’ve learned and combined that with an optimization obsession to get this website to load as fast and reliably as possible on virtually any device you view it on. You may not see a lot of outward changes, but there were thousands of lines of code tweaked and changed along the way. I want to quickly go through some of the bigger changes, and introduce you to some of the more headlining features.
Tigers Jaw have debuted a video for “June.”
Matty Healy of The 1975 has confirmed on Twitter that the band are working on their new album, Music For Cars. That’s not really news. However, he also mentioned that Drive Like I Do, one of the names the band went by before they settled on The 1975, will be working on and releasing their “debut album” in the “coming few years” as well.
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Fleet Foxes new album, Crack Up, is streaming over at NPR.
Iron & Wine will release their new album, Beast Epic, on August 25th. Today they’ve debuted their new video for “Call it Dreaming,” and the track listing can be found below. Pre-orders are now up.
Hayley Williams of Paramore has shared a note about After Laughter, its release, and more about the process and what it means to her on Instagram.
Manchester Orchestra have announced their new single “The Gold” will premiere at 3pm EST today on Sirus XM’s Alt Nation. It will be up everywhere to hear at midnight. Look for an album announcement, pre-orders, and new video to debut tomorrow morning.