The Sail Across the Sun “music and wine festival at sea” lineup has been announced. It includes Gym Class Heroes, who we haven’t heard from in a while.
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Dagny has released a video for “Wearing Nothing.”
Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have announced a new tour together. They’ll be performing songs from an upcoming collaborative record on the dates as well.
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Mogwai have released a video for “Coolverine.”
Ariana Grande has released her version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” on Spotify. All of the proceeds will go to to the victims of the Manchester attack.
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Bleachers performed “Don’t Take The Money” on Fallon last night.
Fleet Foxes have released the news song “If You Need To, Keep Time on Me.”
Rozwell Kid have debuted a 10-hour long video for “Wendy’s Trash Can.”
Enter Shikari have released a video for “Supercharge.”
Michael Rosenberg, writing for Sports Illustrated:
The problem with your Warriors experience is that there was no struggle. You showed up, killed everybody and won. It was not surprising or interesting. It feels like a bunch of parents conspired to put the best players on the same Little League team. Sure, you’re going to win, but we all expected that as long as you stayed healthy. (And no, Kerr’s back injury does not count. Please.)
You have the two best pure scorers in the league (you and Curry) and two of the five best defensive players (Klay Thompson and Draymond Green). That’s it. That’s the whole screenplay. The rest is just special effects.
The playoffs this year have sucked. When one team is so clearly better than any other team (and probably any other team ever assembled), that’s what happens. I’m disappointed.
Earlier in May, I wrote about Mac DeMarco’s new album This Old Dog, concluding that it was “his best and most mature album to date.” This is relevant because, generally speaking, This Old Dog isn’t much different from any other Mac DeMarco album. Sure, the songs are more polished and his production has shifted to put more on the personal singer-songwriter aspect of the album, but these are relatively small revolutions in what has ultimately become the trademark Mac DeMarco sound. Put simply, This Old Dog is just more of what Mac DeMarco does best, done better than before.
This is one way to do things.
Other times, a “good” artist who has historically released “good” albums reaches a critical point in their career: here, they must decide whether to remain stagnant or let loose. And sometimes, a band that chooses the latter ends up releasing their best album yet.
This is the another way to do things, and this is what Beach Fossils have done with their third LP, Somersault.
Noah Gundersen has signed with Cooking Vinyl. The full press release is below.
The Front Bottoms have released their new song “Get Numb” on Bandcamp. There’s also a limited edition shirt for sale with all proceeds going to Make the Road New Jersey.
Gerard Way talked to Billboard about his upcoming work with comics, and mentioned in passing a little about My Chemical Romance:
“I wouldn’t count (a reunion) out, but at the same time everybody’s doing stuff in their lives now that they’re really enjoying,” Way says. “In some ways I don’t really miss it; It had gotten so big it was very unwieldy. It took a toll on my mental life and personal life. The thing I’m happiest about right now is everybody’s relationships with each other are really strong. That’s more important than anything else to me.”
And a second solo album:
Way is also starting to eyeball a second solo album, with “a bunch of stuff I’ve written over the past couple of years” already in motion. “I’m just about to seriously figure out my schedule in terms of how many weeks I’m writing comics and how many weeks I’m writing music,” Way explains. “There’s a plan to put something out; I don’t know when that’ll come, but the process is starting.”