Green Day will be hosting a Facebook Live performance to support Americares today at 4pm EST. There will be ways to donate during the performance and money will be going to hurricane relief efforts.
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Jon Blistein, writing for Rolling Stone:
Metallica, Logic, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and pop singer Halsey are among the various musicians set to participate in a new mental health awareness and suicide prevention campaign, “I’m Listening.” The broadcast company Entercom organized the initiative, which will include a two-hour radio special airing live from Seattle on World Suicide Prevention Day, September 10th, at 10 a.m. ET on all Entercom platforms. […]
Other musicians set to participate include Passion Pit’s Michael Angelakos, Alice in Chains’ William DuVall, Bleachers’ Jack Antonoff, Khalid, Disturbed’s David Draiman, country star Gary Allan and Phantogram’s Sarah Barthel. Seattle-based radio DJ, BJ Shea of KISW FM, will host the show.
The annual Apple Music Festival will end after ten years:
However, the cancellation of the festival doesn’t signal a move away from live events by Apple Music completely.
The brand was recently a partner of shows by Haim and Skepta in London and Arcade Fire in Brooklyn and it had a heavy presence at SXSW in Texas earlier this year – where it backed shows from Lana Del Rey, Vince Staples and DJ Khaled.
In addition, Apple Music also sponsored Drake’s 32-date Summer Sixteen Tour in 2016 and it supports regular live sessions from its ‘Up Next’ artists.
The closure of the Apple Music Festival is likely because Apple is concentrating its resources on one-off events like these, in addition to its original content efforts in video – which have recently included a Carpool Karaoke spin-off series and a behind-the-scenes documentary on Harry Styles.
Prophets of Rage’s new song “Strength in Numbers” is up on Spotify and Apple Music.
Noiselab is a community of Ableton producers and electronic musicians offering online courses to help you learn the software. Courses range from “music theory for electronic musicians” to introductory courses teaching the basics of electronic music production. This first course “Electronic Music Production Level I” is available to take for free:
This is the first course in our 3-part series. We’ll cover what a DAW (digital audio workstation) is, why Ableton Live is a unique DAW, and the difference between the Session View and Arrangement View. We will also teach you how to work with MIDI instruments, audio material, and much more.
All instructors are either Ableton Certified Trainers or successful producers with impressive industry credentials. You can find out more information at the Noiselab website.
Today is Labor Day, so we’ll be on a more relaxed posting schedule. I’ve always enjoyed this Ezra Klein piece, from 2014, on Labor Day:
Labor Day is a day of rest that commemorates years of war. Congress inaugurated the holiday just days after President Grover Cleveland sent 12,000 federal troops to break the Pullman strike. The tactics were bloody; US deputy marshals killed two men and wounded many more.
That was 1894, an election year. Cleveland needed a way to win workers back to his side. He saw an opportunity in a federal holiday honoring workers — as well as organized labor.
And this from Tim Goulet:
In reality, however, Labor Day started twelve years earlier — even before the 1886 Haymarket events that inspired May Day — with a mass rally in New York. On September 5, 1882, socialists, the Knights of Labor, and various left organizations associated with the Central Labor Union (CLU) organized a march calling for shorter hours, higher pay, safer working conditions — and a labor holiday. That year, New York had been the scene of spirited labor struggles. On January 30, thousands of workers thronged Cooper Union to support Irish tenants protesting their British landlords.
The notable artists on your television this week include: The National (Colbert; 9/7), The All-American Rejects (Corden; 9/7), and Ryan Adams (Ellen; 9/8).
Lil Uzi Vert has the number one album in the country this week:
Rapper Lil Uzi Vert bows at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with his debut studio album, Luv Is Rage 2, starting with 135,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Aug. 31, according to Nielsen Music. The album was released on Aug. 25 through Generation Now/Atlantic Records, and follows two earlier charting efforts for the artist.
It looks like PVRIS sold around 11k copies in their first week. Brand New did another 4k (a 94% drop from their chart-topping first week).
A new EP from Petal called Comfort is “coming soon.”
Chance the Rapper announced Friday that his SocialWorks organization has raised $2.2 million for the Chicago Public Schools’ arts programs.
“Quality education for public schools is the most important investment a community can make,” the rapper said at Chicago’s Harold Washington Cultural Center, four days before the school year begins in the city.
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Don’t Put That in Your Mouth: Drinking a Vintage Bottle of Coke
Sufjan Stevens’ record label, Asthmatic Kitty Records, has shared a clip of the previously unreleased Sufjan song, “Wallowa Lake Monster.”
Father John Misty did a video interview with NME. He says he’s “pretty much done” with his next album already.
Walter Becker, co-founder of Steely Dan, has passed away. He was 67.
Coldplay’s Chris Martin performed “Hymns for the Weekend” and a cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge.
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