Complex is reporting that Pusha T’s new album will be produced by Kanye West:
Before performing “Crutches, Crosses, Caskets,” he confirmed that King Push is produced top to bottom by Kanye West.
“I had done this album like three times,” he says. “[Kanye] comes in and he picks all the beats and shit. And then, he hear the beats, and he scraps ‘em and says ‘I can do better.’”
Stray From the Path have released their new video for “Only Death is Real.”
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Josh Marshall, writing at Talking Points Memo:
Now Google can say – and they are absolutely right – that every month they send checks for thousands and millions of dollars to countless publishers that make their journalism possible. And in general Google tends to be a relatively benign overlord. But as someone who a) knows the industry inside and out – down to the most nuts and bolts mechanics – b) someone who understands at least the rudiments of anti-trust law and monopoly economics and c) can write for a sizable audience, I can tell you this: Google’s monopoly control is almost comically great. It’s a monopoly at every conceivable turn and consistently uses that market power to deepen its hold and increase its profits. Just the interplay between DoubleClick and Adexchange is textbook anti-competitive practices.
Dave Eggers, writing on Medium:
In downtown Phoenix, in the space of a few blocks, there were 15,000 Trump supporters and 10,000 anti-Trump protesters. There were Bikers for Trump and a platoon from the John Brown Gun Club, an anti-fascist group carrying loaded handguns and semiautomatic weapons. There were roving packs of weightlifters wearing pro-Trump attire. There were men in sleeveless Confederate flag jackets, and there was a giant inflated chicken made to look like Donald Trump. There was a man with a megaphone who asserted throughout the afternoon that homosexuals were going to hell, drunk drivers should die, and women who wore skirts deserved to be raped. There were anarchists, antifa, and hundreds of heavily armed police officers. This was a week after Charlottesville, the country grieving and boiling in the madness of its most irrational era, and in Arizona, it was more than 105 degrees and felt far hotter.
That no one died that day in Phoenix is miraculous.
The Fever performed their first proper show at the Roxy in LA last week. Travis Barker showed up to play drums on the band’s final song of the night, “Hunting Season.” Some fan-shot footage has been uploaded to YouTube.
Counterparts have released their new song “Swim Beneath My Skin.”
Sky Ferreira has released a video for “Easy.”
The trailer for the fourth, and final, season of Star Wars Rebels has been released.
Angels and Airwaves have released a new lyric video for the acoustic version of “The Adventure.”
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Taylor Swift’s new song “…Ready For It?” has been released.
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Ted Leo’s new song “Can’t Go Back” is up on Spotify and Apple Music.
Jake Fisher, former bassist for Northstar, has passed away.
Pierce the Veil have released a t-shirt and will be donating all proceeds to Hurricane Harvey relief.
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Against the Current are on the most recent Rock Sound Podcast and talk about their next album:
The hope is that we can get a song or two out before the end of the year, it all depends on where we are with the record because we want to do it right – I’m still a perfectionist even though I’m now aware of it! I’m still a little crazy on myself, so we want to make sure we don’t just push something out for the sake of pushing it out, we want to have it exactly right