Pop Etc. have announced the “Infinite Singles Collection,” a music series that will debut new releases from the band every four to six weeks. The first song from this collection is “Fingerprints.”
Pop Etc. – “Fingerprints”
The 1975 Release “Milk” as Stand Alone Single
The 1975’s “Milk” is now available on Apple Music and Spotify as a stand alone track. The song was previously a hidden track on the Sex EP.
Hit the Lights to Release Something Later This Month
Hit the Lights will be releasing something called “Believe in Me” on October 27th.
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New Trailer for ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’
The trailer for Pacific Rim: Uprising has been released.
Mountain Goats Release New EP
Mountain Goats have released a new Ozzy Osbourne themed EP titled Marsh Witch Visions.
Sam Smith Announces New Album; Streams New Song
Avenged Sevenfold Cover Pink Floyd
Avenged Sevenfold have released their cover of Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here.”
AOL to Discontinue AIM
On December 15th, AOL will be discontinuing their instant messaging service:
If you were a 90’s kid, chances are there was a point in time when AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was a huge part of your life. You likely remember the CD, your first screenname, your carefully curated away messages, and how you organized your buddy lists. Right now you might be reminiscing about how you had to compete for time on the home computer in order to chat with friends outside of school.
R.I.P. Twenty8FootFall.
Lorde Covers The 1975’s “Somebody Else”
Knuckle Puck – “Want Me Around”
Knuckle Puck have released their new song “Want Me Around.”
Geoff Rickly Reveals His Childhood Obsession with Commercial Jingles
Geoff Rickly of Thursday performed at Kops Records early this week and talked about how “This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb” came to be:
… and I thought, god, I wish I could write a commercial for a bomb because it’s like the perfect product; people need it, they always want to blow each other up, but you can’t reuse it, so you’ve got to buy a new one every time, and the market doesn’t even set the price; it’s federally funded. Man, this is like the perfect product, and I started writing jingles for bombs and this is the song that came out of it.
He also performed four acoustic songs, which you can watch below.
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Bad Suns – “This Was a Home Once”
Bad Suns have released a new song called “This Was a Home Once.”
Allie X on World Cafe
Allie X was a recent guest on NPR’s World Cafe.
Trump Rolls Back Access to Free Birth Control
In today’s episode of our national nightmare, the Trump administration has just made it easier for employers to stop offering birth control. Here’s Sara Kliff, writing at Vox:
New regulations released Friday significantly broaden the types of companies and organizations that can request an exemption from that rule. This could lead to many American women who currently receive no-cost contraception having to pay out of pocket for their medication.
The new rules take effect immediately. And they allow large, publicly traded companies to seek an exemption from the birth control requirement if they have a religious or moral objection to providing such coverage. The Obama administration barred these large businesses from such exemptions.
And:
More than 20 percent of US women of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That shrunk to less than 4 percent a few years after the mandate took effect
The Offspring to Release a New Album Next Year
In an interview with Rock in Rio The Offspring talk about releasing a new album in 2018.