Broadside have canceled their upcoming tour. A message from the band can be found below.
Atom and His Package’s full set at Fest 16 is now up on YouTube.
John Nolan performed a solo rendition of Brand New’s “Magazines” at his show over the weekend. A fan shot video can be found on Twitter.
The Globe and Mail are reporting that Arcade Fire are having trouble filling arenas on their current tour:
Blame it on the new album or the marketing campaign for it, or on ticket prices and the popularity of rock music in 2017. Whatever the case, Arcade Fire is struggling to fill arenas on its North American tour.
Just 4,263 fans showed up for the Canadian band’s Quebec City show, 4,004 in Tampa, 5,614 in Austin, Tex., and 5,051 in Dallas, Billboard and Pollstar boxscore figures show. All of the venues have a capacity to seat roughly 10,000 to 20,000 people.
The Beatles will be releasing a limited edition box set for Christmas. Billboard reports:
[T]hey will be releasing a limited-edition box set of their Christmas holiday messages, originally given only to fan club members on flexi-discs from 1963 to 1969.
The limited edition set will include seven 7-inch colored vinyl singles, one for each of the seven messages. The Christmas records have never been given general release as a set before, though one was made available as part of The Beatles Rock Band video game.
Pre-orders are up on Amazon.
Netflix have officially cut ties with Kevin Spacey and will write him out of the upcoming House of Cards season. The decision comes on the heels of multiple accusations against the actor.
Fall Out Boy have shared a link to ismaniadoneyet.com, which seems to show the track listing for the new album.
Cursive will be releasing new remastered versions of their first two albums, 1997’s debut Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes and 1998’s The Storms Of Early Summer: Semantics Of Song in celebration of the 20th anniversary of both albums. Both releases will arrive in stores on December 1st, 2017 via their own record label, 15 Passenger. Pre-orders are now up.
The Fratellis will release their new album In Your Own Sweet Time via Cooking Vinyl on March 9th, 2018. Today they’ve debuted the new track, “The Next Time We Wed.”
The Used have released a video for “Rise Up Lights.”
Frank Turner has released a video for “There She Is.”
Did you see and love Thor: Ragnarok this weekend? Did seeing a genuinely good Thor solo film make you hungry for more from the house that Jack Kirby built? Members of our comic book thread have put together some accessible recommendations for new readers to check out.
A new video from Minutephysics goes over the various types of time travel used in movies and books:
This video is an explanation of how time travel functions in different popular movies, books, & shows – not how it works “under the hood”, but how it causally affects the perspective of characters’ timelines (who has free will? can you change things by going back to the past or forwards into the future?). In particular, I explain Ender’s Game, Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Primer, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, Looper, the video game “Braid”, and Lifeline.