Newberg said Prince was committed to the book project and working with author Dan Piepenbring. Prince delivered about 50 handwritten manuscript pages before his death. Newberg said the long-awaited book is expected to be published just in time for the holiday season and may include reproductions of Prince’s longhand pages.
Janelle Monáe has released her new song “I Like That.”
Billie Joe Armstrong’s new project, The Longshot, had their live debut at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland, California over the weekend. The band sold a limited edition 7″ vinyl at the show and the live band was filled out with Green Day touring guitarist Jeff Matika on bass and vocals, Kevin Preston on guitar, and David S. Field is on drums.
The new project from Matthew Ryan, The Summer Kills, will release their debut album, Last Night We Became Swans, on April 27th. They’ve debuted the title track and pre-orders are now up.
Eddie Reyes and Taking Back Sunday have parted ways:
Guitarist Eddie Reyes and Taking Back Sunday have parted ways due to personal reasons. Eddie was a founding member of the band and his contributions can be felt all along the way. John, Shaun, Mark and Adam love Eddie, wish him well in his future endeavors and look forward to hitting the road soon, starting in Mexico on April 26 and traveling to the UK and Germany in late May. After that they will spend the summer touring the US with long-time friends Coheed and Cambria.
Madball will release their new album, For the Cause, on June 15th. Pre-orders will be available soon.
Tokyo Police Club have released the new song “New Blues.”
Walk the Moon have released a video for “Kamikaze.”
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Hard as it may be to believe, Void Ripper is in fact Animal Flag’s fifth full-length album, and a more-than-worthy followup to 2016’s LP. While the project has always been the brainchild of Matt Politoski, this is the first album featuring the current lineup of Zach Weeks, Sai Boddupalli and Alex Pickert. This time around, the group have crafted an explosive and comprehensive group of songs that Politoski described to Modern Vinyl as a three part process of “order, disorder, and re-order.”
As you might imagine, “disorder” implies a certain chaotic and loud element when applied to a band’s music. In the case of Animal Flag, that’s nothing new. Anyone that has seen this band live can attest to their absolute mastery of dynamics, and while that mastery is hard to capture on record: Void Ripper comes damn close. The production, courtesy of bassist Zach Weeks, is about as raw as it gets, with pounding drums often threatening to drown out other instrumentation.
Kanye West interviews his interior designer, Axel Vervoordt, over at The Hollywood Reporter:
The hip-hop mogul interviews his interior designer Axel Vervoordt and reveals his own plans for a philosophy book, thoughts on Virgil Abloh going to Louis Vuitton, and his future goals for the brand: “I don’t wish to be number one anymore, I wish to be water.”
The trailer for Incredibles 2 has been released.
Taylor Swift has released a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” on Spotify.