Culture Abuse will release their new album, Bay Dream, on June 15th via Epitaph Records. Today they’ve debuted the new song “Calm E” and pre-orders for the new album are now up.
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Tom DeLonge as announced Sekret Machines: Book 2: A Fire Within. It’ll be out on September 18th and pre-orders are now up. The plot synopsis of this “novel based on actual events” is as follows:
A Fire Within continues the story of heiress Jennifer Quinn, journalist Timika Mars, pilot Alan Young and ex-Marine Barry Regis – four people bonded by the incidents they’ve witnessed and who are being hunted by agents of a wealthy corporate cabal desperate for unimaginable power and possessed of extraordinary abilities they don’t understand, much less control. Now the quartet is on a mission of their own: as Alan and Barry test the limits of their strange gifts inside the military complex known as Dreamland, Jennifer and Timika begin a quest to locate an ancient tablet that may hold the answers to humanity’s greatest question: Are we alone in the universe?”
Beach House have shared their new song “Dark Spring.”
Pete Wentz and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy did a little video interview with Rock Sound.
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has been teasing, what looks like, a new project called The Longshot on Instagram.
Petal will release their new album, Magic Gone, on June 15th. Today you can stream “Better Than You” and pre-order the new album.
Red City Radio have shared a video for “Rebels.”
Carly Rae Jepsen has begun teasing a song on Instagram called “This Love Isn’t Crazy.”
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better Internet. We’re excited today to take another step toward that mission with the launch of 1.1.1.1 — the Internet’s fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service. This post will talk a little about what that is and a lot about why we decided to do it.
Lucas Matney, writing at TechCrunch:
The company says that the new service will help keep some data out of ISPs’ hands and that they won’t keep data in their hands for long either. Cloudflare has pledged to both never write users’ IP addresses to disk and that they’ll purge all logs from their system after 24 hours.
You can find out how to use this service on different devices here.
Nick Statt, writing at The Verge:
We’ve known since last year that Amazon Music was planning to shut down its dedicated cloud music locker. Now, we have a date for when that process will begin. In an email to Amazon Music users, the company says uploaded songs will be removed from a user’s library on April 30th, 2018. You can however keep any music in the cloud by proactively going to your Music Settings and clicking the “Keep my songs” button.
Keith Nelson Jr. sat down with Pandora’s vice president of global content licensing, Elizabeth Moody, to talk about streaming services, the future of music licensing, and the inherent issues these services are seeing trying to turn a profit:
I think that it’s going to take a shift in the structure of the industry to really allow digital services like Spotify or other competitors to have a fully sustainable business. You see pure-play services like Spotify and Pandora suffering while there are companies like Amazon and Google and Apple that can use music as a loss leader for other services. […] I mean, right now, the record labels (and then the music publishers) are really taking the lion’s share of the revenue. You know, sometimes the artists or others will argue it’s getting stuck at the labels. I think it’s a more complicated problem than just saying, “Oh they’re not paying the artists.”
Today I’m excited to bring you an exclusive premiere of a new Slow Code song, “Consumption-Based.” It’s the second single off the band’s upcoming album Wastelayer, out this May on Glory Kid Records. If you like the DC punk-influenced track, be sure to pre-order the album. In addition, don’t forget to check out our interview with the band.
Seattle, WA, leftist punk band Slow Code will be releasing their new LP Wastelayernext month. I recently spoke to the band about the politics of the record and a shared respect for Mark Fisher.
Counting Crows have announced a new tour celebrating the 25-year existence of the band.
Audio Karate will be reforming for a series of shows supporting Descendents in May and October.