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Month: June 2018

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Jason Tate

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Sponsor: The View From Here Release New EP

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Our thanks to The View From Here for sponsoring the website this week.

The band released their debut EP, New Perspective, today. The album was produced by Mike Lisa (Hidden in Plain View) and is recommended for fans of Taking Back Sunday and Dance Gavin Dance. The lead singles from the album were, “Whatever Happened, Happened,” and “Chill.”

If you like what you hear, the album is available right now on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp.

Also, the band are playing a CD release show tonight at DeCicco’s Tavern in Raritan, NJ.

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Review: Marshmello – Joytime II

Marshmello - Joytime
Tommy Monroe

Marshmello, the anonymous producer and DJ, has been taking the music industry by storm since his remix of Jack U and Justin Bieber’s global hit “Where Are U Now.” With hits like “Moving On,” “Wolves,” and “Silence,” he has become one of the fastest rising dance producers in the industry. As the layers of mystery continue to surround the man behind the mask, there is no doubt in Marshmello’s ability to make electronic music that pops. Joytime IIis his 9-track sophomore album.

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Instagram Adds Ability to Add Background Music

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Jason Tate

Josh Constine, writing at TechCrunch:

The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories. […] Thanks to Facebook’s recent deals with record labels, users will be able to choose from thousands of songs from artists including Bruno Mars, Dua Lipa, Calvin Harris and Guns N’ Roses.

And:

When friends watch a music-equipped Story, the song will post automatically. They’ll also be able to tap on the sticker to see artist and song title info, but for now these stickers won’t link out to a musician’s Instagram page or their presence on streaming services — though that would certainly be helpful. I also suggest that Instagram should create deeplinks that artists can share with their fans that automatically opens the Stories camera with that song’s sticker added.

Good idea.

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Soccer Mommy and Paramore in Conversation

Jason Tate

Sophie Allison of Soccer Mommy and Hayley Williams of Paramore sat down with Stereogum:

Well, first of all this album cycle we’ve just been more intentional I think about really having more women around. For me, it’s a little bit of a selfish thing ‘cause for so long I was always the only female performer on tour. Especially when we were younger and we’d get booked onto other tours I was always the only girl. And it actually affected my sense of femininity and that part of my identity for a long time. So it’s sorta just been natural timing and also our collective interest as a band to have female energy around and obviously the music is awesome too.

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