Songkick have launched a new video series where they invite one of their users to sit down with an artist and discuss the evolution of their career. One of their most recent episodes features Dashboard Confessional.
Thrice have announced a fall tour with The Bronx and Teenage Wrist.
The Wonder Years have announced some expanded tour dates.
Pedro the Lion will release their new album, Phoenix, in early 2019. It’s currently being mixed.
Travis Barker of Blink-182 has shared a video update on his recovery from blood clots.
Sum 41 will be playing a Does This Look Infected? set at Warped Tour on July 17th.
Thrice have released the video for “The Grey” and posted up pre-orders for their new album. They also sat down with Brooklyn Vegan to talk about the new album:
We were consciously trying to leave our palette really broad. The last record was, I think maybe our most cohesive record, and it was still varied but it had something that really pulled it all together. We consciously wanted this one to be a bit more wild and scattered, I think. That song just came from me messing around with arpeggiated synths on a computer, and singing along with that. And I was like, “that sounds cool, it feels cool, it’s got a cool energy” — something about the tone itself, which was the original tone I demoed it with, it seemed to create the right mood for the melody.
Thin Lips’ new song “Gaslight Anthem (The Song Not The Band)” can be streamed below.
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Lights has released an entire album covering Side B of Drake’s Scorpion. You can stream that below via Soundcloud.
A fan shot video of Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker performing “Would You Rather” together at the Winnipeg Folk Fest is the emotional kick you didn’t know you needed today.
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David Bazan has debuted his cover of Now, Now’s “Thread” over at NPR.
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Drake has the number one album in the country this week:
Scorpion, which was released on June 29 via Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, bows with 732,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending July 5 according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 160,000 were in traditional album sales.
Starbucks have announced they will be eliminating plastic straws globally by 2020:
Today, Starbucks Coffee Company announced it will eliminate single-use plastic straws from its more than 28,000 company operated and licensed stores by making a strawless lid or alternative-material straw options available, around the world. Starbucks, the largest food and beverage retailer to make such a global commitment, anticipates the move will eliminate more than one billion plastic straws per year from Starbucks stores.