The Wonder Years will be launching Sun-Drenched Pavement Society on December 1st. This will be a “membership based subscription service/supporter group” and you can watch a video explaining it all here.
The Wonder Years Announce Fan Club
Paramore Selling New Fan Designed Merch
Paramore are selling some new merchandise featuring designs from their fans.
Brendan Kelly Announces New Solo Shows
Brendan Kelly has announced some new solo shows.
Hawthorne Heights Selling Holiday Cards
Hawthorne Heights have posted up their personalized holiday cards for sale.
Bleachers Announce ‘Terrible Thrills Vol. 3’
Bleachers have posted up pre-orders for Terrible Thrills Vol. 3.
Terrible Thrills Vol 3 comes in the form of a 4 part record club. it will feature bleachers songs from gone now re-imagined by Mitski, Julien Baker, Ani Difranco and MUNA as well as demos and new versions of the songs. The concept behind terrible thrills is to create a final version of an album at the end of its cycle. What that is will take different shapes for different times. This time around is half in the tradition of female artists remaking the songs and part new in re written lyrics and productions. This collection will only be officially released on vinyl and will only be sold this one time as a whole series.
One Ok Rock Announce New Album; Release New Video
One Ok Rock will release their new album, Eye of the Storm, on February 15th. Today they’ve shared a video for the first single “Stand Out Fit In.”
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William Ryan Key – “Virtue”
William Ryan Key has shared his new song “Virtue.”
Bohnes Releases New Album
Bohnes’ new album, 206: Act II, has been released on Spotify and Apple Music.
‘The Lion King’ Teaser Trailer
The teaser trailer for the upcoming live action The Lion King has been released.
Albums in Stores – Nov. 23rd, 2018
If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Liner Notes (November 23rd, 2018)
I finished this up early, so I figured I’d post it now. I hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend and getting filled up on good food (and booze) and then taking mid-day naps on the couch.
For the Thanksgiving edition of this roundup, I rank my favorite Thanksgiving foods, give some thoughts on new music, and give my regular media diet roundup from the past week. The supporter Q&A post can be found here.
Black Friday Sales – 2018
I have compiled some of the Black Friday sales that I’ve seen around the internet, and that I think are worth your time. Plus, I figured everyone could share others they see in the forums.
- Blink-182 – Up to 60% off
- GoRuck – Up to 40% off
- MxPx
- The Wirecutter’s Deal Page
- 1Password
- Twelve South
- Glassjaw – Code: BlackFriday2018
- Strange Music – Up to 50% off
- Smartpunk – 25% off
- Joyce Manor – Code: JM2018
- Take This to Heart Records – 30% off
- Facedown Records – 20% off
Review: Muse – Simulation Theory
Synth lovers, rejoice! Muse have crafted a powerhouse of a record in Simulation Theory that is one of the more immediately gratifying albums to date. From the futuristic artwork that could easily be mistaken for the poster art of the next Blade Runner film, Muse has their sights set on making everything that they have alluded to in the past few efforts bigger and brighter.
From the dramatic introductory track, “Algorithm” sets the stage perfectly for a thrilling ride of an album. Lead singer and guitarist Matt Bellamy opens the set by singing, “Burn like a slave/Churn like a cog/We are caged in simulations/Algorithms evolve/Push us aside and render us obsolete.” Bellamy and company have never been strangers to using samples and synths to enhance their sound, but on Simulation Theory, they ultimately went for everything that they had been hinting at over the past few LPs.
The National Share Thanksgiving Song
The National have dropped their annual Bob’s Burgers Thanksgiving song.
‘What If Amazon.com Actually…Is A Horrible Website?’
Katie Notopoulos, writing for BuzzFeed News:
Amazon is cutting edge in so many ways — it magically drummed up a yearlong publicity cycle for an office opening in the two most obvious cities (New York and DC); it honed an expert precision tool for destroying brick-and-mortar retail businesses; it created a great place to work if you don’t mind peeing in bottles; it built a labor force of retirees living in RVs; it’s even a pioneer for shitting in people’s driveways. So many innovations.
And yet, somehow Amazon’s website, the place where it sells a gazillion things that make a gazillion dollars…sucks? The experience of shopping on the site itself fails in spectacularly stupid ways.