I just wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a safe New Year’s Eve tonight. I hope everyone has a fun evening. If you’d like to join the community as the clock strikes twelve, our forums are the place to be.
Thank you to everyone that visited this website over the past year. We’re hard at work on our year end lists recapping 2018, and are aiming to publish them early next week. Here’s to 2019.
21 Savage has the number one album in the country:
The set was released on Dec. 21 via Slaughter Gang/Epic Records and launches with 131,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 27, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 18,000 were in traditional album sales, as the bulk of the album was driven by streaming activity.
Old Best Friend are set to release Almost on February 15th, 2019. Today, we’re premiering the first single, “Anna.” The song tells the tale of a reluctant friendship from start to finish. You can pre-order the album on Bandcamp and Google Play or pre-save it on Apple Music and Spotify.
Abhimanyu Ghoshal, writing at TNW:
What was particularly interesting back then was the wide range of ingenious methods people used to share tunes. Back in the day, people went beyond simply hosting music on public-facing websites, and instead, found ways to send and receive tracks directly with other internet users. Let’s take a walk down memory lane and take a look at some of the ways people grew their music collections in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Jonathan Mann has been writing and releasing a song a day for ten years. Today he’s announced he’ll be releasing an LP/retrospective called I Used to Love My Body. Pre-orders are now up.
As we usher in 2019, some of our community members are starting the year by doing a “wellness challenge.” I always think it’s cool when the community does little projects like this. If anyone is interested in learning more, and trying to get a little healthier with others, all the information is in this thread.
Sorority Noise’s Cam Boucher has issued an update following allegations made against him this past April.
A post office in Renton, Washington has been named after Jimi Hendrix:
Last week a bill was signed into law re-christening the Renton Highlands Post Office the James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix Post Office in the legendary guitarist’s honor. The bill, which passed unanimously, was sponsored by Rep. Adam Smith, D-Bellevue, and supported by both of Washington’s U.S. senators, Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell.
Damn, this is the final Liner Notes of 2018.
In this week’s roundup, I recap the holiday week and my favorite gifts, share some thoughts on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, go through my usual weekly media diet (heavy on movies, light on music this week), and share ten songs to ring in 2019. I hope everyone has a lovely rest of the year. The supporter Q&A post can be found here.
Travis Barker has shared a performance of “Little Drummer Boy” on YouTube.
It’s the last Friday of 2018. Slow release week. So slow, in fact, that I can’t find much if anything actually coming out today. If there’s something I’ve missed, please hit the quote bubble to access our forums and let everyone know what they should be checking out today. Things should start picking up again after the new year.
Max Read, writing for New York Magazine:
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
Wonderful.
Slaughter Beach, Dog has announced some new tour dates with The Sidekicks.
The trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Black Mirror: Bandersnatch film has been released.
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