Vagrants have released the new song “Separation.”
PUP Talk New Album With BrooklynVegan
PUP talked with BrooklynVegan about their new album, Morbid Stuff:
Yeah, a lot of the record thematically is about working through depression and working through challenges with mental health, but we tried to kind of take a light approach, a gentle approach to it. I think music and this band particularly is supposed to be fun, fun for us and fun for the listeners. We’re in a band ’cause it’s a good time for us, and there’s this weird sort of paradox of you wanna write about the stuff that’s closest to your heart, the stuff that affects you the most. And for me in the past couple of years, that’s been depression and mental health.
Travis Barker Breaks Ankle
Travis Barker announced on Instagram he’s broken his ankle. He said he’ll still be playing every show booked.
The Dangerous Summer Announce New Album
The Dangerous Summer will release their new album, Mother Nature, this summer. They’ve also announced some new tour dates.
Holy Ghost! Announce New Album
Holy Ghost! will release their new album, Work, on June 21st. Today they’ve shared the new song “Escape from Los Angeles” and pre-orders are now up.
‘Joker’ Teaser Trailer Arrives
Bracket Announce New Album; Stream New Song
Bracket will release their new album, Too Old to Die Young, on May 31st. Today they’ve released the new song “Canned From The Food Drive.”
The Killers Perform on Kimmel
The Killers performed “Land of the Free” and “All These Things I’ve Done” on Jimmy Kimmel.
Robyn – “Between the Lines” Video
Robyn has released a video for “Between the Lines.”
Mark Hoppus Talks About Fyre Festival
Mark Hoppus talked with NME about the Fyre Festival disaster:
“It was pretty shocking,” Hoppus told NME of his first viewing of the documentary. “It was shocking but not entirely surprising. We had indications kind of early on that there were problems. Our production crew was having problems getting even the most basic of answers as to staging, power and things that you would normally have well in advance of the show. That being said, us and our crew have always prided ourselves on being able to put on a good show.
“If you give us electricity and a stage then we will do our best to put on a great show. We continued in good faith, the show got closer and closer. Travis [Barker, drums] doesn’t fly so he was going to have to get on a boat for several days to get there then our production crew just said, ‘I don’t think that this is going to happen, I think we should pull out now’. That’s when we issued our statement.”
YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant
Mark Bergen, writing for Bloomberg:
Wojcicki and her deputies know this. In recent years, scores of people inside YouTube and Google, its owner, raised concerns about the mass of false, incendiary and toxic content that the world’s largest video site surfaced and spread. One employee wanted to flag troubling videos, which fell just short of the hate speech rules, and stop recommending them to viewers. Another wanted to track these videos in a spreadsheet to chart their popularity. A third, fretful of the spread of “alt-right” video bloggers, created an internal vertical that showed just how popular they were. Each time they got the same basic response: Don’t rock the boat.
Old The Academy Is… Gear Up for Sale
Andrew Mrotek of The Academy Is… has a Reverb Shop where he’s selling some old gear.
New Radio Interview With Simple Creatures
Simple Creatures recently talked with Radio 104.5 in Philly.
Good Charlotte Announce New Tour Dates
Good Charlotte have announced some new tour dates.
Green Day to Release New Book
Green Day will be releasing a new book called Last of the American Girls on October 29th via Dey Street Books.
Named after the song “Last of the American Girls” off “21st Century Breakdown,” the book is described as “an inspiring homage and handbook for the rebellious everywoman who refuses to capitulate,” according to a statement from their publisher. No further details are available at this time, but the book is being further billed as a celebration of “true rebel girls,” another song reference to the “American Idiot” track “She’s a Rebel.”