Month: May 2019

Sponsor: Check Out SupMikecheck’s New Song Featuring AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer

SupMikeCheck
Sponsored Post

My thanks to SupMikecheck for sponsoring the website this week.

SupMikecheck recently released his new single “Never Be” featuring AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer. The song comes from the upcoming album, You Never Really Cared, due out later this summer.

The song is also available on Spotify and Apple Music.

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Liner Notes (May 10th, 2019)

Summer
Jason Tate

New Blink-182 music week means I’ve got a lot to say.

I’ve decided to try something a little different, and I’m going to start sending out this newsletter to anyone that would like it via email. If you’d like to have it delivered to your inbox each week, you can sign up here. On the website itself, it will remain a supporter only feature, but I put a lot of time into it each week and want it also to reach more people. And I’ve heard from some supporters that they wish they could share it with a few friends, so I’m going to try this and see if it may be a happy medium. I hope that if you sign-up to read it, and like it, you’ll end up becoming a supporting member so that I can keep writing it. To give you an idea of what you’ll get each week, I’ve made this issue free for all.

In this week’s roundup, I write a lot about Blink-182’s new single and everything surrounding its release. I also share some thoughts on new music I heard this week and the albums coming out that I think are worth your time. Then I go through my usual weekly media diet, share a playlist of ten songs I loved this week, and share some of the new things I rolled out around the website.

This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.

Reminder: If you’d like this newsletter delivered to your inbox each week, you can sign up here.

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Review: An Horse – Modern Air

An Horse
Adam Grundy

Typically when bands take a hiatus, it can have a damaging effect on both the band and their fanbase alike. Much like a train falling off the tracks, sometimes these events can have severe consequences on a band’s ability to come back, regroup, and remain focused on putting out great music for the right reasons. Luckily, An Horse are one of those bands whose hiatus worked well in their favor, as they sound refreshed and reenergized with a collection of songs made directly for their longtime fans. Modern Air captures the earlier magic of their first two albums, while still coming up with a few new tricks along the way to acquire some new fans along the way in their rebirth.

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The Brave Explosions of Charly Bliss

Charly Bliss
Jason Tate

Charly Bliss talked with Stereogum about their new album:

“I went through a long period of time where I felt I was the reason that we weren’t progressing, because we weren’t playing with any bands that had women in them. I was like, ‘Oh, everything I’m singing about is wrong, my voice is wrong, my voice is hyper-feminine,’ she says. “I felt it was so not what everyone else was doing. We would play with these all dude bands, like every show we would play would be like us, four white dudes, five white dudes, six white dudes, and then like me. Then I think lyrically, too, I write from a very feminine perspective and I’m not at all ashamed of that, but when I first started with our band I felt really ashamed of that. I was like, ‘Maybe I am the problem.’”

Don’t sleep on this album.

Charly Bliss Do a Track by Track Breakdown

Charly Bliss
Jason Tate

Charly Bliss broke down their new album over at Consequence of Sound:

I started writing this song the day that everyone in Hawaii was alerted to a nuclear missile headed their way. Luckily it ended up being a false alarm, but that day I couldn’t stop thinking about actually living out the end of your world, and THE world, and how devastated I would be by the loss of things that are for the most part, really simple and small. To me, this bizarre event and the feelings of panic and global mistrust that ensued also echoed all of the horrible events that have taken place politically in our country in the past several years. This is a love song to little moments that make me feel like we might make it out the other end.