Some of our community members are putting together a fun Halloween compilation of original performances, and they’d like to bring in some new blood to make this extra spooky. (These are their words, I would never use such puns.)
If you’d like to get involved, all the information can be found in this post in our forums.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 has shared a message on the power of music.
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Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
YouTube will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, the company announced this morning. Instead, it will calculate its rankings based only on view counts coming from organic plays. In addition, it’s changing its methodology for reporting on 24-hour record debuts to also only count views from organic sources, including direct links to the video, search results, Watch Next and Trending — but not video advertising.
Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated on paying music streaming royalties to labels: it has acquired SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects; and for people who are looking to distribute music tracks to those who want to license them.
Gary Larson’s The Far Side website has been updated with new art and a caption that reads, “A new online era of The Far Side is coming!” It’s hard to tell whether or not this is teasing new strips or just online versions of the originals, but I’m excited nonetheless.
Agnostic Front will release Get Loud on November 8th. Today they’ve shared the new song “Spray Painted Walls” and pre-orders are now up.
Dashboard Confessional has announced a 20 year celebration tour and compilation album. The album, The Best of the Best Ones, will be released on January 31st and pre-orders are now up.
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Mark Hoppus has shared an unreleased cover of The Cars’ “Just What I Needed” on Soundcloud. It included the following message:
A couple years ago, I was asked to record a creepy cover of Just What I Needed for a tv show. They wanted moody and strange, dark, and drony, with space for dialogue to go over it. I went into the studio with my friend James Ingram and this is what we came up with. The show was cancelled so quickly the episode never aired, but if you can imagine a grim and grizzled detective determinedly working a murder case that shook them to the very core of their being, this is the music the show requested. It’s been sitting on a hard drive ever since, and with the sad news of Ric Ocasek’s passing, I thought I’d put it up here. Enjoy it. And go listen to The Cars.
Belmont have signed to Pure Noise Records and released a video for their new song “By My Side.”
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The new Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock short is now available. Colin Trevorrow directed the eight-minute film, which he co-wrote with Jurassic World 3 screenwriter Emily Carmichael.
Phantom Planet have released their new song “Party Animal.”
The Interrupters have shared a live studio cover of Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.”
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Fall Out Boy have shared the track listing for their upcoming greatest hits album.
Ric Ocasek, the frontman for The Cars, passed away over the weekend.
Ric Ocasek, the songwriter, rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the Cars, was found dead on Sunday afternoon at his townhouse in Manhattan.
The New York Police Department confirmed the death but did not give a cause. Sources have differed on Mr. Ocasek’s age — some saying he was 70 — but a few public records and previous articles about him suggest that he was 75.
My thanks to this week’s sponsor, Chris Vuoncino, who just released the new book, Who Will Survive. The hook for this novel is that it’s inspired by the music of Murder by Death and it’s now available for purchase in paperback and for the Kindle via Amazon.
The blurb for the book reads:
It’s late in the night at Bart’s Saloon, a seedy hangout on the outskirts of small town. The drinks are flowing, patrons are laughing and the Devil himself is at the center of attention. The night seems set to end without conflict until three gun shots ring out and leave the Devil a bloody mess, just a few steps from making his exit. Jack didn’t know he would be pulling the trigger when he entered the bar that night, but he felt justified in his actions as he made his way out the back door of Bart’s. What Jack could not have known, is that the Devil’s idea of revenge is far deeper, far crueler and more far fetched that anything he could imagine. One man’s actions will reverberate throughout a seemingly innocent town and everyone will be forced to fight off their demons, those which haunt them internally as well as externally.
The author received the blessing of the band in creating and publishing this story.