Welcome back to Track List, your monthly dose of 30 songs aimed to match the time of year, sequenced into a playlist for you to vibe out to however you see fit. Hopefully some names will be familiar, and hopefully some will give you a new discography to dive into. Drop me a line with some of your seasonal favorites and check back every month for a new playlist.
You can find the playlist on Spotify and Apple Music and read more about the selections below.
Artist Vice have just released two new songs, “Move The Room” and “Mystery.” You can find the release on Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp, and most streaming platforms.
Note: I messed up yesterday when I posted this week’s sponsor and wrote about the band’s previous EP, and not their new one. So, everyone should definitely check out this new EP because I’m an idiot. – Jason
Blink-182 performed “I Really Wish I Hated You” on Monday Night Football’s halftime show. It seemed to give the song quite the boost as it’s now shot up to #19 on the iTunes Charts.
Bayside have announced a “Battle of the Bands” contest to find local artists to open up for them on their upcoming tour.
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Matty Healy of The 1975 is on the latest episode of The Green Room podcast. He talks about wanting to produce a Springsteen-like Taylor Swift acoustic album among other topics.
Face to Face have shared the live version of “All For Nothing.”
Sturgill Simpson has announced some new tour dates.
Refused have announced some new tour dates.
I’m putting together a slideshow for the upcoming rehearsal dinner and found some photos from my freshman year of college. Those stickers on the side of this giant computer are hilarious. That’s the computer and dorm I created most of AbsolutePunk from. 🤣
Red City Radio’s new song “Love a Liar” can be streamed below.
Chris Carraba of Dashboard Confessional has set up a Reverb Shop to sell a bunch of old gear.
The haunting first lyrics on “Leather Daddy” from Microwave ‘s latest record, Death is a Warm Blanket, come in packed with depth, substance, and relatability. When front-man/guitarist Nathan Hardy sings, “If you don’t want to talk, then just don’t talk /I’m fine with us just sitting in silence / If you want me to go then just say so / You can drop me off somewhere / I don’t know…I don’t have anywhere to go,” it’s nearly impossible not point to a relationship or friendship in the past or present that fits in with this rhetoric. We’ve all been in relationships when things just aren’t clicking, and it feels like we reach a point where we stop caring. Microwave are able to bottle up a ton of angst and polish it up enough to make an album worthy of being engulfed in.
Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 talks with Vogue about the band’s new album:
For their new material, the group asked themselves one question: What do we have to say about the world today? “The world is in a really strange place right now,” lead singer Hoppus tells Vogue. “This record is about being a human being in 2019: the joy, fear, and anxiety of it.” He’s not wrong. From a U.S. president who’s more corrupt than ever to technology making us all feel disconnected and sad (“people are growing distant from one another,” Hoppus says), the daily headlines can be, well, a tad overwhelming; on Nine, Blink-182 use music to cope with it all.
