Plexamp v3

Plex have updated their music player app:

Applications should have a raison d’être. For Plexamp v3, it came down to: play music fast, don’t stop.

I’m all in on Apple Music, but still use Plex for my video library; however, I am always interested in what else is going on in the music player space.

Various Artists to Cover “Times Like These” for Charity

Foo Fighters

Over 20 artists are coming together this Thursday, April 23rd, to cover the Foo Fighters’ “Times Like These.”

The cover of Foo Fighters’ Times Like These, using “phones, pots, pans and acoustic guitars”, according to producer Fraser T Smith, features artists spanning pop, rock, rap, soul, dancehall and R&B, including Dua Lipa, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding.

It will be released as a single, with profits from UK streams and downloads going to Children in Need and Comic Relief to help British people affected by the coronavirus crisis. Profits from international listeners will go to the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund.

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Sponsor: My Thanks to Northvale

Northvale

A huge thanks to Northvale for sponsoring the website and newsletter last week. Northvale are a band from New Jersey in the vein of Sleep On it, Grayscale, and Mayday Parade. Last week they released the brand new song “High Tide” featuring AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer and it’s totally worth your time.

The band has another single on Spotify called “Sleepwalking,” featuring Joey Fleming from In Her Own Words, and they plan to release a new six song EP, recorded at Nada Studios, at the beginning of summer.

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Liner Notes (April 17th, 2020)

Friday already, huh? This week’s newsletter has thoughts on new music, my favorite things I saw online this week, and a rundown of my quarantine media diet. There’s also a playlist of ten songs I liked this week, and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here. I hope everyone is staying safe out there.

If you’d like this newsletter delivered to your inbox each week (it’s free and available to everyone), you can sign up here.

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Manchester Orchestra Launch Patreon

Manchester Orchestra have launched a Patreon:

I feel like artistically, our subscription service should also have a concept, a time frame where there is a theme revolving around what we are releasing each month. This first theme is called “Simple Math/Sinful Math.” Next year marks the ten year anniversary of our third album, Simple Math. While writing that album we always had plans to go back and release a much more raw and exposed version of this album with new songs and no strings. we are already planning a really cool expansive LP including the songs from Sinful Math, acoustic demos, and full band demos to be released next year. I’ve thought about this a lot for many years and my biggest concern was making sure that what we ended up releasing and providing is actually worth your money. I hope this is a way where we can lift the curtain on this album and really pull it apart while also releasing extra goodies and all sorts of content from us. Thank you, as always, for supporting our band and if this is something that you aren’t interested in or can’t afford at the moment I can assure you that we will continue putting all of our best interests and passion into creating the best music that we possibly can. We really love you all.