Lydia Loveless will release the new album, Daughter, on September 25th. Today she’s shared a video for “Love Is Not Enough.”
Read More “Lydia Loveless Announces New Album”Lydia Loveless Announces New Album
Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Kyoto” on Colbert
Phoebe Bridgers performed “Kyoto” on Colbert.
Read More “Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Kyoto” on Colbert”Billie Joe Armstrong Covers “Police on My Back”
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day has shared a cover of “Police on My Back.”
Read More “Billie Joe Armstrong Covers “Police on My Back””Encore: Best of 2005 (Re-Ranking) (#162)
I’ve decided to try something a little different and see how it works. I recorded an audio version of my “Back to 2005” article from a few weeks back and have pushed it out to the Encore podcast feed. I’ve heard from quite a few people that they’d like to see the featured articles (and even the weekly newsletter) in an audio form.1 So, I’m going to start playing around with a few new ideas and see what happens. With the current pandemic and quarantine rules, I’ve got the time.
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Read More “Encore: Best of 2005 (Re-Ranking) (#162)”The written word just doesn’t travel as far these days.↩
Review: The Aces – Under My Influence
On their sophomore record, Under My Influence, The Aces have fully come to terms with who they are as people as well as artists. Led by the trio of singles such as “Daydream,” “My Phone is Trying To Kill Me,” and “Kelly,” The Aces have rounded out their sound that they introduced to the world on their debut, When My Heart Felt Volcanic. As great as their debut LP was, their second record feels more authentic, raw, and present. The most noticeable difference between this record and their debut is their improved songwriting. Also, in recent interviews, the band mentioned their conscious effort to embrace who they truly are by using the proper pronouns in the lyrics to describe their relationships. “Having not used pronouns, I don’t know if we could have gone as deep and personal on this record as we did. That is really just the truth,” Cristal Ramirez remarks. “It was this obvious thing that had to go hand in hand. To get more personal, you have to get more specific and actually bare your soul. Those were the stories of our life. We were dating women, and I was having a lot of different relationships start and end. It had to happen to make this album.” What we are left with is The Aces most honest artistic statement to date.
Read More “The Aces – Under My Influence”Bands on TV (Week of July 20th)
The notable artists in your television this week include: Perfume Genius (Fallon; 7/21), Phoebe Bridgers (Colbert; 7/20), Ben Folds (Colbert; 7/23),
Juice WRLD Tops the Charts
Juice WRLD has the number one album in the country this week:
Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die makes a smashing debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, capturing the largest week of 2020 for any album, as it earned 497,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending July 16, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data.
The set registers the largest streaming week of 2020, and the fourth-largest streaming frame ever for an album.
Kacy Hill – “Just to Say” Video
Kacy Hill has released a video for “Just to Say.”
Read More “Kacy Hill – “Just to Say” Video”All Punked Up Podcast Talking AbsolutePunk.net
I was a recent guest on the All Punked Up Podcast:
Join us as Jason Tate takes us on the entire journey of what it was like to run the now defunct AbsolutePunk.net website in the early 2000s, how the site played a huge part in launching the careers of some of the bands we still love today, what he learned along the way and how he took that knowledge to re-brand what was our old favorite news site as a new and improved version that is now Chorus.fm.
This was a fun trip down memory lane and a nice opportunity to stretch out some of those podcast muscles. (Overcast link.)
Read More “All Punked Up Podcast Talking AbsolutePunk.net”Hayley Williams and Elton John Interview
Hayley Williams and Elton John talked for a new Facetime interview on Apple Music.
Music Venues in England to Reopen With Socially Distanced Audiences
The U.K. government has announced that indoor performances in theaters and other venues in England can take place from Aug. 1, and business events and conferences can resume from Oct. 1. Social distancing rules will have to be observed.
Meanwhile, in the US:
Sunday marked the 41st straight day that the seven-day average for new daily coronavirus infections in the United States trended upward.
Travis Barker Confirms Blink-182/Juice WRLD Collaboration
Travis Barker confirmed in a new video interview that a Blink-182 and Juice WRLD collaboration will be coming out soon. He also announced the band’s new song “Quarantine” will be out shortly, and that the band are trying work on a new EP that could be out by the end of summer.
Read More “Travis Barker Confirms Blink-182/Juice WRLD Collaboration”John Lewis Passes Away
On the front lines of the bloody campaign to end Jim Crow laws, with blows to his body and a fractured skull to prove it, Mr. Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the civil rights movement and the last surviving speaker from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
More than a half-century later, after the killing in May of George Floyd, a Black man in police custody in Minneapolis, Mr. Lewis welcomed the resulting global demonstrations against police killings of Black people and, more broadly, against systemic racism in many corners of society. He saw those protests as a continuation of his life’s work, though his illness had left him to watch from the sidelines.
Tooth & Nail Records Brings Back Compilation
Blast from the past: Tooth & Nail Records have brought back the Songs from the Penalty Box compilation. It is now available on all digital streaming platforms.
Read More “Tooth & Nail Records Brings Back Compilation”Netflix Commits Largest Budget So Far For ‘The Gray Man’
Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans are set to star in The Gray Man, with AGBO’s Joe & Anthony Russo directing their first blockbuster since setting the all-time global box office record with Avengers: Endgame two years ago. The intention here is to create a new franchise with a James Bond level of scale and a budget upward of $200 million.