Mayday Parade have shared a new acoustic rendition of “Lighten Up Kid.”
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Pay-for-Play Was Banned From Radio — But Texts Reveal It May Still Be Thriving
Elias Leight, writing at Rolling Stone:
In June 2019, Mitch Mills, a senior vice president of radio promotion at Elektra Records, sent an urgent text to Steve Zap, an independent radio promoter who works with a number of stations in the adult contemporary format. The pair are both longtime players in the music industry, and have texted each other periodically about Warner Music Group acts, including Panic! at the Disco, Twenty One Pilots, and Fitz and the Tantrums. The June 2019 text shows that Mills was worried because Panic! at the Disco were receiving fewer plays than they had the previous week on a station Zap oversaw. “Stevie … [down] 11 in panic,” Mills wrote. “I just did a 2k deal with you … I need Panic back up.”
The text is one of more than 2,500 messages involving Zap that have been obtained by Rolling Stone. A number of these texts, covering 2018 to July of this year, refer to conversations with major label executives about promotional giveaways and payments to a radio station in connection with airplay – practices that have supposedly been banned.
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Review: Luna Aura – Three Cheers for the American Beauty
On the latest EP from Luna Aura, she explores the female identity and the relationship to American culture and society. Three Cheers for the American Beauty is a hard-hitting record that leaves you wondering whether it’s time to dance, take notice, or join her army of followers. With the pompous stomp of electronica acts such as NIN, to the riot girl approach of bands such as Hole and Garbage, Luna Aura is starting to emerge as a true artist to watch as the year unfolds. With a voice that is equally sweet as it is powerful, she tackles an array of topics on this record that hits its mark more often than not.
Read More “Luna Aura – Three Cheers for the American Beauty”The Most Successful “Scene” Records Over the Past Three Decades
The commercial appeal of emo and punk records is undeniable. In this article, I dove into the most commercially successful albums of the past three decades in our scene. First, I wanted to provide a couple of quick notes about how I pulled this data. I took a look at the most popular pop-punk and emo albums from a Wikipedia article and cross-referenced it with other bands that I knew would be in the vicinity of receiving a Gold (500,000 albums sold) or Platinum (1 million albums sold) RIAA certification. From there, I used the Wikipedia articles on the individual album pages to see if they mentioned any certifications of Gold or above. I then confirmed those totals on the extremely helpful RIAA website. In some cases, I either rounded up or down on the number of albums sold to make the organizing of this list a little bit easier to follow, and these totals are for US sales only. I have organized this list into the three different decades of the 90’s, 00’s and 10’s, and I found it interesting that the vast number of eligible albums occurred during the 00’s era. I hope that you will find this information as enlightening as I did, and there are plenty of surprises to be found in these lists as well.
Read More “The Most Successful “Scene” Records Over the Past Three Decades”Frank Turner and Jon Snodgrass Announce New Album
Frank Turner and Jon Snodgrass have teamed up for the release of Buddies II: Still Buddies. The album will be out on November 13th, and pre-orders are now up. Today they’ve shared a video for “Bad Times, Good Vibes.”
Read More “Frank Turner and Jon Snodgrass Announce New Album”MUNA Remix Of Monsters and Men
MUNA have remixed Of Monsters and Men’s “Visitor.”
Read More “MUNA Remix Of Monsters and Men”‘The Batman’ Pushed Back to 2022
The Batman has been pushed back to March 4th, 2022.
Billie Joe Armstrong to Release ‘No Fun Mondays’ Album
Billie Joe Armstrong will be releasing an album featuring all his No Fun Mondays covers. It’ll be out on November 27th.
Read More “Billie Joe Armstrong to Release ‘No Fun Mondays’ Album”Billie Eilish Performs on Fallon
Billie Eilish performed “No Time to Die” on Fallon.
Read More “Billie Eilish Performs on Fallon”Ten Foot Pole – “My Addiction” (Acoustic)
Ten Foot Pole have shard the acoustic version of “My Addiction.”
Read More “Ten Foot Pole – “My Addiction” (Acoustic)”The Dirty Nil – ““Blunt Force Concussion” Video
The Dirty Nil have shared a video for “Blunt Force Concussion.”
Read More “The Dirty Nil – ““Blunt Force Concussion” Video”Review: Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall
I have to be honest with you. I’m not that familiar with Machine Gun Kelly’s music. Prior to this album, all I knew about the 30-year-old rapper a.k.a. Colson Baker, was that he once had a beef with Eminem, he played Tommy Lee in the Motley Crue biopic “The Dirt” and had a song called “I Think I’m Okay” he made with Yungblud and Travis Barker. When I heard Barker was working with Machine Gun Kelly on a pop-punk project, I raised my eyebrow like The Rock and assumed it was probably something I wouldn’t listen to. Then I heard “Bloody Valentine.”
“Bloody Valentine” has been stuck in my head, in my head, since the first moment I heard it in May. I’ve long been a fan of pop-punk, and this song was right up my alley, taking me back to a time when the genre was at its highest of highs in the early 2000s. “Bloody Valentine” left me wanting more, and suddenly MGK’s new album, Tickets To My Downfall, was one of my most anticipated albums for the fall. When it finally arrived on Sept. 25 after being delayed in the spring thanks to COVID, it completely exceeded my expectations and left me feeling like I was 12 again, when I would listen to Good Charlotte’s The Young and the Hopeless and Blink-182’s Take Off Your Pants and Jacket on repeat.
Read More “Machine Gun Kelly – Tickets To My Downfall”The Vamps – “Better” Video
The Vamps have released a video for the new song “Better.”
Read More “The Vamps – “Better” Video”Dave Baksh of Sum 41 on New Podcast
Dave Baksh of Sum 41 is the latest guest on The Wasting Time Podcast. (Overcast link.)
Machine Gun Kelly Tops the Charts
Machine Gun Kelly has the number one album in the country this week:
The set earned 126,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 1, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It was released on Sept. 25 via EST19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope, and marks the fifth top 10 effort overall for the artist. […]
Notably, Tickets to My Downfall marks the first rock album at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in over a year. The last rock set to top the tally was Tool’s Fear Inoculum, which bowed at No. 1 on the Sept. 14, 2019-dated list and spent one week in charge.