Month: September 2021

Drake Tops the Charts

Jason Tate

Shocking! Drake has the number one album in the country this week:

Drake’s Certified Lover Boy album makes a spectacular debut atop the Billboard 200 chart with the biggest week for any album in over a year. The long-awaited set, which was released on Sept. 3, is Drake’s 10th No. 1 and starts with 613,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 9, according to MRC Data. That’s the biggest week for an album since the Aug. 8, 2020-dated chart, when Taylor Swift’s Folklore launched at No. 1 with 846,000 units.

Also arriving today, the practically instant classic from @turnstileluvconnection. Already a huge front runner for my favorite album of the year and the kind of band that makes me remember what it’s like to fall head over heels for a record. #vinyl

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Good mail day today, first up is @yelyahwilliams’ ‘Flowers for Vases’ which continues to get plays from me on a regular basis. Can’t wait for fall to hit because I’m sure this will slide very nicely into the colder weather.

Variant: Smoky Pink
#vinyl #hayleywilliams

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Liner Notes (September 11th, 2021)

Sunshine
Jason Tate

This week’s newsletter has broad impressions of the new album from Thrice, first impressions of the new Angels and Airwaves record, random other thoughts about the music I listened to this week, and musings about organizing my music collection (both physical and digital). There’s also a playlist of ten songs I enjoyed this week, and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.

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Jack Antonoff Named Artist in Residence

Bleachers
Jason Tate

Jack Antonoff has been named the artist-in-residence at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music

Antonoff will kick off his residency with a 90 minute, in-depth Q&A conversation on Friday September 10 at 12:00 p.m. ET, moderated by Jason King, Chair of the Clive Davis Institute and  PAM (Producers Against Misogyny) founders and Recorded Music students Lily Amiclo and Stella Smyth. PAM is an organization created to address inequities caused by misogyny in music and to offer educational opportunities in production that foreground people who often fall to the margin in this setting.