Pennywise are going to be playing their first five albums live. The shows will be in March, tickets on sale this Friday, and I am ridiculously jealous of anyone that gets to go to these shows.
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Frank Turner has released the new song “A Wave Across a Bay.”
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Muse have shared a video for the new song “Won’t Stand Down.”
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Korn have returned with the new song “Forgotten.”
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Maren Morris will release her new album, Humble Quest, on March 25th.
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The Suicide Machines are teaming up with Rootless coffee for release of beans.
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Christian Lee Hutson will release the new album, Quitters, on April 1st. Today he’s released a video for “Rubberneckers.”
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Foo Fighters have shared a trailer for the upcoming horror film, Studio 666.
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Mitski has shared a video for “Love Me More.”
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Fresh off a well-received fourth album in After Hours, paired with a brilliant performance at last year’s Super Bowl halftime show, The Weeknd has returned with his next thrilling opus called Dawn FM. The set of 16 songs, interspersed with dialogue and various interludes, plays out like a futuristic radio show meant for the dance floor. The album features a litany of producers, that includes The Weeknd, Max Martin, and Calvin Harris among many others, yet this record never strays from its utmost purpose of being a beacon of light towards its theme of being a metaphor for purgatory. In a recent interview with Billboard, The Weeknd expanded on this concept by explaining, “Picture the album being like the listener is dead. And they’re stuck in this purgatory state, which I always imagined would be like being stuck in traffic waiting to reach the light at the end of the tunnel. And while you’re stuck in traffic, they got a radio station playing in the car, with a radio host guiding you to the light and helping you transition to the other side. So it could feel celebratory, could feel bleak, however, you want to make it feel, but that’s what ‘The Dawn’ is for me.” The styles of new wave, to dance pop, all the way to funk and EDM thrown into the mix, make for an ultra-refreshing listening experience. The first major release of 2022 has arrived in a big way.
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Kevin Devine will release Nothing’s Real, So Nothing’s Wrong on March 25. Today he’s released the new song “Albatross.”
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Paramore are back in the studio and have talked a little with Rolling Stone about their progress:
Along with marking their first album in half a decade, Paramore’s next LP will also be the first Williams, Farro, and York have ever started and finished together as a trio. Noting he came in halfway through the making of After Laughter, Farro says, “It’s really exciting because the three of us have completely different strengths when it comes to creating. It’s making the music and just the whole process of making a Paramore album feel completely new.”
As for the album’s sound, Williams says she and York had been reminiscing on some of their earliest influences well before they began writing the LP. But she’s quick to note that that doesn’t necessarily mean the group is necessarily plotting a “comeback ‘emo’ record.”
“The music we were first excited by wasn’t exactly the kind of music we went on to make,” Williams says. “Our output has always been all over the place and with this project, it’s not that different. We’re still in the thick of it but some things have remained consistent from the start. 1) More emphasis back on the guitar, and 2) Zac should go as Animal as he wants with drum takes.”
The Weeknd has released a video for “Gasoline.”
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Jimmy Eat World and Dashboard Confessional has announced a new tour.
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The Encanto soundtrack was the best selling album last week:
The soundtrack to the Walt Disney animated musical film Encanto surges to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart (dated Jan. 15), as the set jumps 7-1 in its sixth week on the list. It’s the first soundtrack to hit No. 1 in more than two years – since Disney’s own Frozen II chilled atop the list for one week, on the chart dated Dec. 14, 2019.