I posted about Low End University yesterday on the homepage, and since then have gone down the rabbit hole of watching a whole lot of his videos breaking down (and getting into) a bunch of punk classics. Great channel. Highly recommend. Great insight and a genuine delight as he discovers a genre dear to my heart. A handful of my favorites so far:
Bad Suns have shared a video for “Mystery Girl.”
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Today I’m so stoked to bring everyone the latest music video from Tired Radio, an ultra-cool punk rock band from Brooklyn, New York, called “Your Great Escape.” In this great-sounding single, Tired Radio sound anything but tired in this urgent song. Tired Radio shared, “‘Your Great Escape’ is about the impulse to run when shit gets hard—and how that ‘escape’ always catches up with you in the end. It’s a sharp, angry reflection on distance, denial, and the wreckage we leave behind.” If you’re enjoying the early watch, please consider pre-ordering the single and more here.
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The first trailer for Deliver Me from Nowhere, the Bruce Springsteen biopic, has been released.
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HAIM performed “Down to Be Wrong” on Fallon.
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The Offspring performed “Come Out and Play” on Kimmel.
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Motion City Soundtrack’s Warped Tour set has been uploaded to YouTube.
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Low End University did a cool breakdown of the bass playing on Rufio’s “Still.”
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Spanish Love Songs have shared the new song “Lifers Too.”
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Fast cars, loud music, and summertime: These are a few of my favorite things.
I have long been obsessed with the way a windows-down summer car ride can turn a song transcendent. Hearing the right song when you’re cruising down the road without a care in the world? In my opinion, there’s not much in the world that can make you feel more boundless. It’s something about the volume of the music in the car, the way it surrounds you, the reverberations you can feel coursing through the seats, the armrests, the steering wheel, your entire body. It’s something about the wind in your hair, and the sunshine, and the way the summer air smells. It’s definitely something about the freedom summertime brings, especially when you’re young, and especially when you’ve got wheels. Combine all these things with the right song, and it will sound as good as anything you have ever heard.
That’s what I learned at the outset of summer 2008, the first time I listened to the SafetySuit album Life Left to Go in the car. I’d gotten my driver’s license the previous summer, but this would be my first summer with my own car, and it wasn’t lost on me what that meant. That old cliché about wheels giving you wings might be overused, but it’s also accurate, because having a car unlocks so much when you’re a teenager. I didn’t know what the summer was going to bring, but I’d already made up my mind that I was going to make it count, and the freedom of having my own means of transportation was absolutely at the center of that pledge. All I needed was the right song to consecrate my vow. Enter SafetySuit.
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Today I’m thrilled to bring everyone the latest single and music video from singer-songwriter, David Franklin Courtright, called “In A Garden Of Love.” In this moody single/video, David cements himself as a key artist to watch through dreamy vocals paired with soothing visuals. The song comes from David’s new album, Brutal Tenderness, that releases everywhere music is sold on August 8th. If you’re enjoying the early watch, please consider supporting this talented artist here.
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The latest album from Shayfer James, called Summoning, is a sonic wall-of-sound that showcases this talented singer-songwriter’s wit, charm, and crisp songwriting. Shayfer shares on the creation of Summoning, “I decided to sequester myself away on the frozen oceanside of New Brunswick, Canada, because I knew I had a new album in me. I didn’t know what it would sound like or what it would be about, but I knew it was in there and that I wanted to be alone and somewhere beautifully cold when I wrote it. The four weeks I spent writing Summoning were lush with gorgeous sunrises, flocking crows, and self-acceptance. It felt like a spell. A summoning of self. I felt tapped into the ether, and there’s really no better word to describe my time on Cape Tormentine other than ‘magic.'” You can tell that Shayfer James put his whole self into this record that invites the listener in closer to his world, if you’re brave enough to step into the dimly lit hallways of Summoning.
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Charlotte Sands has returned with a new single called “Hush.”
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Hayley Williams joined Remi Wolf on stage to cover “Sweet Thing” and “Tell Me Something Good.” Some fan-shot footage can be found below.
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Stereogum with a nice write-up on (the still criminally underrated) mewithoutYou:
I am writing this on the 10th anniversary of their sixth album, Pale Horses, because I believe that this band, and this album in particular, is still perplexingly overlooked and under-discussed. Part of the reason for this is that it’s hard to explain the band’s appeal. They’re hard to contextualize. Most people just don’t know what their deal is. mewithoutYou appears only sporadically in this fine publication, despite a 20+ year career opening for bands like Cursive and the Dismemberment Plan. One of their songs is namechecked in a 2014 list of 30 songs from the golden era of emo, and there’s a few honorable mentions of their new music in the postscripts of articles about other Songs/Albums of the Week. The only real dedicated coverage came in 2022 in write-ups of the band’s farewell tour.