Ariana Grande will release Petal on July 31st.
Ariana Grande Announces New Album
The Menzingers Announce New Album
The Menzingers will release Everything I Ever Saw on July 17th. Today they’ve shared “Chance Encounters.”
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Super Sometimes have shared a video for “Learned My Lesson.”
Read More “Super Sometimes – “Learned My Lesson” Video”Cold Years Studio Update
Cold Years have shared an update from the studio.
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Fender are releasing a limited edition Brian Fallon guitar.
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Thrice and Saves the Day will be opening for Taking Back Sunday on their upcoming tour.
Read More “Thrice Opening Taking Back Sunday Tour”Death Cab for Cutie – “Punching the Flowers” Video
Death Cab for Cutie have released a video for “Punching the Flowers.”
Read More “Death Cab for Cutie – “Punching the Flowers” Video”Taylor Swift Interviewed by NYT
Taylor Swift sat down with the New York Times for a new video interview.
Citizen Announce New Album
Citizen will release Halcyon Blues on August 7th. Today they’ve shared “Highs and Lows.”
Read More “Citizen Announce New Album”Lady Gaga and Doechii – “Runway” Video
Lady Gaga and Doechii have shared their video for “Runway.”
Read More “Lady Gaga and Doechii – “Runway” Video”Korn – “Reward the Scars” Video
Korn have debuted a video for “Reward the Scars.”
Read More “Korn – “Reward the Scars” Video”Bring Me the Horizon Announce New Tour
Bring Me the Horizon have announced some new tour dates.
Read More “Bring Me the Horizon Announce New Tour”Review: Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy
The 12th studio album from Alt Rock legends Foo Fighters, called Your Favorite Toy, is a ten-track effort that was produced by the band and Oliver Roman. This marks the first time Foo Fighters have gone outside of longtime producer/collaborator Greg Kurstin since 2014’s Sonic Highways, and in retrospect that was a bit of a risk on Dave Grohl and his bandmates’ part. Your Favorite Toy sounds like a big rock record, was recorded in Grohl’s home studio in Los Angeles, and yet when you wrap your ears around the LP you can’t help but feel like it’s not up to the same quality of the band’s most recent output. It’s the first Foo Fighters record to have Ilan Rubin (Paramore, NIN, Angels & Airwaves) behind the kit, and he does a commendable (if not the near-impossible) job of filling in for the late Taylor Hawkins. Some of the singles, like “Caught in the Echo” and lead single of “Asking For a Friend”, feel like a blend between what Foo Fighters have done on key albums like Wasting Light and One By One, while the other material that surrounds these key songs could have used a little more fine-tuning.
Read More “Foo Fighters – Your Favorite Toy”The “Green Era” Blossoms During The Maine’s D.C. Concert at the 9:30 Club
If there’s one thing you can say about The Maine, it’s that they know how to put together a great show from top to bottom. During the concert I attended in Washington, D.C. at the legendary 9:30 Club, The Maine’s first headlining tour in nearly 2 years, the experience was incredible. The energy in the crowd was fairly consistent from the time Broadside took the stage, things kept moving during Grayscale, and the audience vibed with the synth rock of Nightly. The Maine proved they belonged on top of the billing, and possibly the world, with a career-spanning set of 22 songs that had at least one track from each of the band’s ten studio albums.
Read More “The “Green Era” Blossoms During The Maine’s D.C. Concert at the 9:30 Club”The People Do Not Yearn for Automation
Nilay Patel, writing at the Verge:
[S]oftware brain has ruled the business world for a long time. AI has just made it easier than ever for more people to make more software than ever before — for every kind of business to automate big chunks of itself with software. It’s everywhere: the absolute cutting edge of advertising and marketing is automation with AI. It’s not being a creative.
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.
Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for automation. I’m a full-on smart home sicko; the lights and shades and climate controls of my house are automated in dozens of ways. But huge companies like Apple, Google and Amazon have struggled for over a decade now to make regular people care about smart home automation at all. And they just don’t.
A thought provoking article that I quite enjoyed.