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Underoath Talk With Upset Magazine

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Underoath sat down to talk about their latest album with Upset Magazine:

“When you’re a kid in a band, you play together because you all like the same stuff,” explains Spencer. “It’s tough when you leave your teens because you start becoming individuals and different people. That’s weird, and you don’t know how to handle it. As time goes on, you go in different directions. You miss how it used to be. It’s a hard place to grow up.”

But grow up they did. It wasn’t until someone revived their group chat with the reminder that Define The Great Line was about to turn ten and maybe they should play a show, that Underoath returned.

Ian MacKaye’s Visceral Relationship With Life

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Ian MacKaye sat down with Michael Friedman at Psychology Today:

And so I talked with MacKaye to understand how he was able to cultivate an ethos that was so creative artistically, innovative professionally and ethical personally. During our conversation, three very clear principles emerge that have guided his approach to life. First, whereas others passively accept what is presented to them and may actually find comfort in societal norms, MacKaye questions everything.

Cardi B Tops the Charts

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Cardi B has the number one album in the country this week:

The set, which was released on April 6 through The KSR Group/Atlantic Records, earned 255,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 12, according to Nielsen Music. That’s the second-biggest week of 2018, trailing only the arrival of Justin Timberlake’s Man of the Woods, which bowed with 293,000 units on the Feb. 17-dated chart.

For those curious Underoath and The Wonder Years both sold around 21,000 copies of their new albums in the first week.

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Prince’s Official Memoir Coming Later this Year

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Variety:

Newberg said Prince was committed to the book project and working with author Dan Piepenbring. Prince delivered about 50 handwritten manuscript pages before his death. Newberg said the long-awaited book is expected to be published just in time for the holiday season and may include reproductions of Prince’s longhand pages.

Taking Back Sunday Part Ways with Eddie Reyes

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Eddie Reyes and Taking Back Sunday have parted ways:

Guitarist Eddie Reyes and Taking Back Sunday have parted ways due to personal reasons. Eddie was a founding member of the band and his contributions can be felt all along the way. John, Shaun, Mark and Adam love Eddie, wish him well in his future endeavors and look forward to hitting the road soon, starting in Mexico on April 26 and traveling to the UK and Germany in late May. After that they will spend the summer touring the US with long-time friends Coheed and Cambria.

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I’m hoping that we can convince about 200 more of you to become supporters in the next few months, which will put us in a position that we will have full independence to operate this website for the foreseeable future. This will let me be able to focus more on content and bringing in new writers and voices, and continue to improve the forum experience and platform for everyone.

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Lynn Gunn Talks With Playboy

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Lynn Gunn of PVRIS sat down with Playboy ahead of Coachella:

But Gunn is no superhuman: that confidence, to “hone her more masculine side”, hasn’t come easily or all at once. “It’s still being discovered,” she admits. And it’s that bravery to share her vulnerable journey that has earned her both a commanding presence in a flooded industry. While reminiscing about how she got to where she is today, Gunn looks back to her childhood as a girl dressed in boy’s clothes—before puberty happened: “[In] middle school and high school I felt pressured to dress more feminine.”

It’s Playboy, so it’s NSFW.

HIRS Stream New Album

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HIRS’ new album is streaming over at NPR.

The HIRS Collective has a unified purpose: to defend, examine and extol the survival of trans and queer outcasts. After a series of several 7″s and cassettes, its proper debut album, Friends. Lovers. Favorites., the band with an anonymous and fluid membership focuses its mission.

Apple Music Hits 40 Million Subscribers

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Apple Music has hit 40 million subscribers:

The service still has a ways to go before it surpasses Spotify, which currently has 70 million paid Premium subscribers. A report in The Wall Street Journal earlier this year suggests that Apple Music’s quicker growth rate (five percent versus Spotify’s two percent growth) could mean it surpassing the Swedish streaming service as soon as this summer, however.

Spotify and Hulu Team Up for Joint $12.99 Plan

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Janko Roettgers, writing for Variety:

Hulu and Spotify unveiled a new subscription bundle for avid streaming fans Wednesday: The plan, “Spotify Premium, now with Hulu,” combines a full Spotify a la carte subscription with Hulu’s entry-level on-demand service for $12.99 per month.

Bought individually, both plans would have a combined price tag of close to $18. The new bundle is initially available only to existing Spotify Premium subscribers in the U.S., who also get a chance to try out Hulu for three months for just 99 cents.

You can sign up here.

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