L7 have announced they’re heading into the studio to record a new album. They’ve launched a PledgeMusic campaign where you can pre-order the album.
L7 Announce New Album
The Offspring Aim for Fall Release
The Offspring announced on WRIF’s Meltdown that the album have ten songs written for their new album. They’re aiming for a fall release.
Prince’s Official Memoir Coming Later this Year
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
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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Kanye West Interviews His Interior Designer
Kanye West interviews his interior designer, Axel Vervoordt, over at The Hollywood Reporter:
The hip-hop mogul interviews his interior designer Axel Vervoordt and reveals his own plans for a philosophy book, thoughts on Virgil Abloh going to Louis Vuitton, and his future goals for the brand: “I don’t wish to be number one anymore, I wish to be water.”
Lynn Gunn Talks With Playboy
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
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
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
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.
Bohnes – “Better Than Me” Video
Robert Smith Talks With BBC Radio 6
Robert Smith of The Cure talked with Shaun Keaveny over at BBC Radio 6. He talks a little about the band preparing to record new music and his upcoming Meltdown Festival.
The Weeknd Tops the Charts
The Weeknd has topped the charts with his surprise release:
The surprise release, which arrived on March 30 via XO/Republic Records, earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 5, according to Nielsen Music — the biggest week for an R&B album in over a year, since his own last album. Of that sum, 68,000 were in traditional album sales.
Also:
Singer Kacey Musgraves collects her third top 10 album, as her seventh studio album Golden Hour bows at No. 4 with 49,000 units (with 39,000 of that sum powered by traditional album sales).
The Lawrence Arms Talk Greatest Hits
Brendan Kelley of The Lawrence Arms talked with Dying Scene about their recent release:
Ever the businessman, Fat Mike of course had a method to his madness. Says Kelly: “He made a good point, or at least I’m attributing this point to him. (He said) ‘the way people consume music these days is that they just go on Spotify and check something out. Wouldn’t you like to have a bunch of good songs in one place so everybody can just go there and you can make sure they’re not getting something that’s not that representative of your band? A greatest hits record is a great way to do that!”