Underoath sat down with Revolver to talk about their upcoming album:
“One of the best things we ever did was when we agreed not to be a Christian band anymore,” Chamberlain tells Revolver. “And when we made this record the [phrase], ‘that’s not Underoath enough,’ was not allowed to be said because those two things fucking ruined our band in the first place.”
Thomas Nassiff dives into The Wonder Years b-sides over on his blog:
This list is for little more than my own amusement, but I hope that some TWY fan out there takes a look at this and stumbles upon an Actual B-Side or Bonus Track that they never knew existed, and they turn out to love it. The fun thing, too, about Rare Songs, is that they aren’t just for die-hard fans anymore. Back in The Olde Days, you could only find these tracks if you were super-concerned with tracking down every shred of a band’s catalog; the Internet has made it much easier to find this stuff now, to the point where seeing any of these songs played at a Wonder Years show, regardless of when they were released, will usually result in most of the crowd being able to sing along.
Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct hits number two on the charts this week:
At No. 2 on the new Billboard 200, Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self-Destruct roars 42-2 with 65,000 units (up 413 percent), of which 63,000 were in traditional album sales (up 480 percent). The former No. 1 set zooms back up the list following sales generated from a concert ticket/album sale redemption offer for the next U.S./Canadian leg of the band’s WorldWired Tour.
David Marchese, writing for Vulture:
The filters are still there, though. They’re just different. When I was 15, getting into the Clash exposed me to reggae. I’d see that they covered a song by Junior Murvin or that they had a single produced by Lee Perry and dig from there. My younger son does the same thing but in newer ways. He comes home from school in Bali and starts to make a song using his laptop, and he’s looking up what samples Kanye used and that opens the door for him to dig. The tools he has are immediate. He’s not having to go out. It’s so different from how I did it.
Thomas Erak (The Fall of Troy, Chiodos, and a million other side projects) has started a GoFundMe for a new solo album:
I have been working towards putting together a solo record for the last year or so and need to raise money for studio time/travel/housing while I finish and record the album. Also would like to be able to self release. Looking to record mid-April and hoping to release ASAP after it’s all done!
Anthony Green’s Studio 4 Acoustic Session is getting a vinyl pressing. Pre-orders are now up.
Ethan Luck of The Dingees has posted up a podcast series talking about the band’s album, Armageddon Massive, as it turns twenty. He has on members of the band and the producer Steve Kravac.
As of today (3/24/18), our first album turns 20! The album was called ‘Armageddon Massive’ and we recorded it over the course of a month in fall of 1997 at Westbeach Studios in Hollywood, CA.
This record is very important to me. It was the first “big studio” experience I had, the first label I was on and the first time a producer kicked my ass!
Kacey Musgraves new album, Golden Hour, is streaming over at NPR.
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Creeper’s performance on Last Call with Carson Daly is up for your viewing pleasure.
In a submission to the Unicode Consortium today, Apple has proposed a suite of new “accessibility emojis”.
New emojis proposed include a guide dog, hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, as well as people using canes and different types of wheelchairs.
Apple’s short film “Welcome Home,” directed by Spike Jonze and starring FKA twigs as a beleaguered city dweller whose drab apartment becomes a colorful, shape-shifting oasis thanks to her HomePod device, is easily one of 2018’s most captivating ads so far.
Now, we get a behind-the-scenes look at the film, which not only answers all of our questions about how it was made—it might just be the most engaging, comprehensive and flat-out best BTS video we’ve seen for an advertisement.
This behind the scenes video is quite cool.
Real Friends have announced that they are canceling their upcoming tour to focus on mental health:
This has come recommended by both the band and my psychiatrist so I can have time to continue learning to live and deal with my diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Since coming home from recording, I am sober, on new medication, and undergoing an intensive outpatient group therapy program per the recommendation of my therapist.”
I am continuing to better myself so that Warped Tour this summer will be a fresh start for not only me, but for Real Friends as a whole. We all want to be the best possible versions of ourselves as individuals and in turn be the best possible version of Real Friends.
