Nathan Gray of Boysetsfire is on the latest episode of the Lead Singer Syndrome podcast.
Nathan Gray on Lead Singer Syndrome Podcast
Pinegrove Address “Sexual Coercion” and Announce a New Album
Jenn Pelly, writing at Pitchfork:
Since late 2017, both the band and the alleged victim have focused on coming to a private resolution via a trusted mediator. Until that resolution was reached, Hall said, “there was really no way for us to offer any clarification” to their fans. It was the alleged victim’s request that Pinegrove take a year off from touring and that Hall enter therapy. “We wanted to honor that,” Hall said. “She recognized that we’ve honored it, and has since approved our plan to release an album and play some shows later on this year.” (Their mediator confirmed this.)
Bill Cosby Sentenced to 3 to 10 Years in Prison, Denied Bail
Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to ten years in prison.
Instagram’s Co-Founders Leave Company
Mike Isaac, reporting for The New York Times:
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in coming weeks, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter. The exits add to the challenges facing Instagram’s parent company, Facebook.
Mr. Systrom, Instagram’s chief executive, and Mr. Krieger, the chief technical officer, notified Instagram’s leadership team and Facebook on Monday of their decision to leave, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.
Whoa. This isn’t a good sign for the future of Instagram.
Anti-Flag Talk With PunkNews
Anti-Flag recently sat down with PunkNews to talk about their upcoming acoustic album:
I think that led into this acoustic piece perfectly because we find ourselves chasing our tail with Donald Trump where the story changes every fucking minute. It’s hard not to be knee jerk reactionary to them because they are all vital and important things that are happening. There are still kids in fucking cages. The narrative has changed. How do we let our art not become just as much static and noise as everything else? This was a way for us to revisit some ideas and themes over the last two records that got lost in the shuffle because we have to talk about so many different things and so many different moments.
Carrie Underwood Tops the Charts
Carrie Underwood has the number one album in the country this week:
The set, which was released on Sept. 14 via Capitol Nashville, bows with 266,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 20 according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 251,000 were in traditional album sales.
For those curious, Thrice sold around 16,000 copies of their new album.
SiriusXM to Acquire Pandora for $3.5 Billion
SiriusXM and Pandora have announced acquisition plans before the stock market opens. SiriusXM is offering to acquire Pandora for $3.5 billion in stock, or $10.14 per share. Pandora would continue to exist as an independent service.
‘Breaking Bad’ Getting Anniversary Vinyl Box Set
Breaking Bad’s soundtrack is getting a box set release.
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My Thanks to Sons of Stereo
My thanks to Sons of Stereo for sponsoring the website this week. The band recently released their debut single, “West Coast,” to all digital outlets. The song has a breezy catchy quality to it that seems to mix old fan favorites with some of the newer stylings in our music world. It’s good, you should listen to it!
This single was produced by Kevin Gates (Never Shout Never, The Ready Set) and Nashville-based producer Andrew Pacheco and there will be more music from the band coming very soon. The video for the song can be found on YouTube, and you can follow the band’s social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) for tour dates and to stay up to date on when new music is released.
A Brief Inquiry Into The 1975
Dan Stubbs, writing for NME:
A Cole Porter-like jazz song sounds like a standard and has the killer lyric “I fight crime online sometimes”; a new wave pop song is outwardly about love but is not so subtly an ode to heroin (“I’ve got a 20-stone monkey on my back”), there’s a fragile, beautiful ballad about guilt, one song employs the kind of plastic piano sound last heard on Glenn Medeiros’s ‘Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love For You’; a ‘90s-style alt-rock track, ‘I Always Wanna Die Sometimes’, is a stirringly moving song about depression; a spoken word piece, voiced by Siri, skewers our relationship with the internet in a modern parable. And even in this jumbled up state, it sounds like a masterpiece, a game-changer, a bar-raiser. An absolute stone cold legend masterpiece. It sounds like they’ve done what Matty said all that time ago: they’ve made ‘OK Computer’ for a new generation of kids – ’Snowflake Computer’, if you will.
Streaming Accounts for 75% of Music Industry Revenue
The RIAA have released their mid-year revenue report for the music industry. Patricia Hernandez, writing at The Verge, has a good rundown:
Turns out, streaming makes more money than physical CDs, digital downloads, and licensing deals combined.
Streaming in this context includes paid subscriptions to services such as Spotify and Tidal, but also digital radio broadcasts and video streaming services such as VEVO. It’s a broad category that nonetheless has made $3.4 billion dollars in 2018 so far, a total that amounts to 75 percent of overall revenue for the record industry.
Ticketmaster Recruits Pros for Secret Scalper Program
Box-office giant Ticketmaster is recruiting professional scalpers who cheat its own system to expand its resale business and squeeze more money out of fans, a CBC News/Toronto Star investigation reveals. […] Company representatives told them Ticketmaster’s resale division turns a blind eye to scalpers who use ticket-buying bots and fake identities to snatch up tickets and then resell them on the site for inflated prices. Those pricey resale tickets include extra fees for Ticketmaster.
Spotify to Allow Indie Artists to Upload Music Directly to Service
Dan Rys, writing at Billboard:
Beginning today (Sept. 20), Spotify will begin allowing a select group of independent artists the ability to upload their music directly onto the streaming platform through their Spotify For Artists account, the company announced. […] For those artists who control their copyrights and do not have label or distribution agreements in place, they can log into their Spotify For Artists account, upload their music, fill in relevant metadata information, preview how the upload will look on their page and set the song to go live at a pre-scheduled time
Half of All Cellphone Calls Could Be Scams by 2019
Nearly half of all cellphone calls next year will come from scammers, according to First Orion, a company that provides phone carriers and their customers caller ID and call blocking technology.
The Arkansas-based firm projects an explosion of incoming spam calls, marking a leap from 3.7 percent of total calls in 2017 to more than 29 percent this year, to a projected 45 percent by early 2019.
My tried and true method of just never answering the phone will finally pay off.
Rage Against the Machine to Reissue Discography on Vinyl
Pre-orders are now up for the remastered editions of the entire Rage Against the Machine discography on vinyl.