The Wonder Years have covered R.E.M’s “Losing My Religion” as an exclusive for Amazon.
The Wonder Years Cover R.E.M
RiotFest Offering $99.98 Tickets
RiotFest will be offering $99.98 tickets to the festival for a limited time due to the Ticketfly ticketing hack. The full message from RiotFest can be found below.
Facebook Loses Over $110 Billion in Market Value
Todd Spangler, writing for Variety:
Shares of Facebook plunged more than 19% in early trading Thursday, as investors reacted to signs that the social-media giant’s user and revenue growth are significantly slowing down.
The stock drop, to its lowest levels in nearly three months, wiped out more than $110 billion in market capitalization for Facebook and dragged down other internet and tech stocks including Twitter and Snap. Facebook’s market cap was $629.6 billion at the close of market Wednesday, and stood at around $503 billion as of Thursday at 10:30 a.m. ET.
Ouch.
The Interrupters Talk With Billboard
Chris Payne, writing for Billboard:
“She’s Kerosene” rose 25 percent in spins last week at alternative radio and currently sits at No. 32 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart, its peak position in three weeks on the tally. It just debuted on Rock Airplay (which covers all rock formats), so it’s certainly trending in the right direction. Contemporary alt radio doesn’t play much punk and is generally slow to play to female singers, across all genres. So why is there a decent chance your normie Facebook friends from high school will know this song by Labor Day? Allen (who goes by Aimee Interrupter now) and guitarist Kevin Bivona aren’t quite sure, but they’ve got wisdom to share.
That song is a bona fide hit and this album is really fun.
Dagny Covers Fleetwood Mac
Dagny covered Fleetwood Mac’s “Landslide” for the TV show, The Bold Type. Check it out on streaming services.
Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade on New Podcast
Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade is on the most recent episode of the It’s All Dead podcast to discuss the band’s history with Warped Tour, how the band members have grown/evolved as people and musicians over the past decade, and about the business side of being in a band.
Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris Team Up for New Children’s Book
Author Dave Eggers and The Matches’ Shawn Harris have teamed up for a new children’s book called What Can a Citizen Do? Pre-orders are now up.
A group of children turn a lonely island into a community across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions. Coming this September, available to preorder now via Chroniclebooks.
A dollar of every book preordered will be donated to @citizenuniversity, a national platform for fostering responsible and empowered citizenship!
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Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red Publishes New Book
Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red has released a new book called Mountains:
Mountains is a devotional for men and women who want to hear real stories of faith, struggle, defeat, and wins and are tired of Christian cliches and platitudes. Follow Grammy-nominated musician, Jake Luhrs of August Burns Red, as he guides you through the Mountains he’s faced in life, and came out stronger in his relationship with God.
Demi Lovato in Stable Condition
Demi Lovato is in stable condition after being rushed to the hospital yesterday:
Demi’s rep tells TMZ, “Demi is awake and with her family who want to express thanks to everytone for the love, prayers and support. Some of the information being reported is incorrect and they respectfully ask for privacy.”
The Living End Announce New Album
The Living End will release their new album, Wunderbar, on September 28th. Pre-orders are now up.
Former MTV VJ Jesse Camp Reported Missing
Francesca Bacardi, writing at Page Six:
A spokesman for the Riverside Police Department in California confirmed to Page Six on Monday that Camp, whose real name is Josiah Camp, was reported missing on July 19 by his sister. Friends and family have been sharing concerned messages on social media, asking anyone for information on his whereabouts.
Camp, 38, rose to fame in 1998 when he became an MTV VJ after winning the network’s first “Wanna Be a VJ” contest. He had previously been homeless.
Drake Tops the Charts, Again
Drake once again has the number one album in the country this week:
For a third straight week, Drake’s Scorpion holds at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The set earned 260,000 equivalent album units in the week ending July 19, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 29,000 were in traditional album sales.
‘Batman: The Animated Series’ Comes to Blu-Ray
Batman: The Animated Series is coming to Blu-Ray on October 16th. Pre-orders are up on Amazon.
Matt Healy Talks With The Guardian
The 1975’s Matt Healy sat down with The Guardian to talk about the band’s upcoming album:
He selects a song that doesn’t sound at all anxious. It is surprisingly loose after ILWYS’s gleaming 80s pop architecture: all spilling piano chords, trumpet solos and vocals from the London Gospel Community Choir. It is about forgiving and mending himself. “I’m scared of the world,” he says. “I’m not scared of myself any more.”
Sparkling with Springsteen-like festivity, “It’s Not Living If It’s Not With You” is about addiction: “Collapse my veins wearing beautiful shoes,” Healy sings. There is a mellow song about rehab and he reckons their “Drake-y” tropical house experiment will be their biggest hit. The night before, Healy saw James Taylor live and marvelled at the simplicity of his enduring hits. One lounge jazz number on the album is exactly that kind of love song, about passing the age where young people once settled down, and loosely fits the album’s theme of how the internet affects relationships, says Healy.
Taylor Swift to Star in ‘Cats’ Movie Adaptation
Alex Ritman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter:
Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden and Ian McKellen are set to star in the film, to be directed by Tom Hooper and telling the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they make what is known as “the Jellicle choice” and decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new life.