Pre-orders for Between the Buried and Me’s Automata II are now up.
Between the Buried and Me Pre-Orders
The Gaslight Anthem’s ‘The ’59 Sound Sessions’ Up for Pre-Order
Side One Dummy have posted up pre-orders for The Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound Sessions (containing previously unreleased demos). It’ll be out on June 15th and some packages come with a new 60-page photo book.
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Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Face Recognition Technology
ACLU:
Marketing materials and documents obtained by ACLU affiliates in three states reveal a product that can be readily used to violate civil liberties and civil rights. Powered by artificial intelligence, Rekognition can identify, track, and analyze people in real time and recognize up to 100 people in a single image. It can quickly scan information it collects against databases featuring tens of millions of faces, according to Amazon.
Amazon is marketing Rekognition for government surveillance. According to its marketing materials, it views deployment by law enforcement agencies as a “common use case” for this technology. Among other features, the company’s materials describe “person tracking” as an “easy and accurate” way to investigate and monitor people. Amazon says Rekognition can be used to identify “people of interest” raising the possibility that those labeled suspicious by governments — such as undocumented immigrants or Black activists — will be seen as fair game for Rekognition surveillance. It also says Rekognition can monitor “all faces in group photos, crowded events, and public places such as airports” — at a time when Americans are joining public protests at unprecedented levels.
One Week Into Spotify’s New Conduct Policy: Penalized Artists See Streams Drop
In the six days since XXXTentacion’s “SAD!” was removed from Spotify’s playlists including RapCaviar, where it held prominent placement, the track’s streams dropped 17 percent per day in the United States on average. That continued rate of decline, Billboard estimates, could cost the rapper as much as $60,000 in revenue in a year from — roughly equivalent to the United States’ median household income — from one song on one service in the U.S. alone.
Dear and the Headlights Press Albums to Vinyl
Dear and the Headlights have put up pre-orders for a new pressing of their albums.
Post Malone Top the Charts Again
Post Malone still has the number one album in the country:
For the third week in a row, Post Malone’s beerbongs & bentleys sits atop the Billboard 200 chart dated May 26, as the album earned 147,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 17 (down 24 percent), according to Nielsen Music.
Arctic Monkeys debuted at number eight:
Arctic Monkeys arrive with their third top 10 album, as Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino debuts at No. 8 with 47,000 units (37,000 in traditional album sales).
How the Music Industry Messed Up Legal Streaming the First Time Around
Ernie Smith, writing for Motherboard:
In the roughly 24 months between the time Napster shut down its popular free service and Steve Jobs announced the iTunes Music Store to the public, the music industry tried to create legal replacements, but the lack of precedent was a problem. Nobody could figure out exactly what a legal digital music industry was supposed to look like, or how it was supposed to work.
Kendrick Lamar Interrupts White Fan Who Rapped The N-Word Onstage
Yeah, when you are on stage singing with Kendrick Lamar, you shouldn’t drop the n-word. We learned this in the first episode of Scrubs, come on.
Chris Dudley of Underoath on New Podcast
Chris Dudley of Underoath is on the latest episode of the It’s All Dead podcast.
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Forever the Sickest Kids Announce ‘Underdog Alma Mater’ Vinyl
Forever The Sickest Kids are celebrating the ten year anniversary of Underdog Alma Mater by pressing it to vinyl:
In honor of the 10 year anniversary of our first full-length album, “Underdog Alma Mater”, we are officially announcing the limited edition vinyl! Oddly enough, “Underdog Alma Mater” is the only Forever the Sickest Kids full-length album so far that never got a vinyl edition, so we are in the process of getting these pressed and ready to ship as fast as possible!
The Honorary Title Re-Press Self-Titled Album
The Honorary Title’s self-titled album was reissued on vinyl today with three previously unreleased bonus tracks.
10 Dead in Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting
A male student was in custody on Friday morning after a shooting spree inside a high school in southeast Texas left at least 10 people dead, the majority believed to be students, and 10 wounded, the authorities said.
Again, and again, and again this happens. I’m just so tired.
Mark Hoppus Talks Las Vegas Residency
Mark Hoppus talked with Las Vegas Magazine about Blink-182’s upcoming residency:
Well, we want to make a show that appeals to people who are huge blink-182 fans, who have been following us forever and want to see some of the older stuff, some of the deeper cuts, but we also want to put on a great show for people who are in Vegas for the weekend, who decide, “I want to see blink-182,” so we’re trying to put together a set that will appeal to hardcore fans as well as people who are coming out to their first blink-182 show.
When discussing the idea of something for the 20th anniversary of Enema of the State (next year), Mark said:
Next year will be 20 years of Enema of the State, so it’s definitely something we’ve talked about and is on the horizon. I don’t know that we’ll do a whole album for the residency in Vegas, but it’s definitely something that we plan to do in the future.
Tidal Hits Back Against Rumors of Wrongdoing With Its Own Investigation
Amy X. Wang, writing at Rolling Stone:
As the list of fraud accusations against Jay-Z’s Tidal lengthens, the music-streaming service is countering with its own investigation – not into the accuracy of its data, but into how that data had been potentially breached. […] In a statement provided to Rolling Stone on Friday, Tidal CEO Richard Sanders emphatically rejected DN’s claims – but, in what may appear a bit of a contradiction, said the company is asking an “independent, third party cyber-security firm” to review a potential data breach.