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.
Do you have a product, service, or new album release you’d like to tell our audience about? Maybe a cool new app or merch item? Whatever it may be, we have a variety of advertising options available to help you reach our audience and get your name in front of over a hundred thousand people a month.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
When you upgrade your forum account you gain access to exclusive content, Dark Mode, an ad-free browsing experience, and you’re helping support this website.
Don’t have a forum account but want access to Dark Mode and an ad-free experience on the main website? Become a patron for only $3 per month (or $25 annually) and you’ll get the perks while also helping us maintain our independence as a publisher.
I’m hoping that we can convince about 200 more of you to become supporters in the next few months, which will put us in a position that we will have full independence to operate this website for the foreseeable future. This will let me be able to focus more on content and bringing in new writers and voices, and continue to improve the forum experience and platform for everyone.
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.
Dan Ozzi, writing at Noisey, looks at the collapse of Side One Dummy Records:
Many SideOneDummy artists who spoke to Noisey were reluctant to comment publicly on their situations since their futures with the label are currently being determined. Some have pre-existing contract renewal options under evaluation, others are in the process of obtaining rights to their back catalog from the label, and those with recent or future releases are working with the label on promotional strategies going forward. And since SideOneDummy has largely been home to small to mid-level acts that largely don’t employ lawyers or managers, most have been left to navigate negotiations on their own, and lack the business acumen to do so.
Rachael Krishna, writing for Buzzfeed:
An online harassment campaign and culture war called #Comicsgate is underway against people pushing to diversify the comic book industry, with trolls and their influential enablers targeting those calling for increased representation for women, different races, and the LGBT community.
Several comics superfans and creators are calling it a dark evolution of the Gamergate controversy that targeted women participating in video game culture with abuse.
Tony Pierce looks at seven iconic movie posters designed by Tom Martin and tells the story behind them:
While at Universal, one of the most unique design challenges Martin faced came from Jurassic Park director Steven Spielberg.
The assignment? Create a logo that could brand both the movie and the fictional theme park in it.
“We visited the set during the production and saw some of the dinosaurs and props,” says Martin. “They were actually going to have branded products, merchandise in the store in the film. They needed a logo to put on the items in the gift shop.”
Lucas Shaw, writing for Bloomberg:
People who treat YouTube like a music service, those passively listening for long periods of time, will encounter more ads, according to Lyor Cohen, the company’s global head of music. “You’re not going to be happy after you are jamming ‘Stairway to Heaven’ and you get an ad right after that,” Cohen said in an interview at the South by Southwest music festival.
Correct, in fact I’d be so annoyed I’d go sign up for a music service like Spotify or Apple Music instead.