The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die will release their new album, Always Foreign, on September 29th. Pre-orders are now up.
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The Wonder Years’ new acoustic EP, Burst & Decay, is now up for pre-order. The album will be released on September 22nd.
The NJPP Archives are attempting to archive a bunch of music, videos, and flyers from a specific era of “New Jersey Pop Punk.” There’s some really interesting stuff on here worth looking at, including:
And quite a bit more. It’s pretty nuts scrolling through this list and seeing so many great bands.
Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters sat down with Rolling Stone:
To write the lyrics, Grohl rented an AirBnB in Ojai, California. “I brought a case of wine and sat there in my underwear with a microphone for about five days, just writing,” he says. “It happened at the perfect time. I was inspired by what was going on with our country – politically, personally, as a father, an American and a musician. There was a lot to write about.”
Simple Plan’s No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls is coming to vinyl. Pre-orders are up on Amazon and SRC Vinyl.
Trent Reznor recently sat down with Vulture:
I was bummed out by the result. It took the wind out of my sails as far as thinking of direct-to-customer as a sustainable business for a musician. In a way, that experience gave me a preemptive look at music today. You’re not making money from albums; instead they’re a vessel for making people aware of you. That’s what led me to thinking that a singular subscription service clearly is the only way this problem is going to be solved. If we can convert as many music fans as possible to the value of that, in a post-ownership world, it would be the best way to go.
The iPod nano and the iPod shuffle are no more:
The iPod touch remains. With its 10th anniversary just a few months away, I wonder how long it has left. In July 2015, Apple gave it the A8 processor from the iPhone 6, along with better cameras and increased storage capacity. The Touch’s pricing and capacities were adjusted today, but the product saw no other changes.
Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie sat down with Stereogum:
We’ve been demoing some songs here and there with Dave [Depper] and Zack [Rae], who are gonna be a part of this next record, people who are members of the band now. I feel like they know our band better than we do, because they were outside of it for so long. Their aesthetic take on the material is so valuable because they were fans of the band before they were in the band, so they could say like, “I want what you think you’re doing with this song, but you’re not pulling it off.”
Jessie Ware debuted the new song “Midnight” on BBC Radio 1.
A new listing on Amazon has The Wonder Years releasing an acoustic EP called Burst & Decay on September 22nd.
A 1 percent pop in the shares of Amazon.com — the internet company Mr. Bezos founded, which accounts for the vast majority of his wealth — was enough to bump him over the wealth of Mr. Gates, the philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, according to a real-time list of billionaires by Forbes.com, which has tallied the fortunes of the uber-rich for decades.
Forbes now estimates the wealth of Mr. Bezos, currently Amazon’s chief executive, at about $90.6 billion, compared with $90 billion for Mr. Gates.
Hayley Williams of Paramore sat down with Track Seven:
It was both of those things,” she says. “[The lyrics] literally came from a page in my diary. What I couldn’t have known at the time was that I was feeding into a lie that I’d bought into, just like so many other teenagers – and many adults – before me. The whole, ‘I’m not like the other girls’ thing… this ‘cool girl’ religion. What even is that? Who are the gatekeepers of ‘cool’ anyway? Are they all men? Are they women that we’ve put on top of an unreachable pedestal?
Gerard Way sat down with the Nerdist, he spoke a little about the influence Chester Bennington had on his life:
His band and bringing us on tour, that changed my life. I met my wife. We have an amazing life now and a daughter. My memories of that period and meeting Linds again are tied into Chester and his band. It’s so sad. I think a lot about mental health and it’s something I’ve always wanted to address in Doom Patrol, so I definitely think we’ll see a lot more of that now. I’ve been through depression, dark times, and therapy. I can really apply that stuff to these characters.
MTV have announced their VMA nominees.
President Trump announced on Wednesday that the United States will no longer “accept or allow” transgender people in the United States military, saying American forces “must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory” and could not afford to accommodate them.
Another day, another disgrace. It’s also worth nothing that the “cost” argument is bullshit.