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Disney’s Splash Mountain Being Reimagined

Disney
Jason Tate

Disney:

Splash Mountain – at both Disneyland park in California and Magic Kingdom park in Florida – will soon be completely reimagined. The theme is inspired by an all-time favorite animated Disney film, “The Princess and the Frog.” We pick up this story after the final kiss, and join Princess Tiana and Louis on a musical adventure – featuring some of the powerful music from the film – as they prepare for their first-ever Mardi Gras performance.

The replies to the first tweet I saw about this news this morning was one helluva “people being big mad online” rollercoaster to wake up to.

Daryl Palumbo Talks Third Head Automatica Album

Glassjaw
Jason Tate

Daryl Palumbo of Head Automatica and Glassjaw talked with Alt Press about the third Head Automatica that never was:

You couldn’t get masters. Maybe I have wav files of all these Head Automatica tunes, but they’re not… I feel like it’s mixed, but they’re like there’s still things that I feel like we’re gonna be changed. Everything was very up in the air when we parted ways. And that was it. […] You could put out a fucking record of MP3s that you had into the world. A lot of people maybe would never know that. Maybe, I guess I could. I don’t think I’m on their radar enough for anybody to be like “Those are those magical songs we thought we could have made 1 billion.” If they thought they were gonna make a billion dollars, they would have begged me to put out with them over a decade ago. 

Live Nation Wants Artists to Take Pay Cuts

Jason Tate

Rolling Stone:

Most of the new policies shift financial burdens to artists: For example, the company wants to decrease the monetary guarantees promised to artists before an event by 20% across the board. Live Nation also says that if a concert is cancelled due to poor ticket sales, it will give artists 25% of the guarantee (as opposed to the 100% that promoters are currently expected to pay). Moreover, if an artist cancels a performance in breach of the agreement, the artist will pay the promoter two times the artist’s fee — a type of penalty that, as Billboard notes, is unheard of in the live music industry.

“We are fully aware of the significance of these changes, and we did not make these changes without serious consideration,” Live Nation wrote. The company did not respond to request for comment.

Maybe the CEO didn’t need to be making three million a year.

Deftones to Reissue ‘White Pony’ With Bonus Alternative Album

Deftones
Jason Tate

Deftones will be reissuing White Pony later this year with second disc, called Black Stallion, featuring new remixes. Consequence of Sound reports:

Deftones participated in a virtual press conference with several media outlets on Wednesday, discussing the 20th anniversary of their landmark album White Pony. One of the newsy bits to come out of the chat was that the band plans to release a deluxe edition of the 2000 album with a bonus alternate disc of brand-new remixes dubbed “Black Stallion”.

Lil Baby Tops the Charts

Jason Tate

Lil Baby has the number one album in the country this week:

 It’s the second week at No. 1 for the album, following its debut atop the chart dated March 14. The album then spent the next 13 straight weeks lodged in the top six positions of the chart, between the charts dated March 21 and June 13.

Across the pond, All Time Low debuted at #3 on the UK charts:

At Number 3, US pop-punk band All Time Low claim their fourth Top 10 with Wake Up, Sunshine following its release on CD and vinyl. The band’s eighth album originally debuted at Number 28 back in April when it was released on digital download and streaming services only.

Deftones Complete New Album

Deftones
Jason Tate

Deftones have revealed they’ve completed work on a new album:

“We actually tracked everything over the summer, last summer — June and July — we were in the studio tracking,” said Cunningham. “But we actually just completed everything. … We were down in L.A. recording, but we mixed up in Seattle.”

He added, “We’re working with our old pal Terry Date, who did a bunch of our earlier records and stuff, too. He’s up there [in Seattle] with this whole distancing thing; it was a bit rough, but we figured out a way to kind of do the mixes without being there.”

Hawthorne Heights Benefit Concert Tickets

Hawthorne Heights
Jason Tate

Hawthorne Heights are selling 30 tickets to see the live performance of their benefit concert.

If you want to watch it LIVE at Trojan City Music with us, we are allowed to sell 30 seats. The cost is a 40.00 donation.  Purchase your $40 ticket here and we will donate the money along with all the profits of all the songs purchased.  Your name will be on a will call list at the door to get in. 

Masks will be made available to you, or you can bring your own. We will set everything up to be socially distanced, and as safe as possible. 

Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind

Bob Dylan
Jason Tate

Bob Dylan talked with The New York Times in a new interview:

There’s definitely a lot more anxiety and nervousness around now than there used to be. But that only applies to people of a certain age like me and you, Doug. We have a tendency to live in the past, but that’s only us. Youngsters don’t have that tendency. They have no past, so all they know is what they see and hear, and they’ll believe anything. In 20 or 30 years from now, they’ll be at the forefront. When you see somebody that is 10 years old, he’s going to be in control in 20 or 30 years, and he won’t have a clue about the world we knew. Young people who are in their teens now have no memory lane to remember. So it’s probably best to get into that mind-set as soon as we can, because that’s going to be the reality.

Hawthorne Heights Auctioning Off Songs

Hawthorne Heights
Jason Tate

Hawthorne Heights will be performing a free Facebook concert made up of songs fans can pick by purchasing a dedication.

We will take all the songs purchased and create a set list which will be performed over Facebook Live for everyone to see.  The show will be FREE.  All net profits from the sales of the songs in the set list will be donated to the Ohio NAACP.  We will play as many sets as it takes to fulfill all the songs, because we want to help as much as possible. 

The concert will take place on June 18th at 5:30pm PT.

Test Press Raffle For Gatsbys American Dream, Matt Pryor, and Gates

Jason Tate

Overdue Collection Agency are running a raffle for test presses from Gatsbys American Dream, Gates, and Matt Pryor.

This is a test press solidarity raffle to benefit a fund split between 70+ (and growing) bail networks, mutual aid and racial justice organizations via ActBlue. All money raised will be donated to that fund.

Each ticket is $5 per LP test press and $2.50 per 7 inch test press. Each test press has original artwork and is numbered. We have two copies available of each record, except for Why We Fight test press and the misprinted Ribbons cover. That means for every ticket you buy, you have two chances to win. You can win multiple items, but not duplicate items. Buy as many tickets as you’d like. Free downloads of the music with entry.