Cove Reber (formerly of Saosin) will be joining Scary Kids Scaring Kids on a 2020 tour.
I lost a lot of faith in music after Saosin. And I stopped listening to heavy music. This is one of those moments where I feel like everybody, even if they’re 34 or 30, are going to be that 21- or 22-year-old kid that they were when they went to see Scary Kids. And the whole place is just going to explode.
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Luke Combs has the number one album in the country this week:
The country album, which was released on Nov. 8 via River House/Columbia Nashville, launches with 172,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 14, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 109,000 were in album sales.
Black Flag have announced some new tour dates.
iDKHOW has released a new Christmas EP called Christmas Drag to streaming services.
Ralph has released the new EP, Flashbacks & Fantasies, to all streaming services.
Sarah Perez, writing at TechCrunch:
With Apple Music Replay, subscribers will get a playlist of their top songs from 2019, plus playlists for every year you’ve subscribed to Apple Music, retroactively. These can be added to your Apple Music Library, so you can stream them at any time, even when offline. Like any playlist, your Apple Music Replay can also be shared with others, allowing you to compare top songs with friends, for example, or post to social media.
Here’s mine for 2019. Looks about right.
Jimmy Eat World talked with The Ringer about their latest album and career:
After paying for two videos that ended up in the scrap heap, Lind figures, “Fuck it, it can’t get any worse.” So it’s understandable they blindly let frontman Jim Adkins run with his idea for their latest single, “555”: “a science-fiction postapocalyptic nightmare filled with clones and an evil galactic master,” played by Adkins, looking like he fell face first into a bag of bleached flour.
Jeff Rosenstock & Laura Stevenson have released a new EP, titled Still Young, of Neil Young covers to all streaming services.
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Panic! at the Disco have set the record for most consecutive weeks spent at number one on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs Chart. They dethroned Imagine Dragons.
Kenny Vasoli talked with the Dallas Observer, about the current status of The Starting Line:
“The Starting Line is more of a tradition than a band at this point … and I’m very careful to not fuck with the legacy of this band,” Vasoli says. “I don’t just wanna shit out another record because it would mean more money or attention for us. Things go so well when we just do what we do.”
Kevin Rutherford, writing at Billboard:
Interest in My Chemical Romance’s impending reunion isn’t just translating to ticket sales. The band reaches multiple Billboard charts dated Nov. 9 following the rockers’ Oct. 31 reunion announcement, while its catalog also saw leaps in sales and streams. […]
My Chemical Romance earned 7,000 equivalent album units, a 12% jump, with 2,000 of that sum in album sales (up 21%). As for song downloads, the four-piece moved 2,000 (up 33%), and in all, MCR accrued 11.4 million on-demand streams, a leap of 10%.
Billboard has confirmed that Jarrod Alexander will be the drummer on the upcoming My Chemical Romance tour dates.
Andrew Bird has released the new Christmas EP, Hark!, too all streaming services.
Federico Viticci, writing at MacStories:
For people who want to stay on top of every new music release from their favorite artists, the tools available in Apple Music alone aren’t enough. And I understand why Apple doesn’t want to invest in this aspect of the service: not everyone runs a music-focused publication or needs to know about every single release for hundreds of artists every week. Since the unfortunate demise of Record Bird – the app that encapsulated my ideal new music release discovery tool – I’ve been building a new system to stay on top of music releases, and I’d like to explain how.
It’s a blogception! I, obviously, agree with everything here and plan to take a look at this MusicHarbor app later today.
The first volume of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s Watchmen soundtrack has been released to all streaming services.