The full list of content from Disney+ has been released.
Disney+ Full Library of Movies and TV Shows Released
Amazon Music Launching Lossless Streaming Tier
Amazon Music is rolling out a new lossless streaming tier.
Amazon is launching a new tier of its music service today, dubbed Amazon Music HD. It offers lossless versions of audio files for streaming or downloading at a price that aggressively undercuts Tidal, the main competition for this kind of audio. Amazon will charge $14.99 a month for the HD tier, or $12.99 if you’re an Amazon Prime customer. Tidal’s Hi-Fi plan costs $19.99 monthly. The new plan was rumored a few months ago.
Sum 41 to Play ‘Chuck’ in Full on Upcoming Tour
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 talked with Alt. Press about playing Chuck live on their upcoming tour:
It’ll be our longest, for sure. I think they’ll be two-hour sets. Not sure if it’s going to be 2:05 exactly, but definitely two hours. The good thing about those two is that they’re relatively shorter records, so it makes sense to play them at one show.
The thing is, we never played every single one of those songs before. Some of those songs we’re going to be playing, we’ve never played ever. There’s maybe a good four or five songs we’ve never gotten around to playing when the album came out. So yes, you are learning stuff. But there’s also the brand-new record: We’ve never played a lot of those songs off Order In Decline; they were built in the studio, but live is a whole different thing. What I’m trying to say is, there’s a lot of rehearsing going on.
Billie Joe Armstrong Talks New Green Day Album
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day talked with Kerrang a little about the band’s upcoming album:
Trump gives me diarrhoea (laughs), you know? I don’t want to write a song about it!
It’s just more about trying to empathise with people’s situations. It’s just a crazy time. When I was a kid, my parents had six kids. My dad was a trucker and my mother was a waitress, and they bought a home in California in the ’70s with five kids living in the house. That is an impossible thing to do right now in California – if not in other places. And that’s what scares me a little bit more – what’s going to happen to people in the future.
Taylor Swift: The Rolling Stone Interview
Brian Hiatt, writing for Rolling Stone:
She wants to talk about the music, of course, but she is also ready to explain the past three years of her life, in depth, for the first time. The conversation is often not a light one. She’s built up more armor in the past few years, but still has the opposite of a poker face — you can see every micro-emotion wash over her as she ponders a question, her nose wrinkling in semi-ironic offense at the term “old-school pop stars,” her preposterously blue eyes glistening as she turns to darker subjects. In her worst moments, she says, “You feel like you’re being completely pulled into a riptide. So what are you going to do? Splash a lot? Or hold your breath and hope you somehow resurface? And that’s what I did. And it took three years. Sitting here doing an interview — the fact that we’ve done an interview before is the only reason I’m not in a full body sweat.”
The Last Scene (A Documentary)
Kyle Kilday has launched a Kickstarter to create a documentary about the early 2000’s emo and punk scene:
The Last Scene will be the FIRST comprehensive chronicle of what many believe is the LAST underground, DIY music scene. One forged in VFW halls and community recreation centers across the United States in the Late 1990’s/Early 2000’s.
This is the story of the punk and emo kids who gave us the last “new” thing in rock music, during an era of change for the music industry and youth culture at large.
New ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Reboot Coming from Sam Esmail
Lesley Goldberg, writing for The Hollywood Reporter:
NBCUniversal’s newly named streaming service, Peacock, is revisiting Battlestar Galactica with a new, straight-to-series take from Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail, set as part of its initial content lineup. Peacock will also be the streaming home for Ron Moore’s Syfy take on Battlestar Galactica.
NBC Rebooting ‘Saved by the Bell’
NBC is relaunching Saved by the Bell with Mario Lopez (A.C. Slater) and Elizabeth Berkley (Jessie Spano) on the upcoming NBC streaming service, Peacock:
When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the over privileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality.
Post Malone Tops the Charts
Post Malone has the number one album in the country this week:
The set opens with 489,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Sept. 12 in the U.S., according to Nielsen Music — the second-biggest week of 2019 for any album. Of that total unit sum, 200,000 were in album sales.
Our Community Is Creating a Halloween Cover Compilation
Some of our community members are putting together a fun Halloween compilation of original performances, and they’d like to bring in some new blood to make this extra spooky. (These are their words, I would never use such puns.)
If you’d like to get involved, all the information can be found in this post in our forums.
YouTube Music Cracks Down on Rampant Chart Manipulation
Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:
YouTube will no longer allow paid views and advertising to influence its YouTube Music Charts, the company announced this morning. Instead, it will calculate its rankings based only on view counts coming from organic plays. In addition, it’s changing its methodology for reporting on 24-hour record debuts to also only count views from organic sources, including direct links to the video, search results, Watch Next and Trending — but not video advertising.
Spotify Acquires SoundBetter
Spotify today took another step in its efforts to build out services for artists to help diversify itself away from a business model predicated on paying music streaming royalties to labels: it has acquired SoundBetter, a music production marketplace for artists, producers, and musicians to connect on specific projects; and for people who are looking to distribute music tracks to those who want to license them.
The Far Side Website Gets an Update
Gary Larson’s The Far Side website has been updated with new art and a caption that reads, “A new online era of The Far Side is coming!” It’s hard to tell whether or not this is teasing new strips or just online versions of the originals, but I’m excited nonetheless.
Ric Ocasek Passes Away
Ric Ocasek, the frontman for The Cars, passed away over the weekend.
Ric Ocasek, the songwriter, rhythm guitarist and lead singer for the Cars, was found dead on Sunday afternoon at his townhouse in Manhattan.
The New York Police Department confirmed the death but did not give a cause. Sources have differed on Mr. Ocasek’s age — some saying he was 70 — but a few public records and previous articles about him suggest that he was 75.
The 1975 Have Nowhere to Grow But Up
Larry Fitzmaurice, writing at Fader:
And she won’t be the last: Healy intends to log studio time with indie-centric artists like Phoebe Bridgers, as well as Dirty Hit-signed artists beabadoobee and The Japanese House, when the band returns to the studio later in the year to finish Notes. The ostensibly 22-song album is very much still in the early stages of creation, with four songs total in completion or close to it; besides “The 1975” and “People,” there’s the dusky, acoustic “The Birthday Party,” and “Frail State of Mind,” a 2step-driven slice of pop recalling UK producer Burial with Healy’s gorgeous, cloudy sigh weaving in and out of the beat.