Jawbreaker confirm with Music Radar that they’re working on new music:
We’re writing right now and we’ve rescued a couple of old songs that we never had a chance to record right at the end of the band. We’re going to get together in San Francisco and get right back to it. We don’t have a label yet, and we haven’t booked any studio time. We’re just dipping our toes and taking it one step at a time.
Milo Aukerman confirmed with The OC Register that the Descendents are working on new music:
When we put out the last record we thought, ‘OK, I bet we could put out another record after this one and not wait a decade to do it.’ It was such a rewarding experience and you know what? Our fans deserve better. They deserve more than a record every decade or so. We started writing almost immediately after that record was done. I have been writing and Stephen (Egerton) has really picked up the mantle, too. Between us I think we have like 20 songs written and Bill (Stevenson) and Karl (Alvarez) have been writing songs as well. We’ve done some basic tracking, but it’s still a work in progress but I hope we’ll have something out by the end of the yea
Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed in Los Angeles yesterday. He was 33.
Ben Platt performed on NBC’s Today this morning.
Members of the Icelandic avant-garde rock band Sigur Ros have been charged with tax evasion three years after authorities launched a probe of the group’s finances.
An indictment issued by the district prosecutor Thursday accused the prominent musicians of submitting incorrect tax returns from 2011 to 2014, evading a total of 151 million Icelandic Krona ($1.2 million).
The Republic of Wolves have released an extended version Shrine on Bandcamp for the one year anniversary of the album.
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Zakk Cervini, producer for Simple Creatures and many others, is the latest guest on UK-based The Wasting Time Podcast.
Dying Scene sat down with Dave Hause to talk about his new album:
Our shit’s fucked up, and yet we persist being human! For me, I just had kids, so I don’t really get to…(sighs) it’s a very dangerous proposition to look at the glass as either half-empty or filled with piss! (both laugh*) Maybe that could be true, but I can’t really afford to ruminate on that. I have to come up with a reason to look toward the shore despite feeling I or we, collectively, are drowning. I have to. At this point, it’s a job as I have as a dad. But, to some degree, I’ve always had that job. I’ve been a brother and a husband and a friend and a songwriter. I’m supposed to try to be of some good use to people. That’s, I think, what the search on the record is; yeah, our shit’s fucked up, but what are we going to do?
According to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore, Panic has totaled $49 million since launching the trek on July 11, 2018, at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Its career-high mark includes grosses from two separate North American legs, plus a week of dates in Australia.
The act had never grossed $1 million in one night as a headliner prior to embarking on its 2018-19 trek but has crossed the seven-figure threshold six times since, highlighted by its Jan. 16 show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center.
Brendon, do you wanna sponsor Chorus?
Less Than Jake have announced a new artist shop with Threadless.
We thought it would be great to bring back some classic t-shirt designs throughout the history of the band and be able to rotate designs in and out from past tours and fan favorites. Designs up this month might not be there the next but having this type of access to old art and new technology means we can keep things fresh for everyone.
Everclear’s Art Alexakis has revealed that he’s been diagnosed with a form of multiple sclerosis:
Three years ago I was in an automobile accident, and though I totaled my car, I am thankful that no one involved was seriously hurt. About two weeks later, I started feeling a tingle and numbness in my arm, thinking it was a pinched nerve in my neck, I went to the doctor and underwent an MRI. The report showed that I did indeed have a pinched nerve, but the pathologist also saw lacerations and suspicious marks on my spinal cord as well…scary, to say the least. I was sent to see a neurologist, who did a ridiculous number of tests – more MRI’s, a spinal tap, over fifty blood tests, and numerous cognitive and balance tests. After receiving the results, he told me that I have a form of Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS), and that I have had it for anywhere between 10 to 20 years. I went and sat in my car and called my wife, and cried for about half an hour. I’m sure people in the parking lot thought I was losing it, and I guess I kind of was.
Libby Solomon, writing at The Baltimore Sun:
All Time Low singer and Dulaney High School graduate Alex Gaskarth is entering Baltimore’s nightlife business with an investment in Full Tilt Brewing.
The craft brewery, which has been brewing beer for six years, opened its own location for the first time this year on York Road in Govans, in part thanks to Gaskarth, said Full Tilt co-founder Nick Fertig. […]
The 6,000-square-foot taproom and brewery at 5604 York Road in Govans, less than a mile from the county line, is full of what Fertig said are unique touches — arcade games, graffiti on the wall, a shuffleboard and garage doors that can roll up in the warmer months to let in fresh air.
Zane Lowe sat down with Music Business Worldwide to talk about Apple Music and various other topics:
Well the artist, first and foremost, has to create an environment which offers a 360 degree creative experience for fans before we even think about how to collaborate with that [and] help them build their story.
An artist like Billie Eilish thinks in sounds, she thinks in colors, she thinks in visuals, she thinks in collaborations, she thinks in all kinds of different forms of creativity. When you’re dealing with an artist like that, it opens all these other areas that you can help build things around.
Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica:
The music industry is suing Charter Communications, claiming that the cable Internet provider profits from music piracy by failing to terminate the accounts of subscribers who illegally download copyrighted songs. The lawsuit also complains that Charter helps its subscribers pirate music by selling packages with higher Internet speeds.
While the act of providing higher Internet speeds clearly isn’t a violation of any law, ISPs can be held liable for their users’ copyright infringement if the ISPs repeatedly fail to disconnect repeat infringers.
After becoming Panic! at the Disco’s highest-charting Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching No. 4 in January, the Brendon Urie-led act’s “High Hopes” is now the sole longest-leading No. 1 on the Adult Pop Songs radio airplay chart this decade, as it leads the latter list (dated March 30) for a 15th week.
“Hopes,” which became Panic’s first Adult Pop Songs No. 1 in December, breaks a tie with Maroon 5’s “Girls Like You” (featuring Cardi B), which ruled for 14 weeks in 2018. The reign of “Hopes” is the chart’s longest since The Fray’s “How to Save a Life” also led for 15 weeks in 2006-07.