New tracks from John Nolan, Vinnie Caruana, James Dewees, and others are featured on a soundtrack for an upcoming indie film called Romance in the Digital Age. The trailer and track listing can be found below. The soundtrack can be pre-ordered at Enjoy the Ride Records.
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MxPx sent out a newsletter to fans recently saying they’ll be taking some time off from touring to work on a new album.
Lauren Mayberry from Chvrches has posted a video on Twitter responding to the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas over the weekend.
Bikini Kill reunited last night for the first live performance in 20 years. They played one song at the release party for Jenn Pelly’s new 33 1/3 book about The Raincoats’ self-titled album. Pitchfork reports:
Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Kathleen Hanna took the stage to perform “For Tammy Rae.” It was the first time the band had taken the stage together since they broke up in 1997. (Pelly says she had “no idea” this was going to happen; the night was put together by The Kitchen and Raincoats collaborator Shirley O’Loughlin.)
Atom and His Package’s full set at Fest 16 is now up on YouTube.
John Nolan performed a solo rendition of Brand New’s “Magazines” at his show over the weekend. A fan shot video can be found on Twitter.
Cursive will be releasing new remastered versions of their first two albums, 1997’s debut Such Blinding Stars For Starving Eyes and 1998’s The Storms Of Early Summer: Semantics Of Song in celebration of the 20th anniversary of both albums. Both releases will arrive in stores on December 1st, 2017 via their own record label, 15 Passenger. Pre-orders are now up.
The Fratellis will release their new album In Your Own Sweet Time via Cooking Vinyl on March 9th, 2018. Today they’ve debuted the new track, “The Next Time We Wed.”
The Used have released a video for “Rise Up Lights.”
Frank Turner has released a video for “There She Is.”
A new video from Minutephysics goes over the various types of time travel used in movies and books:
This video is an explanation of how time travel functions in different popular movies, books, & shows – not how it works “under the hood”, but how it causally affects the perspective of characters’ timelines (who has free will? can you change things by going back to the past or forwards into the future?). In particular, I explain Ender’s Game, Planet of the Apes, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Primer, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future, Groundhog Day, Looper, the video game “Braid”, and Lifeline.
Owl City has debuted the new song “All My Friends.” The track comes from his upcoming album, Cinematic, which is now up for pre-order.
Wilco have shared the unreleased song “Myrna Lee” on Spotify and Apple Music. The song comes from the upcoming expanded version of AM, due out December 1st.