All but one of Keshaʼs legal claims against Dr. Luke were dismissed by a judge. From Marc Hogan, at Pitchfork:
On Kesha’s claims that Dr. Luke violated the New York statutes commonly known as “hate crime” laws, Kornreich ruled that Kesha failed to allege Dr. Luke “harbored animus toward women or was motivated by gender animus when he allegedly behaved violently toward Kesha.” The judge added, “Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime.”
Mae have posted a link to a project called “Light” which promises to be a “multi-sensory aesthetic experience in VR.”
The Front Bottoms have posted up a video for “Cough it Out” filmed live in London. You can find that on YouTube or by hitting read more.
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I’m excited to announce that we’ll be doing our first ever AMA chat on the new website tomorrow with none other than the lead singer of Unwritten Law, Scott Russo. Tomorrow at 3pm PST / 6pm EST we’ll be opening up this thread and members can talk with Scott about their new acoustic album, life on the road, or really anything you’d like. If you haven’t signed up for an account yet, now’s a great time to make sure you’re ready.
Julio and Cliff from As Tall As Lions have announced the formation of The Black and The White. They will be releasing a five song EP called My Heart Is Compromised on April 26th and you can stream the new song “I Want You Back” below.
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Beach Slangʼs James Alex recently performed for Punks in Vegas Stripped Down Session. While in town for the Neon Reverb Festival, Alex performed three acoustic songs: “Dirty Cigarettes,” “Too Late to Die Young” and “Ride the Wild Haze” – inside the Bunkhouse Saloon in Vegas.You can watch these by hitting read more
The Devil Wears Prada have announced some new July tour dates.
Tiny Moving Partsʼ new song, “Headache,” is streaming at NPR or by hitting read more. It’s from the band’s upcoming album, Celebrate, which will be released on May 20th through Triple Crown Records.
At Emo Night LA last night a mariachi band covered a whole bunch of classic pop-punk bands like Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, and New Found Glory. The Instagram tag has a bunch of photos and videos from the event. A few of the videos can be found below as well.
Morrissey would like everyone to know that The Smiths account that showed up on Twitter yesterday is not sanctioned by him.
A Smiths/Morrissey Google alerts/Twitter account has been opened by Warner UK. Morrissey would like to stress that this account has not been sanctioned by him and has no connection to him. Follow it at your peril.
Parquet Courtsʼ new song “Human Performance” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more.
Taylor Swiftʼs new video for “New Romantics” can be found on Apple Music.
An animated video for David Bowieʼs “I Can’t Give Everything Away” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more. The video was put together by Blackstar album designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and digital download. Also, if you have one of those Sphero BB-8 toys, it’ll watch and react to the the movie with you.
Your new and improved BB-8 can actually “watch” the film with you and react to everything that happens. I’m sure he’ll have a thing or two to say when the onscreen BB-8 gets tossed around the Millennium Falcon in Rey’s first flight.
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