We May Be Stuck in the Darkest Timeline
According to TMZ, Danielle Bregoli, best known as the “cash me outside” viral hit, has signed a record deal with Atlantic Records after her latest single “These Heaux” racked up 21 million views on YouTube.
The Riff Raff News Is Just an Excuse to Write About Waterparks
Riff Raff would like to collaborate with Waterparks. Speaking of Waterparks, I must not have been paying attention to the band’s song ”Little Violence” when I listened to it a few months back, because I totally missed this part:
I wanna be a sellout just to piss y’all off
While absolutepunk’s sucking off beard-punk songs
Maybe if we’re lucky we’ll get a review
And if that goes well, maybe a feature too
This is pretty funny. I do love me some beard-punk.
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Frightened Rabbit Release New EP
Frightened Rabbit’s new EP, Recorded Songs, is out today. It includes the track “How It Gets In” featuring Julien Baker.
Say Anything Announce Tour Openers
Tim Kasher, Aaron Gillespie, and Dan Andriano are part of the group opening for Say Anything on their upcoming tour. You’ll find the full set of dates and openers below.
Pete Wentz on Latest Rock Sound News Podcast
Pete Wentz is the latest guest on the the Rock Sound Podcast and the talks about Fall Out Boy finishing up their new album:
Not necessarily that we weren’t far along before – the songs just weren’t the right songs. We totally altered the course, which I think was important.
“I’d say we’re 60 or 70 per cent done with the record now,” he revealed.
I think we got ourselves into a strange situation where we put out “Young And Menace” and then we were like, ‘What’s the rest of the body of work?’.
All Time Low Release New Version of “Good Times”
All Time Low have debuted a new version of “Good Times.” They call it the “Orchestral Arrangement” version.
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Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut to the Feeling” Video
Carly Rae Jepsen has released her video for “Cut to the Feeling.”
August Burns Red – “The Frost”
August Burns Red have released their new song “The Frost.”
John Mayer’s Tour Brings in $50 Million
John Mayer’s North American leg of his tour has rapped up. Billboard is reporting it earned nearly $50 million so far:
The Connecticut-born singer-songwriter headlined shows in 32 cities during the run, topping $28 million in box office revenue from more than 425,000 sold tickets. Sales from the North American jaunt earn the artist the No. 1 slot on Billboard’s weekly slate of Hot Tours (see list below). In total, the tour has brought in nearly $50 million from box office totals reported since the tour launched in March.
The Killers – “Some Kind of Love”
The Killers’ new song “Some Kind of Love” is now streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.
Albums in Stores – Sep. 15th, 2017
The new Foo Fighters and Hot Water Music albums are out today. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Interview: Noah Gundersen’s Restless Heart
In 2014, Noah Gundersen released his first full-length album. The record in question, Ledges, was a masterclass in contemporary folk music, loaded with confessional lyrics, acoustic guitars, and fiddles. By all accounts, Gundersen seemed like a traditionalist.
In 2015, Gundersen quickly followed Ledges up with his sophomore LP, the spiritually fraught Carry the Ghost. It was still a folk album, but Noah was fleshing things out, adding fractious electric guitar and other elements of full band instrumentation into the mix. It was clearly the work of a young songwriter who was yearning to grow.
Between the fall of 2015 and the early winter of 2016, Gundersen did two tours in support of Carry the Ghost. The first was a full-band endeavor, presenting the songs on Ghost as they were meant to be heard. The second was a solo tour, where Gundersen played songs from both Ledges and Carry the Ghost on acoustic guitar, solo electric guitar, and piano. It was a stark, intimate presentation, and it showed off what made Gundersen so special: his vulnerable, fragile voice; his songs that could work well no matter how much he built them up or stripped them down; and his honest, forthright lyrics.
But something was wrong. Gundersen was having a crisis of faith—not the same crisis of religious faith he wrote about on Carry the Ghost, but a crisis of faith in his own art. When I saw Gundersen on the solo tour for Ghost, he was pointedly reserved. He bantered with the audience occasionally, but during the songs, his eyes were cast toward the floor or closed entirely. And at the end of the show, when a condescending moderator led a Q&A session and suggested that Gundersen was “so young” and “couldn’t have possibly experienced what he sang about in his songs,” Noah seemed at a loss for how to answer—at least politely. When the Q&A ended, Gundersen headed quickly for the stage door.
Josh Ritter Streams New Album
Josh Ritter’s new album, Gathering, is now streaming on NPR.
Grant Hart From Hüsker Dü Passes Away
Grant Hart, singer and drummer for Hüsker Dü, has passed away.
The band’s publicist, Ken Weinstein, said the cause was cancer.
Hüsker Dü was formed by Mr. Hart, the guitarist and singer Bob Mould and the bassist Greg Norton in the late 1970s in St. Paul, and soon became known for high-volume blasts of heart-quickening rock that could not quite disguise the hooks buried beneath the noise.