Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture has been posted up in full for your listening pleasure.
All Time Low Perform Acoustic “Good Times”
All Time Low have performed an acoustic version of “Good Times” for MLB Central.
Eighteen Visions – “Live Again” Video
Eighteen Visions have released a video for “Live Again.”
Western Settings – “The Phenomenon” Video
Western Settings have released a video for “The Phenomenon.”
Mutemath Tease
Mutemath are teasing a new single over on their website. Look for that to drop tomorrow.
Waxahatchee – “Never Been Wrong”
Waxahatchee has released their new song “Never Been Wrong.”
PVRIS Announce New Tour Dates
Dikembe Cover Green Day
New Fall Out Boy Song Coming This Month
Pete Wentz posted on Instagram that a new Fall Out Boy single will be coming out toward this end of this month and detailed a little about what to expect.
‘Wonder Woman’ Opens Big
Wonder Woman had a massive opening weekend:
Wonder Woman exceeded all expectations this weekend, delivering an impressive $100 million opening, the largest opening for a female-directed feature, vastly out-performing the previous record holder Fifty Shades of Grey, which debuted with $85.1 million back in 2015.
Watch: “One Love Manchester” Benefit Concert
The “One Love Manchester” benefit concert put on by Ariana Grande for the victims and families affected by the attack at her Manchester Arena show last month has been posted online in full.
The Japanese House EP Pre-Order
The new EP from The Japanese House is now up for pre-order.
Phoenix – “Goodbye Soleil” Video
Phoenix have released a video for “Goodbye Soleil.”
Review: Bleachers – Gone Now
One of my favorite musical memories was a moment of serendipitous timing outside a record store in Florence, Italy. We found this store almost as an afterthought, popping our heads in at the end of a long day of traveling. But as we left the store, we saw a man busking across the street, singing “Sex On Fire” by Kings Of Leon at the top of his lungs. And I’ll never forget watching this man, singing the lyrics in both English and Italian, crooning “This man is on fire” to a person passing by on a bike. As I watched the assembled crowd start to sing along, again in a mix of languages, I was struck by how a deliberately audacious, silly slice of pop-rock bliss had transcended cultures and boundaries.
All this is to say that when I heard the saxophone on “Everybody Lost Somebody,” made to sound not dissimilar from the street busker I saw in Florence, I knew that Jack Antonoff has had experiences like that. Experiences that made you become not just a spectator in the world around you, but a participant, connected with others. And he realizes that so many of these moments and connections are made through our most universal of languages: music. In many ways, that is what Gone Now, the sophomore record of Jack Antonoff’s project Bleachers, seems to be about: living presently and openly engaging and trying to connect with the people around you.
Google Chrome Will Automatically Block Annoying Ads
George Slefo, writing for Ad Age:
Google’s Chrome browser will soon come with preinstalled technology that will block the most annoying ads currently marring the web experience, the company confirmed on Thursday.
Publishers will be able to understand how they will be affected through a tool Google is dubbing “The Ad Experience Report.” It will basically score a publisher’s site and inform them which of their ads are “annoying experiences.”
At the same time, Chrome will give publishers the option to force a choice on people running their own ad blocking software: whitelist the site so its non-annoying ads can display or pay a small fee to access the content ad-free.
I’m assuming Google’s annoyingly shitty ads will display just fine? I think I’m fine with the move to build this into the browser, but I think Google’s own ads, specifically their tracking capabilities, are just as big a problem as the ones that dance all over my screen on Alternative Press’ homepage.