Jason Call, of Daphne Loves Derby, will release his new solo album Marathon this July. He’s put up pre-orders for the album that come with a whole bunch of unreleased Daphne Loves Derby material as well. Today we’re happy to premiere the new song “The Perfect Cast.”
Neck Deep have teamed up with the Keep a Breast Foundation for a contest to win a VIP Warped Tour experience. The full press release can be found below.
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Chris DeVille, writing at Stereogum, talks about how since Arcade Fire released great music in the past, they have become too big to fail:
The mighty would have fallen by now, but their reputation is propping them up. That’s how it goes when your rock band becomes too big to fail. You grab enough people by the heart when they’re young and impressionable, you get to be a big deal forever, whether your moment of excellence lasted well over a decade (like U2 or the Rolling Stones) or just for an album or two (like Weezer and the Strokes). Call it brand loyalty, wishful thinking, whatever. It’s a fact of the music business. Creative death can’t kill the world’s biggest rock bands — only actual death, and sometimes not even that.
I’ve only heard a couple songs on the new Arcade Fire album, so I can’t comment on that directly, but I do think this is an interesting phenomenon in general. When an artist’s prior work creates an unstoppable gravitational force of fandom.
Warped Tour have announced the track listing for this year’s music compilation. You can find that below.
Matthew Lynley, writing for TechCrunch, details Blue Apron’s plan to go public:
The company is showing a rather incredible amount of growth. Blue Apron said it generated nearly $800 million in revenue in 2016, up from $341 million in 2015. For the first quarter this year, Blue Apron said it generated $245 million in revenue, up from $172 million in the first quarter last year. Despite all this, Blue Apron said it lost $55 million in 2016, though it said it lost $52 million in the first quarter this year.
A better way to IPO.
The xx have put together a photo book zine called It Could Be Love. It’ll be available for purchase next week.
London Grammar have shared two new videos for “Oh Woman Oh Man.” The first is titled “Oh Woman,” and the second is, obviously, titled “Oh Man.”
To celebrate the release of their new album, All Time Low have released a series of “Young Renegade” jackets and patches on their webstore.
Hey Violet have released their new song “O.D.D.”
Thom Yorke of Radiohead talked with Rolling Stone about the Israel controversy earlier this year:
I’ll be totally honest with you: this has been extremely upsetting. There’s an awful lot of people who don’t agree with the BDS movement, including us. I don’t agree with the cultural ban at all, along with J.K. Rowling, Noam Chomsky and a long list of others.
There are people I admire [who have been critical of the concert] like [English film director] Ken Loach, who I would never dream of telling where to work or what to do or think. The kind of dialogue that they want to engage in is one that’s black or white. I have a problem with that. It’s deeply distressing that they choose to, rather than engage with us personally, throw shit at us in public. It’s deeply disrespectful to assume that we’re either being misinformed or that we’re so retarded we can’t make these decisions ourselves. I thought it was patronizing in the extreme. It’s offensive and I just can’t understand why going to play a rock show or going to lecture at a university [is a problem to them].
