Taylor Swift Breaks More Records

Taylor Swift
Jason Tate

Billboard:

According to initial reports to data tracking firm Luminate, the tracks on The Life of a Showgirl have generated more than 460 million on-demand official streams in the United States since the album’s release on Oct. 3. There are multiple versions of album on streaming services: a standard 12-song edition, a track-by-track commentary edition that includes the 12 songs plus commentary tracks from Swift, and a track-by-track commentary edition that has Swift’s commentary and lyric videos for each of the songs. […] The sales continue to come in to Luminate for The Life of a Showgirl and it may soon topple Adele’s longstanding record for the largest sales week for an album in the modern era. Adele’s 25 debuted with 3.378 million copies sold in its first week in 2015 — the biggest sales week for any album since Luminate began tracking data in 1991 (when the modern era of music sales tabulation began).

Yellowcard ‘Better Days’ Track by Track

Yellowcard
Jason Tate

Yellowcard broke down their new album track-by-track for Rocksound.

In Yellowcard, I think the two biggest Alkaline Trio fans would be Sean (Mackin, violinist) and myself. We spent hours in the van driving around the country listening to Alkaline Trio. When Travis Barker, who produced and played drums on the record, heard us talking about that, he kind of just said, ‘Do you want me to see if Matt will sing on the song?’ And we all just laughed out loud and said, ‘Well, yes, of course we would. We would be beyond stoked if he was a part of it’. So personally, this is one of my favorite songs on the record.

Review: Green Day – Warning

Green Day - Warning
Adam Grundy

The sixth studio album from Green Day, Warning, tends to get forgotten way too often, and yet it has all the makings of a killer record from the punk band. The LP finds Green Day at arguably their most melodic, and there’s no denying the catchiness of these songs that were self-produced by the band. Coming off of another breakthrough success in 1997’s Nimrod that spawned the smash single of “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” that was literally everywhere when it was released, Green Day could’ve gone in a multitude of directions on this follow-up. There’s something really endearing about a band willing to take some creative freedom by self-producing their music at this stage of their career when their songwriting was truly blossoming at the right time. The set has now gone on to sell over 1 million units in the States, while selling over 3 million copies worldwide. Any other band would give their left arm for those numbers, but Green Day would brush off any talks of Warning being a commercial disappointment by going even bigger and bolder on their punk rock opera known as American Idiot in 2004. Warning deserves another look on its 25th anniversary, and it’s one of my favorite pop-punk records of all time.

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