Recently I was able to connect with the lead singer of hard-hitting rock band Colorblind, Travis Moseley, to discuss his band’s recently released first part of a new record, Who Sold You This Truth. I asked Travis about key songs from the new record, the band’s touring experience and the messages they want to bring forth in their music. You can stream Who Sold You This Truth here.
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Good Charlotte have shared an acoustic version of “I Don’t Work Here Anymore.”
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Part one of the David Byrne and Hayley Williams interview is now up.
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Travis Barker talked with Uproxx about running:
If I can find the flow state where I’m not thinking, then that’s the best show or the best run. For me, especially on tour, playing is one thing, and it’s very intense, and running is my escape, but it also helps me. I have to run. I have to jump rope in order to be able to play the way I want to play, and whatever comes to my head that I want to try and do for how long, I pretty much can do because I train every day and I work out every day. Some people look at it like it’s grueling, it’s painful. It’s all the things that I practice to be good at. I know it might be the hardest part of my day, but I’d rather initiate it. I’d rather start my day like that and run toward those things then have those things creep up on me. Running has been that for me. I love challenging myself, and I love the hard workouts. I love being sore. I love the blisters that come with playing drums and the bloody hands. I love the blisters that come with running. They go hand in hand, and I feel like they both train me to be a better person, drummer, and runner.
The Bobby Lees have signed with Epitaph Records and released the new song “Napoleon.”
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Taylor Swift sat down with Zane Lowe for a new interview.
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There’s this stretch of roadway just south of my hometown that I’ve always loved, where you go around a bend and suddenly find yourself surrounded on both sides by towering pine trees. The road gradually climbs from there, taking you out of this beautiful, tranquil valley. But the feel of that short passage – the indescribable power of those trees and the many, many years they’ve been there – lingers for the rest of the drive.
Throughout my life, that spot on the road has always been the checkpoint – the spot where, when I pass through it, I know I’m home again. I came to feel that way during college, when I drove that road literally hundreds of times to get back to my parents’ house – for weekends, or Christmases, or summer vacations. I kept feeling that way after I graduated, when the visits home became less frequent, and therefore, that much more precious. I still feel that way today, when I come back into town after a vacation, or even after a quick jaunt downstate for a concert. No matter how many times I pass into that forest of pines, I always feel the same way about it, like I’ve just entered the gravitational pull of the place I love most, and can lay whatever burdens I’ve been carrying down. “Rest easy child,” those trees seem to whisper; “everything will be alright. You’re safe here.”
“You’re home.”
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Reinvention has its way of taking many different forms. A reinvention of style or a new choice of clothing can lead someone else to think a person we thought we knew is trying out new things. When it comes to music, AFI have never shied away from their own reinvention as they have gone from album to album in their storied career. Their newest record, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun, once again finds the four-piece band on the precipice of another moving reinvention as they move away from some of the post-punk and electronica-tinged rock of Bodies and perhaps even what was found on AFI (The Blood Album). Instead, this latest taste of music leans into AFI’s ability to captivate through a variety of stylistic choices made strategically at the right moments in time to achieve the greatest impact. Silver Bleeds The Black Sun feels a bit like the encapsulation of all the styles AFI have been known for over their 34+ year career, and goes big into arena rock moments paired with gothic sensibilities to remind The Despair Faction that this is still the same band they fell in love with and have seen evolve with grace. Just when you think that you’ve got a handle on what AFI is and the sound you expect to hear on subsequent releases, the band turns expectations on their head and finds unique ways to continue their unwavering evolution.
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Vella answers questions about her debut album “All My Love,” out now! The album is an irreverent mix of pop, rock, and soul.
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In this interview with Will of Wolves at Bay, we talk about the band’s new album Dissolve, out October 10th. New music, including the new single, “Guilt Cycle,” is a mature evolution of the band’s powerful sound.
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John the Ghost has shared the new single for “A Monday.”
Action/Adventure have shared the new single “Spiral.”
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Bon Iver has released a video for “Day One.”
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The RIAA has singled out Discord and Telegram as “notorious markets” for pre-release piracy:
“Messaging platforms Telegram and Discord have become the primary mechanisms through which pre-release music is distributed without authorization,” wrote the RIAA. “Through private and semi-private communities, organized, global groups engage in hacking, social engineering, and other methods to obtain pre-release music and, in many cases, sell this illegally obtained material for thousands of dollars.”
Taylor Swift was a guest on The Tonight Show last night. Clips from the show can be found below.
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