Jack Antonoff andBleachers live scored The Breakfast Club over the weekend. Some videos from the performance can be found below.
Bleachers Live Score ‘The Breakfast Club’
Hans Zimmer Announces Tour Dates
Hans Zimmer has announced some new tour dates.
Smart TV Hack Embeds Attack Code Into Broadcast Signal—No Access Required
Dan Goodin, writing for Ars Technica:
The proof-of-concept exploit uses a low-cost transmitter to embed malicious commands into a rogue TV signal. That signal is then broadcast to nearby devices. It worked against two fully updated TV models made by Samsung. By exploiting two known security flaws in the Web browsers running in the background, the attack was able to gain highly privileged root access to the TVs. By revising the attack to target similar browser bugs found in other sets, the technique would likely work on a much wider range of TVs.
Halsey to Drop New Single Tomorrow
Halsey’s new single “Now or Never” will debut tomorrow. The artwork can be found below.
Björk – “Notget” Video
Papa Roach Release Two New Songs
Papa Roach have released “Born for Greatness” and “Periscope.”
Minus the Bear – “Dinosaur”
Minus the Bear have contributed “Dinosaur” to the Our First 100 Days compilation.
The Shins Cover “A Taste of Honey”
The Shins’ cover of “A Taste of Honey” is up on Spotify and Apple Music.
At the Drive In – “Hostage Stamps” Video
At the Drive In have released a video for “Hostage Stamps.”
Fandango Interviews Christopher Nolan
Fandango sat down with director Christopher Nolan:
I think people who know the story of Dunkirk, in particular, may be surprised by the intensity of the experience. It’s a very suspenseful story and we really try to do justice to that. The pacing is relentless, and the story and action scenes are extraordinarily intense. I think the lean, stripped-down nature of that, and how fast it moves, and what it puts you through in this short space of time… I think it has a different rhythm that I’ve worked in before.
Mew – “Twist Quest”
Mew have released their new song “Twist Quest.”
Michelle Branch – “Fault Line”
Michelle Branch has released her new song “Fault Line.”
It’s Been a Year
One year ago I retired AbsolutePunk.net and launched Chorus.fm into the world. I can’t believe it’s been a year. First, I want to thank everyone that’s supported the website for a full year and all of you that kept monthly payments on and re-signed up today with a new yearly subscription. Seriously, thank you. I had no idea if this entire endeavor was ever going to work, and all of the support has truly blown me away. I’ve loved getting to know so many of you over the past year and being able to share this experience with you. Again, I can’t tell you thank you enough.
One year in I figured is as good a time as ever to run down some of the numbers from the last 12 months:
- 5,145 articles posted on the main site.
- 1,004,735 words written in those articles.
- 895,137 forum posts.
- 34,766 registered forum members.
- 891,056 likes given out.
- 2,000 private messages sent per month (average).
- 27 podcast episodes recorded (and 3 bonus episodes).
- Over 160,000 podcast listens.
- 83,035,328 pageviews.
- A 6:40 average session time.
- 13 “first listen” blogs in the supporter forum.
- 365 days where I was happy with the choice I made.
Vérité to Release New Album in June
Vérité will release her debut album, Somewhere in Between, on June 23rd. The album is up for pre-order and the first track, “When You’re Gone,” is up for stream.
Twitter Ditches the Egg
Twitter is getting rid of the egg avatar. Harry McCracken, writing at Co.Design:
Starting today, however, the egg is history. Twitter is dumping the tarnished icon for a new default profile picture–a blobby silhouette of a person’s head and shoulders, intentionally designed to represent a human without being concrete about gender, race, or any other characteristic. Everyone who’s been an egg until now, whatever their rationale, will automatically switch over.
I’m super excited to have these weird Dot candy looking silhouettes call me names.