Julien Baker’s new 7″ comes out today, we’ve already heard “Funeral Pyre,” and today we are blessed with the b-side “Distant Solar Systems” on Spotify and Apple Music.
Hiding Music From Our Parents (Encore Episode 145)
On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined by special guest Ryan Gardner. Ryan joins the show to talk about growing up in this music scene and the bands that we first fell in love with. Then we talk a little about starting young with writing online, the lessons learned and why we think it’s important to just try, and how to maybe parlay that into some kind of career in the future. Freelancing, journalism, and how this alternative music scene has changed over the years rounds out the episode.
Thanks for listening!
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Albums in Stores – Mar. 17th, 2017
Lots of new music to check out this week, including albums from Conor Oberst, Zara Larsson, and Sorority Noise. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments
A deep fear came to pass for many artists, museums, and cultural organizations nationwide early Thursday morning when President Trump, in his first federal budget plan, proposed eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
President Trump also proposed scrapping the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a key revenue source for PBS and National Public Radio stations, as well as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Unreleased Green Day Instrumental Surfaces
Green Day Authority has posted up an unreleased Green Day instrumental from the band’s documentary.
This little surprise was hidden away in a bonus chapter on ¡Cuatro!, the band’s 2013 “rockumentary” movie that chronicled the recording process of the ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy albums. The song is unofficially titled “That Just Happened” after the scene that contained it.
Justin Vernon Narrates UFO Documentary Trailer
Justin Vernon of Bon Iver narrates the new trailer for The Dundee Project.
Classic Crime – “Holy Water”
Classic Crime’s new song, “Holy Water,” can be streamed below.
Mastodon – “Show Yourself” Video
Mastodon have released their video for “Show Yourself.”
Sports Forum: NCAA Basketball
Jack Antonoff to Live-Score ‘The Breakfast Club’
Jack Antonoff will be live-scoring a screening of The Breakfast Club in L.A. next month. The L.A. Times has the scoop:
Antonoff’s musical interpretation of 1985’s “The Breakfast Club” is slated for April 1.
“I chose ‘The Breakfast Club’ because I think about that film often when I write,” Antonoff told The Times. “There are certain films and feelings that remind me of where I’m from.”
“I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a similar state of strange boredom as ‘The Breakfast Club.’ I constantly thought about getting out, and that feeling is so present in this film,” he added. “A lot of my world now is looking back at that time period from different vantage points.”
Blink-182 – “Parking Lot”
Blink-182 have released their new song “Parking Lot.” The deluxe edition of California will be out on May 19th and pre-orders are now up.
Review: Steve Moakler – Steel Town
Steve Moakler’s biggest claim to fame—at least at this particular moment in time—is writing the title track and fifth single from Dierks Bentley’s 2014 LP, Riser. That fact may just change with Steel Town, Moakler’s fourth full-length solo record and his most accomplished work yet. Stacked with radio-friendly numbers that meld Moakler’s smart, resonant songwriting with the hooks and lush instrumentation of a mainstream country record, Steel Town has the potential to make Moakler into this year’s breakout country star.
Steel Town is 11 songs long, but Moakler actually released the first half of the record a year ago. In a move that has become customary for Nashville up-and-comers, Moakler dropped a self-titled EP last spring that featured the first five tracks from this album. (Similar maneuvers have recently helped launch artists like Maren Morris, Brett Young, and William Michael Morgan toward chart success.) That EP was my favorite short-form release of 2016, pairing wistful, emotional tour de forces (“Steel Town,” which Moakler wrote about the town where he grew up) with breezy summertime hooks (the indelible “Suitcase”) and gorgeous dusky ballads (“Summer Without Her”).
Weezer – “Feels Like Summer”
Weezer have released their new song “Feels Like Summer.” The song comes from the band’s eleventh album, due out later this year.
Genius De-Emphasizing Web Annotations
Casey Newton, writing for The Verge:
Genius, which raised $56.9 million on the promise that it would one day annotate the entire internet, has been losing its minds. In January, the company quietly laid off a quarter of its staff, with the bulk of the cuts coming from the engineering department. In a post on the Genius blog at the time, co-founder Tom Lehman told employees that Genius planned to shift its emphasis away from the annotation platform that once attracted top-tier investors in favor of becoming a more video-focused media company.
“Behind the Brand” with Hayley Williams of Paramore
A new episode of “Behind the Brand” with Paramore’s Hayley Williams can be now be watched online.
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