Chuck Berry has passed away:
Chuck Berry, who with his indelible guitar licks, brash self-confidence and memorable songs about cars, girls and wild dance parties did as much as anyone to define rock ’n’ roll’s potential and attitude in its early years, died on Saturday at his home near Wentzville, Mo. He was 90.
His family has announced that his new studio album will still be released.
It looks like Justin Timberlake and Timbaland are back in the studio together.
You Me and Everyone We Know’s EPs are getting pressed on vinyl and are now up for order.
Creeper have released their new song “Down Below” via BBC’s Radio One Rock Show.
Run the Jewels performed “Legend Has It” on Fallon last Friday.
Stephen Christian, of Anberlin, will be releasing his new solo album Wildfires later this year.
David Bazan is on the latest episode of Mike Herrera’s podcast.
Jimmy Eat World is releasing a special tour EP for those that bought tickets the Incubus shows. The track listing can be found below.
Emery have launched an Indiegogo campaign for their new album:
We’ve estimated our basic costs again at $50,000, the same goal we had for YWNA. Of course, you guys crushed this goal last time. We pressed tons of expensive vinyl, paid for recording, mixing, mastering, travel, art, manufacturing, packing and shipping of all the products. After doing it once, we’re better at it, and we think we can get an even a better record out faster with your help.
Daniel Victor, reporting for The New York Times:
A class-action lawsuit about overtime pay for truck drivers hinged entirely on a debate that has bitterly divided friends, families and foes: The dreaded — or totally necessary — Oxford comma, perhaps the most polarizing of punctuation marks.
What ensued in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and in a 29-page court decision handed down on Monday, was an exercise in high-stakes grammar pedantry that could cost a dairy company in Portland, Me., an estimated $10 million.
Netflix will be moving away from the star rating system to a thumbs up or thumbs down approach:
Netflix VP of Product Todd Yellin told journalists on Thursday during a press briefing at the company’s headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., that the company had tested the new thumbs up and down ratings with hundred of thousands of members in 2016. “We are addicted to the methodology of A/B testing,” Yellin said. The result was that thumbs got 200% more ratings than the traditional star-rating feature.
Knuckle Puck have released their new song “Calendar Days.”
Monopoly will be adding three new game pieces:
The next time you sit down with your family to a nice game of Monopoly — and to determine which of your siblings is secretly a cold-blooded sociopath who would shiv you in your sleep for Park Place — you will no longer have the option of dueling to the death over who gets to be the thimble, the wheelbarrow, or the boot.
Monopoly owner Hasbro have tossed them all aside like so many redundant employees in a gig economy, and are replacing them with the winners of an internet poll: a Tyrannosaurus rex, a penguin, and a rubber ducky.
Monopoly really is one of the worst board games.
Linkin Park have debuted their new song “Battle Symphony.”