The Wonder Years have released the new version of No Closer to Heaven to streaming services and pre-orders are up.
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In books and movies, it’s easy to spot the foreshadowing – the little details in the narrative that hint at something bad coming around the corner. In real life, you often only spot those warning signs in retrospect, when you’re looking back after some catastrophe transpires and wondering whether you could have known what was coming. Such is the case when I look back on the music that was dominating my life in 2019, right before the world went into a tailspin. And it is especially true about “The Days,” an achingly wistful summer song by country singer-songwriter Hailey Whitters, about making every good moment count lest they run dry a whole lot sooner than you expect.
In the moment, the good times seemed to be in endless supply in 2019, at least in my life. By the time that summer rolled around, I felt like I’d reached a state of total contentment. I was 28 years old and things were finally falling into place with my career. As a runner, I was getting back into racing after having not run competitively since high school, and my training had me feeling like I was in the best shape of my life. Most importantly, by moving back to our hometown, my wife and I had reignited our social life, which had mostly fallen by the wayside since our college years. We reconnected with old friends, made new ones, and spent a lot of time with family that we’d seen too little of in our years away. Everything felt just about perfect.
Read More “My Life In 35 Songs, Track 30: “The Days” by Hailey Whitters”
In this interview with Joey of Cliffdiver from Riot Fest, we talked about all things music and looking on the positive side of things.
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Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl sold many, many albums. The press release can be found below.
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Militarie Gun have shared the new song “God Owes Me Money.”
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Ben Folds has a newsletter and he recently wrote about Hayley Williams’s performance on Fallon:
Something that’s striking from the start of “True Believer” is Hayley radically singing in her lower register. It ain’t indie baby voice and it’s not rock chick affectation. It’s assertively at the bottom of her speaking range. She’s not hiding. She’s serious. This is a human being speaking her mind without blinking – taking ownership for what she’s saying.
In terms of musicality, in a world where we all assume it must be all dumbed down, especially when it’s taking up valuable ad time(!) Hayley brought the eloquence of a proper string section (arranged by Doug Peck), but she didn’t use them as props. They occupied their own space (there were blocked upstage of her.). They had a voice, and a turn to be featured. They weren’t buried or used like a synthesizer. In 2025 when each symphony orchestra still might only have a small handful of black musicians (until the 80s it was ALL men, no women), this stunning section of black and brown players was as good as you’ll ever hear.
This past week I was able to schedule a Zoom call with Alex DeLeon and Alex Marshall of The Cab to discuss what went into their thrilling new EP called Road To Reign: A Prelude, which is their first taste of new music in over ten years. I asked the two band members about what brought them back to playing music together again, their memories surrounding their previous albums of Whisper War and Symphony Soldier, and their upcoming tour dates with All Time Low. You can stream Road To Reign: A Prelude here.
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The first new taste of music in more than ten years from Connecticut post-hardcore band, Wolves At Bay, showcases the band’s sense of urgency in re-capturing the magic from their earlier material. Dissolve is an eight-song album that adds in some textural and electronica sounds to round out the band’s attack and approach to their songwriting. Wolves at Bay shared: “This chapter marks a true rebirth. The connection between us has only grown stronger with time, and that bond is felt in every chord and lyric. Dissolve isn’t just about returning—it’s about starting again with purpose.” By putting a strong step forward in their “rebirth”, Wolves at Bay waste little time in returning to the rock scene at full speed ahead.
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Cobra Starship’s debut album has come to vinyl for the first time. There’s also a special edition available.
Good Charlotte have announced some Australia tour dates. Yellowcard are opening.
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Dua Lipa covered Green Day’s “Wake Me When September Ends” with Billie Joe Armstrong.
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Taylor Swift has announced a new six-part docuseries for Disney+. The first two episodes will air on December 12th.
Hayley Williams and David Byrne have teamed up for “Open The Door.” The song comes from new Netflix film The Twit.
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Lucy Dacus performed “Best Guess” on Kimmel.
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Ryan Key of Yellowcard talked with V13.net about the band’s recent album:
One of the things, one of the challenges that we faced with this record, particularly for me when writing lyrics, was how do we make a record at 45 that sounds like we’re 25, but we don’t sound like we’re trying to be 25. It’s a tough thing. Grounding myself in family and my past and the mistakes that I’ve made along the way. It’s funny because the song doesn’t really have this happy ending or positive turn or turn to it. It’s really more about living in that feeling of that time in your life, and that feeling of being young, and that it’s gone and it’s not coming back. Again, it was a tricky thing to try to dig up some of those themes and not have it sound forced.