Sponsor: Foxera Release Video for “Memories;” Looking for Vocalist

Foxera
Sponsored Post

Foxera have debuted their video for “Memories.” The song features a collaboration with Tilian Pearson of Dance Gavin Dance on vocals. When describing the song and video the band said:

The song reflects on the moments in our lives that feel like we aren’t in control of our hardships and struggles. We must remind ourselves to choose to focus less on what we can’t change and more on what we can. The video catalogs the confusion felt when those moments and our memories get the best of us.

Foxera are a melodic rock band out of Phoenix, AZ and are currently getting ready to record a diverse collection of debut songs with producer Taylor Larson (Periphery, I See Stars, Veil of Maya, Asking Alexandria). They are on the search for the voice of their band and encourage anyone interested to visit their website to learn more, contact the band, and preview their other songs.

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Review: Lord Huron – Vide Noir

Lord Huron - Vide Noir
Adam Grundy

Lord Huron, the indie rock group from Los Angeles, have had quite a few years to grow into their trademark sound of atmospheric landscapes and wandering journeys. Vide Noir, the third studio album and their first on a major label, was mixed by Dave Fridmann (Tame Impala, The Flaming Lips) and self-produced by front-man Ben Schneider, in which he has crafted his early career masterpiece. Schneider recently credited this album to a new habit of taking nighttime drives around LA and the “search for meaning amidst the cold indifference of the universe,” according to his recent social media posts.

Straight from the album opener, “Lost in Time and Space,” we are immediately transported to a dark yet clear night landscape with subtle sounds of buzzing lights, background whispers, a harp, and eventually the folk strumming of Schneider’s acoustic guitar cuts through the soft noise. In the track, Schneider admits, “I don’t know who I am, I don’t know where I am,” and the listener is immediately pulled in to go on this journey with the band.

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Jason Aldean Tops the Charts

Jason Tate

Jason Aldean has the number one album in the country this week:

Rearview Town, released on April 13 via Macon/Broken Bow Records, launches with 183,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music, of which 162,000 were in traditional album sales. The set starts with the biggest week in terms of overall units and album sales for any country title this year.

The Callout

NPR
Jason Tate

I haven’t listened to it yet, but quite a few people have sent in this podcast from NPR titled “The Callout” and said it’s good:

A lot of communities today are taking a hard stand against sexual harassment and assault. Using social media shaming, ostracism, professional excommunication, whatever punishment is painful enough to shift the moral code by brute force. Through one incident in the Richmond, Va. hardcore music scene, we chronicle a social media callout and ask what pain can accomplish.

‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

Reddit
Jason Tate

Noah Kulwin, writing at NY Mag:

First, I’ll say there were very few decisions made. I think that the biggest problem that Reddit had and continues to have, and that all of the platforms, Facebook and Twitter, and Discord now continue to have is that they’re not making decisions, is that there is absolutely no active thought going into their problems — problems that are going to exist in coming months or years — and what they can do to combat them.