Greg Graffin’s new song “Backroads Of My Mind” can be streamed below via Rolling Stone.
Los Campesinos! – “The Fall of Home”
Los Campesinos! have released the new song “The Fall of Home.”
Against the Current’s Chrissy Costanza Talks About Reading & Leeds Lineup
Against the Current’s Chrissy Costanza talked with Alternative Press about the gender disparity at this year’s Reading & Leeds Festival:
So I started looking into it a little bit more because I didn’t want to speak without knowing what I was talking about. And I saw one site posted, “Who else do you want to see added to the Reading & Leeds lineup?” and I scrolled through the comments. [In] literally 350-something comments, I think there was like a handful of Paramore’s, one PVRIS comment, and that was it as far as girls go. Everything else was male bands and I was like, “Well, we’re all screaming about how there’s no girls on this [festival] and it’s like, you guys, the girls, the fans—I’m watching you guys comment. None of you are asking for girls. None of you—you’re all asking for guys, like every single one of you.” So how is Reading & Leeds supposed to put girls in their festival if you aren’t even supporting each other at this point? If we can make up over half the fans, women are the ones who are most actively commenting on all these things, the most active presences on social media. We have so much power and we’re not using it.
Dear anyone looking to book great artists for your festivals: this thread is full of them.
Dawes – “Roll With the Punches” Video
Dawes has released a video for “Roll With the Punches.”
Chance the Rapper Announces Tour Dates
Chance the Rapper has announced some new tour dates.
Anthony Green Voices Character in New Short Film
Music video director Matt Stawski has released a new short film titled North of Neon. Anthony Green lends his vocal talents to one of the characters — you can watch it below.
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Maroon 5 – “Cold” (feat. Future)
Google Adds Sharable Location Lists in Maps
Google has launched sharable location lists in Google Maps:
The new feature adds another layer to the already-existing “save” option in Google Maps. Once you pinpoint a desired location, you can hit the “save” button to reveal a number of premade lists including “Want to Go,” “Starred,” and “Favorites.” Then you can choose the list you want the location to live in, or create a new list with a personalized title like “Vacation.” In Google Maps’ menu, you can find all your saved lists in the “Your Places” folder when you want to recall saved locations. Now each list will have a “share” button as well, which lets you grab its link to share with others or share it via different social networks. This should make it easier to share things like favorite restaurants and shopping locations with visiting out-of-town family and the like.
This is a really cool feature. I’ve used apps like Relay and Rego in the past to achieve something similar.
The Menzingers Perform Nomad Sessions
The Menzingers performed “Gates” and “Burn After Writing” for the Nomad Sessions.
Linkin Park Share New Album Cover
Linkin Park have shared the album cover for their upcoming album.
Perfume Genius Announces New Tour Dates
Perfume Genius has announced some new tour dates and will be releasing new album in the near future.
Spoon Launch “Aura Reader” With Spotify
Spoon have teamed up with Spotify to release the “Aura Reader.” It’s a web application that lets you input Spoon songs into a playlist for analysis.
Smoking Popes – “Valentine” Video
Smoking Popes have released a video for “Valentine.”
Welcome to Geekdom: ‘Batman: The Animated Series’
Yours truly was on the latest episode of Welcome to Geekdom to talk all about Batman: The Animated Series. It’s one of my favorite animated shows of all time, and it was a real blast to sit down with Deanna and nerd out for an hour.
Facebook Tries to Offer Music Labels a YouTube Alternative
Lucas Shaw, writing for Bloomberg:
The world’s largest social network has redoubled its efforts to reach a broad accord with the industry, according to interviews with negotiators at labels, music publishers and trade associations. A deal would govern user-generated videos that include songs and potentially pave the way for Facebook to obtain more professional videos from the labels themselves.