Garbage have announced a 20th anniversary re-issue of Version 2.0. The new version of the album comes with a set of b-sides from the era and they’ve posted up “Lick the Pavement.” Pre-orders are now up.
Phillip Sneed has posted on Facebook that he was kicked out of Story of the Year. His full statement can be found below.
Michael Tauberg, writing on Medium:
With the death of record stores, radio, and to a lesser extent, iTunes, the unit of music delivered to customers has shrunk. From the album, to the song, to now, the stream, music has been disentangled from it’s larger context. As such, we would expect that the names of albums and songs are uncorrelated to their musical success. One way to measure this is the number of unique words in a song title. Although there does appear to be an art to naming a hit song (or say book), the longer tail of music means more random song titles chosen by artists instead of record executives.
An interesting dive into music data.
Dorothy Atkins, writing at Law 360:
Facing the first day of a medical malpractice trial on Tuesday, a San Jose obstetrician-gynecologist who once drummed for The Offspring proved his punk rock bona fides rushing to the aid of a prospective juror in cardiac arrest, delivering CPR but forcing a mistrial over concerns his medical heroics could bias jurors in his favor.
Social Distortion have announced a new summer tour.
The Shacks’ new album, Haze, can be streamed over at NPR.
Stars have released a video for “Ship to Shore.”
ManDancing have released a video for “Broken.”
I wrote about Animal Flag at the beginning of the year for our most anticipated albums of 2018 and predicted their new album being “a stunner.” Now they’ve announced that album – it’s called Void Ripper and it comes out on April 13 via Flower Girl and Triple Crown Records – and I can assure you it’s a stunner indeed. I recently had the pleasure of speaking to frontman Matt Politoski about the writing of the record and the break away from Christianity that inspired it.
Lauren O’Neill, writing at Noisey, sits down with Brian Fallon:
He was conscious, he seems keen to say, of the expectation that weighs on an artist making their second album: “When you do a second record, you have to sort of firm up what you’re gonna do. You’ve gotta be like, ‘Am I doing this kind of music? Or am I doing this kind of music?’” He explains further: “The first record that people do, you get a little leeway. You get like, ‘Oh! He tried some weird stuff, that’s cool.’ But then with the next one they’ve expected you to figure it out.”
Everclear, Local H, and Marcy Playground have announced the Summerland 2018 tour.
Underoath sat down with Revolver to talk about their upcoming album:
“One of the best things we ever did was when we agreed not to be a Christian band anymore,” Chamberlain tells Revolver. “And when we made this record the [phrase], ‘that’s not Underoath enough,’ was not allowed to be said because those two things fucking ruined our band in the first place.”
Lights won “Pop Album of the Year” at the Juno Awards where she also performed “Giants” live.
Sinai Vessel have announced some new tour dates.
The Sidekicks will release Happiness Hours on May 18th. Today they’ve debuted the new single “Twin’s Twist.” Pre-orders are now up.
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