A new David Bowie EP, No Plan, has been released for what would have been Bowie’s 70th birthday. With it comes a video for “No Plan.”
Paramore Share a Little Album Update
Paramore have posted a little bit of an update about their new album on Instagram.1
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Hayley still has a great headphone game.↩
Staircase Spirits Release New EP
Staircase Spirits have released their new EP, Ghost Stories, on Bandcamp.
Frank Iero Discusses Last Year’s Traffic Accident
Frank Iero sat down with MTV to talk about the traffic accident he was involved in last year:
“The amount of HD-clarity that transpired in the next few moments is engraved in my memory,” Iero tells me. “I can remember every second, every action, every sound. I had this little briefcase pedal board that I had been carrying around with me. I put that down and I turned around to say to Evan and Paul, ‘I think I’m just going to take the tuner out of here.’ I said, ‘I think’ — that’s all I got out of my mouth.”
John Mayer and Dave Chappelle Cover Nirvana
John Mayer recently played a small gig at Hotel Cafe in Los Angeleas and Dave Chappelle showed up to help with a little rendition of Nirvana’s “Come as You Are.” Some fan-shot footage can be found below.
Modern Baseball Announce New Exclusive Tour Split
Modern Baseball will be releasing a new three-way split with The Superweaks and Thin Lips. The 7″ will be available exclusively at the merch table throughout their upcoming European tour. The track listing and tour dates can be found below.
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Metallica on Song Exploder
Metallica are the latest guests on the Song Exploder podcast.
Dropkick Murphys – “Paying My Way” Video
Dropkick Murphys have released their new video for “Paying My Way.”
Julien Baker Signs With Matador Records and Releases New Song
Julien Baker has signed with Matador Records. She’s also released the new song “Funeral Pyre” and announced that her fantastic debut, Sprained Ankle, will be re-released. And, on top of all that awesomeness, there’s some new tour dates as well. “Funeral Pyre” comes from a new 7″ that will be released in March.
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Explosions in the Sky Announce Tour Dates
Explosions in the Sky have announced some new tour dates. You can find those below.
Green Day Again Top Rock Airplay Charts
Green Day’s “Still Breathing” has topped Billboard’s rock airplay charts.
The second single from the band’s 12th studio LP gains by 3 percent to 11 million audience impressions in the week ending Jan. 1, according to Nielsen Music. Lead single “Bang Bang” ruled the chart for three weeks beginning Oct. 22.
The Flaming Lips – “We a Family” (feat. Miley Cyrus)
The Flaming Lips have released their new song “We a Family” (feat. Miley Cyrus). The lyric video is below.
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Most Anticipated of 2017 (Encore Episode 140)
On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined by special guest Deanna Chapman. The main topic this week is all about our most anticipated albums of 2017. What made the list and what did we decide to leave off? Do we really have to mention Brand New … again? We also talk about movies we are looking forward to, discuss music on TV shows, and nerd out about comic books a little bit.
Albums in Stores – Jan. 6th, 2017
It’s the first release day of 2017 and there’s a new album from Dropkick Murphys out. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Medium Announces Layoffs
Medium will be laying off a third of their employees:
Upon further reflection, it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t serve people. In fact, it’s not designed to. The vast majority of articles, videos, and other “content” we all consume on a daily basis is paid for — directly or indirectly — by corporations who are funding it in order to advance their goals. And it is measured, amplified, and rewarded based on its ability to do that. Period. As a result, we get…well, what we get. And it’s getting worse.
That’s a big part of why we are making this change today.
I don’t see much here about what this new approach will be, and without knowing that, I have to remain skeptical. The bigger issue is how most ad-driven media on the internet has worked for decades. It incentivizes clickbait by measuring clicks and page views when advertisers should be more concerned about attention and influence. Online publishers have to make a lot of difficult decisions about what kinds of advertising they want to run, and most of the times they’re completely beholden to what those buying the ads want from them. So you get multiple interstitial pop-ups, impossible to close full screen ads, and other bullshit that advertisers think work because they’re measuring the wrong things. How many times have you accidentally clicked on a mobile ad because of how intrusive it was?
Anecdotally, we’ve seen higher click-through rates on our banners and feed sponsors than I was ever seeing with the horrific ads we were forced to run on AbsolutePunk. But even with that it’s because of our supporters that this website is able to keep running. I still believe readers helping to fund the publications they love will play a big part in the future of online publishing.