Today we’re happy to help get you in the holiday spirit by bringing you a new Christmas song from America Hi-Fi. The band’s rendition of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” can be streamed below and contains an extra little gift … Mike Herrera of MxPx is guesting on it as well.
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Blink-182 sat down with Billboard to talk about their Grammy nomination and the upcoming deluxe edition of California:
It’s almost, it’s more than a whole other record, it’s a double album at this point and it’s more of an extension of what we did in the studio earlier. Some of the songs were songs that we did not put on the first album, but are great songs. And some are brand new that we just wrote last week, a lot of high-energy songs, punk rock, some more ballad-y songs, a little more electronic experimentation, it’s a good mix. It’s not a collection of throwaway songs, it’s like a whole other album.
And:
Yeah, there are like four songs that didn’t make the album that we’re putting on there. But then there are brand-new songs like “Wildfire” and “Parking Lot” and “Misery” that are all so f—ing strong, man. It’s amazing. We started writing maybe a week and a half ago and I think we have 14 songs. It’s a good problem to have. I’m really excited about this deluxe edition. It’s gonna be incredible.
Ok, I’m sold.
Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes’s clothing company, Drop Dead, has teamed up to produce two one-of-a-kind jackets for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. From Hypebeast:
The collection features two one-of-a-kind jackets: a denim jacket channeling the “underdog spirit of the Rebel Alliance,” featuring sewn-on patches, distressed effects, silk screen-printed graphics and hand-painted designs. The second piece is a white mesh bomber jacket featuring large Star Wars patches and a large reflective graphic printed on that back that salutes the might of the Empire.
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Cassadee Pope will be on tonight’s “Lip Sync Battle” doing her best Panic! at the Disco impersonation.
HAIM spoke with Entertainment Weekly about their upcoming album (which they are now aiming for a summer release):
Those perfectionist tendencies are to blame for the album’s shifting arrival date. Originally, the group had hoped to release the album this past fall, but they’re now looking at a summer release. “We write everything, we play everything, and we help produce everything,” Danielle says. “These things take time, and we refuse to put out anything we’re not 100 percent in love with.”
Pentatonix have released their video for “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”
The Dollyrots have released a video for their rendition of “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has announced its inductees for 2017. The list can be found below.
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Twenty One Pilots visited the studio with Mutemath and recreated five of their songs live. They’ve posted up the video on YouTube and you can download the tracks here.
Read More “Twenty One Pilots – “TOPxMM” (The Mutemath Sessions)”
This first impression was originally posted as a live blog for supporters in our forums on December 19th, 2016. First impressions are meant to be quick, fun, initial impressions on an album or release as I listen to it for the first time. It’s a running commentary written while listening to an album — not a review. More like a diary of thoughts. This post has been lightly edited for structure and flow.
This is an album I really never thought we would be getting. A new Acceptance album basically a decade after the last one. I’ve spent quite a while listening to this one now, maybe 6 or 8 full listens (and I’ve had some of the songs unfinished for quite a while and had played them many, many times), so I’ll try and offer a little of that context with the first listen as well. I really do think that this album is best listened to three or four times before having too many thoughts on it. I think this for a few reasons:
Heavy Things (formerly known as Will Deely) has signed to InVogue Records and released a new music video for “Sold.” They have a debut full-length album coming in March of 2017.
No film in 2016 is more gorgeous to watch than The Love Witch, shot in 35mm and stylized so precisely in every aspect. From the stunning costumes to the popping colors of the cinematography, the carefully constructed sets and the way light shines so perfectly on every object the characters interact with, the film is a visual masterwork. Director Anna Biller, who also wrote the script, edited the film, decorated the sets, and made the costumes, has brought to life an aesthetic vision unlike anything else made this year. Every frame is glorious, the cinematography so absurdly beautiful, an audience is hypnotized. Transfixed by such a magnificent visual work, we’re taken along for a ride for a film about a witch who endlessly seduces men and then, when each one inevitably disappoints her, kills them.
A new trailer for John Wick: Chapter 2 has been released.
Brandon Flowers of The Killers has written an op-ed for The Las Vegas Review-Journal supporting Vegas valet parkers:
As crazy as it sounds, my childhood dream was to be a valet parker. For a hard-working Vegas kid too restless for a desk job, valet was it. It wasn’t just about parking cars, it was about being the first face you see when you arrive at the hotel — the hookup who knew the ins and outs of the town.
It looks like we’ll be getting some new pressings of Alkaline Trio’s Good Mourning and Crimson on January 27th.