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.
The Oatmeal: What a mobile website is supposed to do.
Tegan and Sara have launched a LGBTQ foundation for women and girls.
Through the Tegan and Sara Foundation, we can be proactive with our support rather than wait to react to discrimination as it occurs. We will support the work of other organizations who have been fighting for LGBTQ and women’s rights by raising funds and awareness for their initiatives. We will fight against the repressive legislation of the incoming Trump administration. We will fight against regressive homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic legislation. We will fight for economic, racial and gender justice. We started the Foundation to dismantle the systems of inequity that prevent LGBTQ girls and women from reaching their full potential. Together, we can make a difference.
You can donate here.
J. Cole has the number one album in the country this week.
J. Cole’s 4 Your Eyez Only bounds in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, granting the rapper his fourth chart-topper and notching the third-largest debut of 2016, according to Nielsen Music. The set earned 492,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Dec. 15.
Waterparks have shared a behind the scenes video for their “Stupid for You” music video.
Pinegrove has posted up their discography on Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-want price. The proceeds will all be donated to Planed Parenthood.
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The teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2049 has been released. I was skeptical at first, but I like all the names involved here.
HalfNoise have released a new video for “Sudden Feeling.”
One OK Rock have released the new song “I Was King.”
Will Pugh of Cartel is on this week’s episode of Mike Herrera’s podcast.
Not many have the work ethic and stamina to make it in the industry the way Will Pugh does! Mike and Will sit down and discuss the process that allows Will to make it in the music world while juggling being in a band, a producer, and song writer in Nashville.
Freezing soap bubbles you say? Yeah, we can do that. I hope everyone has a great weekend.
The first time I heard 22, A Million, the long-awaited third album from Bon Iver, I hated it. To my ears, it sounded like a formless mess, devoid of any clear highlights (at least on the level of the best songs from Justin Vernon’s previous albums) and frequently undone by head-scratching production choices. Granted, I was listening to a shitty rip of a shitty stream that had leaked to the internet months in advance. I’d also had my expectations sent through the roof by live recordings of the band’s full playthrough of the record at this year’s Eaux Claires music festival. Even an amateur audience recording of the performance captured the magic of the new songs and made it sound like 22, A Million—despite arriving on five years’ worth of built up anticipation—was going to live up to my every expectation. Hearing the same songs in studio form didn’t hit me the same way, and I spent months considering 22, A Million my biggest disappointment of the year as a result. Even after the album officially released in September and I finally got to hear a full-quality version, I heard it as a distinct step down from its two predecessors.
Into It. Over It. will be playing Proper in its entirety at the Metro in Chicago on January 13th, 2017.