Panic! at the Disco have teamed up with Spotify to create a “personalized voicemail” page where you can create a voicemail message from Brendon Urie.
Personalized Panic! at the Disco Voicemails
Garbage – “Magnetized” Video
Garbage have released their new video for “Magnetized.”
Joyce Manor – “Last You Heard of Me” Video
Joyce Manor have posted up their new video for “Last You Heard of Me.”
Justice – “Randy” Video
Weezer Stream New Song “Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter”
Weezer will be releasing a new deluxe issue of The White Album. It will be out this Friday, October 7th, and comes with four new songs. One of those new songs, “Fake Smiles and Nervous Laughter” can be be streamed on Apple Music.
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Interview: Talking With the Bands From Riot Fest – Part 2 (Video)
I had the chance to do some video interviews with a bunch of bands at this year’s Riot Fest. Here’s the second batch:
- Off With Their Heads
- Plague Vendor
- Set Your Goals
- Sleepy Kitty
- Somos
- The Descendents
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- The Dirty Nil
- The Falcon
- The Far East
- The Wans
- Touché Amoré
- War on Women
- With Our Arms to the Sun
- Worries
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Fences – “Buffalo Feet” Video
Fenceshas released a new video for “Buffalo Feet.”
SWMRS – “Hannah” Video
Sainte – “Technicolor” Teaser
Sainte (comprised of Tay Jardine, Mike Ferri, and Cameron Hurley of We Are the in Crowd) have released a teaser for their new single “Technicolor.”
Magic: The Gathering is the True Soul of Rock & Roll
Bear vs Shark were really into Magic: The Gathering:
For almost a decade, I was in Bear vs. Shark, a cold fusion of Loggins and Messina and Jem and the Holograms. We were like if Pantera was really into Michael Haneke — or a one-man band that was actually six druids from the future. We toured a lot and then we broke up — haunted Michigan and parts of New York, played steel drums in the desert. Our Constrobot deconstructed and we became lawyers, teachers, bounty hunters. Some made death masks for pets, others false teeth. One of us has a pushup academy.
Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer Emails for U.S. Intelligence
Joseph Menn, writing at Reuters:
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter.
The company complied with a classified U.S. government directive, scanning hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts at the behest of the National Security Agency or FBI, said two former employees and a third person apprised of the events.
Mae to Release 3xLP
Mae are releasing their three EPs from 2009 on a 3xLP set. Pre-orders will go up today at 12:00pm PDT.
Review: Ceres – Drag It Down on You
Throughout most of the new Ceres album, Drag It Down on You, vocalist Tom Lanyon sounds pissed. Not pissed in the way that The Story So Far’s Parker Cannon sounds pissed, not the kind of pissed that makes you want to punch your bedroom wall, but the kind of pissed that makes you want to punch yourself. See, Lanyon and the rest of Ceres have done a lot of growing up since 2014’s remarkable debut, I Don’t Want to Be Anywhere But Here, and the result of that growth is the band’s sophomore album, which will go down as one of the best albums in an absolutely stacked year.
Interview: Talking With the Bands From Riot Fest – Part 1 (Video)
I had the chance to do some video interviews with a bunch of bands at this year’s Riot Fest. I’ll be breaking these down into two posts, but here’s the first batch:
Designing Bon Iver’s ’22, a Million’
Emmet Byrne interviewed Eric Timothy Carlson, the artist behind Bon Iver’s latest album, 22, a Million:
In the following interview we present the finished artwork, supplemented with process work and related materials. Eric takes us down the rabbit hole, describing the intense, fluid work sessions with Justin Vernon and others at the Eau Claire studios, the numbers that permeate the track list, the influence of digital culture on the new album, the prevalence of cryptic symbolism throughout the Minneapolis/Wisconsin music scene, and the Packers.