You Me at Six have released their new song “Plus One.”
You Me at Six – “Plus One”
Waterparks – “Hawaii (Stay Awake)”
Waterparks have released their new song “Hawaii (Stay Awake)” on Spotify and Apple Music.
NOFX Stream ‘First Ditch Effort’
NOFX’s new album First Ditch Effort can be streamed below.
Interview: JT Daly of Paper Route
Frontman JT Daly details the journey behind Paper Route’s new album Real Emotion, the process of rediscovering an excitement for music, the struggle of writing about mental health and why it’s OK to get healthy, and the darks days surrounding Absence.
Anthony Green – “A Reason To Stay” Video
Anthony Green has released his new video for “A Reason To Stay.” He and his wife, Meredith Green, also spoke with Billboard about how beating heroin addiction inspired his latest album:
This album is just a celebration of the realness of relationships, which is sometimes very shitty. I can’t imagine anybody in my life I’ve been more vulnerable with than my wife. That also leaves you very wide open for shots. You sort of walk this fine line of being like, “There’s this person who can destroy me emotionally.” And the reality of it is that you do that to each other sometimes. And I think that learning how to bounce back from that is what makes a relationship stronger, or what breaks a relationship apart. I needed to [make this album] ‘cause in processing this stuff right now in my life, I’ve been going so many times, “Is this something I should be giving up or is this something I should be fighting hard for?” And that confusion on that question has come up in our marriage. Being on the other side of that, I feel like it’s always better to work through things. I think dealing with that was really why the record came out.
Eve 6’s Self-Titled Up for Pre-Order on Vinyl
Eve 6’s self-titled album is now up for pre-order on vinyl.
Trophy Eyes – “Breathe You In” Video
Trophy Eyes have released a new video for “Breathe You In.”
The 1975 With the BBC Philharmonic
The 1975 recently performed with the BBC Philharmonic.
Bon Iver – “29 #Strafford APTS” Video
Bon Iver has released a new video for “29 #Strafford APTS.”
Review: Microwave – Much Love
As I stare down my mid-twenties, I see the rest of my life hurtling toward me at full speed like a freight train with the brake lines cut. I feel my experience is nothing short of ubiquitous among those of my age group. Each of us may be staring down different issues: a full-time job that is perhaps not an actual career, mounting student loan debt, relationship troubles, and more. That uncertainty seems to linger there, just under the surface, at all hours of the day. These are the mounting insecurities and anxieties and, let’s face it, sometimes depression, that come with a perceived lack of direction in life.
We are all searching for someone who is trying to find that same meaning. It’s no surprise then, that the music we love often reflects back these same uncertainties, the same occasional short-lived self-loathing, and the probing existentialism of everyday life. And no record this year has struck that particular nerve for me in quite the way that Microwave’s Much Love has.
Sponsor: My Thanks to Too Close to Touch
My thanks to Too Close To Touch for sponsoring the website this week. The band’s sophomore album, Haven’t Been Myself, is now available, and the band are heading out on tour this fall with Crown The Empire, Bless The Fall, News Years Day, and Light Up The Sky. For more information, visit their website, and check out the tour dates below.
Busted – “On What You’re On” Video
Busted have released a new video for “What You’re On.”
OneRepublic – “A.I.” (feat. Peter Gabriel)
OneRepublic have debuted their new song “A.I.” (feat. Peter Gabriel).
Regina Spektor Performs “Small Bill$” on Corden
Regina Spektor performed “Small Bill$” on James Corden last night.
Portland Bookstore Defends “Fuck Portlandia” Sign
The bookstore “In Other Words,” which is often featured in Portlandia, has posted a message about why they are no longer working with the TV show:
Several months ago the In Other Words community agreed to discontinue our relationship with Portlandia. This was a direct response to a particular egregious filming of the show in our space which saw our store left a mess, our staff mistreated, our neighbors forced to close and lose business for a day without warning, and our repeated attempts to obtain accountability or resolution dismissed. It was also a direct response to a show which is in every way diametrically opposed to our politics and the vision of society we’re organizing to realize. A show which has had a net negative effect on our neighborhood and the city of Portland as a whole. Shortly after this decision was made, a volunteer placed the Fuck Portlandia sign in our window.
I don’t know many people that actually live in Portland that like this show.