Lorde covered The 1975’s “Somebody Else” while performing in Paris last night. A fan shot video can be found on YouTube.
Lorde Covers The 1975’s “Somebody Else”
Knuckle Puck – “Want Me Around”
Knuckle Puck have released their new song “Want Me Around.”
Geoff Rickly Reveals His Childhood Obsession with Commercial Jingles
Geoff Rickly of Thursday performed at Kops Records early this week and talked about how “This Song Brought to You by a Falling Bomb” came to be:
… and I thought, god, I wish I could write a commercial for a bomb because it’s like the perfect product; people need it, they always want to blow each other up, but you can’t reuse it, so you’ve got to buy a new one every time, and the market doesn’t even set the price; it’s federally funded. Man, this is like the perfect product, and I started writing jingles for bombs and this is the song that came out of it.
He also performed four acoustic songs, which you can watch below.
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Bad Suns – “This Was a Home Once”
Bad Suns have released a new song called “This Was a Home Once.”
Allie X on World Cafe
Allie X was a recent guest on NPR’s World Cafe.
Trump Rolls Back Access to Free Birth Control
In today’s episode of our national nightmare, the Trump administration has just made it easier for employers to stop offering birth control. Here’s Sara Kliff, writing at Vox:
New regulations released Friday significantly broaden the types of companies and organizations that can request an exemption from that rule. This could lead to many American women who currently receive no-cost contraception having to pay out of pocket for their medication.
The new rules take effect immediately. And they allow large, publicly traded companies to seek an exemption from the birth control requirement if they have a religious or moral objection to providing such coverage. The Obama administration barred these large businesses from such exemptions.
And:
More than 20 percent of US women of childbearing age had to pay money out of pocket for oral contraceptives prior to the Obamacare mandate, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. That shrunk to less than 4 percent a few years after the mandate took effect
The Offspring to Release a New Album Next Year
In an interview with Rock in Rio The Offspring talk about releasing a new album in 2018.
Pink – “Whatever You Want”
Pink has released her new song “Whatever You Want.”
Anti-Flag – “Criminals”
Albums in Stores – Oct. 5th, 2017
Today sees new releases from August Burns Red, Gwen Stefani, Wolf Parade, and Citizen. 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.
How Breitbart Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into the Mainstream
Joe Bernstein, writing for Buzzfeed:
In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that “there’s no room in American society” for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.
But an explosive cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News proves that there was plenty of room for those voices on his website.
Holy shit.
2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees
The 2018 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees have been announced. Radiohead, Nina Simone, and Rage Against the Machine are among those nominated for the first time. The fan voting page is now up.
Review: Sammi Lanzetta – For Avery
Sammi Lanzetta is undoubtedly a new, and welcome face in the rock scene. Her first song showed up on Bandcamp in May of 2016. “House Plants” instantly shows off what kind of artist she is, with a sound best described as “anxiety rock.” On her new EP, For Avery, we get a better exploration of this sound. The EP consists of four songs none run over two and a half minutes. Lanzetta gets right to the point and that gives the EP has a great flow.
“Circles” pulls no punches with its biting opening line: “Why are you such a misogynist? I would rather slit my throat than be stuck in a house with you.” Now, if that doesn’t tell you exactly what you’re diving into with For Avery, then I don’t know what would. While the lyrics bare it all, the music is painfully real as well. She sings about her fears, anxiety, and many more emotions in the relatively short amount of time of just four songs. “Anxiety Olympics” is completely upfront about being around other people her age and how she may pale in comparison. She wants to be better, but also doesn’t want it to feel like a competition. That just might be something we can all relate to, even for those of us who are competitive.
The Smiths – “I Know It’s Over” (Demo)
The Smiths’ previously unreleased demo of “I Know It’s Over” can be streamed below via Pitchfork.
Artists Pay Tribute to Tom Petty
Quite a few artists have covered Tom Petty over the past few days, here’s some of the ones I liked:
- Against Me! – “Runnin’ Down a Dream”
- Miley Cyrus – “Wildflowers”
- Father John Misty – “To Find a Friend”
- Phoebe Bridgers – “It’ll All Work Out”
- Kesha – “Into the Great Wide Open”