Less Art’s new song “Pessimism” can be streamed below. The band features Riley and Ed Breckenridge of Thrice, Ian Miller and Jon Howell of Kowloon Walled City, and Mike Minnick of Curl Up and Die. Pre-orders for their debut album are now up.
Today is Memorial Day here in the states, so we’ll be on a more relaxed posting schedule throughout the day. I’d like to take a moment to thank all of the service men and women that read this site for all that you do.
This first impression was originally posted as a live blog for supporters in our forums on May 28th, 2017. 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.
I hope everyone is having a nice Memorial weekend, or at the very least is staying cool and relaxing just a little bit. It’s been a pretty nice one here so far — quite hot. I’m currently downing a big glass of water. I got a bit of work done and spent a lot of today being super lazy and reading Batman comics and napping. Can’t complain much about that kinda day.
So, as the sun starts to sort of set over here, I thought this would be the perfect time to do a first listen live blog for the new album from Bleachers. I’ve been looking forward to this from the moment I first heard this album, because it just feels like the kinda album that we’re all going to be talking about for a good part of the year and we’re going to be deconstructing and coming back to for years to come. It’s quite good and it definitely lived up to my lofty expectations. It’s a pop album with heart, smarts, and panache.
Dagny’s new single “Wear Nothing” is up on Apple Music and Spotify.
Heartsounds will be releasing their new album, Dualistic Nihilist, next Friday, June 2nd. The album is one 20 minute song.
Hanson have released a video for their new song “I Was Born.”
Ariana Grande has shared a new statement on the Manchester attack.
Against Me!’s Record Store Day 7″ is now up on Spotify and Apple Music.
Matt Pryor and Jim Suptic of The Get Up Kids, and The Anniversary frontman Josh Berwanger, have teamed up with drummer Adam Phillips to start the new project Radar State. They’ll be releasing their debut EP in September, and you can stream the new song “Spinning Wheel” below.
Walt Mossberg has penned the last column of his career for Recode:
But just because you’re not seeing amazing new consumer tech products on Amazon, in the app stores, or at the Apple Store or Best Buy, that doesn’t mean the tech revolution is stuck or stopped. In fact, it’s just pausing to conquer some major new territory. And, if it succeeds, the results could be as big or bigger than the first consumer PCs were in the 1970s, or even the web in the 1990s and smartphones in the first decade of this century.
Thanks for everything Walt!
The “Behind the Brand” video interview with Hayley Williams of Paramore has finally made its way back online.
The Maine have posted up an acoustic version of “Bad Behavior” on Spotify and Apple Music.
The Rocket Summer’s Do You Feel? is now up for pre-order on vinyl.
Martin Johnson spoke with Billboard about his new project The Night Game and the future of Boys Like Girls:
“I was trying to find love for music by making it for other people, and it wasn’t working for me,” he says. “You get older and it becomes about maintenance, maintaining what you’ve made in your life. I had to start almost completely from scratch and write a couple of very left-of-center, sad songs to help me discover what I wanted to say.”
And from New York City Monthly:
I don’t think you need to close one door to start to open another necessarily. It’s not like I’m in two marriages. I’m creating some music, putting it out there, seeing if people like it, playing some tunes. I’m trying to express myself in that way, and it’s like I still have a group of best friends that I played music with for a really long time. The past is fun, though.