Morrissey would like everyone to know that The Smiths account that showed up on Twitter yesterday is not sanctioned by him.
A Smiths/Morrissey Google alerts/Twitter account has been opened by Warner UK. Morrissey would like to stress that this account has not been sanctioned by him and has no connection to him. Follow it at your peril.
Parquet Courtsʼ new song “Human Performance” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more.
Taylor Swiftʼs new video for “New Romantics” can be found on Apple Music.
An animated video for David Bowieʼs “I Can’t Give Everything Away” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more. The video was put together by Blackstar album designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
Cade Metz, writing for Wired, tells the inside story of WhatsApp turning on end-to-end encryption.
More than a billion people trade messages, make phone calls, send photos, and swap videos using the service. This means that only Facebook itself runs a larger self-contained communications network. And today, the enigmatic founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, together with a high-minded coder and cryptographer who goes by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, revealed that the company has added end-to-end encryption to every form of communication on its service.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and digital download. Also, if you have one of those Sphero BB-8 toys, it’ll watch and react to the the movie with you.
Your new and improved BB-8 can actually “watch” the film with you and react to everything that happens. I’m sure he’ll have a thing or two to say when the onscreen BB-8 gets tossed around the Millennium Falcon in Rey’s first flight.
Read More “‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Is Out — Watch It With BB-8”
Hot Hot Heat will release their final album, Hot Hot Heat, on June 24th. You can stream the first single, “Kid Who Stays In The Picture,” below.
To be able to tour from 1999 to 2014 and play hundreds of shows a year was amazing. It changed all of our lives. It was the greatest experience I could ever imagine. I can relate to our fans and I respect our fans. They are the kind of people I’d hang out with. I’m proud of every single record, and of finding the ground between making it challenging and fresh, but also not being afraid to be entertaining and put on a crazy show. Every show we ever did was just a total high energy spectacle and that’s a great legacy to have.
Read More “Hot Hot Heat Announce Final Album; Stream “Kid Who Stays In The Picture””
So, it looks like the next Blink-182 single is going to be called “Bored to Death” and will hit radio on April 26th.
Read More “Blink-182 to Release “Bored to Death” as First Single”
According to McClatchy reporter Kevin Hall, David Geffen has been implicated in the “Panama Papers.”
Mossack Fonseca is not a household name, but the Panamanian law firm has long been well-known to the global financial and political elite, and thanks to a massive 2.6-terabyte leak of its confidential papers to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists it’s about to become much better known. A huge team of hundreds of journalists is poring over the documents they are calling the Panama Papers.
Brian Fallon has added some more dates to his summer tour. You can find those by hitting read more.
It looks like Paramore may be in the studio doing some recording. Also, Hayley has really good taste in headphones.
This is not Pinkerton.
Now that we have that out of the way, let’s examine where this 10th LP (fourth self-titled) fits within The Curious Case of Weezer.
To many, Weezer are hacks; they’re notorious for “selling out” (whatever that means), a band who’s switched not only styles but a frontman who famously experimented with hundreds of songwriting methods just to reach the heights of the band’s classic debut, Weezer (The Blue Album). But it’s what’s happened between the time of The Blue Album and now that makes the band (and their enigmatic frontman, Rivers Cuomo) so endearing. There was critical success followed by critical failure; addiction followed by isolation, all in the name of goofy songs like “Hash Pipe” and “Island in the Sun.” There was celibacy, meditation, marriage, divorce, a Lil Wayne feature, and a “return to form” all in the past two decades.