Tiger Army have posted up “Firefall” for stream.
Tiger Army – “Firefall”
@Georgia_Dow: How to choose the perfect board game.
Prince’s Musical Vault Drilled Open
Prince’s vault has reportedly been drilled open:
The seven-time Grammy Award winner reportedly left behind a vault containing so much music his estate could put out an album a year for the next century. “We could put out more work in a month than most people could do in a year or more,” Susan Rogers, Prince’s former recording engineer, told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Radiohead Sending Out “Burn the Witch” Leaflets
Radiohead fans have been getting some mysterious “Burn the Witch” leaflets in the mail.
Travis Barker Talks With Radio X
Travis Barker was on Radio X this morning talking about Blink-182 and the band’s new single “Bored to Death.” He talks about having no “bad blood” with Tom DeLonge and that the label were the ones that picked the first single. He described the album as a mix between Enema of the State and Untitled. The full audio can be found below.
New Blink-182 Album Will Go in Lots of Different Directions
Rolling Stone were at the kickoff “Karaoke Bash” for Blink-182’s new album and tour and the article has some new information peppered in.
“It goes in a lot of different directions,” says Hoppus. “We have some songs that sound like Blink-182 from 1999. … We have some songs that are like nothing we have ever done before. We have a ballad called ‘Home Is Such a Lonely Place’ that has clean arpeggiated finger-picking guitars with strings underneath it. We have super-fast late-Nineties-punk-rock-sounding songs. … We tried to capture the energy and not worry so much about all the knobs.”
Frightened Rabbit Cover “Streets of Philadelphia”
Frightened Rabbit covered “Streets of Philadelphia” on SiriusXM earlier today.
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Are Bear vs Shark Gearing Up for Something?
Bear vs Shark have a new website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram page. Hmmm.
Ingrid Michaelson – “Hell No” Video
Ingrid Michaelson’s new video for “Hell No” is now up on YouTube or by hitting read more.
Belvedere Release First New Album in 12 Years
Converge to Release ‘You Fail Me: Redux’ in June
Converge will be releasing a reissue of You Fail Me called You Fail Me: Redux. The new version will be out on June 17th via Epitaph and Deathwish and features a new mix by guitarist/producer Kurt Ballou, new mastering from Alan Douches, and new packaging by frontman/artist Jacob Bannon. Pre-orders are now up.
Underappreciated Blink-182 Songs
For this week’s playlist I decided to just go all in with the Blink-182 theme that’s been pretty unavoidable this week. Instead of putting together just a playlist of my favorites, or the “best of,” I went for what I consider to be underappreciated Blink-182 songs. Songs that I don’t think get enough attention in their catalog. The only rules I made for myself was that I had to keep it under 45 minutes. You can find my picks on Apple Music and Spotify and I’d love to hear what you’d put on your “underappreciated” list.
Investigation Into Prince’s Death Is Now a Criminal Probe
David Chanen, writing for the StarTribune, on how the investigation into Prince’s death is now part of a criminal probe:
The law says that “investigative data collected or created by a law enforcement agency in order to prepare a case against a person, whether known or unknown, for the commission of a crime or other offense for which the agency has primary investigative responsibility are confidential or protected nonpublic while the investigation is active.”
The exception citation doesn’t mean that criminal charges will be filed at the completion of the Sheriff’s Office inquiry, only that charges are a possibility.
Tyler Glenn (Neon Trees) – “Trash”
Tyler Glenn, the lead singer of Neon Trees, has released his new song “Trash” on Apple Music, YouTube, and a video on Rolling Stone. The song comes from Tyler’s upcoming solo album, due out this fall on Island Records. The full press release can be found below.
“My entire life and perspective on God, the afterlife, morals and values, my self-worth, my born sexual orientation…all of it had been wired within the framework of this religion that doesn’t have a place for me,” says Tyler Glenn. “They claim it’s the only truth, the Lord’s church, but there have been 40+ suicides within the church as a result of that – men, women and children. I needed to make this statement to artfully show the pain of a faith crisis and the darkness of doubt. But also that there are ways to reclaim what is yours – I’m beginning to reclaim what is mine now with this song, with this video and with this record.”
Beach Slang Might Have Broke Up on Stage Last Night
Quite a few reports are coming in that say things did not go well at Beach Slang’s show in Salt Lake City last night:
Rumors are running rampant that Philly Replacements revivalists Beach Slang broke up onstage last night at their show at Salt Lake City’s Kilby Court. Fans who were at the show describe a scene where frontman James Alex announced onstage that this would be their last show and the crowd would be given refunds at the door.
Update: The band have updated their Facebook page and are not breaking up:
Salt Lake, for the car crash last night and Boise, for fumbling on you, I am gigantically sorry—even bigger than that. I am going to make good on making it up to you. Cross my heart. This, and all of you, mean too much to me. I love you with thunder. I love you all the way. So, yeah, Seattle, we are still coming to your good city, wild-eyed and ready, our hearts bashed back into shape. If you’re still in, we are.
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