Rage Against the Machine have launched a countdown website.
Update: Billboard is reporting that Prophets of Rage is a new project consisting of Tom Morello, Tim Commerford, and Brad Wilk, along with Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real.
The band’s debut is set for Hollywood Palladium on June 3, with a show at L.A.’s Whisky a Go Go planned as well. A 2016 summer tour is also being considered.
HAIM performed two new songs in Santa Ana, CA last night. You can find some fan shot videos below.
Blink-182 have released a 10-hour loop of “Built This Pool.” Because of course they did.
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Steven Hyden released his new book, Your Favorite Band is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life, this week.
Beatles vs. Stones. Biggie vs. Tupac. Kanye vs. Taylor. Who do you choose? And what does that say about you? Actually–what do these endlessly argued-about pop music rivalries say about us?
Music opinions bring out passionate debate in people, and Steven Hyden knows that firsthand. Each chapter in Your Favorite Band is Killing Me focuses on a pop music rivalry, from the classic to the very recent, and draws connections to the larger forces surrounding the pairing.
I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve heard really good things and have always enjoyed Steven’s writing.
Issues’ new album, Headspace, can be streamed below.
Riot Fest has announced the first wave of the 2016 lineup for Riot Fest & Rodeo (Sept. 2-4, Denver, CO) and Riot Fest & Carnival (Sept. 16-18, Chicago, IL). You can find all the bands, and full press release, below.
I was feeling oddly nostalgic on the day Celebration Guns sent over this video to see about premiering it on the website, and something about the old home video footage worked so well with the music that it won me over almost instantly. The track, “The Me That Used to Be” comes from the band’s recently released EP of the same name. Frontman, Justin Weir, described the video premise:
The video features footage of me as a super hyperactive kid and while the lyrics have a general theme of reconnecting with youth and the associated beliefs and ideals that came with it, the video features the guys in the band reconnecting with the spirit of youth at an arcade, minigolf, and laser tag. Kind of a more personal look at Celebration Guns that hopefully brings about a nostalgic feeling overall.
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Joe Lynch, writing for Billboard, on how Dr. Luke’s record label, Kemosabe Records, is blocking Kesha from playing the Billboard Music Awards:
“Kesha accepted an invitation to perform on the show and she received written approval from Dr. Luke’s record label, Kemosabe Records,” dick clark productions said in a statement. “Kemosabe subsequently rescinded its approval following a media report on Wednesday May 11 regarding Kesha’s appearance on the BBMAs. Unfortunately, Kesha and Kemosabe have since been unable to come to an agreement for Kesha to perform on the show.”
Utterly ridiculous.
Update: The performance is now back on with the following statement from the label:
Kesha’s performance on the Billboard Music Awards was always approved, in good faith. Approval was only suspended when Kemosabe learned Kesha was to use the performance as a platform to discuss the litigation. Now that Kemosabe has obtained assurances, that it is relying upon, from Kesha, her representatives and Dick Clark Productions that neither Kesha nor her supporters will use the performance as such a platform, the approval has been restored.
I repeat: utterly ridiculous.
NPR Music will be livestreaming Explosions in the Sky’s second of two sold out nights at Washington D.C.’s 9:30 Club this Thursday, May 19th starting at 9:30pm ET on Facebook.
Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail is singing in a new band with members of Finch, called Speak the Truth, that apparently sounds like “2002.”
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Music Forum: The official Brand New thread seemed fitting today.
Before directing Captain America: Civil War, the Russo brothers directed comedies like Arrested Development, so, it’s no coincidence that the famous Bluth stair car makes a cameo in the airport scene.
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Frank Turner, writing on his blog:
It’s actually really fucking dumb that I have to spell this out, but if you’re the kind of guy who has ever behaved like that towards a woman in any context, I’d like you to do two things: firstly, just be a fucking human, consider yourself in the other person’s shoes, ask yourself if you could defend your actions if publicly called out in front of your friends, your family, the whole crowd. And secondly, if that first part didn’t work, I’d like you to fuck off and never come to any of my shows again.
Coheed and Cambria have announced three UK shows with La Dispute and mewithoutYou in August.
The best fan shot video I’ve seen from Blink-182’s performance of “Bored to Death” does a pretty good job highlighting Matt Skiba’s verse — worth a watch if you’re curious how the song’s going to sound live.
