Joshua Benton, writing for NiemanLab:
It isn’t quite our-long-national-nightmare-is-over level, but one of the significant daily reminders of the early web just disappeared. ESPN’s website, which had been hosted at espn.go.com since 1998, is finally now just at espn.com.
Damn, there goes one of my favorite jokes.
The Solid Verbal college football podcast did a deep dive on early 2000s emo/pop punk with ESPN’s Bill Barnwell. There’s something pretty great about hearing Barnwell, who I love to read write about football, go deep on The Promise Ring and Saves the Day.
The Heirs are an alternative-electro pop band fronted by siblings Savannah and Brandon Hudson. The band has previous festival experience and are now making waves on Warped Tour thanks to their new single “What You Want.” I had a chance to speak with the band on the tour and you can find that interview below.
A teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, Dunkirk, has been released. Yep, I’m definitely in.
Panic! at the Disco have released their studio version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show. The song will be featured on the upcoming Suicide Squad soundtrack.
My first introduction to “final clubs” was in The Social Network; however, Sarah Maslin Nir has a great article in The New York Times about their place at Harvard in 2016:
Today, that description is perpetuated by unwritten codes on who may pass through their doors and who may join. The elaborate courtship of the desirable can begin with an engraved invitation slipped under a dorm room door to “punch” — a selection process that continues with a series of outings and culminates in a black-tie dinner feting the few who make it through.
To many students, the clubs remain potent symbols of privilege, anachronistic and out of place on an increasingly diverse campus.
Beach Slang have released their video for “Punks in a Disco Bar.”
Facebook will be tweaking its news algorithm to start ranking stories that are seen as “clickbait” much lower than others. From Facebook’s blog, announcing this change:
We are focusing more effort on this, and are updating News Feed by using a system that identifies phrases that are commonly used in clickbait headlines. First, we categorized tens of thousands of headlines as clickbait by considering two key points: (1) if the headline withholds information required to understand what the content of the article is; and (2) if the headline exaggerates the article to create misleading expectations for the reader. For example, the headline “You’ll Never Believe Who Tripped and Fell on the Red Carpet…” withholds information required to understand the article (What happened? Who Tripped?) The headline “Apples Are Actually Bad For You?!” misleads the reader (apples are only bad for you if you eat too many every day). A team at Facebook reviewed thousands of headlines using these criteria, validating each other’s work to identify a large set of clickbait headlines.
Good.
Anthony Green has released a new acoustic live video for “Cellar.”
MC Lars and Spose have teamed up to release “Pokémon Go Rap.”
Owel have signed with Equal Vision Records and will release their new album, Dear Me, on November 11th. The first single “Paper Hands” can be streamed below.
Letlive. have announced a limited edition t-shirt where all proceeds will be going to the NAACP. The full press release can be found below.
The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney is on the latest episode of Song Exploder breaking down the BoJack Horseman theme song.
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Britney Spears’s new song “Private Show” is now streaming on Apple Music.
Of Mice & Men are streaming their new song “Real” on Sirius XM.