Tom DeLonge shared his personal message of thanks to Matt Skiba on Instagram.
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Today is a great day to share the latest single from singer-songwriter Wesley called “Not Sure That Was Me.” For those unfamiliar with the artist, he would fit in the same vein of fans of Kurt Vile and Arthur Russell. On the latest music video, Wesley shared, “I’ve always really liked those red glowing eyes in movies and things. Like in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, and the Cure’s video for ‘Boys Don’t Cry.’ I cut red reflective tape and put it over my eyes. At one point I was standing on the top of a ladder in the dark with tape over my eyes. I wouldn’t want to do it again.” Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for Wesley’s new LP Glows in the Dark, out everywhere on November 11th via Earth Libraries.
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Today I’m excited to bring everyone an early listen to Mortal Prophets and their new single “Me and the Devil.” The album was produced by William Declan Lucey. Band leader, John Beckmann shared, “The songs on ‘Me and the Devil’ are especially poignant and timeless in so many ways. I had to get these songs out of my system because they touched me so much. The lyrics are a form of incantation.” If you’re enjoying the early listen, please consider purchasing the full album on December 9th.
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Drive-Thru Records has posted up some vintage merch along with The Starting Line’s With Hopes of Starting Over being released on vinyl.
Fat Mike Announces Punk Rock Museum
Fat Mike has announced the Punk Rock Museum.
It’s been 45+ years since punk rock pogo’d its way into music, fashion, film, and popular culture. January 13th 2023, The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas opens its doors and proudly shoves in your face the history, culture, and absurdity of rock n’ roll’s bastard step-child. This museum invites lifelong fans and curious looky-loos of all ages to experience a hands-on, uniquely punk rock experience.
Blink-182’s 2001 David Letterman Performance
David Letterman has re-uploaded a 2001 performance of Blink-182 playing “The Rock Show” with cleaned up audio to YouTube.
Read More “Blink-182’s 2001 David Letterman Performance”The Future of AI Music Generation
TechCrunch looks at Dance Diffusion, an AI music generator:
The emergence of Dance Diffusion comes several years after OpenAI, the San Francisco-based lab behind DALL-E 2, detailed its grand experiment with music generation, dubbed Jukebox. Given a genre, artist and a snippet of lyrics, Jukebox could generate relatively coherent music complete with vocals. But the songs Jukebox produced lacked larger musical structures like choruses that repeat and often contained nonsense lyrics.
Google’s AudioLM, detailed for the first time earlier this week, shows more promise, with an uncanny ability to generate piano music given a short snippet of playing. But it hasn’t been open sourced.
Dance Diffusion aims to overcome the limitations of previous open source tools by borrowing technology from image generators such as Stable Diffusion. The system is what’s known as a diffusion model, which generates new data (e.g., songs) by learning how to destroy and recover many existing samples of data. As it’s fed the existing samples — say, the entire Smashing Pumpkins discography — the model gets better at recovering all the data it had previously destroyed to create new works.
Rivers Cuomo on After School Radio
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer is on the latest episode of Mark Hoppus’s After School Radio show. Mark does talk briefly about the band’s reunion with Tom.
Tove Lo – “Grapefruit” Video
Tove Lo has shared the new song “Grapefruit.”
Read More “Tove Lo – “Grapefruit” Video”The 1975 Interview with Apple Music
The 1975 sat down with Zane Lowe to talk about their new album out tomorrow.
Read More “The 1975 Interview with Apple Music”Story of the Year – “Tear Me to Pieces” Video
Story of the Year have released a video for “Tear Me to Pieces.”
Read More “Story of the Year – “Tear Me to Pieces” Video”Review: The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes On Forever
Has there ever been a more emo opening on an album than on The Wonder Years “Doors I Painted Shut” as lead vocalist Dan Campbell croons, “I don’t wanna die / At least not without you / Alone here in the August heat / In the shadows of the afternoon”? The Wonder Years’ latest studio album, entitled The Hum Goes On Forever, may be their best record to date and features several unique callbacks to the sound they have perfected over their collective careers. The set was produced by Steve Evetts and veteran hit-maker Will Yip, and the album sounds like a million bucks. The Hum Goes On Forever also features two outside collaborators/writers on “Wyatt’s Song (Your Name)” (Mark Hoppus) and “Oldest Daughter” (Ace Enders), and showcases a band blossoming gracefully in the later stages of their career.
After the cautious opening song, the album explodes into “Wyatt’s Song (Your Name),” the third single released, and possibly one of my favorite songs that the band has ever crafted to date. I found the verse of “I found glass in the garden / Dug it up with my thumb / I won’t let you cut your feet / When you learn to run / But you learned to say, “Moon” / So, we waved from your room / He called to you like it might come to you,” to be particularly well-written since it reminded me a bit of the relationship I have with my kids and wanting to protect them from the worst situations.
Read More “The Wonder Years – The Hum Goes On Forever”Interview: Caracara
Recently I was able to catch up on the road with the ultra-talented band, Caracara, for an in-depth interview about the process they took while recording their latest record New Preoccupations. I asked the band about specific songs like “My Thousand Eyes,” “Colorglut” and more as well as what went into deciding the final tracklisting for the album. Be sure to catch Caracara on their current US tour with Sad Park and Heart To Gold.
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Carly Rae Jepsen has shared a video for “The Loneliest Time.”
Read More “Carly Rae Jepsen – “The Loneliest Time” Video”The Wonder Years Release New Studio Documentary
The Wonder Years have released a new studio documentary, Coughing Out Embers.
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