Butch Walker will be featured in an upcoming episode of Ernie Ball’s The Pursuit of Tone. It will air on November 11th and a clip can be found on YouTube.
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North Alone have posted up a cover of No Use For a Name’s “International You Day” on Bandcamp.
Marianas Trench have released their new video for “Who Do You Love.”
Jimmy Eat World have shared an acoustic performance of “Integrity Blues.” The song comes from their new album, which was released today.
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Tom DeLonge has commented on Instagram about some of his emails showing up on Wikileaks:
Wikileaks really messed some important stuff up. What seems like ridiculous subject matter to most, is of massive importance to admirable National Security Leadership. It’s easy to poke fun about the topic from an armchair, but unless you’re invited to the meetings I have been a part of, then…no more laughing. Big things are coming. Project is still on, believe it or not, things just got bigger.
Quite a few websites and services (Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, etc.) are down today after a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the DNS provider Dyn occurred this morning. Gizmodo has the full list of sites and more information:
Domain Name Servers (DNS) act as the internet’s phone book. Basically, they facilitate your request to go to a certain webpage and make sure you are taken to the right place. If the DNS provider that handles requests for Twitter is down, well, good luck getting to Twitter. Some websites are coming back for some users, but it doesn’t look like the problem is fully resolved.
This week’s episode of Encore sees the return of special guest Craig Manning as we do a deep dive on the upcoming Jimmy Eat World album, Integrity Blues. The album comes out today, October 21st, and we talk about our history with the band, their catalog, and then go track-by-track through the new album to give our thoughts on the entire thing.
Justice have shared their new song “Alakazam!” on Apple Music.
However, during the time period analyzed, we found that right-wing pages were more prone to sharing false or misleading information than left-wing pages. Mainstream pages did not share any completely false information, but did publish a small number of posts that included unverified claims. (More on that below.)
We rated 86 out of a total 666 right-wing Facebook posts as mostly false, for a percentage of 13%. Another 167 posts (25%) were rated as a mixture of true and false. Viewed separately or together (38%), this is an alarmingly high percentage.
Left-wing pages did not earn as many “mostly false” or “mixture of true and false” ratings, but they did share false and misleading content. We identified 22 mostly false posts out of a total of 471 from these pages, which means that just under 5% of left-wing posts were untrue. We rated close to 14% of these posts (68) a mixture of true and false. Taken together, nearly a fifth of all left-wing posts we analyzed were either partially or mostly false.
Facebook, what are you doing? This is where a shocking number of people get their “news” and at this rate a huge part of it is literal bullshit.
Panic! at the Disco performed “LA Devotee” and “Victorious” for Good Morning America.
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Today is a pretty impressive release day. I think it’s highlighted by the fantastic new one from Jimmy Eat World. But there’s also albums from Lady Gaga, Kevin Devine, and American Football. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
“I can’t say I’m underrated,” Kevin Devine sings at the beginning of a new Bright Eyes-like folk song called “No One Says You Have To.” Although in the context of the song, it serves as a reminder to Devine to appreciate the success he’s found, I’ll have to disagree with him there. The 39-year-old Brookyln singer/songwriter is now nine albums deep and still hasn’t put out a bad album. He was able to release two albums in the same year – on the same day – with nearly two completely different sounds and both were rightfully acclaimed. But for all that, he crowdfunded his last two albums and he was dropped from Capitol after only one release — he can say he’s not underrated all he wants, but I’m going to disagree every time.
Instigator is my argument as to why.
Lady Gaga’s new album, Joanne, is now streaming on Apple Music.
Palisades have released their new song “Aggression.”
Elvis Costello has canceled his upcoming Pittsburgh show in support of the city’s striking orchestra.