Riot Fest have announced the time schedule for the Chicago dates.
Chicago Riot Fest Times Announced
Entertainment Forum: The 21st century’s 100 greatest films.
Descendents – “Testosterone”
Descendents have released a live video for “Testosterone.”
Kevin Devine – “No History”
Kevin Devine has released his new song, “No History.” The new album Instigator is also up for pre-order. The album will be out on October 21st.
Caterpillars – “Frustrated”
Caterpillars’ new song “Frustrated” can be streamed below.
Coldplay Cover “Pure Imagination”
Coldplay covered “Pure Imagination” last night at their show as a tribute to the late Gene Wilder.
Sleigh Bells – “It’s Just Us Now” Video
Sleigh Bells have released their new video for “It’s Just Us Now.”
Microwave – “Vomit” Video
Jimmy Eat World – “Sure and Certain”
Jimmy Eat World have released their new single, “Sure and Certain,” from their upcoming album, Integrity Blues, which is due out October 21st.
Interview: Bishop Briggs
Bishop Briggs talks about opening for Coldplay on their “A Head Full of Dreams” tour, experiencing a hit single with “River,” making everything about the music, and never having a Plan B.
Star Wars Album Covers
Famous album covers redesigned to include the Star Wars’ characters? Yeah, of course I was going to post this.
‘Zombieland 2’ in the Works
It looks like a sequel to Zombieland is in the works:
“That is breaking news that we’re on Zombieland 2 right now,” they said. “We’re sitting with Woody [Harrelson]tomorrow and are going to sort of walk him through some of the stuff we want to do. All the cast is pretty excited.”
Facebook Fires Trending Topics Staff; Decision Immediately Backfires
Facebook got rid of the human curators for their “trending news” section and then, predictably, had the algorithm shit the bed and surface a fake story:
Facebook cut its Trending Topics team on Friday in favor of employing algorithms to surface news stories on the social networking platform.
Then on Sunday a fake story about Megyn Kelly getting fired by Fox for being a secret liberal showed up among the Trending Topics after getting hundreds of thousands of likes.
The company didn’t take the story down until Monday morning.
toyGuitar – “Move Like a Ghost
toyGuitar have posted up their new EP, Move Like a Ghost, for stream. You can listen below.
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Penetrated State Election Systems
Michael Isikoff, writing for Yahoo:
The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.