Coldplay covered “Pure Imagination” last night at their show as a tribute to the late Gene Wilder.
Coldplay Cover “Pure Imagination”
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.
The Republic of Wolves Begin Teasing
The Republic of Wolves look to be doing a little teasing.
Bands on TV (Week of August 29th)
The notable artists on your television screen this week include: Glass Animals (Kimmel; 8/30), Tove Lo (Fallon; 8/31), Zara Larsson (Fallon; 9/1), The Kills (Corden, 9/1).
Twenty One Pilots Make History on the Charts
Twenty One Pilots have become the first artist to have a different number one song on both the pop and alternative songs charts at the same time:
While Twenty One Pilots are the first act to top Pop Songs and Alternative Songs simultaneously with a pair of tracks, they’re the sixth to lead the Nielsen Music-based lists at the same time (the prior five having done so with the same song on both charts). The duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun is the first act to rank at No. 1 on both charts simultaneously in 11 years, since Green Day doubled up with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” for four weeks in March 2005. (That hit led Alternative Songs for 16 total weeks; the last four of those coincided with the song’s four-week reign on Pop Songs.)
Memphis May Fire Announce New Album
Memphis May Fire will release This Light I Hold on October 28th via Rise Records. They’ve also debuted the first song from the album, “Carry On.”
Frank Turner Announces UK Tour Dates
Frank Turner has announced some UK tour dates. They’re below.