The Maine want you to tweet some bullshit to unlock their cover of Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself” — I can’t believe bands still ask their fans to do this. Especially when it’s so easy to just search YouTube for it.
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Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties have released their new song “Green Like The G Train, Green Like Sea Foam,” from the upcoming Bittersweet EP.
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Brian Fallon performed “A Wonderful Life,” “Steve McQueen,” and “Rosemary” for Paste Magazine’s studio sessions.
The new trailer for Jason Bourne has been released.
Of Mice & Men have released the video for “The Depths (Live At Brixton).” The track comes from the band’s upcoming live album due out May 27th on Rise Records.
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Kendrick Lamar, Adele, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, and 96 others have been named to Time’s 100 Most Influential of 2016 list.
Kendrick should be applauded for inviting us to face things that are uncomfortable, for celebrating our will to survive and for being audacious enough to grapple with the questions that we all need to answer if we ever hope to get free.
I was surprised to not see Taylor Swift on this list.
The band Viet Cong have, finally, decided to rename themselves. They will be Preoccupations going forward.
After finishing our latest record and taking some time off, we are excited to announce that we will be performing and recording as “Preoccupations” going forward. We will be previewing new material from a forthcoming record in a series of festivals and shows in North America and Europe in the coming months. We apologize to those who were adversely affected by our former band name. This was never anticipated nor our intent. We are artists and not politicians, we understand that the name reflected pain to some individuals and we are happy to change it and move on and focus on our music. Thanks to all our friends and fans. See you all soon.
Sturgill Simpson’s performance of “Call to Arms” on The Daily Show has been posted online along with his cover of Nirvana’s “In Bloom.” It looks like it will be between Sturgill and Rihanna for the top of next week’s charts.
Vinnie Caruana’s new song “Survivor’s Guilt” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more.
For this week’s “Throwback Thursday” gallery I wanted to go back into the archives to see what I had stored on film. That’s when I found an old box of photos from Finch playing at Endfest on June 22nd, 2002. I’d been looking for this box for a very long time. It’s insane to think that it has been 5,053 days, or 13 years and 10 months, since these images were captured. But what’s even more crazy to me is that it was a short three months after What it is to Burn was released. Finch were just becoming the it band of the moment and I still remember the day I first heard that album. You can find the gallery below and I hope these bring back some memories of the days when Drive-Thru Records ruled the world.
It looks like Jeff Rosenstock is working on a new album.
Johnny Marr, formerly of The Smiths, has announced he will release his autobiography, Set the Boy Free, on November 3rd. Pre-orders are up on Amazon.
I wanted to convey a feeling of breaking free, that has been a constant throughout my life. A feeling that expresses itself as both escape and discovery. Transcendence. I found it through rock ‘n’ roll and art and a journey living both in the modern world.
PUP debuted their new song “Doubts” on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 show.
The Ataris have announced a “So Long, Blue Skies” tour in Australia.
