Tiny Moving Partsʼ new song, “Headache,” is streaming at NPR or by hitting read more. It’s from the band’s upcoming album, Celebrate, which will be released on May 20th through Triple Crown Records.
Tiny Moving Parts – “Headache”
Rolling Stone’s Top 40 Punk Albums
Rolling Stone have put together a list of the Top 40 Punk Albums. No London Calling, but Enema of the State? I knew I was an absolute punk.
Punk rock started in 1976 on New York’s Bowery, when four cretins from Queens came up with a mutant strain of blitzkrieg bubblegum. The revolution they inspired split the history of rock & roll in half. But even if punk rock began as a kind of negation — a call to stark, brutal simplicity — its musical variety and transforming emotional power was immediate and remains staggering. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ramones’ toweringly influential self-titled debut, we’ve compiled a list of the 40 Greatest Punk Albums of All Time.
Mariachi Goes Emo
At Emo Night LA last night a mariachi band covered a whole bunch of classic pop-punk bands like Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, and New Found Glory. The Instagram tag has a bunch of photos and videos from the event. A few of the videos can be found below as well.
The Smiths Twitter Account Not Associated With Morrissey
Morrissey would like everyone to know that The Smiths account that showed up on Twitter yesterday is not sanctioned by him.
A Smiths/Morrissey Google alerts/Twitter account has been opened by Warner UK. Morrissey would like to stress that this account has not been sanctioned by him and has no connection to him. Follow it at your peril.
Parquet Courts – “Human Performance”
Parquet Courtsʼ new song “Human Performance” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more.
Taylor Swift Releases “New Romantics” Video
Taylor Swiftʼs new video for “New Romantics” can be found on Apple Music.
David Bowie – “I Can’t Give Everything Away”
An animated video for David Bowieʼs “I Can’t Give Everything Away” can be found on YouTube or by hitting read more. The video was put together by Blackstar album designer Jonathan Barnbrook.
letlive. – “Good Mourning, America”
WhatsApp Turns on Encryption
Cade Metz, writing for Wired, tells the inside story of WhatsApp turning on end-to-end encryption.
More than a billion people trade messages, make phone calls, send photos, and swap videos using the service. This means that only Facebook itself runs a larger self-contained communications network. And today, the enigmatic founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, together with a high-minded coder and cryptographer who goes by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, revealed that the company has added end-to-end encryption to every form of communication on its service.
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Is Out — Watch It With BB-8
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available on Blu-ray and digital download. Also, if you have one of those Sphero BB-8 toys, it’ll watch and react to the the movie with you.
Your new and improved BB-8 can actually “watch” the film with you and react to everything that happens. I’m sure he’ll have a thing or two to say when the onscreen BB-8 gets tossed around the Millennium Falcon in Rey’s first flight.
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Hot Hot Heat Announce Final Album; Stream “Kid Who Stays In The Picture”
Hot Hot Heat will release their final album, Hot Hot Heat, on June 24th. You can stream the first single, “Kid Who Stays In The Picture,” below.
To be able to tour from 1999 to 2014 and play hundreds of shows a year was amazing. It changed all of our lives. It was the greatest experience I could ever imagine. I can relate to our fans and I respect our fans. They are the kind of people I’d hang out with. I’m proud of every single record, and of finding the ground between making it challenging and fresh, but also not being afraid to be entertaining and put on a crazy show. Every show we ever did was just a total high energy spectacle and that’s a great legacy to have.
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Blink-182 to Release “Bored to Death” as First Single
So, it looks like the next Blink-182 single is going to be called “Bored to Death” and will hit radio on April 26th.
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Reports: David Geffen Named in Panama Papers Leak
According to McClatchy reporter Kevin Hall, David Geffen has been implicated in the “Panama Papers.”
Mossack Fonseca is not a household name, but the Panamanian law firm has long been well-known to the global financial and political elite, and thanks to a massive 2.6-terabyte leak of its confidential papers to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists it’s about to become much better known. A huge team of hundreds of journalists is poring over the documents they are calling the Panama Papers.
Brian Fallon Adds More Summer Tour Dates
Brian Fallon has added some more dates to his summer tour. You can find those by hitting read more.