Jeff Rosenstock recently performed live at the Side One Dummy Records office. A video of his performance of “Beers Again Alone” is up on YouTube.
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Apparently an unreleased Sufjan Stevens album was found in a Brooklyn dumpster. Michelle Geslani, writing for Consequence of Sound:
“I used to work next door to Sufjan’s studio in Brooklyn,” an anonymous poster recounted on Reddit yesterday. “One day, while he was renovating the place, he threw a bunch of stuff into the building’s dumpster. I salvaged this…as far as I know, I don’t think it’s ever been released.”
And from an interview with the album’s finder, via Stereogum:
I deleted the Reddit post because I felt awful about sharing the album after Asthmatic Kitty’s spokesperson kindly asked me not to. That was definitely a misstep on my part. I should have respected his wishes. On the other hand…this is trash we’re talking about. Publicly available trash. I didn’t Frankenstein the album together; it was right there, perfectly intact, complete with a clean-cut square of album art and a track listing. After discovering that it was never released, and reading the desperation from Sufjan fans who really wanted to hear this little piece of his history, I decided it best to allow Stalker to live through the self-multiplying preservationists that make the internet what it is. The alternative was a sad, quiet death for an album that I think shows a wonderfully playful side of Sufjan’s early career.
Father John Misty has covered the Squidbillies theme song.
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Pokémon Go has been released on iOS and Android. From the Techcrunch review of the game:
If you grew up on Pokémon battle games — or still play them these days — then you’re sure to be into Go, which uses your smartphone to bring Pokémon characters and Pokémon battles to real life locations and landmarks in cities.
Somos have announced some new tour dates for August and September. You can find those below.
Aaron Gillespie has released his cover of Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” The song comes from his new album, Out of the Badlands, on August 19th.
Butch Walker has released his new song, “Descending,” at the Wall Street Journal. You can stream that below. The song also features Ashley Monroe.
Walker and Monroe first met when she did a guest vocal for an album he was producing. The two hit it off, remained in touch, and vowed to write a song together. On a recent flight to Los Angeles, Monroe and Walker were texting “about the struggle of survival,” when the plane started making its landing.
Mumford and Sons did a little “cover” of Blink-182’s “Brohemian Rhapsody.”
Set Your Goals will be doing a 10-year Mutiny tour.
All Time Low will be releasing a new DVD, Straight to DVD II: Past, Present and Future Hearts, on August 26th. Pre-orders are now up, a teaser video, and the track listing, can be found below.
Wavves have made it very clear who they would like to come to their shows and who aren’t welcome.
Blink-182’s live performance at iHeartRadio Theatre is now up.
Ed Christman, writing for Billboard:
It’s the worst year (so far) for music sales since the 1991 debut of SoundScan (now Nielsen Music). Album sales, including track-equivalent albums (TEA, whereby 10 track sales equal one album unit) are down 16.9 percent in the first half of this year. But sales figures no longer tell the whole story of the record business.
Not great, Bob.
Sparrow Sleeps have released a new album of Green Day lullabies called Hypersomniac. You can stream their rendition of “Wake Me When September Ends” below.
TTNG’s new album, Disappointment Island, is streaming below via Independent.