Lucy Dacus and Katie Gavin sat down to talk together for Alternative Press.
KATIE GAVIN: I was feeling weird about leaving MUNA for a period of time to do the solo project, but then it was like, “OK, well, when the solo project becomes my main squeeze, and I’m on cycle for that, then MUNA is gonna become the mistress, and it’ll be nice to be tempted to go back to that again.”
LUCY DACUS: The mistress will strengthen your marriage.
Blink-182 have announced the “Missionary Impossible” tour with special guests Alkaline Trio.
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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 was interviewed by the LA Times:
Hoppus says, “It was really cathartic to write it all out and try to be fair to everybody in the book. My whole goal with the book was to not demonize anybody. I wanted there to be no villains in the book because, now that we’ve been through everything, I don’t feel that there were villains. I feel like Blink-182 is a blessing.”
He explains, “When my cancer went into remission, and I felt like I had dodged a bullet, I wanted to tell the story of Blink-182 and not necessarily just my story, but the story of the band from somebody in the band. I love Tom and Travis so much, and everyone just wanted to tell our story as it is, up to now: all the highs, all the lows, the brotherhood, the friendships, everything.”
The trailer for the eighth Mission: Impossible movie has been released.
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Jack Black parodied My Chemical Romance’s “Welcome to the Black Parade” in a skit for SNL.
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Wes Anderson has shared the trailer for his new film, The Phoenician Scheme.
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This year marks the twenty-fifth year anniversary of High Fidelity. Consequence has put together an oral history about the classic film:
Jack Black: I don’t read books unless I really have to. Then once I got the part, I thought, I better do my research, my due diligence. So I went back to the source, and I thought that the screenplay stayed true to the spirit of the original text. But I was just worried that, at the time, Tenacious D had a full head of steam, and we were getting great crowds and were playing to big houses. And I had, in my mind, a legitimate rock and roll career, separate from film and television, that I wanted to protect. And to do a movie about music, playing sort of a music critic and talking about some of my heroes like Kurt Cobain … just all those elements made me nervous about messing with this thing that was my own little crown jewel of my life and career up to that moment. I was hesitant to fuck with that.
Clem Burke, drummer for Blondie, has passed away.
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Carrie Underwood joined Papa Roach on stage for a performance of “Last Resort.”
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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 is on the latest episode of Pardon My Take podcast. He appears around the 1:47:30 mark.
Rookie of the Year are heading out on tour.
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CBS Mornings did a deep dive feature on the ticketing industry and why tickets are so expensive and where that money goes. Andrew McMahon is interviewed in the segment breaking down a concert and how much money the band sees from it.
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It’s a relatively short one this week. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Bill Gates, writing on the 50th anniversary of Microsoft:
The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a magazine. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an Altair 8800 on the cover. The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computing power to hobbyists. When Paul and I saw that cover, we knew two things: the PC revolution was imminent, and we wanted to get in on the ground floor.
At the time, personal computers were practically non-existent. Paul and I knew that creating software that let people program the Altair could revolutionize the way people interacted with these machines. So, we reached out to Ed Roberts, the founder of MITS, and told him we had a version of the programming language BASIC for the chip that the Altair 8800 ran on.
There was just one problem: We didn’t.
It was time to get to work.
I’ve heard this story many times before, but to read it again, and see the source code at the bottom of the page, is pretty wild.
Stuart Dredge, writing for Music Ally:
They include detailed breakdowns of how music is performing; data on what content fans are engaging with; promotional tools for music on TikTok; and the ability to set up EP and album campaigns driving pre-saves on Apple Music and Spotify.
A website is already live with login links for artists. It also explains that artists can invite their teams to have access to their analytics in TikTok for Artists too. Label teams can access artist analytics through their separate MediaMatch accounts in TikTok’s back-end.