Recently I was able to catch up with Austin pop-rockers White Label Analog after they released a great new single called “Curves.” I asked the band about their songwriting process as well as how they stayed active during the pandemic. The band is considering upcoming touring plans as well as releasing more singles in the near future.
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Mod Sun and Avril Lavigne have announced their engagement.
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Lit will release Tastes like Gold on June 17th. Today they’ve shared the new song “Kicked off the Plane.”
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Microwave has shared the new single “Circling the Drain.”
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Spanish Love Songs have released a new version of ”Kick (etc. Version).”
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Dashboard Confessional and Andrew McMahon are heading out on tour.
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This week’s newsletter has thoughts on trying a new “Day’s Over” focus mode on iOS, some first impressions of the new Cold Years album, and random thoughts on other entertainment I consumed over the past week. Plus, a playlist of ten songs I loved and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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The Format have put up a bunch of new pressings of their catalog.
“I was [once] a trash man there playing in a punk-rock band called Feeble, so to go back in 2022 with my fiancée and just have a day laying on the beach… I can’t say how amazing it is,” Barker reflects. “I feel like I’m learning how to structure my time, trying to work enough to where I feel comfortable and feel like I earn days off and vacations, which I never took until this past year.”
Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 talks with Spin:
Now 8 years sober, Whibley prepares to release a new Sum 41 record. They’ve crafted a double LP (a first for the band) titled Heaven And Hell, which deftly threads a line from their early pop punk days to their current metal era. The first disc, full of songs harking back to the golden age of ‘00s pop punk, was written in the wake of a proposed deluxe-reissue of their debut LP, All Killer, No Filler. Universal Records asked Whibley if they had any songs leftover from their early days. He didn’t, but the challenge presented itself to come up with one or two.
Before long, Whibley had written enough songs to make a record and opted to collect them all as a new record instead of extras on a nostalgic repackaging. At the same time, he had been writing new material that was much more of-the-moment for Sum 41, a band that has moved away from the pop punk songs of their youth into heavy metal arenas.
The Faim have returned with “Era.”
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Maggie Rogers has shared the new song “That’s Where I Am.”
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Motion City Soundtrack’s I Am the Movie is getting a limited re-pressing.
This exclusive vinyl variant is 140g on “translucent ruby red.” I Am the Movie is limited to only 300 copies.
Frank Turner is on the latest episode of the Kyle Meredith With… podcast.
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