Apple Photo’s (Lack Of) Concert Identification

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Chris Devers, writing about how Apple Photo’s “concert tagging feature” often fails:

This would be a lot less annoying if Apple provided some basic tools to help out here.

If we could edit the concert event tags, we could fix the problem ourselves. Alas, the tags are added (or not) automatically, and we have no way to control them. Better still, if we could edit the tags to note which artist was performing, that would also help, particularly for events where two or more names were on the lineup. If the software gave greater weight to geotags, that might help. Few events span miles, nevermind dozens of miles, so if the photos are of different places, they shouldn’t be grouped together as the same event.

Dave Grohl Talks with Mojo

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Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters talked with Mojo in a new interview:

“There was no plan to make an album,” Grohl tells MOJO’s David Fricke. However, he reports that after a year of writing and listening back to the “40 or 50 instrumentals” he had amassed, he found one stretch of eight recordings that were “punchy, fast, energetic” which felt like the seeds of a new Foos’ album. “I said, ‘That’s what we need…’” recalls Grohl.

Lorde Leaves Universal Music Group

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Lorde has decided to leave Universal Music.

“I adore them, they’re incredible people, and I have had an amazing experience with them,” she said about her time with UMG. “But the truth is that a 12-year-old girl pre-signed and pre-sold her creative output before she knew what it would be like and before she knew what she was signing away.”

Geoff Rickly Talks Perfume and Thursday

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Geoff Rickly of Thursday talked with Human Pursuits:

We’ve settled into a comfortable spot now—highly influential and beloved by cerebral elements of the fandom—but not the leading band by any populist metric.

That’s probably where we always belonged, but because we were doing something different before everyone else, there was a moment where we were the band to watch—sort of like Turnstile is now. We were selling out 5,000 capacity theatres, right at that point of being as big as you can get without being a household name. It happened a year into Full Collapse being out. That record sold 700 copies the week it was released; it was not a hit. Then all of a sudden, boom, it was. None of us knew how deal with it; there was no PR training.

Part two can be found here:

I’m really proud of Thursday that we waited until the hype died down. When you get back together, you’re playing your biggest shows ever, selling 3,000 tickets in huge rooms. You can do that once or twice on a reunion, but if you become a band again, you have to re-normalise. We waited until we had normalized and until we knew each other a little bit. We wrote a lot of songs that we didn’t release that were, quite frankly, bad.