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I wanted to take a minute to wish everyone a safe New Year’s Eve tonight. I hope everyone has a fun evening. If you’d like to join the community as the clock strikes twelve, our forums are the place to be.
Thank you to everyone that visited this website over the past year. And oh what a year it was. Our official best of lists will be coming out early next week, and here’s to 2021. It can’t be weirder, right?
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay $10 million for breaking into a competitors’ network. The company and its parent Live Nation admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, then using his knowledge — including old usernames and passwords — to learn CrowdSurge’s inner workings and “cut [the company] off at the knees.”
“Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence,” said acting US attorney Seth DuCharme. “Further, Ticketmaster’s employees brazenly held a division-wide ‘summit’ at which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company’s computers.”
Elvis Costello has released the new song “Farewell, OK.”
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Spin:
Fans might be more surprised to learn that new Eve 6 music is on the way — the reason Collins recently began tweeting more from the band’s account. Within the next two months, Eve 6 (Collins, Hilzinger and guitarist Jon Siebels) are set to release Black Nova (Velocity Records), a self-produced EP mostly recorded in Siebels’ downtown Los Angeles apartment.
Travis Barker talked with Uproxx and mentioned an unreleased Box Car Racer song:
So, there is a Box Car song that’s unreleased. I think whenever the time’s right or it makes sense, we’re gonna release it. I would just love for the fans to hear that song.
The Starting Line have a new vinyl bundle for their upcoming livestream.
Run the Jewels have released a video for “Walking in the Snow.”
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Mark Hoppus of Blink-182 recently mentioned on Twitch that he was able to track down some old Dude Ranch demos.
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NOFX have postponed their New Year’s Heave show.
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Chaser have released a video for “2020.”
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Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge are both acknowledging that next year is the 20th anniversary of the Box Car Racer album. And as we all know, acknowledgement via Tweet is the first step toward giving us what we really want.
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Yours Truly released their sophomore LP Self Care this September through UNFD. I caught up with the band to discuss a little bit about the process of recording a music video – for their excellent “Funeral Home” – during quarantine conditions.
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Taylor Swift has the number one album in the country:
Taylor Swift’s Evermore album holds atop the Billboard 200 chart for a second week, as the set earned 169,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 24 (down 49%), according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The album opened at No. 1 a week ago with 329,000 units.
Paul McCartney topped the sales only chart:
The album was available in more than 10 vinyl variants, which combined to sell nearly 32,000 copies in its first week – the third-largest sales week for a vinyl album since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. Only the debut weeks of Jack White’s Lazaretto (40,000) and Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy (34,000) were larger.
As predicted, U.S. vinyl album sales hit another historic high, as 1.842 million LPs were sold in the week ending Dec. 24, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. That’s the largest week for the format since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. The previous high was set only a week earlier, when 1.445 million were sold in the frame ending Dec. 17.
Furthermore, vinyl album sales outpaced CD sales for the week: 1.841 million vs. 1.671 million. It’s the fourth time that’s happened since 1991, and all four instances occurred in 2020.