Dave Hause has shared his cover of “Doublewhiskeycokenoice” featuring Lilly Hiatt.
Read More “Dave Hause – “Doublewhiskeycokenoice””Justin Vernon Debuts New Song Inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Juston Vernon of Bon Iver debuted a new song he said was inspired by the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the first of his “Visit With Vernon Eaux Claire” video series. These are part of the For Wisconsin project.
Read More “Justin Vernon Debuts New Song Inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg”CHAI – “Donuts Mind If I Do” Video
CHAI have shared their Sub Pop debt single “Donuts Mind If I Do.”
Read More “CHAI – “Donuts Mind If I Do” Video”The Maine Announce Halloween Livestream
The Maine will be playing a Forever Halloween in full for a livestream on Halloween. Tickets are now available.
Read More “The Maine Announce Halloween Livestream”The Night Game – “A Postcard From the City of Angels”
The Night Game have returned with the new song “A Postcard From the City of Angels.”
Read More “The Night Game – “A Postcard From the City of Angels””London Grammar – “California Soil” Video
London Grammar have returned with a video for “California Soil.”
Read More “London Grammar – “California Soil” Video”Tame Impala Performs in Empty Soccer Stadium
Tame Impala performed “Elephant” and “Is it True” at HBF Park in Perth, Australia.
Read More “Tame Impala Performs in Empty Soccer Stadium”Redwood – “Rumour Night” Video
Redwood have shared a video for the new single “Rumour Night.”
Read More “Redwood – “Rumour Night” Video”Kelly Clarkson Covers Tegan and Sara
Kelly Clarkson covered Tegan and Sara’s “Closer” on her talk show.
Read More “Kelly Clarkson Covers Tegan and Sara”I Am the Avalanche Announce New Album; Stream Song
I Am the Avalanche will release their new album, Dive, on November 20th. Today they’ve shared the new song “Better Days” and pre-orders are now up.
Read More “I Am the Avalanche Announce New Album; Stream Song”Albums in Stores – Oct. 2nd, 2020
Today sees new releases from Acceptance, LANY, and more. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the comments to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Read More “Albums in Stores – Oct. 2nd, 2020”My Nostalgia – 2004
How does our music scene follow-up a year like 2003? With many of the bands that had released breakout albums the previous couple of years coming back for seconds. We’re at a spot where this music scene is riding a wave. Blink-182 helped bring pop-punk into the mainstream, and bands like New Found Glory, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, and Yellowcard are spearheading the next wave. 2004 is where New Found Glory drop Catalyst, Sum 41 return with Chuck, Jimmy Eat World tears us open with Futures, and Green Day takes back the crown with the massive American Idiot. And it’s the year where a bunch of new artists appear in our lives. We’ll see Straylight Run, Name Taken, The Spill Canvas, and Northstar all release albums that captivate the community. We’ll get Underoath’s They’re Only Chasing Safety and an extremely polarizing Taking Back Sunday record.1
2004 marks the spot where I wrap up this My Nostalgia series. I started in 1998, and the Back To series began in 2005. So, 2004 is the crossroads. It’s everything that led into that next crest of bands that so many of you reading grew up with. It’s where AbsolutePunk undeniably took off to new levels and my life shifts from this website being a project I was doing for fun, into something I will dedicate the next 15 years of my life to.
Let’s head back. It’s 2004. This is the period of my junior year of college and a little bit of my senior year. I’m growing frustrated with classes. I’ve changed my major to business, and yet the classes run from seemingly obvious (marketing) to things I definitely don’t want to ever do (accounting), and what I want to be doing (working on AbsolutePunk) is squeezed in between all of the regular college things. Except, this year, there’s one little tweak. A bunch of my close college friends, including my roommate from the previous two years, will study abroad for a semester. Most of them are going to Salzburg. For a brief moment, I think I’m going too; I even get a passport. But then I find out that the house we’d all be staying at gets very weak, at best, internet. While the website is beginning to blow up, I’d have to, in many ways, put a pause on it for a semester to get the full experience of studying abroad. I decide I can’t do it.2 So now I’m back at school, and most of the people I spent the previous two years with aren’t there. I’m living off-campus in an apartment with some people I only knew tangentially from the earlier years. I spend most of the time at my girlfriend’s apartment with her roommate and her roommate’s boyfriend. But it doesn’t feel the same. I’m wandering. I’m feeling restless. I’m feeling trapped in a rut. Everyone around me is stressed about trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives, and I feel like I have the answer but not the time to commit to it. I start thinking about just dropping out of college to work on the website full time. It’s making some money; I could get a part-time job, maybe even keep living somewhere around the campus and hang out with my friends? When my girlfriend at the time decides she’s going to go abroad the next semester, I see an opening. I propose to my parents that I take the next semester off.
They flip their shit.
Read More “My Nostalgia – 2004”‘Kid A’ 20 Years Later: Why Radiohead’s Masterpiece Still Matters
20 years ago, Radiohead released an album that encapsulated an experimental fusion of cacophonous jazz (“The National Anthem”), ambient music (“Treefingers”), “traditional” rock moments (“Optimistic”), and electronic music (the rest). Kid A was unveiled during a moment in time that demanded heated discussion, introspection, and patience. With patience comes great reward: to understand the album the way it was intended opens up a whole new world. The record also immediately cast a behemoth-sized shadow over what Radiohead had done before (yep, even OK Computer) and what would come after (In Rainbows, too).
Singer Thom Yorke found himself exhausted with burnout following a lengthy tour of OK Computer. He began to despise everything about “rock music” as we knew it – guitars, the glamorization of drug and alcohol addiction – and his vision of what “rock” music could be would inadvertently change the music industry and online music culture for decades to come. For many Gen X-ers, Kid A was one of the earliest albums experienced online. Pre-streaming era, over 1,000 websites posted Kid A and it was streamed over 400,000 times, three weeks before the album’s release. There was no promotion – no music videos, the band declined to do interviews – but that didn’t stop incessant arguments on whether the album was Radiohead’s magnum opus or hot garbage, nor did it stop the reviews coming.
Jimmy Eat World on The Gunz Show
Jimmy Eat World are the latest guest on The Gunz Show podcast. (Overcast link.)
Good Terms – “All I Can” Video
Good Terms have shared a video for “All I Can.”
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