Ben Gibbard is the latest guest on the Jim Adkins podcast. (Overcast link.)
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Matt Pryor of The Get Up Kids is the latest guest on The Wasting Time Podcast. (Overcast link.)
Foxy Shazam – “Dreamer” Video
Foxy Shazam have returned with a video for the new song “Dreamer.”
Read More “Foxy Shazam – “Dreamer” Video”The Killers Talk With USA Today
The Killers talked with USA Today, and guitarist Dave Keuning will be returning to the band.
”Mirage” marks the first Killers album without guitarist/co-founder Dave Keuning, who left the band in 2017 to pursue a solo career. But drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. insists there is no ill will, and says they’ll be reuniting with Keuning in the studio this month.
”The tides might be changing a little bit for the better. The four horsemen ride again,” Vannucci says. “We’ll see what happens. As we get older, priorities change and people need to do life things that don’t include playing in a rock band. I totally get that. I think we’ll look back and say that was a much-needed respite for everybody.”
Deftones Detail New Album
Deftones will release their new album, Ohms, on September 25th.
Read More “Deftones Detail New Album”The All-American Rejects Announce Spotify Release
The All-American Rejects will be unveiling a Spotify “release of personal favorite works” from their four albums tomorrow.
Read More “The All-American Rejects Announce Spotify Release”Ben Gibbard Dedicates “Such Great Heights” to the Postal Service
Ben Gibbard performed “Such Great Heights” and dedicated it to the United States Postal Service.
Read More “Ben Gibbard Dedicates “Such Great Heights” to the Postal Service”You Me at Six – “MAKEMEFEELALIVE” Video
You Me at Six have released a video for the new song “MAKEMEFEELALIVE.”
Read More “You Me at Six – “MAKEMEFEELALIVE” Video”Fame on Fire – “Scars of Love” Video
Fame on Fire has released the the new song “Scars of Love.”
Read More “Fame on Fire – “Scars of Love” Video”London Grammar – “Baby It’s You”
London Grammar have returned with the new song “Baby It’s You.”
Read More “London Grammar – “Baby It’s You””White Reaper Cover Cleaners From Venus
White Reaper have released a cover of Cleaners From Venus’ “Only a Shadow.”
Read More “White Reaper Cover Cleaners From Venus”My Nostalgia – 1998
Over the past ten weeks, I’ve been looking at the old AbsolutePunk best-of lists and reevaluating my end of the year lists from some of the prime years in our music scene. But what happened before 2005? Over the next few weeks, I’d like to explore the very early years of AbsolutePunk and the music that helped shape my life.
It’s 1998. I’m 15. Every school dance is playing “Gettin Jiggy Wit It,” and boy bands are just beginning their reign. My clothes are too big. My musical taste is mostly made up of whatever my friends have been listening to. There was a grunge phase in middle school. I listened to a lot of Nirvana. A friend’s brother showed us Dookie. There was a Snoop Dog, Boyz II Men, and Salt-N-Peppa thing that happened in elementary school. I don’t remember it that much, but I remember a friend sharing some cassettes with me. And I was a child of the ’80s. I liked Michael Jackson. I had the Batman soundtrack by Prince. I listened to the music my dad would play on the record player every Sunday morning: The Beatles, Elvis, Simon & Garfunkel, John Denver. But my musical identity? The music that I called my own? The obsession with needing to listen to something every single second of the day? At this point in time, it didn’t exist. My closest friends were listening to Metallica and Pantera. I liked it well enough, but it never quite connected with me. It felt like the Nautica shirts I was wearing at the time, a costume I wore because everyone else was. This period, between 1997 and 1998, is where everything changed.
Read More “My Nostalgia – 1998”The Maine Share One Take “Numb Without You”
The Maine have shared a new one take version of “Numb Without You.”
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Blackbear has released the new song “If I Were U.”
Read More “Blackbear – “If I Were U””Dizzy – “Beatrice”
Dizzy have shared a new video for “Beatrice.”
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