The Psychedelic Furs have returned with the new song “No-One.”
Taylor Swift Performs “Soon You’ll Get Better”
Taylor Swift performed a piano version of “Soon You’ll Get Better” for One World: Together at Home.
Jimmy Eat World & Bethany Cosentino Cover Crooked Fingers
Jimmy Eat World did another livestream last Friday and teamed up with Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino to cover Crooked Fingers’ “Call to Love.”
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Dogleg – “Wartortle” Video
The Front Bottoms – “Everyone Blooms” Video
The Front Bottoms have released a video for the new song “Everyone Blooms.”
Sponsor: My Thanks to Northvale
A huge thanks to Northvale for sponsoring the website and newsletter last week. Northvale are a band from New Jersey in the vein of Sleep On it, Grayscale, and Mayday Parade. Last week they released the brand new song “High Tide” featuring AJ Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer and it’s totally worth your time.
The band has another single on Spotify called “Sleepwalking,” featuring Joey Fleming from In Her Own Words, and they plan to release a new six song EP, recorded at Nada Studios, at the beginning of summer.
Liner Notes (April 17th, 2020)
Friday already, huh? This week’s newsletter has thoughts on new music, my favorite things I saw online this week, and a rundown of my quarantine media diet. There’s also a playlist of ten songs I liked this week, and this week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here. I hope everyone is staying safe out there.
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Manchester Orchestra Launch Patreon
Manchester Orchestra have launched a Patreon:
I feel like artistically, our subscription service should also have a concept, a time frame where there is a theme revolving around what we are releasing each month. This first theme is called “Simple Math/Sinful Math.” Next year marks the ten year anniversary of our third album, Simple Math. While writing that album we always had plans to go back and release a much more raw and exposed version of this album with new songs and no strings. we are already planning a really cool expansive LP including the songs from Sinful Math, acoustic demos, and full band demos to be released next year. I’ve thought about this a lot for many years and my biggest concern was making sure that what we ended up releasing and providing is actually worth your money. I hope this is a way where we can lift the curtain on this album and really pull it apart while also releasing extra goodies and all sorts of content from us. Thank you, as always, for supporting our band and if this is something that you aren’t interested in or can’t afford at the moment I can assure you that we will continue putting all of our best interests and passion into creating the best music that we possibly can. We really love you all.
My Kid Brother – “Daydream” Video
My Kid Brother have shared a video for “Daydream.”
Against Me! Cancel Tour
Against Me! have canceled their May tour.
Grist Mil – “Collapse Into Nowhere”
Grist Mil (Derrick Sherman from Sainthood Reps) has shared a new video for “Collapse Into Nowhere.” His debut EP, Young Dudley, is out today.
Patent Pending – “Wobble”
Patent Pending have released the new song “Wobble.”
Chromatics – “Dear Tommy”
Chromatics have shared the new song “Dear Tommy.”
Charli XCX – “Forever” Video
Charli XCX has shared a video for “Forever.”
Fiona Apple Talks With Vulture
Fiona Apple talked with Vulture:
Making my first album, [I would go to the studio] from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. every day. While everybody else put together the arrangements, [I was] just sitting there being like, “When do I sing? When do I sing?” The difference between [then and now], me being like, “Oh, I think I’d like to play that thing on this. Okay, I can go do that right now.” It makes me feel like I wasn’t ever given a chance to be a musician before. Because you’d have to do everything in the studio, and I’m not good at doing things in front of people under pressure.