Agnostic Front have shared a behind the scenes video of recording their new album.
Angels and Airwaves and Jimmy Eat World Playing KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas
Jimmy Eat World and Angels and Airwaves are among the headliners for night one of KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas.
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Taylor Hawkins and The Coattail Riders – “Middle Child”
Taylor Hawkins and The Coattail Riders have shared the new song “Middle Child” featuring Dave Grohl.
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Social Distortion Begin Work on New Album
Social Distortion has begun pre-production on their new album:
“We’re scheduled loosely to go into the studio in January,” he said. “But after this October show, we get back into pre-production and the good news is that in the last 15 years, there’s songs that didn’t get used but feel like they’ve just been written, there’s new songs and I think we came up with 23 songs right now. I have to go through those and pick the best 12 or pick the ones that work best together. The other good news is that we might shock everyone and put two records out in two years. People aren’t going to know how to act.”
Breaking Benjamin and Korn Announce Tour
Korn and Breaking Benjamin are heading out on tour together.
Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers Heading Out on Tour
Sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers will be heading out on tour together next year.
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Tame Impala – “It Might Be Time”
Tame Impala have shared the new song “It Might Be Time.”
Jimmy Eat World Announce New Tour Dates
Jimmy Eat World have announced some new tour dates.
Blink-182 Cover Misfits and Dress Up for Halloween
Blink-182 headlined KROQ’s annual Halloween Costume Ball over the weekend and performed in Joker costumes. A video of their cover of The Misfits “Skulls” has been uploaded to YouTube.
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Coheed and Cambria Cancel 2019 Tour Dates
Coheed and Cambria are canceling their upcoming tour as their drummer undergoes a heart procedure. A full message from the band can be found below.
Big Thief Performs on ‘CBS This Morning’
Big Thief performed “Two Hands,” “Not,” and “Forgotten Eyes” on CBS This Morning.
Liner Notes (October 25th, 2019)
This week’s newsletter looks at some of the music out this week, answers a reader question about my favorite Halloween movies, and then goes through my weekly media diet. There’s also a playlist of ten songs I loved this week and a bunch of other random thoughts. This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Review: Black Marble – Bigger Than Life
I often wonder if Ian Curtis had any idea of the legacy Joy Division would have on musicians young and old. I wonder if he predicted the emergence of a platform like Tumblr, where teenagers who heard “Love Will Tear Us Apart” one time subsequently purchased Unknown Pleasures banners and proudly hung them over their bedroom doors. Curtis ripped open the door for artists keen on expressing the inner turmoil bubbling beneath the flashing lights and glam rock tunes of the 80s, with his lyrical emphasis on alienation and loneliness. Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Interpol and Danny Brown (his fourth album, Atrocity Exhibition is named after the Joy Division song) are just a handful of artists who wouldn’t have evolved into the artists they are without the fleeting existence of a little post-punk band from Salford, England.
Now, New York-based electronic artist Chris Stewart has released his third album under the Black Marble moniker, Bigger Than Life. The album follows 2016’s It’s Immaterial, which was labeled as an “Ian Curtis-garage dance party you’ve never been to” by Kristin Porter at SLUG Magazine. With comments like that, Stewart left himself nowhere to go but up. More coldwave than his post-punk roots, Bigger Than Life hosts another dance party, adding a bit more polish without depriving us sad suckers the melancholia we so crave.
Touché Amoré Re-Press Stage Four on Vinyl
Touché Amoré have re-pressed their 2016 album Stage Four on pink translucent vinyl. All proceeds will be going to to The Breasties Organization.
New Music Daily with Zane Lowe Launches Today on Apple Music’s Beats 1
Apple Music is launching a new weekly show with Zane Lowe called New Music Daily. The full press release can be found below.
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