Glacier Veins have signed with Equal Vision Records. Today they’ve debuted the new song “Talk.”
Tegan and Sara’s Memoir Debuts on New York Times Best Sellers List
Tegan and Sara’s memoir, High School, debuts at number 15 on The New York Times Best Sellers Nonfiction list.
Chris Farren – “Love Theme from ‘Born Hot'” Video
Chris Farren has released a video for “Love Theme from ‘Born Hot’.”
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Foster the People – “Pick U Up” Video
Foster the People have released a video for “Pick U Up.”
The Inspiration Behind the Latest Fall Out Boy Song
Pete Wentz of Fall Out Boy talks with Radio.com about the inspiration behind “Dear Future Self (Hands Up):”
The song that we’re always in search of, to me, is ‘Hey Ya.’” That’s the song. It’s like this perfect song because it’s weird and you’ve never heard something like that before, but at the same time it feels like, warm and fuzzy, because it feels like something you have known. That’s what we’re on the search for.
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Craig Finn – “It’s Never Been A Fair Fight”
Craig Finn has shared the new song “It’s Never Been A Fair Fight.” He also released an acoustic version of the track.
White Reaper on New Podcast
White Reaper are on the latest episode of the Kyle Meredith with… podcast.
Tegan and Sara on ‘A Little Late With Lilly Singh’
Tegan and Sara were on the latest episode of A Little Late With Lilly Singh. They talked about banning cell phones at their shows, high-school, and forgetting birthdays.
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Turnover – “Parties”
Sleater-Kinney – “Animal”
Sleater-Kinney have shared the new song “Animal.”
Carly Rae Jepsen Covers No Doubt
Carly Rae Jepsen covered No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” for Spotify.
Big Thief – “Forgotten Eyes”
Big Thief has released the new song “Forgotten Eyes.”
Blink-182’s Travis Barker Hits No. 1 on Rock Songwriters Chart
Travis Barker has hit number one on the rock songwriters chart:
Blink-182’s Travis Barker rises to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Songwriters chart (dated Oct. 5) for the first time, thanks to 15 songwriting entries on the latest weekly Hot Rock Songs survey.
Barker’s “I Think I’m Okay,” with Machine Gun Kelly and Yungblud, leads the way at No. 3 on Hot Rock Songs, matching its peak, while 14 Blink-182 songs follow, as the group’s new album Nine arrives at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart and No. 3 on the Billboard 200 with 94,000 equivalent album units, according to Nielsen Music.
Charlie Puth – “Cheating On You” Video
Charlie Puth has released a video for “Cheating On You.”
Review: ThreadBear – Fine By Me
There’s not much of a tradition of emo in the UK. In the 90s, emo developed so geographically that the generally-used term for it is ‘Midwest emo,’ since its sound was incubated by bands like Cap’n Jazz from Illinois, The Promise Ring from Wisconsin, The Get Up Kids from Missouri. That’s not to say that that scene was by any means insular; Texas is the Reason from New York, Jimmy Eat World from Arizona and Mineral from Texas all had distinctly ‘Midwestern’ sounds, and the forebearers of any one of those bands were Sunny Day Real Estate from Washington state and Jawbreaker from California. Plus, none of it would have happened without the Revolution Summer bands from DC, most notably Embrace and Rites of Spring, and perhaps, more importantly, Fugazi which sprung from both of them. Cross-country touring, plus zines and demo exchanges, meant that emo was pretty effectively shared across every corner of the States. Many of those bands did tour the UK too – Braid and The Get Up Kids went over there together in 1998 – but it seemingly wasn’t enough to imprint on the UK its own parallel scene, at least not one that made enough of an impact to enter the canon of emo as we talk about it twenty years on.
What we have now is ‘fourth-wave’ emo (also known as emo revival), a spiritual continuation of that Midwestern scene, with the difference being that this one was and is built heavily around Bandcamp, Twitter, and online blogs like PropertyOfZack, The Alternative and, yeah, Chorus.fm. Since house shows and local community amongst bands are still key to DIY, it didn’t bring about a total eradication of geography – ask anyone about the Philadelphia scene, for example – but it does mean that now there’s no ocean for music to travel, bands that emulate the 90s Midwestern sound can pop up anywhere.