Free Throw have released a video for “Perfect Driftwood.”
Sum 41 and The Offspring Announce Canadian Tour
The Offspring and Sum 41 are teaming up for a new Canadian tour.
Slipknot Top the Charts
Slipknot have the number one album in the country this week:
Slipknot scores its third No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as the rock band’s We Are Not Your Kind bows in the top slot. The album earned 118,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 15, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 102,000 were in album sales.
The National Announce New Concert Film and Live EP
The National will release the new concert film and live EP, I Am Easy to Find, Live from New York’s Beacon Theatre, on Friday, August 23rd through Amazon Music.
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Foo Fighters Hope to Have New Album Next Year
Taylor Hawkins talked with Rock Sound News about hopefully having a new Foo Fighters’ album out next year.
Well, from what I’ve heard from our fearless leader Dave Grohl, he has a lot of demos that he’s worked on and I think we’ll start, once this tour is over … I think not too soon after that we’ll start the process of putting the songs together as a band.
New ‘He-Man’ Series Coming to Netflix
Kevin Smith has announced he’s working on a new anime He-Man series for Netflix.
The new series, titled “Masters of the Universe: Revelation,” will take place in the Mattel toy inspired world and will focus on some of the unresolved storylines of the classic ‘80s show. Smith will serve as showrunner and executive producer.
“I’m Eternia-ly grateful to Mattel TV and Netflix for entrusting me with not only the secrets of Grayskull, but also their entire Universe,” Smith said. “In ‘Revelation,’ we pick up right where the classic era left off to tell an epic tale of what may be the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor! Brought to life with the most metal character designs Powerhouse Animation can contain in the frame, this is the Masters of the Universe story you always wanted to see as a kid!”
Enter Shikari – “Stop the Clocks” Video
Enter Shikari have released a video for “Stop the Clocks.”
Bruce Springsteen Releases New Trailer
Bruce Springsteen has dropped a trailer for his upcoming film, Western Stars.
The 1975 Repurpose Old Merch
The 1975’s new run of t-shirts are repurposed old shirts with a new print on them. They will also print this over your own old 1975 shirt for free at both Leeds and Reading.
Goo Goo Dolls On New Podcast
Goo Goo Dolls are on the latest episode of the Kyle Meredith with… podcast.
Norma Jean – “Landslide Defeater”
Norma Jean have shared the new song “Landslide Defeater.”
93PUNX – “It’s a Bad Dream”
93PUNX, a new project from Vic Mensa, has released their new song “It’s a Bad Dream” featuring Good Charlotte.
Liner Notes (August 16th, 2019)
This was a fun one.
In this week’s newsletter, I offer first impressions on new albums from The Early November, Somos, Grayscale, and Refused. There are also some comments on a bunch of other music, my weekly media diet rundown, and the usual random other thoughts. And, we close out with a playlist of ten songs I loved this week. (If Somos were out on streaming services right now, I’d probably have led with “Iron Heel.”) This week’s supporter Q&A post can be found here.
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Review: Oso Oso – Basking in the Glow
My first thought when I heard “The View” – the second track on Basking in the Glow but first in earnest, with a full band and a chorus (the latter of which will prove to be very important on this record) – was that it sounds like it’s from 2003. A pop-punk song from 2003; from a major label band, and a song that would have stuck. We’d still know all the words today.
I guess whether this is a compliment or not depends on your feelings about 00s mall punk, but I absolutely mean it as one. More importantly, it seems that Jade Lilitri – the man behind Oso Oso – would take it as one, or at least isn’t afraid of hearing it. The harmonies, the bouncy chorus, the bridge that drops into half-time, they all feel crafted with such deliberate nostalgia, reverence even, for that era of punk. That’s the common musical thread of the record, all the way through – I hear, at different times, flashes of Dashboard Confessional, Saves The Day, All-American Rejects. (These are less cool influences than the ones I’ve seen critics assign to Oso Oso in the past, like Death Cab For Cutie and Built To Spill; then again, the way that nostalgia cycles means a whole generation listening to this is probably more attracted to the former than the latter.) Perhaps oxymoronically, though, it doesn’t feel like we’ve heard it before – it’s not a copycat, and most of the time you can’t pin it down to whom exactly it sounds like. It would have been an entry in the canon of that time in its own right, and it deserves the same in its own time too.