Ingrid Michaelson’s new album, Stranger Songs, will be released on June 28th. Pre-orders are now up.
Warner Bros. Records Is Now Just Warner Records
Warner Bros. Records is now just Warner Records:
The move is taking place for both legal and imaging reasons. The announcement notes that when Warner Music Group was sold by Time Warner in 2004 to a group of investors led by Edgar Bronfman Jr., it was agreed that Warner Bros. Records, which was founded in 1958 as a division of Warner Bros. Pictures, would continue to use the Warner Bros. name and logo for 15 years.
Weathers – “Problems” Video
Lucy Dacus Announces New Tour Dates
Lucy Dacus has announced some new tour dates.
Franz Ferdinand Premiere New Song Live
Franz Ferdinand debuted a new song called “Black Tuesday” live Porto, Portugal over the weekend.
Interview: Weathers (Video Interview and Photos)
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Panic Division – “Kill the Lights”
Panic Division has released the new song “Kill the Lights.”
Living With Perfect Pitch and Synaesthesia
LJ Rich, writing on her blog:
Now, I’d like you to imagine you’re chatting with your conversation partner. But instead of speaking and hearing the words alone, each syllable they utter has a note, sometimes more than one. They speak in tunes and I can sing back their melody. Once I know them a little bit, I can play along to their words as they speak them, accompanying them on the piano as if they’re singing an operatic recitative. They drop a glass on the floor, it plays a particular melody as it hits the tiles. I’ll play that melody back – on a piano, on anything. I can accompany that melody with harmony, chords – or perhaps compose a variation on that melody – develop it into a stupendous symphony filled with strings, or play it back in the style of Chopin, Debussy or Bob Marley. That car horn beeps an F major chord, this kettle’s in A flat, some bedside lights get thrown out because they are out of tune with other appliances. I can play along to every song on the radio whether or not I’ve heard it before, the chord progressions as open to me as if I had the sheet music in front of me. I can play other songs with the same chords and fit them with the song being played. Those bath taps squeak in E, this person sneezes in E flat. That printer’s in D mostly. The microwave is in the same key as the washing machine.
This is from a few years back, but I just came across it and found it fascinating.
Jesse Malin Announces New Song Featuring Billie Joe Armstrong
Jesse Malin will release his new song “Strangers and Thieves” featuring Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong on June 14th.
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Norma Jean Frontman on New Podcast
Cory Brandan of Norma Jean is on the latest BREWtally podcast.
Problem Daughter – “Pocket Sand” Video
Problem Daughter have debuted a video for “Pocket Sand.”
Chromatics Cover Hole’s “Petals”
Chromatics have shared a cover of Hole’s “Petals.”
PUP Perform on Adult Swim
All Time Low Debut New Song Live
All Time Low debuted the new song “Getaway Green” live at Slam Dunk Festival over the weekend.