Sponsor: Albums 3.0 – New Features, New Design

Albums

The new version of Albums has been released in the iOS App Store. Albums is an app built for those who like to listen to their music as albums, as a whole, and comes with a variety of great new features. The app’s been redesigned and now pulls in more production credits, lets you sort your collection based on record label, producer, and various other categories. It also has a new Insights feature to highlight album anniversaries or remind you of albums you loved in high school. And, there’s a new Stats feature that gives you more information about your listening habits. Albums also supports Last.fm scrobbling built in.

Check it out now in the App Store!

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Sponsor: My Thanks to La Roma

LA Roma

A huge thank you to La Roma for sponsoring the website and newsletter this week. Last week the band released their new song “So Long, Adieu” at Spotify and Apple Music. The band hails from Newcastle, Australia and have a sound that calls to mind a mixture of Jimmy Eat World, Anberlin, and Manchester Orchestra. This feels very in the wheelhouse for just about anyone that likes the kind of music we cover on a daily basis.

Keep your eyes peeled for their debut EP coming in early 2021, but for now, check out the new single.

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Sponsor: My Fake Band — A Card Game for Music Fans

My Fake Band

My Fake Band is a new 4-8 player card game that is built for “music fans and shit talkers,” and they’ve just launched a Kickstarter.

Have you ever wondered how your favorite band came up with their name? Have you ever heard a song title that flat out made you laugh, or scratch your head in confusion? MYFAKEBAND is a party game that celebrates the Music Industrywhile shining a light on the absurdity that surrounds band names and song titles. I mean let’s be real, both “Hoobastank” and “Butthole Surfers” had hit singles that peaked on Billboard’s top 10 (no joke, look it up). 

MYFAKEBAND is a hilarious game that allows you to be the creator of some epically ridiculous bands, putting out equally cringeworthy hit singles.

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Sponsor: My Thanks to Babygotbacktalk

Baby Got Back Talk

My thanks to Babygotbacktalk for sponsoring the website this week. The band just released a brand new video for their new single “Back to Before,” and it’s the weekend, you’re sitting around not sure what to do … so here’s what you should do: click play on the video! It’s good! After that, add it on your favorite streaming service so you’ll be reminded to check out the band’s upcoming full-length, Genre Reveal Party, (great name) on July 17th.

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Sponsor: Babygotbacktalk Release New Single “Back to Before”

Baby Got Back Talk

Babygotbacktalk are a violin-powered, coed, multiracial D-I-Why?-because-we-gotta punk quartet from New York City. You might dig them if you’re into bands like Meet Me @ The Altar and Free Throw. The band’s latest single and music video is “Back to Before,” a timely, fist-pumping anthem about seizing the opportunity for a cultural reboot.

Check out the single on all streaming services, and watch the video below.

The band’s upcoming full-length album, Genre Reveal Party, will be released to streaming platforms on July 17th.

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Sponsor: My (Giant) Thanks to MxPx

MxPx - Worries

My thanks to MxPx for sponsoring the website these past few weeks. They recently released the new song “Worries,” and it’s out now on all digital platforms. There is also a video for the song and some limited merchandise in their webstore.

As many of you know, my first website was a MxPx/Blink–182 fan-page. When this whole pandemic started, MxPx reached out to me to see how I was doing and wanted to sponsor the website for multiple weeks knowing how crazy the online ad market and the economy were acting. It was an incredible gesture, and so I want to give my personal pitch: Check out “Worries” and if you’ve never dived into the band’s discography before, this weekend is a perfect time to do it. I fell in love with Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo as a kid, and if you’re looking for pop-punk perfection, they have an incredible catalog to experience. There’s never a wrong time to discover great bands, and this is a great band, full of great people.

Also, Mike Herrera will be doing weekly livestreams every Friday on the MxPx Facebook page throughout all of May. Make sure you check that out each week at 6pm PT.

Sponsor: My Thanks to Collider

Collider

My thanks to Collider for once again sponsoring the website this week. This time they’re promoting the brand new single “Learn to Let it Go” that was released last week to all streaming services. They also released a new music video for the song and if you like music with an atmospheric rock vibe not unlike Saosin or Anberlin, this should be right in your wheelhouse.

Check out the new song on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Google, or Amazon.

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