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A Wilhelm Scream Talk New Album

Jason Tate

A Wilhelm Scream talked with New Noise Magazine about their new album.

Usually, I know that I’m done with a song when I feel like it’s gotten as close as it can to the idea’s potential. That’s good, but also bad. You can spend 12 years writing an album, because every song has to be the best song that’s ever been written. Once I let go of (perfection), the songs came out so much cooler—more me, in terms of just spitting insults nonstop in a song. It’s like 90s rap beef. That was our biggest fucking influence (back in the day), before they called it hip hop! The writing boot camps came into play because everybody’s busy. Like, Nuno has a job and a family! So to be able to dedicate the time and focus that it takes, Ben had the idea, “Hey, let’s go out to the desert.” 

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Jimmy Eat World Discuss ‘Bleed American’ With NME

Jimmy Eat World
Jason Tate

Jimmy Eat World are profiled on NME talking about the upcoming Bleed American shows:

“It is commerce, it is disposable, it might feel good for a minute for sure, but is that really it? Is that really going to do it? There’s a healthy place to put that kind of solution, but it doesn’t arrive without some work,” he told NME. “‘Bleed American’ the song is about self-medication, ‘The Middle’ is about the completely unsustainable fuel of validation to power your self worth, it runs throughout the record there.

Sean Mackin Talks With Blunt Magazine

Yellowcard
Jason Tate

Sean Mackin of Yellowcard recently talked with Blunt Magazine:

That confrontation with mortality brought focus, “You’re like, okay, really it could happen at any time, like, let’s make the best of it.” For him, that means being present. “I want to be the best dad, I want to be a great friend, I want to be a great violinist performer. I want to be a good husband.”

New Found Glory Talk to V13

New Found Glory
Jason Tate

New Found Glory talked with V13 about their new album, and touched on some other interesting topics:

“I don’t really know. We’ve been a band for so long, and we’re going to get our catalog back. How Taylor Swift rerecorded her albums, I’d never want to mess with anything like that, but I thought it could be fun, instead of rushing into a new album, to rerecord Coming Home in a heavier, New Found Glory style. That record always caused debate. It was either a fan’s favorite or their least favorite. So I thought it could be fun to make fans argue again, do they like the punker version of Coming Home or the piano version?

When we play those songs live, they come out heavier because we’re using our normal gear. So that could be a fun thing to do. But as far as 30 years, I honestly forgot it was coming up. It’s pretty crazy. We still have to release this record, and life takes you where it takes you.”

Spotify Goes All in on AI Coding

Jason Tate

Sarah Perez, writing for TechCrunch:

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, came alongside other comments about how the company is using AI to accelerate development.

Bringing The Format Back to Life

The Format
Jason Tate

The Format talked with The Aquarian:

Nate: I’ve always been a psychopath about sequence. For me it’s [about] the final song. In the past we’ve maybe got a little prog about it. Any album I do, it’s always about the first song and the last song, and what happens in between. The first song tees you up. The last song sends you away. This is the exact same way. It just feels like a very cohesive album stylistically. It does allow the songs to flow together nicely.

Motion City Soundtrack Stand Up Against Ice in Their City

Motion City Soundtrack
Jason Tate

Motion City Soundtrack talk with Rolling Stone about ICE taking over their hometown:

Pierre: It becomes really real when it does happen in your city, or in my case at my kid’s school. I was told that ICE agents showed up at the elementary school one day and got out of their vehicles. They didn’t do anything but they were walking around the school with their guns in the air, and then left. All the kids ran to the window and saw that, and they were scared out of their minds. They’re weaponizing children and they’re terrorizing them and traumatizing them.

Cain: It felt real in a different way, like when the pandemic started and you had that deep pit in your stomach. I started seeing friends of mine filming atrocities, like literal crimes on the streets and watched the way the people that are supposed to be in authority show who they are. I mean, not even the military rolls around without name tags on. What the fuck is this? It felt like we were being attacked.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Documentary Coming to Netflix

Red Hot Chili Peppers
Jason Tate

Variety:

Netflix is spicing up its documentary slate with a new film about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, set to premiere on March 20.

Directed by Ben Feldman (“Bug Out,” “Rich & Shameless”), “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” examines the gritty, formative years of the Los Angeles band, and the influence of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died in 1988. The film features interviews with bandmates Flea and Anthony Kiedis, as well as others who were close to Slovak, who discuss the band’s early evolution and the deep bond of their childhood friendship.

Checking in on the Literal Dumpster Fire Platform

Twitter
Jason Tate

The New York Times:

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, created and then publicly shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women, according to separate estimates of X data by The New York Times and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Starting in late December, users on the social media platform inundated the chatbot’s X account with requests to alter real photos of women and children to remove their clothes, put them in bikinis and pose them in sexual positions, prompting a global outcry from victims and regulators.

In just nine days, Grok posted more than 4.4 million images. A review by The Times conservatively estimated that at least 41 percent of posts, or 1.8 million, most likely contained sexualized imagery of women. A broader analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, using a statistical model, estimated that 65 percent, or just over three million, contained sexualized imagery of men, women or children.

Spotify Raising Prices Again

Jason Tate

Spotify is once again raising prices:

Individual Premium plans are now $12.99 per month (up from $11.99), while Duo subscribers will now pay $18.99 per month (up from $16.99). Meanwhile, family plans have increased to $21.99 per month (up from $19.99), and student plans rose by $1 to $6.99 per month.

These pricing changes take immediate effect for new subscribers and will roll out to existing Premium customers in the US, Estonia, and Latvia over the next month.

Vinyl Sales Rise for 19th Consecutive Year

Jason Tate

Variety:

U.S. vinyl sales increased for the 19th consecutive year, growing by +8.6% to 47.9 million units. Total U.S. Physical Album Sales increased by +6.5%. In contrast, U.S. Digital Album Sales dropped by -15.9%.

2025 marks the first time in the U.S. consumption era (2014+) that two individual albums earned 5m+ units in a single year (Taylor Swift’s “Life of a Showgirl” and Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem”)

Napster Pivoting to Being an AI Platform

Headphones
Jason Tate

Digital Music News:

Napster is no longer a music streaming service. We’ve become an AI platform for creating and experiencing music in new ways. That means the streaming catalog and playlists from the old app won’t work here,” the splash screen reads. “We know this can be frustrating, especially if you spent years building your playlists. To make things easier, you can export all your Napster playlists in just a few clicks.

Another Case for Owning Music

Jason Tate

Stephanie Vee makes the case for owning your music:

To me, a music streaming subscription only really makes sense if you’re at that impressionable stage of your life where you still live and breathe new music – or if you’re one of those rare people who continue to seek out new music as you age. As for the rest of us? I think we should maybe just own our shit and stop paying tech CEOs to rent it. Chances are, I’ll still be rocking out to Hot Fuss in my retirement home, so why should I rent it from the likes of Daniel Ek for the next four decades (or longer)?

If you’re reading this website there’s probably a good chance you’re in that “rare” camp.

Layoffs at Penske Media Corporation

Rolling Stone
Jason Tate

Rolling Stone, Variety, and Billboard have all laid off staff before the holidays:

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) has conducted multiple rounds of layoffs across its music and entertainment outlets in 2025. These cuts have impacted writers at Billboard, Rolling Stone, and Variety as the corporation faces revenue pressures from Google’s AI summaries.