Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail is singing in a new band with members of Finch, called Speak the Truth, that apparently sounds like “2002.”
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Brand New’s new song “I Am a Nightmare” is now available on YouTube, Bandcamp, and from the band’s webstore.
Update: This song comes from the band’s upcoming album, as confirmed by the press release for the song:
The song—produced by Brand New and longtime collaborator Mike Sapone, mixed by Vince Ratti, and taken from the band’s upcoming release—will be available via all Digital Service Providers this week and can be pre-ordered now on vinyl.
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Tiny Moving Parts’ new album Celebrate can be streamed below via Noisey.
This week’s notable TV performances include: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Kimmel, 5/18), Ariana Grande (Kimmel, 5/19), Joanna Newsom (Kimmel, 5/20), OneRepublic (Fallon, 5/18), Coldplay (Colbert, 5/17), Wolf Parade (Colbert, 5/20), Drake (Ellen, 5/18), and Kanye West (Ellen, 5/19).
Drake topped the charts yet again this week with Beyoncé coming in at number two. Radiohead debuted at number three.
Views earned another 313,000 equivalent album units in the week ending May 12, according to Nielsen Music (with 175,000 of that in pure album sales), as A Moon Shaped Pool launches with 181,000 units (173,000 in sales)
Relient K and Switchfoot are heading out on a co-headlining tour. Dates can be found below and pre-sale for the tour starts tomorrow.
About halfway through “Note To Self,” the third track off Modern Baseball’s new album Holy Ghost, Jacob Ewald earnestly proclaims: “There will be no more fucking around today.” On this particular song it’s mostly about Ewald taking control of his life, but that line can be applied to the Philly quartet’s evolution as well. The band’s first two releases (Sports and You’re Gonna Miss It All) catapulted the band from humble beginnings into playing shows with punk stalwarts like The Wonder Years, The Menzingers, and Say Anything. This rise set them up as the premier band on Run For Cover’s roster. But there was also plenty of fucking around on those albums while they blurred the lines between pop-punk and emo. On Holy Ghost, there are no more assholes with iPhones or songs about Chloe’s Twitter handle. Rather, Modern Baseball’s third LP works as a split release – Ewald writing and leading the first six tracks while Brendan Lukens undertaking the last five. On the surface this may seem like a recipe for an uneven listening experience; however, Holy Ghost rolls through its eleven tracks beautifully while touching on topics like finding love, battling depression, fighting addiction, and coping with mental illness.
Thrice’s Dustin Kensrue is featured on Ernie Ball’s “String Theory.”
It’s a good week for new releases: that Modern Baseball album is being well received, I am looking forward to diving into the new one from The Living End, and I’m sure everyone’s going to be watching how Pierce the Veil charts next week. On top of that, David Bazan, Astronautalis, and Hatebreed all have new albums out, and are we still pretending 3OH!3 are relevant? I hope not. If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the quote bubble to access our forums and talk about what came out today, what albums you picked up, and to make mention of anything we may have missed.
Bayside have released “Enemy Lines” on Apple Music and Spotify.
Chvrches have released their new song, “Warning Call,” which comes from the upcoming video game, Mirror’s Edge Catalyst.
Rachel Syme, writing for The New Yorker, with a really great piece on Julien Baker:
There is equal humility and precocity to these statements, a duality that kept popping up in my conversation with Baker. She called me “ma’am” with a soft drawl, and apologized often when talking about her creative process, worrying that she was being “conceited or indulgent.” Onstage, she offers aw-shucks-ish disclaimers before launching into particularly gloomy refrains, saying, “I’m sorry for bumming everyone out.” At shows, she sometimes wears a T-shirt that says “Sad Songs Make Me Feel Better.” And yet, despite any outward embarrassment, Baker’s lyrics are bold and unapologetic—about having big, bloody emotions, about the kind of epic feels that come in tsunamis and do not abate. Though Baker sings about God, she is not explicitly a Christian artist; instead, whether or not a supreme being exists is just one of many questions she has about the way the world works, and about the mechanisms available to us to process pain.
