Blink-182 have shared a live performance video for “Anthem Part 3.”
Read More “Blink-182 – “Anthem Part 3” (Live Video)”Shaky Knees 2024 Lineup
Atlanta, GA festival Shaky Knees has announced its 2024 lineup.
Read More “Shaky Knees 2024 Lineup”George Daniel and Charli XCX Are Engaged
Charli XCX and The 1975’s George Daniel announced their engagement.
Read More “George Daniel and Charli XCX Are Engaged”Set It Off Announce Tour
Set It Off have announced some new tour dates.
Read More “Set It Off Announce Tour”Chris Dudley of Underoath Composes a Film Score
Chris Dudley, of Underoath, has recently composed a film score for Night of the Missing. The film is now available to stream via SCREAMBOX, and you can check out an exclusive preview below.
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Spotify Wrapped has been launched.
Bleachers Announce New Tour
Bleachers have announced some new tour dates.
Read More “Bleachers Announce New Tour”Albums in Stores – Nov. 24th, 2023
If you hit read more you can see all the releases we have in our calendar for the week. Hit the comments 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.
Read More “Albums in Stores – Nov. 24th, 2023”Greg Gonzales of Cigarettes After Sex Accused of Groping
Greg Gonzales of Cigarettes After Sex has been accused of groping a woman at a recent show.
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It May Be Time to Backup Your Bandcamp Purchases
You can’t rely on other people or organisations to hold onto your media forever, and it’s a tired but true maxim that the cloud is just someone else’s machine.
If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.
And:
While we’re not saying that Bandcamp is going to disappear into nothing (MySpace is still around after all), we think it’s perhaps prudent to download your albums from Bandcamp and store them offline. You never know – that’s all we’re saying.
The Bandcamp UI isn’t really designed with massive downloads in mind, and there are a lot of boxes to tick.
Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to download all of your Bandcamp music using the excellent Batchcamp extension which is available as both a FireFox addon, or as a Google Chrome extension.
Interview: Mitski
It’s hard to put into words the effect of Mitski’s music. Her voice is as clear and sharp as a knife, and the instruments wrap around you with the warmth of a blanket on a cold day. Even though the name of her new album, Puberty 2, sounds like a cheesy American teen movie a la American Pie, Mitski reminds us that life is messy, the question of where you belong is complex, and we can’t always have the things we want. I had the pleasure of talking with Mitski during the lead up to this new album about everything from the music to the in-between.
Review: Blink-182 – [Untitled]
It really does feel like yesterday that I was just unwrapping the CD of this Blink-182 classic, known to many as their [Untitled} fifth effort, and grinning ear to ear about the sound that was about to surround me for the next two-plus years of a standard album cycle. Little did I know, this would be the last studio album Blink-182 would record for eight (!) years, until they returned with 2011’s Neighborhoods. This studio effort was a flawless execution of slick pop-punk hooks, experimental rock, hip-hop beats, and a top-notch collaborative song with The Cure’s Robert Smith. While some longtime Blink fans were disappointed with the final result of this record (that succeeded the bulletproof pop-punk classic, Take Off Your Pants & Jacket), almost all of these fans now point to this album as a seismic shift in the band’s songwriting and offered glimpses as to where they would take their sound for the foreseeable future. This fifth LP was produced by Jerry Finn, and it would also end up being their longest album to date, clocking in at a little over the 49-minute mark. Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker should be looking back fondly on this momentous album today that would find Blink-182 breaking down the silos of what a pop-punk band should sound like, and blow the doors off the hinges in the process.
Read More “Blink-182 – [Untitled]”Gordie Walker Passes Away
Gordie Walker of Killing Joke has passed away.
Review: AJR – The Maybe Man
There’s something to be said for a band who knows how to make a well-crafted, thought out, and carefully mapped out album. AJR may have just made their early-career masterpiece on The Maybe Man, a record that is brimming with purpose, an ultra-personal touch, and better structurally organized than any of their previous four LPs. The Maybe Man finds the three brothers (Adam, Jack & Ryan Met) at a crossroads: they’ve just made their most commercially and critically successful record in 2021’s Ok Orchestra, the band recently announced their first arena tour, and yet the material found on this record is dripping with self-doubt. For a band that got famous with songs like “Bang!” “Weak” and the ultra-viral “World’s Smallest Violin,” the opening song/title track finds lead singer, Jack pondering vulnerably, “Wish I was a stone so I couldn’t feel / You’d yell in my face, it’d be no big deal / But I’d miss the way we make up and smile / Don’t wanna be stone, I changed my mind,” while getting into heavier material (lyrically) with “God Is Really Real” that comes to terms with their father, Gary’s, untimely passing. As close as I am to my dad, I can’t imagine going through life without my own mentor, and I commend AJR for tackling this concept head on with grace on The Maybe Man.
Read More “AJR – The Maybe Man”Taylor Swift Announces VOD Release of Concert Film
Taylor Swift will release the Eras Tour Concert Film on video platforms on December 13th.
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