Senses Fail and Saves the Day have announced a new tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of Let It Enfold You and the 25th anniversary of Through Being Cool.
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Billie Eilish has had quite the run of fortune recently. Having picked up major accolades, including her second Oscar for Best Original Song for her contribution to the Barbie movie for the heart-wrenching “What Was I Made For?”, to multiple Grammy awards for her continued collaboration with her brother, Finneas, Eilish seemed poised to deliver an album that felt like the truest form of her identity. Hit Me Hard And Soft is an album that feels like the more logical successor of Eilish’s breakthrough, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? and she shines all over the record. While the “knock” on Billie Eilish has been that she “doesn’t sing, she whispers,” that all gets put to bed once in for all on this third studio album that has some of the best vocal moments in the young artist’s career to date. Having chosen to not release any singles prior to the album launch, Billie Eilish was daring her fans to embrace the album format and listen to it, traditionally, from front to back. She accomplishes that goal in more ways than one, by creating her most cohesive and daring work of art to date on Hit Me Hard And Soft.
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Eliza and the Delusionals have announced their sophomore album via Cooking Vinyl called Make It Feel Like the Garden. Today, they’ve released the lead single and video for “Falling For You.”
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Dropkick Murphys and Pennywise are heading out on tour together.
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Bearings will release a deluxe version of The Best Part of Being Human on September 20th. Today they’ve shared the new song “Stormy Weather.”
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Mario Guzman has released a new Apple Music app that mimics the nostalgia feel of old Apple operating systems:
Control Apple Music with this simplified controller that has the look and feel of QuickTime 7 and Mac OS X “Tiger”.
Flash back to the year 2004 for a bit. Several pop-punk, emo and hardcore bands have been signed to major label deals, CDs are still selling in waves, and it’s an ultra-exciting time for this scene of music. New Found Glory came in riding a major high after their most successful record, Sticks and Stones, blanketed the pop-punk scene with great singles like “My Friends Over You” and “Head On Collision” getting some airplay on MTV’s popular Total Request Live (TRL). Enter Catalyst. The record was set up for success as well with a bulletproof lead single of “All Downhill From Here” that wasn’t going to do anything to dissuade longtime fans of NFG from liking the new material. Catalyst had a harder edge to it, starting with the hardcore-esque gang vocals of “Intro” that bled into the lead single, while the guitars just felt heavier in general throughout the LP. While this album had a mix of styles and sounds that were brought forth, and musically it’s a bit all over the place, it’s hard to not admit that this is still one of the band’s strongest albums to date.
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Mest have shared the new single “Hate You Sober.”
Hit the Lights are in the studio.
Ty Pendlebury, writing for CNET:
Google has unveiled a new music-making tool it calls Music AI Sandbox, which enables loops to be created via AI prompts, as part of its I/O 2024 conference.
The tool, shown briefly today in a Google I/O video, appears to accept text input and provides short audio clips or “stems” based on the prompt, complete with a waveform representation of the invented sounds.
Billie Eilish has released a video for “Lunch.”
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Vince Staples will release Dark Times this Friday, May 24th.
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Anadivine’s 2024 remix/remaster of Zoo has been released. All funds from the Bandcamp version will go towards mixing the last song the band wrote together. (Also, if any labels are interested in doing a vinyl run, I can put you in contact with the band.)
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