Green Day have released a live version of their song “Blood, Sex and Booze”. The song was recorded during their March 18, 2001 show at Makuhari Messe in Tokyo, Japan. It is off their upcoming 25th anniversary edition of Warning which will be out on November 14. Check out the song below.
<p>Calling all Oklahoma! haters — Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is partially the feature-length excoriation of the plague that Rodgers and Hammerstein released on in 1942, one which soon spread to high school theater auditoriums and infected an entire generation of the Broadway-bound post-Ziegfeld. It is wonderfully out of step with the slow-burn obsession that certain filmmakers and showrunners have with the subversion (and unwitting reinforcement) of its iconography*. Here, Charlie Kaufman — this is a movie properly about disillusionment and failure, which works without having to […]</p>
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Hayley Williams has released a new solo song. It is called “Good Ol’ Days” and comes with an accompanying visualizer video which features Nashville footage shot by Jonah Lund, along with a design by Jordan Short. The song is off the final physical version of her album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party which will be out on November 7. Check out the video below.
Kill Lincoln has released a video for their song “Planted”. The video was filmed and edited by Rae Mystic. The song is off their album No Normal which came out in 2024. Check out the video below.
BBQ Pope have released a video for their new song “Pool Hall”. The video was directed by Sean Hackl. The song is off their album UNFURL which is available now. Check out the video below.
Spanish Love Songs have released a new song called “Heavenhead” which features Illuminati Hotties. The song is off their upcoming EP A Brief Intermission In The Flattening of Time which will be out on November 21 via Pure Noise Records. Spanish Love Songs are currently touring Europe and released their album No Joy in 2023. Check out the song below.
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<p>If you know Gary Gulman, you know his romance with the science of word selection that he’s mastered over the course of his years on stage. It’s a romance so passionate, in fact, that it’s partly responsible for the makeup of his latest comedic endeavor in Grandiloquent, a one-man show that Gulman is bringing home for the first time this weekend with one night at Shubert Theatre on Saturday (October 25), where an element of the show takes a dive […]</p>
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SPEED have released a video for their song “ALL MY ANGELS”. The video was directed by the band, Jack Rudder, and Thomas Elliott. The song is off their EP of the same name which is available now via Last Ride and Flatspot Records. Check out the video below.
Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys has joined with an organization called home of the Brave in order to alert people about Donald Trump's policies and actions. In addition, Casey is calling upon other punk musicians to be more outspoken about Trump. Home of the Brave ia a nonprofit founded by former Republicans with a focus on highlighting the negative impact of Trump’s actions. Casey will join the organization as a member of its advisory board. he has released a video summarizing his plan. You can see that below.