Another day, another dose of unmitigated fuckery as our sociopathic brat of a president goes off-script for a full hour of bloviating hate-rants last night, declaring himself the greatest victim of the Charlottesville nightmare at what amounted to a 2020 campaign speech.
We’re all in this together. Don’t forget that.
Now for some music headlines.
- Liam Lynch (holy shit it’s the dude from United States of Whatever!!) has put together a focus group for QOTSA‘s Villains, grilling the music on the music (with JHo’s voice). The behind-the-scenes action is funny as all hell. The album hits on Friday… let’s unbox the vinyl, shall we?
- Holy shit stop everything, Quicksand have a new album coming out. And a new song. And a new video. And a tour!! And fuck yes, I can’t believe this is happening. For two decades I’ve loved the hell out of this band.
- The Foo Fighters dropped a motherfucker of a new song called The Sky is a Neighborhood, and the video features Dave Grohl’s kids playing themselves. It’s rad. Bonus points for the bedside Tesla portrait. Concrete and Gold arrives in 3 weeks, on Sept. 15th.
- The physical components are arriving for Nine Inch Nails‘ Add Violence EP, and the mystery deepens on what all the codes and labels are referring to. Here’s a breakdown.
- While the rest of us were looking through pinholes in Cocoa Pebbles boxes and trying not to go blind, a few thousand people watched Ozzy sing “Bark at the Moon” during the total eclipse.
- Watch Father John Misty‘s Austin City Limits appearance – the TV show, not the festival.
- Billy Corgan has a solo album coming out, and by the sound of the piano-driven first single, it sounds nothing at all like Smashing Pumpkins. That’s a good thing… kinda. Cause the song is not.
- Jay Z and Rihanna had to flee a luxury backstage area after people crashed the party in spectacularly wild fashion. Let’s skip the “stomping on a steward’s chest” part, but do a whole lot more of this please.
- A few years from now when R. Kelly is rotting in prison, we’re going to wonder how the hell we let this piece of shit run his sex cult scumbag scheme for so long.
- I really don’t know why we’re still talking about The Killers. I guess they’re just cool enough to keep at the party, but not quite cool enough to join the joint rotation. Anyway, here’s the video for their intense new song Run For Cover. The theme: don’t steal cassettes.
- Chance The Rapper‘s new song is corn upon corn, but if you want someone to call you, this is the song you want to send them.
- 45 years after the death of Chester Bennington, Linkin Park fans will get their public memorial event. The “build the future of Linkin Park” line is interesting…
- Mike Patton got all messed up while skateboarding.
- Here’s more info than you ever wanted to know about where trolls are and what their habits consist of.
- The iPhone 8 is going to be lightning-fast. And I still don’t care.
- Songs from the Narcos Season 3 run are now available for listening.
- Pearl Jam‘s Let’s Play Two release is going to be awesome, recounting the magic of a year ago this week.
- Macklemore is planning a solo album. Gemini arrives Sept. 22, with a metric shit ton of guests.
- The asshole who scammed people with the Fire Festival fiasco has been tapped by the United Nations to aid their efforts. What the hell?
- New Alice in Chains music is on the way.
- The rumors are true: The Misftits are playing a one-off show in L.A.
- Some loose fan hearsay about the new Arctic Monkeys album being finished by the end of the year.
- Yes, yes, yes. Brian Molko from Placebo calls Kings of Leon exactly what they are.
- LCD Soundsystem have shared the VR experience for their track Dance Tonite.
- It’s a moment of distinct value when Corey Taylor is speaking out against Kid Rock’s Senate run. The middle America masses idolize the guy, and he’s the antithesis of Rock’s retarded hillbilly thug antics.
- Is King Krule supposed to sound like a mumble-rapper sleepwalking through life? Cause yeah.
- Billy Joel‘s “fuck you” to Trump was beautiful: he wore a Star of David at his MSG show.
- This bitch is worse at delusional lying than Trump.
- Damn. Imagine being so bad at playing Wonderwall, one of the easiest goddamn songs in the world, that the cops send you home to practice.
- Diamonds, sure. But tits? Get these fucking hipsters off the planet.
- Here’s the thing about running a neo-nazi record label: you probably can’t be a lawyer, too.
- Distract Jared Leto. Tell him his band is amazing. Tell him we need a My So-Called Life reunion. Tell him anything, just keep him the fuck away from this.
- Third season of Stranger Things is a lock, and we’re looking at the end of the series now.
- Goddamnit Jon Jones! What the hell man? “Let’s channel some Tyra Banks” is some shit I never thought I’d say, but fuuuuuck.
- The new AQ podcast covers the new QOTSA album, which arrives this week. Get upon it.
