Congratulations to All Time Low, who nabbed the #1 album spot in the USA! In its first week, ATL's newest album, "Future Hearts," sold 70,054 copies at the closing of the charts.
The album also debuted #1 in the UK, #3 in Canada, #4 in Australia, #7 in New Zealand, and #7 in Ireland.
The Tide, a pop rock band from Los Angeles, California, has released a new cover today. Check out their cover of "Don't Stop" by 5 Seconds of Summerhere. The Tide is on tour with The Vamps in Europe, and has recently been signed to The Vamps' new label in affiliation with EMI/Universal.
As It Is, the pop punk band from Brighton via Minneapolis, has released their second single from their new album, "Cheap Shots & Setbacks." The album, "Never Happy, Ever After" is due out April 21.
After playing a new song live for the first time in six years, Brand New has officially released a new tune, which you can download for free by signing up for their mailing list. The track should hit digital retailers on Wednesday.
Young Lungs, a four-piece indie pop rock band from Pittsburgh, PA, is beginning to take the pop punk world by storm. Formed in 2014, the group consists of lead singer and pianist Meg Wills, lead guitarist Andy Mathias, bassist Tyler Miller, and drummer Evan Oslund. The band pulls influence from Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, and Bayside, among others. This month marks eight months since the band's formation.
In November of 2014, Young Lungs released their first single, "What We Believe (What We Become)," to much success. The video was filmed by Kenny Lewis in Roaring Springs, PA. It follows the band around a few beautiful places in their town.
On Christmas Eve 2014, the band released their second single and video, "Take It Back." Starting off with a single electric guitar and lyrics "If you wrote me off today, I wouldn't stand in your way." Meg's fiery vocals and the band's driving pop punk walks the song to the ending with a soft piano fade.
On April 3, 2015, they released their third song, an emotionally fused ballad called, "Rain," and posted a video explaining the meaning to the song. A mainly acoustic ballad, the song's lyrics will hit home for anyone who has lost someone close to them, especially to suicide.
"It fell together perfectly and all at once," Meg said in an exclusive interview with And The Crowd Goes WHOA. "After years and months of wanting something so badly we made it an actuality and found the right pieces to the puzzle."
"I'm proud of how fast we've gotten things rolling and really, became a band," says Meg, when asked what she is most proud of with the band.
When talking to her, the thing that stuck out to me most was the band's dedication. "We quit our jobs, moved from our hometowns, and made a new home together to make it all happen. It's been an incredible experience."
Young Lungs is due out with an EP later this year. In addition to that, the band plans to have "more music videos, a plethora of recordings, and some touring along the way."
“The world’s first wearable device for musicians” is what Soundbrenner call their new wrist band. It doesn’t run apps or track your health like an Apple Watch—all it does is precisely keep the beat.
“The Soundbrenner Pulse is a wearable, connected device for musicians that you can control from your phone,” the company says. “It’s designed for use with any instrument by musicians of all skill levels, from beginners to professionals.”
The Pulse uses tactile vibrations—much stronger than your cellphone’s—so the musician can feel and follow along with the beat. The device can ensure that each performer onstage is in sync with the other.
Tech blog Gizmodo reports: “ The Pulse's BPM can be set or changed on the fly in many different ways. The wearable connects to an accompanying app on a smartphone over Bluetooth that allows the user to set a specific BPM with a touchscreen. The app can also be used to set the color of the Pulse's flashing light, or turn it off completely, and it even allows the wearer to customize the intensity of the wearable's vibrations.”
After taking a leave of absence in 2013, Spencer Smith has officially departed from Panic! At The Disco. In his statement, he was especially grateful to fans of P!ATD and the members of the band he had spent the last decade with.
Smith took a leave in 2013 to enter rehab to treat his alcohol and prescription drug addiction that he was battling. During his leave, Panic continued to record and tour, releasing "Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die" and going on tours with Brendon Urie (P!ATD's frontman) to be the face of the band.
Spencer released a statement on Panic! At The Disco's official webpage, reminiscing about his history with addiction (two years sober of prescription drugs, working on a year sober of alcohol) and talking about memories with the band and its fans.
We wish Spencer the best as he moves on with his life and music, and look forward to what Panic! At The Disco will bring to the table next.
The ground has been rumbling in the All Time Low camp since the beginning of 2015. So far, the Baltimore pop-punkers have released three songs from the upcoming, thirteen track album Future Hearts, three music videos (Something's Gotta Give-Live, Something's Gotta Give, and Kids In The Dark), a headlining tour with supporting acts State Champs, Issues, and Tonight Alive; as well as starring in a movie and filming their second concert DVD in front of a sold out Wembley Arena. And, on top of that for ATL fans, lead singer Alex Gaskarth proposed to his long-time girlfriend, Lisa Ruocco, before the band left for Australia.
All Time Low's upcoming fifth studio album, Future Hearts
As a fan of All Time Low for over four years, I am as excited as the rest of the fandom for this new release. The three singles that have been released (Something's Gotta Give, Kids In The Dark, and Runaways) are promising for another ATL album that sounds nothing like past albums, yet distinctly Alex, Jack, Zack, and Rian. The releases so far have helped to raise the hype for their April 7 release, which is now less than two weeks away.
The lyrics to their first three singles have been rather deep, a little more philosophical than their previous singles ("I Feel Like Dancin'" from Dirty Work and released April 5, 2011, was written with Rivers Cuomo, mocked the popular music on the radio at the time). Alex's lyrical abilities are strong, and assistance from producer John Feldmann for writing on the record allows for a genius musical combination.
Collaborations on the album include a song with Mark Hoppus of blink-182 and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte, and both are promising combinations.
Mark Hoppus, blink-182
Joel Madden, Good Charlotte
Ultimately, I think Future Hearts will be the most technical and lyrically deepest All Time Low album yet. It's a promising album, with excellent collaborations, but it leaves fans thinking: how many times can All Time Low top themselves over and over again?
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