News you may have missed! (11/6/22)

Is Taylor Swift's history-making Billboard achievement legit? + Music piracy is alive and well + What ever happened to that missing blink-182 song? + NEW MUSIC and MORE!

Hey! Welcome to another mailer! This week brings us the best week ever of Taylor Swift’s musical career and could be foreshadowing to what could end up being her most lucrative tour ever. All of this and more below. Let’s go!

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OUT MONDAY: The story of a missing blink-182 song + Is Taylor Swift’s history-making Billboard achievement legit? + What’s the deal with encores?

This week on The All Punked Up Podcast, Tyler and John discuss the story of a missing blink-182 song that was supposed to be the lead single off their album California. And after Taylor Swift's biggest week in her musical career, Tyler has questions, gives his hot take, and wonders if her recent history-making Billboard achievement is legit. Also, what's the deal with encores? How did they become to be? They happen at essentially every concert. We know an encore is coming. So what's the point? Should we keep them or not? Let's find out!

Other fun things we discuss are how to pronounce Adele's name, blink-182 and I Prevail making strides on the charts, and more!

Listen to this episode here.

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News you may have missed

Some of the links below may be to publications other than All Punked Up.

• Red Hot Chili Peppers Cover Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”: Watch

• We celebrated Halloween all last month. Here are our last episodes where we tell scary stories. The Stairs in the Woods Pt. 1 + I Saw My Grandfather at His Own Funeral & The Stairs in the Woods Pt. 2 + Dolly

• The days of cheap music streaming will soon become a thing of the past

• Here's Turnstile in a Taco Bell commercial

• Beastie Boys’ ‘Check Your Head’ to get a 30th-anniversary reissue

• Sleeping With Sirens announce 2023 UK headline tour

• Taylor Swift Announces U.S. Dates For 2023 ‘Eras’ Tour. And Paramore is opening for her on March 18th in Arizona.

• Tom DeLonge Inks Distribution Deal for Directorial Debut, Monsters of California

• Måneskin has just announced their new album RUSH!

• Taylor Swift broke 73 records with the release of her new album Midnights. She also became the first artist to claim all Top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

• This proves that music piracy is still alive

• New report finds one in three UK music fans plan to go to fewer live music events in 2023

• New non-profit aims to reduce fentanyl-related overdoses at US music festivals

• Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz to write first graphic novel

• Biden to 'Crack Down' on 'Hidden Junk' Fees for Concerts + More

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New and notable songs, videos, and albums released this week

• State Champs release acoustic version of “Act Like That”

• Thrice share an acoustic version of “Summer Set Fire to the Rain”

• Cherie Amour drop debut album ‘Spiritual Ascension’

• Nothing, Nowhere. shares video for “Cyan1de” featuring Pete Wentz

• Valencia drop “How Valencia Stole Christmas”

• Everclear share new song “Year of the Tiger”

• Action/Adventure drop video for “Autopilot”

• NOFX share new song originally written for blink-182 called “Punk Rock Cliche”

• Magnolia Park drop new album Baku’s Revenge

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