News you may have missed! (12/26/21)

New Green Day? + 5SOS sued + Some kickass festival lineups + A podcast hiatus + Nirvana calls for lawsuit to be thrown out + MORE

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has had a great holiday weekend and hopefully you all get a chance to relax today. This week was a bit slow when it came to music industry news which is always to be expected this time of year. But nonetheless, we’ve got some news for you, so let’s get to it.

This week brings us possible new Green Day music coming, 5 Seconds of Summer facing a lawsuit, some awesome festival lineups revealed and Nirvana calling their recent lawsuit ‘not serious’.

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A holiday hiatus + An all new look for The All Punked Up Podcast in 2022?

For this week’s episode of The All Punked Up Podcast, we break the news that it’s time for a holiday break. You can listen to Tyler and Bailey discuss the reasoning for the hiatus and what they have planned in 2022 for your favorite scene podcast! It’s a quick listen and if you’ve followed along all year round so far, you may be interested to hear what we have on the horizon.

Listen to this week’s 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.

• Coldplay To Stop Making Music After 2025?

• Green Day teases possible new music from London recording session

• Coachella Wins Restraining Order Against Live Nation Over Copycat Festival

• 5 Seconds of Summer Hit with $2.5M Breach of Contract Suit by Former Management Firm

• Spotify is Fastest-Growing Music Service in the U.S., According to Morgan Stanley Survey

• Nirvana call 'Nevermind' cover lawsuit "not serious," seek dismissal

• Drowning Pool Guitarist Says Success of 'Bodies' Was 'Unexpected'

• Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins Lead 2022 Beale Street Festival

• The Used, Story of the Year, Less Than Jake + More Booked for 2022 Kraken Fest

• Simple Plan, Sum 41, Stand Atlantic, The Maine, girlfriends, With Confidence + More to Play 2022 So What?! Fest

• Gerard Way on rock music resurgence: “People missed the sound of the guitar”

• Where is Spotify HiFi?

• The Starting Line to Stream Holiday Shows

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New and notable songs, videos and albums out this week

• The Ditches, a new band featuring A.J. Perdomo of The Dangerous Summer and Derek of Mayday Parade, release debut single “Medication”

• Lights drops new single “Real Thing”

• MOD SUN shares video for “Down”

• State Champs release “Ordinary Christmas”

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Tyler Winters, Founder
All Punked Up