News you may have missed! (7/3/21)

Halsey writing a rock album? + Amazon's vinyl subscription service + Spotify to get into virtual live concerts + and MORE!

Jul 03, 2021

Happy Saturday! It’s the holiday weekend, so before you get started with that, kick it off with your weekly scene mailer. There wasn’t a ton of news this week, but I managed to pull some good stuff for you. Anyways, I’m sure you have a lot to get to this weekend, so let’s just get to what you opened this email for.

FYI — If you were looking for a new episode of The All Punked Up Podcast this week and couldn’t find it, don’t worry. We’ll be back with new episodes starting July 12th!

News you may have missed

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

Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Surpasses 1 Billion Spotify Streams (Consequence)
Scott Weiland Biopic in the Works (Consequence)
Halsey is working with Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross on her new album. The new album will be titled If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power and there is no release date at the moment. It sounds like we could get a more rock sound from Halsey on this one. Take a listen to a teaser.
Marilyn Manson Reportedly Agrees to Turn Himself in Over Assault Charge (Loudwire)
Green Day has announced that they will be releasing a new 7″ that features the never released 1994 BBC Session. Now available for Oakland Coffee Club members to pre-order.
How Silvertein's Shane Told Learned to Scream (Loudwire)
Limp Bizkit have recorded 35 instrumentals for their long-awaited ‘Stampede Of The Disco Elephants’ album (NME)
Bob Bryar is auctioning off his legendary My Chemical Romance “Black Parade”-era drum set and plans to give the proceeds to an animal shelter! (Alt Press)
Spotify may move into virtual and live concerts as way to differentiate from Apple Music (9to5Mac). If you listen to our podcast, then you already know we predicted a couple months ago that this would happen.
Dave Grohl Reveals He Was Ripping Off “Old Disco” Drumming on Nirvana’s Nevermind (Consequence)
Grimes Next Album Will Be a “Space Opera” About a Lesbian Romance Between Two AIs (Consequence)
Halsey to reveal fourth album artwork and release date next week (NME), but it looks like the album will be released July 7th according to Genius. And again, if you listen to our podcast, you would have heard me said multiple times that I believe women are going to be the ones to bring rock music back to the mainstream. I also said one of those women could be and should be Halsey. Well, here we are…
Green Day are getting their own Funko Pop! dolls (NME)
How Travis Barker Became Gen-Z’s Pop-Punk Whisperer (Rolling Stone)
Amazon Quietly Launches a Monthly Vinyl Subscription Service (Rolling Stone)
Olivia Rodrigo's 'Sour' Returns to No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart (Billboard)
Anberlin and The Early November Announce Tour (Chorus)
Model Ashley Morgan Smithline Sues Marilyn Manson for Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking (Consequence)
'Behind the Music' Is Back, Eight New Episodes Announced (Loudwire). The lineup includes Ricky Martin, LL Cool J, Huey Lewis, Busta Rhymes, Duran Duran, New Kids on the Block, Bret Michaels and Fat Joe.
Hear Fred Durst's Isolated Vocals From Limp Bizkit's 'Faith'
Iceland lifts all COVID-19 restrictions as 90% of population vaccinated (NME)

New and notable songs, videos and albums out this week

Settle Your Scores released “The Way Things Used To Be”
jxdn shared a new songs called “A Wasted Year” and “WANNA BE” ft. MGK
August Burns Red shared new video for “Bloodletter”
ONE OK ROCK has released an acoustic version of “Broken Heart of Gold”
Poppy dropped a new video for “Her”
Descendents shared a new song called “Like The Way I Know”
MOD SUN dropped a new song called “No Escape”
Yungblud covered Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” for Spotify.
Turnstile have dropped a surprise EP and short film
phem shares new song and video for “congratulations”

10 songs All Punked Up was digging this week

If All Punked Up made an album for this past week, these are the songs that would be on it.

“Complications” — FRND CRCL
“WANNA BE” — jxdn ft. Machine Gun Kelly
“A Wasted Year” — jxdn
“kids” — godz
“The Way Things Used To Be” — Settle Your Scores
“No Escape” — MOD SUN
“Like a Virgin” — Yungblud
“Read My Mind” — You Me At Six
“congratulations” — phem
“Brutal” — Olivia Rodrigo

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Tyler Winters, Founder
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