News you may have missed (8/21/20)
blink-182's Mark Hoppus gets own radio show, new State Champs album and a new podcast episode!
What’s up, everyone? This week is a lot like the week before it. There wasn’t a lot of exciting news to report. But as promised, here is your weekly newsletter. We did get news of Mark Hoppus getting his own radio show, a new album from State Champs and another The All Punked Up Podcast episode!
Let’s get to it!
The All Punked Up Podcast
We released Episode #005 this week! This week’s episode is a bit different. Since there really wasn’t any worthwhile news to discuss this week, we’ve decided to share some Stories from the Pit from you—our listeners. Stories from the Pit is our YouTube series that includes personal crazy, wild, or hilarious stories from a show, concert, or festival that you’ve attended and want to share. If you have such a story, hit us up in the DMs and we’ll make sure to get you into our next Stories episode.
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News you may have missed…
Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba joins Jim Adkins on podcast
girlfriends release electrifying debut music video for “California” – watch!
Weekly Game Results
In case you didn’t know we have two games running weekly on our Instagram! We play “Battle of the Bands” every Tuesday and “Timeless or Dated” every Thursday.
Here are this week’s results:
Timeless Or Dated:
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out by Panic! At The Disco was voted timeless
Boys Like Girls by Boys Like Girls was voted timeless
Riot! by Paramore was voted timeless
Endgame by Rise Against was voted timeless
Let’s Be Animals by The Downtown Fiction was voted dated
From Under The Cork Tree by Fall Out Boy was voted timeless
Battle of the Bands:
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts beat Heart by 58%
Fleetwood Mac beat Pat Benatar by 56%
Foreigner beat Styx by 10%
Bon Jovi beat Bruce Springsteen by 46%
Queen beat David Bowie by 58%
The Go Go’s beat The Bengals by 28%
Do you agree with these results? Be sure to tune in every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 pm EST on our Instagram Story to cast your vote.
What bands would you like to see go head to head in Battle of the Bands? What albums would you like to see us poll for Timeless or Dated? Make sure to send us a DM and let us know!
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 included on it. These songs could be old or new, maybe even unrelated, but they all traveled through APU team members’ headphones this week.
“Kick Rocks” — Alkaline Trio
“Dammit” — blink-182
“Holy Roller” — Spiritbox
“Atlas Falls” — Shinedown
“My Friends Over You” — New Found Glory
“Hide Everything Sharp” — WSTR
“Heartbeat” — Point North
“Intrapersonal” — Turnover
“Ocean Avenue” — Yellowcard
“Monkey Wrench” — Foo Fighters
If you’re interested in listening to this “album”, we’ve got the playlist created over on Spotify here. Feel free to give it a listen. Maybe go ahead and just subscribe to the playlist while you’re at it. This same playlist will be updated weekly with new songs.
Thank you so much!
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Let’s all do our best to love one another.
Cheers,
Tyler Winters, Founder
All Punked Up