Coming off the presses of the next Punk Goes series, and probably the most meta PGP single of all time, Issues’ Tyler Carter covered Paramore’s hit single ‘Ain’t It Fun’. Watch.
It’s been a massive week for new releases and videos, so let’s do a bit of recap.
With 2014 solidly in progress, let’s take a look at some of the cool stuff coming out this week!
Today, on my 24th birthday, I bid 23 and 2013 a formal ‘good riddance!’ and attempt to salvage an otherwise crappy year with some good music. I know I get wordy, so let’s just get into it. 10 favorite albums, 10 favorite singles, no filler.
Paramore’s hit second single, Still Into You, off the band’s groundbreaking 2013 self-titled, has gone Platinum. What that means: the single has broken the 1,000,000 US sale threshhold. The song also holds certified Gold in the UK with 40,000 sales and double Platinum in Australia with 140,000 sales, and is the band’s highest charting single on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 list at #8.
Paramore’s upcoming Fall Self-Titled Tour will kick off in Seattle on October 15th at Key Arena, with supporting acts Metric and Hellogoodbye. The tour will sweep up to Vancouver BC on October 16th, then back down through California and through the rest of the US. Tickets for the Seattle show are still available for GA in the pit and in the lower stands, starting in the low $50’s. Check out the remaining available seating on the Seattle tour date page, and pick up the knockout self-titled album everywhere music is sold.
If you like late night TV as much as I do (and THANK GOD, they are on Hulu when I can’t stay up), then check out this list. There are some up-and-coming bands/artists this week on late night mixed in with some oldies but goodies. Tune in, support these artists, and let us know who you’re most excited to watch this week in the comments!
I’ll be the first person to admit that I wanted to hate this album. Even with the release of the first single, “Now,” I (and many others) were skeptical that the “new Paramore” would be such a departure from the band we once knew that the new material would render itself irrelevant to us pre-Twilight fans. Instead, what we are given is a marathon of an album that demonstrates a shift in songwriting for the better–and a serious maturation of the band as a whole.
