We recorded this week's episode mere hours before Brand New debuted a new song live ... we made a few predictions that come true and others that fail almost in real time. We talk a lot about Brand New's marketing roll out for "Mene," talk a lot about the song itself, and speculate on the band's future and what they may do next. Then we move into talking about All Time Low selling the most albums in a week but not having the "number one album" of the week and why that bothered Thomas enough to write an article about it. Can it be fixed? Should it be fixed? There's some Apple Watch tossed in here and some talk about Four Year Strong's new song as well. Good times are had.

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The AbsolutePunk Podcast is a sucker for anything acoustic. And Morrissey. And we appreciate Brand New. This week we talk about Brand New releasing lyric books to fans and the significance of the band's recent actions and the stranglehold they have on the majority of this website. Then we look at Four Year Strong's future and compare and contrast their career with a variety of other bands. Are they regressing by going back to their "earlier" sound? Do we judge these new songs differently than other bands that tried something new and went back to the more accepted sound? And how does this all compare with All Time Low's new album and their career arc after 'Dirty Work'? They're aiming for a number one album and seem to be going stronger than ever. We finish up talking about Acceptance and what we think they may be up to and then discuss a brand new Nate Ruess song called "Ah Ha" and offer our first impressions on this track for the first time on the podcast. Note: This episode was recorded before the really bad live videos of the new Brand New song leaked out, so that will be talked about next week I'm sure.

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The AbsolutePunk Podcast is a sucker for anything acoustic. And Morrissey. And we appreciate Brand New. This week we talk about Brand New releasing lyric books to fans and the significance of the band's recent actions and the stranglehold they have on the majority of this website. Then we look at Four Year Strong's future and compare and contrast their career with a variety of other bands. Are they regressing by going back to their "earlier" sound? Do we judge these new songs differently than other bands that tried something new and went back to the more accepted sound? And how does this all compare with All Time Low's new album and their career arc after 'Dirty Work'? They're aiming for a number one album and seem to be going stronger than ever. We finish up talking about Acceptance and what we think they may be up to and then discuss a brand new Nate Ruess song called "Ah Ha" and offer our first impressions on this track for the first time on the podcast. Note: This episode was recorded before the really bad live videos of the new Brand New song leaked out, so that will be talked about next week I'm sure.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/78

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This week's episode looks at a whole lot of the most recent albums to come out: Death Cab for Cutie, Hit the Lights, All Time Low, The Maine, and Kendrick Lamar are all featured prominently. Which ones do we like? Which ones do we not like? Did Kendrick release the most "important" album of 2015 before the year's even a quarter over? We yawn our way through a little about Tom DeLonge wanting to write 15 novels and then we discuss Jay Z's Tidal and the future of music streaming online. What would make us switch? Will this service be anything or is it all just a waiting game until Apple releases whatever comes from Beats and iTunes?

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This week's episode looks at a whole lot of the most recent albums to come out: Death Cab for Cutie, Hit the Lights, All Time Low, The Maine, and Kendrick Lamar are all featured prominently. Which ones do we like? Which ones do we not like? Did Kendrick release the most "important" album of 2015 before the year's even a quarter over? We yawn our way through a little about Tom DeLonge wanting to write 15 novels and then we discuss Jay Z's Tidal and the future of music streaming online. What would make us switch? Will this service be anything or is it all just a waiting game until Apple releases whatever comes from Beats and iTunes?

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What we wanted to look at this week are scene classics. What are the albums that define this music scene? What makes an album a classic? And, why would we, specifically pick it? Each one of the hosts had to narrow their selection down to three albums. We wanted to put some constraints on the list to make the choices more difficult. Then, we all picked one extra "under the radar" personal scene classic. An album we consider to be in the same pantheon as the others but is probably under the radar or got missed by most fans of this music scene. The three of us go around horn talking about each of our selections, why we picked them, what they mean to us, and try and flesh out an argument for why they belong in the "scene classics" discussion in the first place. We had a whole lot of fun with this episode and hope you enjoy it. After giving it a listen, please, feel free to join in on the conversation with your own picks for what are the top scene classics (and an under the radar pick!). I highly recommend adding some constraints, like you can only pick three, because it makes it much more difficult to pick only the best-of-the-best when you have to cut something you would consider a shoe-in.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/76

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What we wanted to look at this week are scene classics. What are the albums that define this music scene? What makes an album a classic? And, why would we, specifically pick it? Each one of the hosts had to narrow their selection down to three albums. We wanted to put some constraints on the list to make the choices more difficult. Then, we all picked one extra "under the radar" personal scene classic. An album we consider to be in the same pantheon as the others but is probably under the radar or got missed by most fans of this music scene. The three of us go around horn talking about each of our selections, why we picked them, what they mean to us, and try and flesh out an argument for why they belong in the "scene classics" discussion in the first place. We had a whole lot of fun with this episode and hope you enjoy it. After giving it a listen, please, feel free to join in on the conversation with your own picks for what are the top scene classics (and an under the radar pick!). I highly recommend adding some constraints, like you can only pick three, because it makes it much more difficult to pick only the best-of-the-best when you have to cut something you would consider a shoe-in.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/76

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This week's episode begins with a talk about Blink-182 exhaustion and yet our need to talk about Tom DeLonge's new song. I am not a fan. Thomas likes it. We discuss if we're grading Tom on a curve, the overall impact of not having Jerry Finn as a guiding force in the Blink world, and the plausibility of the whole Blink-183 rumors. From there we talk about how underrated Dashboard Confessional seems to be and the band's return, a bunch of albums got announced this week and we touch on a few, and then we finish up the episode answering a question about being self-employed and needing to be self-motivated. Thomas and I share stories about striking the balance between work and social life and how we both try and stay responsible and juggle a bunch of different projects at once.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/75

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This week's episode begins with a talk about Blink-182 exhaustion and yet our need to talk about Tom DeLonge's new song. I am not a fan. Thomas likes it. We discuss if we're grading Tom on a curve, the overall impact of not having Jerry Finn as a guiding force in the Blink world, and the plausibility of the whole Blink-183 rumors. From there we talk about how underrated Dashboard Confessional seems to be and the band's return, a bunch of albums got announced this week and we touch on a few, and then we finish up the episode answering a question about being self-employed and needing to be self-motivated. Thomas and I share stories about striking the balance between work and social life and how we both try and stay responsible and juggle a bunch of different projects at once.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/75

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This week's episode feels like we've taken a time machine into the past. We've got talk about Adam from Taking Back Sunday calling Jesse Lacey a dick, Tom DeLonge releasing solo music that may or may not be songs originally pegged for Blink-182, Brand New finally re-pressing 'Deja Entendu' on vinyl ... and me being stubborn as shit about waking up at some ungodly hour no matter what the reason.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/74

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