Topics include: Going deep on Drew's decision to let his Pianos Become the Teeth review be one of the last reviews he writes for a little while. We look at the reasons, the feeling of being "jaded" by music reviews and losing the fun of just talking about music in general. Then we touch a little more on Spotify and the future of music listening. Jason spent a lot of time thinking about this topic over the past week or so and lays out some more thoughts on why this matters at all. Then we again touch on the idea of "backlash" and the way arguments occur online: a defense of the two extremes where nuance gets lost.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/59

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More soundscan/album counting discussion and how it works. We look at Taylor Swift's album sales and her decision to pull her albums off Spotify. Was this a good idea? Why would she do this? Is Spotify really the solution to the music industry's woes? Doubt it. Then we talk a little about the backlash bands see online when they get popular and speculate on the reasons behind this. This sort of devolves into some podcast therapy about dealing with the internet in general.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/58

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Thomas Nassiff

More soundscan/album counting discussion and how it works. We look at Taylor Swift's album sales and her decision to pull her albums off Spotify. Was this a good idea? Why would she do this? Is Spotify really the solution to the music industry's woes? Doubt it. Then we talk a little about the backlash bands see online when they get popular and speculate on the reasons behind this. This sort of devolves into some podcast therapy about dealing with the internet in general.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/58

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Topics include the new Taylor Swift album, the relevance of CDs in 2014 and Jason's attempt at decluttering, Drew's return and his love for a bunch of albums out this week, and other goodness.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/57

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Topics include the new Taylor Swift album, the relevance of CDs in 2014 and Jason's attempt at decluttering, Drew's return and his love for a bunch of albums out this week, and other goodness.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/57

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This week's topics include: Should bands break up and stop making music if they've stopped progressing as songwriters and musicians? How do we feel about scores on album reviews? Worth it? Pointless? Then we look at two big topics: The new Transit album and our thoughts on it (this was recorded the day before Thomas posted his review on the website), and Brand New and their recent demostravaganza. Do we think they'll put these songs on a new album? Would we be upset if they did? Wouldn't a 7" series release of the demos be awesome? We talk about all this and more!

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/56

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This week's topics include: Should bands break up and stop making music if they've stopped progressing as songwriters and musicians? How do we feel about scores on album reviews? Worth it? Pointless? Then we look at two big topics: The new Transit album and our thoughts on it (this was recorded the day before Thomas posted his review on the website), and Brand New and their recent demostravaganza. Do we think they'll put these songs on a new album? Would we be upset if they did? Wouldn't a 7" series release of the demos be awesome? We talk about all this and more!

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/56

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This week's episode looks at the music industry and the business it's become. We start by looking at record sales and how in 2014 we don't really have an accurate way of counting them. This then leads to a question posed to us on Facebook about when bands break up and there's this huge wave of support, where were all those fans during the band's career? We also look at some of the behind-the-scenes aspects to Thomas's New Found Glory review and all of the comments he's seen on our site and elsewhere. Was his review disrespectful to the band? Why did the new album get a 4 when the last album got an 8? How does a reviewer's opinion change and what responsibility do they have in explaining this to their audience? We end talking about Punk Goes Pop 6. Jason is unimpressed.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/55

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Thomas Nassiff

This week's episode looks at the music industry and the business it's become. We start by looking at record sales and how in 2014 we don't really have an accurate way of counting them. This then leads to a question posed to us on Facebook about when bands break up and there's this huge wave of support, where were all those fans during the band's career? We also look at some of the behind-the-scenes aspects to Thomas's New Found Glory review and all of the comments he's seen on our site and elsewhere. Was his review disrespectful to the band? Why did the new album get a 4 when the last album got an 8? How does a reviewer's opinion change and what responsibility do they have in explaining this to their audience? We end talking about Punk Goes Pop 6. Jason is unimpressed.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/55

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This week's topics include: How does album artwork set the tone or mood for an album? Does it matter at all? We explore where we think it works and where we think it fails (looking at you Set it Off). Then it's time to tackle the big news of the week: Hostage Calm's break up. We touch a little on Jason's thoughts on the new Andrew McMahon album, a little on Drew's thoughts on the new Transit, and then we get some director's commentary on Thomas's New Found Glory review. He explains his thought process and the other hosts ask questions. The episode can be streamed and/or downloaded below.

Show Notes: absolutepunk.net/podcast/54

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