Before viral videos or streaming, there were tape decks and Deadheads. Bob Weir’s story about giving tapers their own section at shows is a reminder that when you trust your fans, they become your greatest promoters. The Grateful Dead didn’t just allow recording—they embraced it, creating a ripple effect of community and creativity that still echoes through music culture today.
Joe Porter Covers Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” Using Wild Range of Instruments
Joe Porter’s take on “Buddy Holly” isn’t just a tribute—it’s a celebration of curiosity. When you see someone play a Weezer riff on a Verrophone or Wrenchaphone, you’re reminded that music doesn’t need rules, just joy. It’s about exploring sound with the wonder of a kid in a music store, and Joe’s version hits that sweet spot where talent meets total playfulness.
Tom Morello and Grandson Unite for “One Last Dance” in Venom: The Last Dance
There’s something powerful about watching a father and son make music together—especially when that father is Tom Morello and the moment happens in a Marvel movie. In “One Last Dance,” Roman Morello doesn’t just share the stage with his legendary dad—he proves that the torch is being passed with pride, volume, and heart. It’s a reminder that music is legacy, and sometimes the most unforgettable solos are the ones played side by side.
Matt Berry Reads Matt Stone’s Legendary MPAA Memo at Royal Albert Hall
Before you release your work into the world, remember Matt Stone’s memo: sometimes, you have to fight for your voice, even if it’s messy. Matt Berry reading Matt Stone’s no-holds-barred letter reminds us—true creativity isn’t always polished, but it’s always fearless. The biggest laughs come when someone dares to say what everyone else is thinking. Thank you, Matt Stone and Matt Berry, for keeping it real. Some moments aren’t just funny—they’re a reminder that art is worth standing up for, no matter what the rating says.
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Threads Just Got a Major Desktop Upgrade—And a New Home at Threads.com
First, they gave us a clean, streamlined place to post what we’re thinking—not just what we’re watching or dancing to. Now, Meta is doubling down on Threads for the web, officially moving from Threads.net to Threads.com and rolling out a slick suite of desktop updates that make posting, reading, and customizing your experience smoother than ever.
Whether you’re a creator building your audience or a casual scroller dipping in and out of niche conversations, Threads.com is now a more powerful tool for real-time thought-sharing—and it finally feels like a full desktop app, not just a mobile afterthought.
What’s New on Threads.com?
Here’s what’s cooking in this latest release:
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Custom Feeds, Front and Center: When using single-column view, your custom feeds now show up top—just like on mobile.
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Revisit What You Loved: Liked and saved posts are now easily accessible from the main menu. Because let’s face it, we all forget to bookmark the good stuff.
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Click, Add, Repeat: Hit the new column icon on the right side of your screen to instantly customize your layout. Multitasking has never been this pretty.
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Post Like a Pro: Want to share your favorite Threads post to Instagram? Now you can copy it as an image—no messy screenshots required.
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Floating Composer: That little “+” in the bottom corner? It opens a post window that follows you as you scroll, so you can react in real time when inspiration hits.
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Follow Syncing (Beta): Meta is testing a feature to import who you follow from other platforms—starting with X (formerly Twitter)—making it easier to rebuild your community and boost reach fast.
Built for Creators, But Everyone Wins
Threads launched its web version in August 2023 with the basics: posting, feed viewing, and simple interaction. But since then, the upgrades haven’t stopped. In May 2024, Threads introduced a multi-column layout—think TweetDeck, but for this new era. Now, you can keep things minimal or go full command center.
You can:
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Add columns for feeds, searches, profiles, insights, and more.
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Turn on auto-refresh to see posts as they roll in.
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Drag and drop to reorder your digital world exactly how you like it.
Meta says more updates are on the way, but today’s changes are already a huge leap forward. They make Threads a more robust platform—not just for creators, but for anyone who still believes in the power of the written (and short) word.
Threads.com is officially live. The conversation’s still happening—but now it’s happening your way.
Meta Launches Edits: The Future of Mobile Video Creation Is Now in Your Hands
Starting today, creators have a brand-new tool in their pocket. Meta is officially launching Edits, a mobile-first video creation app designed to bring powerful, professional-grade editing tools directly to your phone. No laptop. No complicated workflows. Just pure creativity, streamlined and simplified.
Built for those who live and breathe video—from short-form storytellers to social-savvy filmmakers—Edits is more than just another app. It’s a response to how creators actually create. Whether you’re shooting verticals for Instagram Reels, polished cuts for YouTube Shorts, or something completely experimental for your next big drop, Edits is the all-in-one studio designed for the next generation of video.
Editing, Elevated
Why juggle five different apps when one can do the job better? Edits offers:
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Extended capture: Record up to 10 minutes of content in one take.
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Easy exports: Share seamlessly to Instagram and Facebook or export watermark-free to any platform.
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Clip-level control: Precision editing down to the frame, with transitions, green screen effects, and auto-enhancements built right in.
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Smart insights: Real-time data on skip rates and performance to help creators double down on what works—and drop what doesn’t.
Created With Creators
Meta didn’t build this alone. Since 2023, the team has worked directly with video creators—testing, iterating, and tweaking features to meet real-world needs. Early users have already shaped the app’s direction, and their feedback continues to fuel what’s coming next.
And What’s Coming Is Big
Meta isn’t done. This is just version 1.0. Coming soon:
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Keyframe animation: Pinpoint motion and effects down to the millisecond.
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AI-driven styling: Change your video’s vibe in a tap with generative effects.
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Collaboration tools: Share drafts with friends or brands for instant feedback.
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Creative add-ons: New fonts, voice effects, text animation, and royalty-free music libraries to elevate your storytelling.
It’s a bold move in the creator economy—one that blurs the line between professional editing suites and pocket-sized convenience. And just like Meta’s platforms, Edits is being built with community at its core.
Creators can download Edits today and sign in using their Instagram credentials. Because the best content starts with the right tools—and now, they’re all in one place.
Want to try it? The link’s live. The camera’s waiting. Let’s see what you create. To get started, download Edits and sign in with your Instagram account.
Testament and Obituary Announce ‘Thrash Of The Titans’ Co-Headline Tour
San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans TESTAMENT will return to Europe this fall for a full-fledged co-headline tour, dubbed “Thrash Of The Titans”, with Florida death metal trailblazers OBITUARY.
After an extensive 2024 summer festival run and a highly successful tour supporting their peers KREATOR and ANTHRAX at the end of last year, this October will see the mighty TESTAMENT lay waste to some of Europe’s most renowned venues. Rounding off this killer tour will be none other than German thrash metal pioneers DESTRUCTION and black/death metal juggernaut GOATWHORE from New Orleans.
TESTAMENT’s Eric Peterson (guitar) commented: “All right! We are super excited to announce the beginning of our ‘Thrash Of The Titans’ campaign event! Coming to Europe this October with co-headliners OBITUARY and very special guests DESTRUCTION and GOATWHORE!
“We will have a special deep-cut set along with classics and, of course, some new songs!
“OBITUARY will be doing a special set as well doing their classic ‘Cause Of Death’ material and DESTRUCTION also will have new record out as well!
“Looking forward to see you all again out there!
“Long live thrash! Long live metal!”
Later this month, TESTAMENT will launch the “An Evening With Testament” tour celebrating the 35th anniversary of the band’s third album, “Practice What You Preach”.
In support of the “Practice What You Preach” reissues via Nuclear Blast, TESTAMENT wanted to do something special and intimate for the fans, performing deep cuts and some classic ballads for the first time ever.
OBITUARY is currently celebrating the 35th anniversary of its second album, “Cause Of Death”, on a North American tour this spring. Support on the trek is coming from NAILS, TERROR, SPIRITWORLD and PEST CONTROL.
OBITUARY’s latest studio album, “Dying Of Everything”, came out in January 2023 via Relapse Records.
In 2022, Decibel Books released “Turned Inside Out: The Official Story Of Obituary”, the fully authorized biography of OBITUARY. The book was written by David E. Gehlke, author of “Damn The Machine: The Story Of Noise Records” and “No Celebration: The Official Story Of Paradise Lost”.
TESTAMENT and OBITUARY with special guests DESTRUCTION and GOATWHORE tour dates:
Oct. 05 – DE – Hannover @ Capitol
Oct. 07 – UK – Bristol @ Beacon
Oct. 08 – UK – Birmingham @ O2 Academy Birmingham
Oct. 09 – IE – Dublin @ Olympia Theatre
Oct. 10 – UK – Manchester @ Manchester Academy
Oct. 11 – UK – London @ O2 Forum Kentish Town
Oct. 12 – BE – Antwerp @ Trix
Oct. 13 – DE – Stuttgart @ LKA Longhorn
Oct. 14 – DE – Hamburg @ Große Freiheit 36
Oct. 16 – CH – Pratteln @ Z7 Konzertfabrik
Oct. 17 – DE – Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof
Oct. 18 – IT – Milan @ Live Club
Oct. 19 – DE – Saarbruecken @ Garage
Oct. 21 – SI – Ljubljana @ Media Center
Oct. 22 – AT – Vienna @ Arena
Oct. 23 – PL – Wroclaw @ A2
Oct. 24 – DE – Munich @ TonHalle
Oct. 25 – DE – Oberhausen @ Turbinenhalle
Oct. 26 – NL – Utrecht @ Tivoli Vredenburg – Ronda
Bury Tomorrow Release “Forever The Night” From Upcoming Album ‘Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience’
Following the release of dynamic and sonically splintering new singles (“Let Go,” “What If I Burn,” and “Villain Arc”), Bury Tomorrow have today released “Forever The Night” with an accompanying visualizer.
The song explores the intoxicating allure of escapism – how euphoria can blind us to the truth, even when something isn’t good for us. The track captures the emotional tension of clinging to fleeting highs to avoid facing reality, underscoring the inevitability of change and the end of all things.
For Bury Tomorrow, the last two years have been about trying to fill the space where they knew something was missing. From the depths of uncertainty, through line-up changes and COVID-inspired road blocks, the arrival of guitarist Ed Hartwell and keyboardist/vocalist Tom Prendergast and the creation of 2023’s The Seventh Sun has allowed them to lay out a whole new path of possibilities that felt unavailable before. Now, with an invigorated belief and fresh outlook on what the band can encompass, they present Will You Haunt Me, With That Same Patience, their most fantastically visceral offering to date.
Crafted more intimately and intricately than ever before by internalizing every aspect of the writing process, with Carl Bown [Sleep Token, Bullet For My Valentine, While She Sleeps] manning production duties for the first time, the result is a profoundly personal, extraordinarily expansive and punishingly grand display of cathartic craftsmanship.
Born from a shared sense of frustration in feeling an ever-shifting disconnect from the state of modern society, the band have created an earnest, heart-wrenching and definitive look at the overlapping effects of brutal self-sabotage, crippling anxiety, fierce despondency and the never-ending search for peace and clarity in a world so full of noise. It is a record about division as much as togetherness, an outpouring of personal devastation but a hopeful reminder that we are all navigating it together.
“To haunt is to revisit or recur persistently to the consciousness of someone or something,” explains guitarist, Kristan Dawson. “There’s beauty in that commitment somewhat. In a world full of distraction, discourse, instancy and demand, patience seems hard to attain. In patience there is peace, one thing society is short of. The title serves as a call of reflection, relying on the present moment, remembering what truly matters. I think the notion of patience being haunting is quite a contrast and that’s certainly reflective of the album musically.”
Within such deep sonic exploration and shared emotional understanding, and despite its bleak outlook on things, Will You Haunt Me With That Same Patience’ still strives to represent that lingering presence, that hope, that reminds us that this isn’t the be-all and end-all of this existence. That things can change for the better, just like we can change for the better with it, and persevering through such separation will bring us back around eventually. We just have to weather the storm and trust in that feeling to pull us through.
To have allowed themselves the time and space to reach this point of comfort and confidence now feels like a starting point for everything that the band will do in the future. Expanding their empire in all corners of the world and delivering their biggest statement of intent to date is the beginning of a whole new chapter in the story of one of the most devastating and dedicated assets to British heavy music.
Big Big Train Announces Global Live Album ‘Are We Nearly There Yet?’
Big Big Train will issue a new live album Are We Nearly There Yet? on 19th September 2025. Sub-titled Live Around The World, the album collects together a series of performances recorded in 2024 and 2025 on the band’s tours, which visited the UK, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Portugal as well as co-headlining Cruise To The Edge in both years. The album has been compiled by bassist Gregory Spawton and lead vocalist Alberto Bravin.
“Apart from Summer Shall Not Fade, which captured our show headlining the 2018 Night Of The Prog festival in Germany, our previous live albums have been based around shows in London,” drummer Nick D’Virgilio explains. “Having spread our touring wings internationally much more in the last few years, we wanted to mix it up and release a live album drawn from the almost 40 shows we’ve played around the world since March 2024.”
“While our engineer Rob Aubrey will be spending the coming months taking the lead mixing our next studio album, mixing has fallen to me for Are We Nearly There Yet?”, Alberto Bravin comments. “It’s been really interesting to go back through all the performances and choose what we thought were the most appropriate ones to include on this live release. That doesn’t always mean the best technical performance – sometimes a song had a unique vibe on a particular night which we wanted to celebrate.”
The first song to be made available from Are We Nearly There Yet? is Black With Ink, recorded in London in October 2024. “Black With Ink didn’t get massive attention when we originally released it on the Common Ground album in 2021,” guitarist/keyboardist Rikard Sjöblom says. “I always thought it could be a kick ass tune live and that’s exactly how it turned out. Back when we originally recorded the song, it was David Longdon’s idea that the lead vocals should be shared around the band and on tour it has been real fun for me, Nick, Clare Lindley and Oskar Holldorff each to get to sing a verse.”
Are We Nearly There Yet? will be released via Big Big Train’s own label English Electric Recordings on 2CD and 3LP housed in a gatefold sleeve, via Bandcamp high resolution download and streaming. The 3LP version of the album will be available as limited edition 180 gram transparent violet vinyl (exclusive to Burning Shed and The Bandwagon USA) and 180 gram black vinyl. Pre-orders will be accompanied by a signed Are We Nearly There Yet? art card.
BIG BIG TRAIN – ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET?
Part One – The Lives Of Us
Light Left In The Day
Oblivion
Beneath The Masts
Skates On
Miramare
Love Is The Light*
Last Eleven
Part Two – The Lives Of Others
The First Rebreather
Black With Ink
A Mead Hall In Winter
Snowfalls
The Florentine*
The Transit Of Venus Across The Sun
Apollo
(* Not on 3LP version)
Tetrarch Set to Conquer Europe with Summer 2025 Tour and New Album ‘The Ugly Side Of Me’
With tireless perseverance and distinct talent, the ascent of modern metal/hard rock stars Tetrarch has been palpable since the release of their first album, Freak (2017), followed by their Napalm Records debut, the highly-acclaimed Unstable (2021).
After four years of intensely focused growth and lead guitarist Diamond Rowe’s emergence as iconic brand Jackson Guitars’ first female signature artist, the band will release their trailblazing third album, The Ugly Side Of Me, via Napalm Records on May, 9th.
Since their last album was released in the middle of the pandemic, the band has unfortunately never been seen live in Europe – but that will finally change this summer! In addition to a few festival appearances, the band will be playing a series of headline dates. If you don’t want to miss out on this spectacle, you should make sure you get your tickets asap.
The Ugly Side Of Me tracklisting:
“Anything Like Myself ”
“Never Again (Parasite)”
“Live Not Fantasize”
“Erase”
“The Only Thing I’ve Got”
“Best Of Luck”
“Crawl”
“Cold”
“Headspace”
“The Ugly Side Of Me”
Tetrarch European Tour Summer ’25:
16.06. Leipzig, Germany – Moritzbastei
17.06. Berlin, Germany – Privatclub
18.06. Hannover, Germany – Café Clocksee
19.06. Ratingen, Germany – Manege
20.06. Copenhagen, Denmark – Copenhell
22.06. Utrecht, Netherlands – De Helling
24.06. Ghent, Belgium – Vierde Zaal
25.06. Birmingham, UK – The Flapper
26.06. London, UK – Camden Assembly
28.06. Viviero, Spain – Resurrection Fest
29.06. Geneva, Switzerland – Undertown
02.07. Dunaujvoros, Hungary – Rockmaraton
03.07. Vienna, Austria – Flex
05.07. Velke Mezirich, Czech Republik – Fajt Fest