Author: Ernie Ball

Ernie Ball artist, singer-songwriter and guitarist, Julien Baker, recently stopped by The A.V. Club to offer up a forlorn cover of Death Cab For Cutie’s “Photobooth,” off the band’s The Forbidden Love E.P. Watch the performance below.

In case you missed it, Ernie Ball artist, Josh Carter, and Sarah Barthel, together known as electronic rock duo, Phantogram, were the musical guests last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. They performed “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore”, the first single off their new album, Three, which is due out September 16 on Republic Records.

Our good friends over at Alt Press recently posted their list of the 10 most influential bands of pop punk. We’re happy to say that eight of the ten bands mentioned (Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Simple Plan, blink-182, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Jimmy Eat World + MxPx) are members of the Ernie Ball family. We have a long-standing relationship with the pop-punk scene, stemming largely from long-term relationships with the listed artists, and other pop-punk bands like Modern Baseball, The Wonder Year, and All Time Low, as well as our twenty year relationship with Warped Tour via our Battle of the Bands program (now called Ernie Ball: PLAY Warped).

When you think about The Beatles and their profound effect on popular culture and music it’s easy to forget that they recorded all of their music within a span of about 8 years. Since then, for a period of 45 years, Paul McCartney has been churning out music as a solo artist. In recognition of that body of work, McCartney has released Pure McCartney, a career retrospective covering some of the best tracks from his post-Beatles years. The collection is available in three editions: an abbreviated two-disc CD with 39 tracks, a four-disc vinyl set with 46 tracks, and a four-disc CD + deluxe digital edition with 67 tracks.