The Wrap-Up brings you the 5 largest music news stories of the week as well as information about new album and music video releases. This week: Rickrolling, more computer hacking, and fresh videos from BRU favorites.

HEADLINES OF THE WEEK

 

1. Foo Fighters Rickroll the Westboro Baptist Church

The Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Foo Fighters’ Friday night show in Kansas City, Missouri. However, the undeterred band came up with a clever counter-protest against the group, who stationed themselves outside of the show’s venue, the Sprint Center. While riding on the back of a pickup truck around the Sprint Center, the Foo Fighters had Rick Astley’s infamous “Never Gonna Give You Up” playing at full volume, danced, and waved around their own signs that said, “You got Rick Roll’d (again)” and “Keep It Clean.” Of course, the Westboro Baptist Church was not amused, but fans and lucky Missourians outside the Sprint Center cheered and joined the band in dancing.  

2. CHVRCHES release video for “Leave a Trace” and respond to misogyny from the 4chan community

CHVRCHES’ second full-length album, Every Open Eye, comes out on September 25, the day before their Boston Calling performance. On Monday, they released the music video for the album’s next single, “Leave a Trace.” The video features lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry performing the dynamic single while walking on water in front of a cloudy sky. It’s a simple video with stunning visual effects, but members of the 4chan community responded to the video with misogynistic comments targeted towards Mayberry. Both Mayberry and CHVRCHES called out the 4chan thread on Twitter and you can read their responses below.

Dear anyone who thinks misogyny isn’t real. It is and this is what it looks like. http://t.co/cLC97T8MxU pic.twitter.com/2bBZtw4yoL

— Lauren Mayberry (@laurenevemay) August 17, 2015

 

PSA: apparently wet hair makes you a “slut”. Nice work, 4chan / humanity. https://t.co/66cch5WWeW

— CHVRCHΞS (@CHVRCHES) August 17, 2015

   

3. Metric share new song “Fortunes”

On Friday Metric shared “Fortunes,” the fourth song from their album Pagans in Vegas, which will be released on September 18. Regarding the lyrics to “Fortunes,” frontwoman Emily Haines told Entertainment Weekly:

I found writing it was from a place of anxiety, and the sense that it was too late to leave and searching for the community or the culture or the scene that you’re part of wherever you live. Is it finite? Is it over and you didn’t notice? Is it there and you’re not in it?

 

4. Death Cab for Cutie issue an apology for explicit Facebook hack

Computer hacks seemed to fill this past week’s headlines with the controversy surrounding the Ashley Madison hack and even Death Cab for Cutie became a target for hacking. On Wednesday Death Cab for Cutie’s Facebook page was hacked and as a result, the account posted explicit links to porn websites. The band was quick to respond to the hack and they even posted the following apology:

DCfC’s Facebook was hacked this evening and explicit content was posted to the page. The account is now secure and fans will not be subjected to these kind of posts in the future. Our sincere apologies.

 

5. Tame Impala release new music video for “Let it Happen”

On Monday Tame Impala released the video for “Let it Happen,” the opening track of their critically acclaimed album Currents. The video is just as mesmerizing as the track and it focuses on a businessman who, as described by Stereogum, “blurs the line between nervous breakdown, medical crisis, and hallucination, most memorably when he finds himself strapped to an airplane seat falling through the sky.”  

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