Together From News Today

A group of strangers took matters into their own hands after their flight from Orlando, Florida, to Knoxville, Tennessee, was canceled last week. Alanah Story detailed the journey on TikTok; she said the group rented a 15-passenger van for the 10-hour trip. One family was scheduled to visit the University of Tennessee and another person said she was in jeopardy of missing her final exams.

Bandcamp / Buy Throughout 2020, punk bands and fans wondered how anyone could generate and sustain a wave of excitement without the usual dues-paying opening slots, five-band gigs or breakout Fest sets. The brash Floridians in Home Is Where might still do that eventually, but they’ve excelled in the compact spaces that serve as proving grounds in 2021: TikTok, Twitter, and 18-minute albums. On their bracing first official LP I Became Birds, Home Is Where talk a big game—about p...