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Ekiti bans traditional festivals in towns, villages
The Ekiti State Government has directed traditional rulers in towns and villages to either postpone or cancel for the rest of the year, all pending local festivals in their domains to curb the spread of Coronavirus. The State Coordinator of COVID-19 Task Force Response Team, Prof Bolaji Aluko, made the announcement in a statement in Ado Ekiti. He disclosed that Ekiti State had cumulatively recorde...
Comparison Test: Is the VF Engineering Lamborghini Huracán Performante Better Than the Stock Version?
Years ago, I was driving in a car with John Hennessey on the drag strip behind his shop, located just west of Houston, Texas. The car was a then-new 2014 Porsche 991.1 Turbo S that I was in the process of driving across the country. I’d been racing against one of John’s huge-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V Coupes, and after about 20 battles (the AWD Porsche kept winning) I gave him a ride in...
Honda Stops Civic Si, Drops Civic Coupe, and Shuts Down Fit for 2021
Honda has announced changes to its lineup for 2021, some of which we’ve been expecting for a while—while some that are a bit of a surprise. The big news surrounds the Honda Civic, which is at the end of its current lifecycle. There’s an all-new 2022 Civic on the way, and so Honda is rearranging its compact-car stalwart’s lineup a bit in advance of that debut. But the Civic Si won...
The Musical Maturation of ‘Who Is Jill Scott?’
Live, streaming or otherwise, the classic album still reveals the beautiful totality of a Black woman in love with love, 20 years later. There is love that is patient and kind. Then there is love that entangles itself in your essence, demanding either rapturous consummation or defiant release. Even more significant, there is love that when you encounter it in person, it is a spiritual force of nat...
Logic Posts Family Photos With Baby Bobby After Announcing Retirement
Logic offered a glimpse at his home life with a series of personal photos, including snapshots of his and baby and wife, shared on social media. The rapper’s Instagram update arrived the day after he announced his retirement, just ahead of the release of No Pressure, due out on July 24. “It’s been a great decade,” he’d said earlier in the week. “Now it’s time to be a ...
Kanye West Asks for Signatures to Get on South Carolina Presidential Ballot
Kanye West is petitioning to get his name on the presidential ballot in South Carolina, soon after he officially filed to be a candidate in Oklahoma. “Hi guys please sign up to put me on the ballot in South Carolina at any of these locations,” he wrote on Twitter on Saturday (July 18). “You can also sign up at the website.” The message lists eight locations — Chuck To...
Billie Eilish Just Realized ‘Picture to Burn’ Is a Taylor Swift Song
Billie Eilish revealed that she was a huge fan of Taylor Swift‘s “Picture to Burn” when she was a little kid, but until this year, she had no idea it was even a song from Swift’s catalog. The singer put the track on the playlist of the latest episode of “me & dad radio,” the Apple Music show she records with her father, Patrick O’Connell. “P...
Report: Spurs want 24-yr-old Everton target, star has already met with Jose Mourinho
Tottenham have been linked with a move for the Southampton midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg this summer. As per Ekstra Bladet, the player has already visited the club’s training facilities and he has also met with the club’s manager Jose Mourinho. It will be interesting to see if Spurs can agree on a deal with the Saints now. Hojbjerg will be a free agent next year and he is not keen on an extensi...
SMLE and Rival Enlist Neoni for Impactful Cut “Up In Flames”
Miami-based production duo SMLE have taken over the industry in recent years with their vibrant and lighthearted sound, releasing music on labels such as Monstercat, Armada, and Lowly, while garnered a nomination for the Best Remixed Recording award at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards for their rework of Bobby Rush‘s “Funk O’ De Funk.“ The duo have now teamed up with rising German t...
UZ and Oski Collide On Two-Track Quality Goods EP “Freezer”
Quality Goods Records, run by trap icon UZ, has established itself as a prominent label within the bass world in recent years. Apart from releasing the OG’s music, QGR has helped catapult the careers of massively talented producers such as Ian Munro, sumthin sumthin and Oski, among others, the latter of whom has collaborated with UZ to release a two-track EP called Freezer. It has b...
This Electronic Music Album Samples Endangered Songbirds to Raise Awareness of Conservation
A group of artists have responded to the challenge to create a song utilizing the sounds of their favorite songbird. The result is an album that will immortalize the calls of the world’s most endangered bird species in an effort to draw awareness towards their plight. Artist Robin Perkins, also known as El Búho (Spanish for “the Owl”), is spearheading the proj...
deadmau5 Teases New VR Project with Epic Games’ Unreal Engine
deadmau5 took to Instagram recently to share a teaser of a forthcoming VR project. The electronic music icon was mum on the details, however, writing nothing but an arcane caption along with the video that reads, “A breed of goat.” The teaser does divulge that the project was produced in collaboration with Epic Games‘ gameframe Unreal Engine as well as Geodesic Games&n...
