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St. Vincent Flawlessly Covers The Beatles’ ‘Martha My Dear’
St. Vincent made a guest appearance at the virtual Ally Coalition Annual Talent Show on Monday night (Dec. 21), where she performed The Beatles‘ uplifting song, “Martha My Dear.” She performed the song while playing the guitar, with a rainbow filter on the video. The event, streamed on Jack Antonoff‘s Twitch channel, featured other performances from Hayley Williams, The Chicks, Lana Del Rey, Sleater-Kinney and more. The Ally Coalition Annual Talent Show raised money for the United States’ homeless LGBTQ+ youth. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, s...
The Village Voice Is Returning With Updated Website, Print Edition
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. At the time of its closure, Barbey said the venerable title had bore the brunt of “the increasingly harsh economic realities” facing those creating journalism. In the years since, its website and social channels have been refreshed with articles posted from the vault. From next year, the site will get a revamp with fresh content. Also, the New York Times quotes Street Media CEO Brian Calle as saying the Village Voice will include a print periodical, expected to be published each quarter. “I think a lot of people will be hungry for this and I’m superoptimistic,” Calle told The Times. The Village Voice was the country’s first alternative newsweekly, founded in 1955 by a group that included legendary writer Norman Mailer. The title “r...
Sam Smith and Celine Dion Have the Sweetest Things to Say About Each Other
Soon after the clip went up, Dion reached out. “Aww, thank you so much Sam Smith. It was great to see you last year in London, and forget about me – I think you’re so amazing!! Take care … hope to see you again soon,” she wrote, from one great singer to another. Smith and Dion have been members of the mutual appreciation society for several years. In July 2019, the multiple Grammy Award winners professed their admiration for one another on social media. “Celine Dion changed my life,” Smith tweeted at the time. Both artists are wrapping big years in music, which would’ve been bigger still if COVID-19 didn’t mess with everyone’s travel and touring plans. Dion bagged the year’s No. 2 Top Tour, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. The Courage World...
Radio Days
I had a conventional small town, Arkansas upbringing. My dad was a full-time poultry technician and part-time rancher who herded cattle on a motorcycle. It wasn’t even a dirt bike; he thought a bigger bike had a smoother ride. He felt the same way about cars – the bigger the better – and when I turned sixteen, he wrapped me in five thousand pounds of shiny, black metal, a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, with a bullet-hole in the driver’s side door. He says he bought it that way, but I suspect he put it there as a warning for any reckless boys who thought about trying to hitch a ride. Summer afternoons, careening down the red dirt road to the lake, music blasting, bikini air-drying from the rearview mirror, in the Batmobile, I was invincible. For an old car, it sure had a great radio. It was ...
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Randy Watson Back: ‘Coming 2 America’ Official Teaser Trailer Drops [Video]
Source: Amazon Studios / Amazon Studios Randy Watson is back like he never left. After plenty of images have hit the Internets, today (Dec. 22) we get the official teaser trailer for Eddie Murphy’s forthcoming Coming 2 America. Source: Courtesy Amazon Studios / Amazon Studios The teaser for the sequel to the classic Coming To America offers some insight into the plot and showcases the myriad of characters portrayed by Murphy and his co-star Arsenio Hall. We see famed Sexual Chocolate lead singer Randy Watson make his return as well as Hall’s Gilligan-referencing Reverend Brown along with the assortment of barbershop characters in the clip. As for the story, he is now King Akeem (Murphy) and his homie Semmi (Hall) is still holding him down when the former decides to head back to Queens when...
No Fear: Designer Jerry Lorenzo Leaves Nike For adidas
Source: Christian Vierig / Getty After dropping some hella exclusive kicks and attire for Nike via his Fear of God collection, Jerry Lorenzo is packing up and taking his talents over to the Swoosh’s fiercest rival in the game, adidas. Complex is reporting that adidas has just announced that they’ve inked the revered designer to lead their Creative and Business strategy team for their basketball division. His new long-term venture with adidas will be leading to adidas new Fear of God Athletics, which will be focusing on basketball attire and products right on time for the start of the 2020-2021 NBA season. “This is a role that is unprecedented in its very nature and nuanced attribution that it defies all titles and traditional definitions,” Lorenzo said via press release. “This is a fearles...
Jamar Mackey: Innocent Black Man Falsely Cuffed In Front of His Family Speaks Out
Source: Jub Rubjob / Getty Over the weekend, a video of an innocent Black man being cuffed in front of his family went viral. He has since broken his silence on the troubling ordeal. Jamar Mackey learned that going to the mall with his family as a Black man is another simple thing we can’t do without fear of handcuffs being slapped on us. In the video recorded by his wife, Mackey and his family were in the Lynnhaven Mall’s food court in Virginia Beach cuffed and detained by cops at Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach because he “fit the description” of a person who committed credit card fraud. According to the officer, the VBPD got a call about a Black man with dreads wearing all Black accompanied by a child wearing red who owned a black truck. Mackey’s wife points out in the video that the f...
N.E.R.D. Alert: 11 Things We Learned From Pharrell Williams On ‘Drink Champs’
Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Don’t be fooled by his boyish young looks, Pharrell Williams a.k.a. Skateboard P a.k.a. one-half of the legendary Neptunes is a veteran in the music game, with icon status established. More than 25 years in the man has produced for everyone from Jay-Z to Britney Spears in his illustrious career and he’s still got lots of gas left in the tank. Recently Skateboard P indulged in much adult juice alongside Noreaga for Drink Champs and got into some eyebrow-raising moments he’s lived in his music career. Aside from Nore dropping some gems like the fact that Biggie called him before he died telling him he wanted to hop on the remix to “T.O.N.Y.,” Pharrell’s definitely got some stories to tell himself and we can’t believe most of them. Here are the 11 things we l...
deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner Announce First Collaboration in Eight Years, “Channel 43”
Coming soon to the airwaves is “Channel 43,” the first new collaboration from deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner in almost a decade. Immediately made clear to fans from its title, the new song is a sequel to their 2012 hit “Channel 42,” which appeared on deadmau5’s > album title goes here <. A short teaser video was shared on the mau5trap Twitter account, announcing the new song to the world. While you can only hear 15 seconds of music, considering each of their resumes and history working together, it’s easy to see that the duo is onto something special once again. Also revealed in the tweet is the fact that Gartner will be joining the mau5 at his Insomniac-hosted drive-in show in San Bernardino, California on January 3rd. Tickets ...
US Congress Set to Pass $15 Billion Save Our Stages Act for Independent Music Venues
As of Sunday, Congress has thankfully reached a deal on a $900 billion stimulus bill that will provide urgent aid to those most affected by the pandemic. The hard-hit music industry has been included in the measure via a designated $15 billion package called the Save Our Stages Act. The bill is expected to officially pass in Congress early this week. Through the provision, independent music venues and movie theaters—along with similar cultural institutions—will become eligible for grants through the Small Business Administration, with awards of up to $10 million earmarked for six months of payroll, rent and other necessary costs. Venues that have lost more than 90% of their annual revenue will be able to apply in the first two weeks before the process opens up to those who have lost at lea...
Alok Launches New Philanthropic Foundation, Instituto Alok
Dance music powerhouse Alok has started his own philanthropic endeavor, which will focus on supporting the vulnerable populations within his home country of Brazil. Instituto Alok came to fruition following a period of soul-searching that struck the superstar talent. Alok suggested he was in a depressed slump, but ultimately found a renewed sense of purpose in his ability to create opportunities for others through his music. “The idea of the Alok Institute is something very important to me, because it really is an idea that gives my life meaning,” Alok said. “I have already had some intense periods of depression for feeling emptiness, until I realized that the search for a purpose in life is essential.” Instituto Alok will focus on three foundational pillars: ...
Tulum’s 17-Day Zamna Festival Postponed Following Spike in COVID-19 Cases
Tulum’s marathon 17-day festival event Zamna, which was scheduled to kick off on December 31st, has been postponed following public concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Zamna Festival was feared to be a superspreader event in the making. Tulum has recently become a hub for music festivals playing it fast and loose amid ongoing pandemic restrictions, and has drawn visitors from the United States and throughout Latin America. Art With Me, a recent festival in Tulum, saw attendees dancing in crowds, and virtually no mask-wearing. The event was tied to a spike in cases, leading many to fear that Zamna would precipitate the same. Following backlash, Zamna’s organizers have postponed their next event until April, 2021. In a statement shared via the fest’s website and Fac...
