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COVID-19 Is Quietly Ravaging South Florida’s Haitian Community
Source: INSTARimages.com / WENN While some cities continue to party like its 1999 some areas are still fighting for their lives against COVID-19. One area is being slowly decimated. As spotted on Raw Story(via the Miami Herald), the city of Miami is seemingly losing the battle against the pandemic. According to the report, there is a huge race gap when it comes to confirmed cases that the data is showing but fails to make national headlines on major media outlets. In the last couple of weeks several Haitians have succumbed to the disease, at the time of this story there 100+ documented deaths stemming from Coronavirus. “The stigma is huge,” said South Florida Dr. Sidney Coupet. “A patient who I treated in the hospital, they discharged her. She beat COVID. The way she was speaking to m...
Conway The Machine ft. Method Man “Lemon,” Benny The Butcher ft. Heem “In Love With The Streets” & More | Daily Visuals 9.8.20
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty While Griselda as a group was a force to be reckoned with, individually Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, and Westside Gunn have proven that they’re more than capable of being one men armies on the track. Now with Conway releasing his dolo effort in From King To A God, The Machine links up with the Wu-Tang swords man known as Tical for his visuals to “Lemon” in which the duo keep it gully and gritty from the bodega to the apartment bathroom. From King To A God hits the digital shelves on September 11th. Keeping that Beast Coast flavor going, Smoke DZA links up with Jadakiss and Flipp Dinero and hits the streets of New York with his peoples to bbq and ride some bikes for their clip to “Hibachi.” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Benny ...
Pocket Change: Kanye West Has Personally Spent Nearly $7M On His Presidential Pipe Dream, Allegedly
Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty As the race for president is fast approaching its conclusion this November, Kanye West’s campaign is becoming one of the most bizarre bids ever to participate in an election cycle. Keeping his political aspirations afloat isn’t cheap, though. The rapper’s overdue campaign financials filed with the Federal Election Commission were released over the weekend, revealing how nearly $7 million of West’s personal funds were spent over the last couple of months. And, so far, only an estimated 12 states are willing to show his name on a ballot. NYMag breaks down the numerous issues Ye’s campaign is battling as of late. Five states have ongoing litigation against his ballot efforts, one in Virginia, “where a number of electors for West were unaware that they had signe...
Watch Lane 8’s Invigorating Sunrise Set in Scenic Grand Lake, Colorado
At the crack of dawn, Lane 8 brought a boat out on the water for a special sunrise livestream set in the middle of Grand Lake, Colorado. The ember-like colors of the early morning sky provide the perfect backdrop for Lane 8, who makes an entrance that’s easy on the ears with delicate pianos and subtly shuffling rhythms. Over the course of the two hour event, he builds up momentum at a steady pace, navigating through the familiar waters of his own catalog while dropping in unreleased projects set to arrive on his label, This Never Happened. Few producers have the delicate touch and sense of timing to pull this off, but Lane 8 manages to tailor his set to the surrounding environment perfectly. Festivals such as Holy Ship have previously entrusted the “Fingerprint” producer ...
Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard and Mason Jennings’ New Band Painted Shield Release Debut Single ”I Am Your Country’
Seven years ago, Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard linked up with former Pearl Jam drummer Matt Chamberlin for some instrumental demos. Now, the pair have reunited with some additional help from folk singer Mason Jennings and Seattle keyboardist and singer Brittany Davis to form Painted Shield. The newly-formed group dropped their debut single “I Am Your Country” and announced that their self-titled debut record dropping Nov. 27. The four-piece, with the help of mixer John Congleton, melds a concoction of roots rock, electronica and contemporary folk-pop and is signed to Gossard and Regan Hagar’s Loosegroove Records as the first act on the influential indie label since its reboot. Loosegroove initially shuttered in 2000 and is most notable for releasing Queens of the ...
‘Why Did I Have Sex With Him?’: Briana Is Regretting Her Teen Mom 2 Hookup With Luis
The Teen Mom 2 season premiere concluded with Briana and Luis going home together after reuniting at a club — and during tonight’s episode, viewers learned what unfolded after said night out. “Why did I have sex with him? I can’t talk about this,” Bri confessed to sister Brittany and mother Roxanne the morning after. But then she did open up about it. “We went to his house and then…” Bri began, with Britt offering, “She be having a good time.” The former couple did not use a condom; however, Briana was on birth control and vowed to get tested. She also wanted to have a conversation when the two were sober — because he openly wept about their past and potential future. “He was full-blown naked, crying,” Bri reflec...
SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s JOHN DOLMAYAN Is ‘Speaking Against The Willful Destruction And Hate That Is Consuming So Many People’
SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer John Dolmayan has pushed back against people who don’t want him to publicly voice his controversial political views. The musician, who also owns a high-end comic shop called Torpedo Comics in Las Vegas, took to his Instagram earlier today (Tuesday, September 5) to share a screenshot of what appears to be a review of Torpedo from someone going by the name “Jeff Jones“. In his “review,” Jeff attempts to discourage others from patronizing the store, saying that the business is “owned by fascist sympathizer who pedals [sic] in racist conspiracy theories.” Dolmayan, who has praised Donald Trump in recent months and has accused Democrats of “demonizing” the president and “blaming him for everything under the sun...
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE: Why It Has Taken Nine Years To Record Follow-Up To Self-Titled Album
EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee spoke to Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station about why it has taken so long for the band to begin work on the follow-up to 2011’s self-titled album. “Lots of reasons,” she said (see video below). “I like to have an open mind about what I can be and what I can do in life. “I love the music I’ve made with this band, and there are times that I have been more excited about it and passionate about it and in love with and wanting to pour into it than others. Sometimes you have to get away from it. It’s such a full saturation. “The way that our cycles have always gone, really — it started to change now; we found a way to really break it up — that is all you can do for that however many years period of your life ...
CLUTCH Drummer Would Prefer To Wait Until Band Can Tour Before Releasing New Album
Drummer Jean-Paul Gaster of Maryland rockers CLUTCH spoke to Full In Bloom about the band’s plans to work on the follow-up to 2018’s “Book Of Bad Decisions” album. He said (hear audio below): “It’s tough now. The climate that we’re in, with the way the world is going at this point, it’s difficult to plan something like an album release. Speaking for myself, I would prefer to have a full, big collection of songs come out where we can actually go out and tour behind those songs. The idea of recording a record and not being able to play that record live is a little strange for us at the moment, just because we’re very much a live band.” Asked if there are any new CLUTCH releases in the works for the coming months, Gaster said: “...
Fracmont – Messiah
RATING: 8/10 Among the earliest European bands to blur the lines between thrash and what was then a nascent death metal sound, Messiah have long been unsung heroes of the brutal underground. It doesn’t help that they haven’t released a new studio album since 1994, but all good things come to those that wait, even in the turbulent world of heavy metal. “Fracmont” arrives swiftly after last month’s excellent “Fatal Grotesque Symbols — Darken Universe” EP and adds a veritable fuck-ton of fuel to this veteran band’s gathering firestorm. Always one of Euro thrash’s most inventively nasty bands, the Swiss crew’s collective sense of drama and ambition is displayed both in this album’s grandiose sonic hues and in the fluid complexit...
Selena Gomez Shares What She Learned From Blackpink While Doing Makeup With NikkieTutorials
Selena Gomez talked all things life and Rare Beauty with YouTube star NikkieTutorials (Nikkie de Jager) through a fun virtual makeup session uploaded to de Jager’s YouTube channel over the weekend. In a split screen from their respective homes, the duo applied the same makeup look using both Gomez’s new makeup line and de Jager’s eyeshadow palette in collaboration with Beauty Bay. And while Gomez was excited to share all her new makeup products, she was also quick to gush over Blackpink, who she recently collaborated with on the summery “Ice Cream.” When de Jar asked Gomez what advice she’d give the K-pop stars as a veteran pop singer, the “Lose You to Love Me” artist admitted, “I think I would learn a lot more from them.” “...
Nilda Rosario Makes SBS History as First Female Radio Host for ‘El Jukeo de NY’
After working as a TV anchor for over 15 years, Nilda Rosario returns to her first passion, radio, as the new on-air talent for the Spanish Broadcasting System’s “El Jukeo de Nueva York” show on Mega 97.9 FM, Billboard can exclusively reveal today (Sept. 8). Rosario will co-host with longtime TV personality Janeiro Matos. The Puerto Rican Emmy-winning journalist and presenter, who’s been living in New York for 25 years, assures that the radio show has the “winning formula.” “I’m bringing the point of view of a woman and my experience in the news with a fresh tone,” she tells Billboard. The announcement also marks the first time SBS named a female host on an evening radio show in New York. Rosario joined the team after Frederick Martínez “El Pachá” left the air. “I feel very pro...
