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UNC-Chapel Hill Switches Back To Remote Classes After COVID-19 Spike
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among the many college campuses that moved to return to normal opening amid the pandemic. Now, officials at the institution are reversing course after a massive spike in COVID-19 cases were reported. Local publication The News & The Observer reports that UNC-Chapel Hill reported 130 new cases this week, bringing the total count to 324 positive cases since last February. Starting Wednesday (August 19), all undergraduate classes will move to a remote platform after clusters of cases appeared in dorm rooms, an apartment, and a fraternity house on campus. “As of this morning, we have tested 954 students (last week) and have 177 in isolation and 349 in quarantine, both on and off campus,” both Chancellor ...
Dirtybird Launches “Dirtybird Live” TV Network with Ten New Shows Every Week
Dirtybird is breaking new ground in the livestream space with a particularly ambitious new project. The beloved label has just announced the launch of Dirtybird Live, giving fans a full dedicated channel of programming that will include more than just music. Dirtybird Live will launch will ten new original shows, and they have no plans to stop there as fans are already being encouraged to pitch ideas of their own. The programs will feature familiar faces from the Dirtybird label in a variety of formats such as talk shows, comedy sketches, and, of course, live music performances. Things are expected to go a little off the rails on this network as the current program set is being described as “as bizzaro as you’d hoped for.” A closer look reveals a wonky lineup of show...
Untold and Neversea Music Festivals Offer Festival Tickets In Exchange for Blood Plasma
The organizers behind Romania’s biggest music festivals, Untold Festival and Neversea, are offering an attractive incentive for donating blood plasma—free festival tickets. The donation campaign, titled Blood Network, is a partnership between the festival and supermarket chain Kaufland Romania. The limited time offer is being extended specifically to recently recovered COVID-19 patients. Plasma from patients cured of the virus is highly sought after due to the presence of antibodies, which could help sick patients find the path to recovery. Donors through Blood Network will be rewarded with a free one-day pass to the 2021 edition of either Untold or Neversea. Donors will also receive a supermarket voucher of 100 lei for their efforts. “The medical system is curre...
Bass Music Heavyweights Unite On Excision and Wooli’s “Evolution (The Remixes)”
Excision and Wooli are throwing fuel on the flames of their massive 2019 Evolution EP with a sizable helping of brand new remixes. Of course, we’re talking about two producers who are known for doing it big. The two brought together a roster of bass music’s finest to craft Evolution (The Remixes), and the final product exceeds the already lofty expectations. It was hard to imagine where producers could take the already uninhibited opening track “Lockdown,” but Kompany, Hairitage, and MadReckless stepped up to the challenge. Kompany and Hairitage leaned into their affinity for distortion, escalating the gritty, bass-driven energy to new heights while MadReckless sounds the alarm with a soaring, siren-like lead on his remix. The EP’s se...
BAINBRIDGE Drops Bass Heater “Skull Busta” Ahead of DSV Audio’s Mental Health Fundraiser Album
While we still have to wait for the release of DSV Audio‘s new charity compilation album Rebirth, the label has treated us to a premiere of one of its hardest-hitting tunes. Available for your head-banging pleasure is the latest from BAINBRIDGE, “Skull Busta.” Fans of the rising bass producer know well what chaos he can deliver. Distorted vocal samples give way to ominous, repeating synths before raising hell with a mosh-pit-inducing bass drop. With only brief moments for listeners to catch their breath, BAINBRIDGE continues to pummel your speakers on his latest high-energy track. DSV Audio has announced that 50% of proceeds from Rebirth will be donated to the mental health organization SANE. In addition to the album proceeds, they have started a fund...
JEFF SCOTT SOTO Still Doesn’t Know Why He Was Fired By JOURNEY: ‘It Stinks To Feel Like I Didn’t Matter’
Jeff Scott Soto says it “stinks” to see JOURNEY not acknowledging the time he spent fronting the band. Soto, who previously sang with Yngwie Malmsteen, joined JOURNEY about a week and half into a six-week summer 2006 tour with DEF LEPPARD, after Steve Augeri began having vocal issues. Soto had earlier worked with JOURNEY guitarist Neal Schon and drummer Deen Castronovo in the short-lived side project SOUL SIRKUS. JOURNEY named Soto its permanent lead singer in December 2016 before firing him just five months later. Asked in a new interview with the “Rehired” Internet show (hosted by Fran Strine and Peter Clarke) how he found out his services were no longer needed by JOURNEY, Soto said (see video below): “It was a call from management, basically. And they were ...
3 DOORS DOWN’s BRAD ARNOLD Releases Lyric Video For Debut Solo Single, ‘Wicked Man’
3 DOORS DOWN frontman and celebrated songwriter Brad Arnold was preparing earlier this year to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s 2000 debut album, the certified seven-times RIAA platinum “The Better Life”. But with the pandemic putting the Grammy Award-nominated Mississippi rock band’s plans on hold, Brad has used the quarantine to write and record his first solo record, “Wicked Man”. This powerful song was released last Friday (August 14) on his new Wild At Heart label. You can now watch the lyric video for the track below. Brad was inspired to write “Wicked Man” about the times we are living in. With his instantly distinctive vocals, Brad unflinchingly sings: “They keep us entertained inside a world before our eyes/A never-...
THE PRETTY RECKLESS’s TAYLOR MOMSEN Explains Decision To Delay ‘Death By Rock And Roll’ Album Until 2021
THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen spoke to Forbes about the band’s decision to hold off on releasing its new album, “Death By Rock And Roll”, until 2021. “We talked about holding the song ‘Death By Rock And Roll’ for longer too, and I was, like, ‘I can’t do this. I can’t just sit on this album forever,'” she said. “The world needs music and music has such a healing thing to it, and it saved my life, time and time again. “If we put out a song and if it can put a smile on some people’s faces, great; we’ll take it from there. That’s kind of what we’re doing — we’re riding the wave. “This is just such an unprecedented time, so we’re trying to take it step by step, and see wh...
EVANESCENCE’s AMY LEE: Why I Decided To Publicly Open Up About My Political Views For First Time
Last week, EVANESCENCE released a new single, “Use My Voice”, which was written to celebrate the power of speaking out in order to promote more justice in the world. The track, featuring contributions from THE PRETTY RECKLESS‘s Taylor Momsen and HALESTORM‘s Lzzy Hale, was chosen by HeadCount in the USA to encourage voters to register, check their registration, or find out about their remote voting options amid the COVID-19 pandemic at UseMyVoice.org. “That song has been bubbling in the background for me for a couple of years,” EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee told Billboard. “I’ve never really… spoken politically, or made any real statement about what I believe and what’s going on, because I don’t like to divide the fans. I want t...
Fiona Apple Narrates Short Film About How to Document ICE Arrests: Watch
Fiona Apple has narrated a new short film about how to document Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests you believe may be unlawful. The film, titled We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests, is part of a series of animated shorts created in partnership with We Have Rights, Brooklyn Defender Services, and WITNESS to help inform the general public about how to hold ICE accountable while protecting the safety of the individual being arrested. This news is pretty on par for Apple considering she’s a regular activist, from marching in Black Lives Matter protests to donating her royalties to help out refugees and detained migrants. In an interview with Vulture, which originally reported the story, the singer-songwriter explained why she accepted the opportunity, calling the video ...
Who’s Scruffy Looking? Harrison Ford Stars in Solo Deepfake Video: Watch
“Harrison Ford” and “Billy Dee Williams” in Solo: A Star Wars Story, image via YouTube/Shamook Deepfake technologies have become increasingly common, and while their applications are almost entirely evil, every once in a while a person uses those programs for something trivial and fun. So it is with this latest deepfake by YouTuber Shamook, which answers the question: What if young Harrison Ford had played young Han Solo in the 2018 prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story? To be fair, it’s more of a partial answer. As creator Shamook acknowledges in a pinned note, the technology of faking voices is “still a way off from sounding really good.” So instead we get prequel actor Alden Ehrenreich’s voice coming from a de-aged Harrison Ford’s smirking lips. The video is only two m...
Britney Spears Asks Court to Prohibit Her Father from Regaining Conservatorship
After more than a decade, Britney Spears is seeking to permanently break free from her father’s conservatorship. According to documents filed on Tuesday, the pop star officially asked the court to not allow her father, James Spears, to regain control over her life. From 2008 to 2019, James oversaw nearly every major aspect of his daughter’s existence — from personal matters like her relationships and health to financial affairs related to her career. The “Womanizer” singer was placed under such a conservatorship following a series of public meltdowns and hospitalizations. However, in recent years, many of Britney’s fans have called into question her father’s motives. Believing he and his team may have unfairly taken advantage of the conservatorship for their own personal benefit, they bega...
