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Americans Are Barred From Visiting The Bahamas Due To Rising COVID-19 Cases
Source: Afton Almaraz / Getty The United States is regressing when it comes to the pandemic and other territories have taken notice. One popular travel destination has turned its’ back on our tourist dollars. USA Today is reporting that The Bahamas is closing their doors to Americans. According to the feature the Caribbean island will no longer be accepting visits from several countries. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis confirmed the closure on Sunday, July 19 via a formal press release. “According to the World Health Organization, the world is approaching 19 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, including nearly 600,000 deaths. The highest number of confirmed cases is in the Americas, with approximately 7.3 million cases” it read. “The number of deaths and confirmed cases continue to rise, with t...
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The Amplified Project – One Love (in support of UNICEF) [VIDEO]
Here is the re-released edition of Bob Marley’s legendary hit ‘One Love’ by The Amplified Project. The new release by The Amplified Project features Nigerian dancehall star Patoranking in support of UNICEF’s work to re-imagine a fairer a more just world for children whose lives had been upended by the COVID-19 pandemic. The whole idea of the project is to ‘Donate to @unicef and support their efforts to help children around the world who are affected by covid-19.’ Some of the featured acts are Cedella Marley, Skip Marley, Stephen Marley, Patoranking, Ghetto Youths Foundation and others. Watch and enjoy below! [embedded content] Share this: 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...
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John Digweed on the Intricacies of a VR Festival Performance and the Impact of COVID-19 on Dance Music [Interview]
John Digweed is amongst a rare breed of time-tested electronic music DJs—a dance music veteran thriving in the music industry for almost three decades, without compromising on the quality and integrity of his sound. One of Digweed’s notable achievements is producing the first-ever commercial compilation for a nightclub in partnership with fellow iconic artist Sasha. That’s to say not much has gone under Digweed’s nose in modern dance music history. Of course, as the COVID-19 pandemic has ruptured the music industry’s lifeblood of live music events, like most DJs, Digweed has had to adjust. That’s come with hosting regular livestreams, playing virtual festivals, filling the void of empty hours once spent on the road or in the club, and making difficult decisions on when and how to resu...
Drive-In Event Set to Broadcast Tomorrowland’s Virtual Edition with Festival-Grade Production This Weekend
With no light at the end of the pandemic’s tunnel, drive-in EDM concerts are all the rage in the live music industry at the moment. While have some floundered and some have jumped through loopholes to move forward, it’s clear that drive-in raves represent a new normal. Award-winning Philadelphia-based experiential marketing, festival operations, and content creation company Our People Entertainment is the latest to toss their hat into the drive-in concert ring. The organization has announced its “Festival Drive-In Experience,” which will broadcast “Tomorrowland Around the World,” the venerated festival brand’s forthcoming virtual edition. The event will go down on July 25th and 26th at Rhythm & Reels in Williamstown, New Jersey, ...
AC/DC Launches ‘The Story Of Back In Black’ Video Series; First Two Episodes Available
Legendary rockers AC/DC have launched a new video series, “The Story Of Back In Black”, as part of the 40th-anniversary celebrations of AC/DC‘s classic 1980 album “Back In Black”. The first two episodes in the series, focusing on the songs “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Hells Bells”, can be seen below. Last December, “Back in Black” was certified by the Recording Industry Association Of America for U.S. shipments of 25 million copies. “Back in Black” first went platinum in October 1980 and had previously been certified 22 times platinum in December 2007. The RIAA lists “Back In Black” as the fourth biggest-selling album of all time. On July 25, 1980, AC/DC released “Back In Black” in t...
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH’s IVAN MOODY Reaches End Of His Journey To Learn To Play Guitar (Video)
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH recently launched a new video series, “Guitar Zero: Legends Of The Fail”, in which singer Ivan Moody embarks on a journey to learn to play guitar. The ninth and final episode can be seen below. The video description reads as follows: “Ivan‘s wish to learn to play guitar has led him to quite an interesting journey… and some situations he did not expect. Does he reach his goal… let’s find out”. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH‘s latest album, “F8”, was released on February 28. The follow-up to 2018’s “And Justice For None” caps a turbulent period for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH in which Moody finally got sober after a near-fatal struggle with addiction, while co-founding drummer Jeremy Spencer bowed out of the...
ANTHRAX’s FRANK BELLO Urges Everyone To Wear Masks: ‘I Wanna See People Survive’
In a new interview with the “Dabghanistan” podcast, ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello spoke about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the songwriting sessions for the band’s long-awaited follow-up to 2016’s “For All Kings” album. He said (see video below): “We can’t do anything [in person] right now, because nobody’s gonna fly… I’m not flying anywhere. Look, when I see these videos on these damn newscasts of people walking in the aisle of an airplane, as we do, with no mask, and they’re sitting next to a person with no mask… Dude, I have a kid, I have a family — it’s not worth it for me. And it shouldn’t be worth it for anybody, unless you have to be on that plane. “For me, wear a mask,” he continued....
IRON MAIDEN’s NICKO MCBRAIN Recalls Moment He Gave His Heart To God And Asked Jesus In His Life
In a brand new interview with TVMaldita, IRON MAIDEN drummer Nicko McBrain spoke about his 1999 conversion to Christianity and how being a Christian has affected his life as an artist. “When I was a kid, I was very versed in Christianity — I went to Sunday school, and we had religious instruction as a lesson in schools in those days,” he told host and fellow legendary drummer Aquiles Priester (see video below). “As I got older and I started to get wilder, religion didn’t really play much of a [role] and I wasn’t God-focused. In the ’90s — probably ’98, somewhere around there; maybe earlier — my wife was born again, and she started reading the Bible a lot. And she basically said, ‘You wanna come to church with me one day?’ And I said, &#...
Alison Mosshart Drops Eerie Short Film for ‘Animals’
Alison Mosshart has kept herself busy in 2020. Not only has she been releasing new solo music, but Mosshart also announced her first solo spoken word album, Sound Wheel. And today (July 20), she has dropped a short film that features an excerpt from “Animals.” “Hey, if we were living like animals,” Mosshart recited in the video in the video. “It didn’t feel like that then. No one pointed it out that I can remember. It didn’t seem that bad.” The 69-second clip not only shares a piece of her poetry, but it also showed Mosshart’s directing side. Similar to “Returning The Screw,” Mosshart experiments with a lo-fi surveillance video look but also seems to play with the horror movie genre. As the camera focuses on someone sitting in a chair, you start to see this individual start moving from sid...
How To Discover Happiness From Within
The first thing you need to do is to find happiness within yourself before seeking to extend it to others. You need to validate yourself first and tell yourself that you can be happy and stay on your own without having anyone in your life. You must get to that point where you become emotionally independent. Then should out get it a relationship because you have enough to extend to someone else. To do this, the following steps should serve as a guide to you: Discover Happiness Within and not Outside You By nature we are already conditioned to seek happiness from things or people around us. That is why most ladies rush into relationships hoping to achieve it. Just because a guy makes you laugh on the first date, makes you blush and starry-eyed does not mean he will give you the happiness you...
Lenny Kravitz Calls Fans to Consider ‘What Side of History You Standing On?’ on NPR Tiny Desk
Lenny Kravitz, like many artists, have been encouraging people to not just call for change but act for progress. In the latest edition of Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, Kravtiz brought all his fans to the Bahamas (virtually) for a special set. He was joined by longtime collaborator Craig Ross and mentee Yianni Giannakopoulous. Before performing “What Did I Do With My Life?,” he talked about it’s good to look into ourselves right now. “In the midst of all that has transpiring on our planet right now, it is a blessed time for introspection,” he said. “More importantly, action. What side of history are you standing on?” He also performed “Thinking of You” off 1998’s 5, which he dedicated to his late mother Roxie Roker as well as George Floyd saying that his last words were, “Mama, Mama.” Kravitz e...
Noel Gallagher Compares Oasis’ Early American Audiences to Unimpressed Sheep
If you saw Oasis perform in the U.S. during their ’90s prime, Noel Gallagher could’ve used some more enthusiasm. The musician, who recently caught up with The Times about recording the band’s 1995 album (What’s The Story) Morning Glory at Rockfield Studios in Wales, compared the sheep in Wales to some less-than-impressed crowds the Gallagher brothers played in front of the U.S. “I remember looking out at this row of sheep,” Gallagher said. “And they were staring blankly at me while I was singing, and they didn’t look very impressed. It certainly prepared me for audiences in America.” The High Flying Birds frontman later said Liam interfered with the album’s creative process while at Rockfield. “Drinking can wait. You’re trying to follow up ‘Definitely Maybe’, you’v...
