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Free Narcan Kits to Be Distributed to New York Nightlife Establishments, Per New Legislation
It’s no secret that the opioid epidemic is worsening across the country. In New York City, where one resident dies of an overdose every three hours, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has teamed up with the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife for groundbreaking new legislation: distributing free anti-overdose kits to nightlife establishments across the state’s five boroughs. The hope, legislators said in a press release, is to combat accidental overdoses caused by pills or powders laced with fentanyl, a substance the United States Drug Administration found fatal doses of in 42% of pills they tested in 2021. Narcan, an anti-overdose agent that rapidly reverses the effects of an overdose, will be in each kit they provide to community nightlife hubs. “The frank real...
Free Narcan Kits to Be Distributed to New York Nightlife Establishments, Per New Legislation
It’s no secret that the opioid epidemic is worsening across the country. In New York City, where one resident dies of an overdose every three hours, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has teamed up with the Mayor’s Office of Nightlife for groundbreaking new legislation: distributing free anti-overdose kits to nightlife establishments across the state’s five boroughs. The hope, legislators said in a press release, is to combat accidental overdoses caused by pills or powders laced with fentanyl, a substance the United States Drug Administration found fatal doses of in 42% of pills they tested in 2021. Narcan, an anti-overdose agent that rapidly reverses the effects of an overdose, will be in each kit they provide to community nightlife hubs. “The frank real...
Curbi Announces Launch of New Record Label, Seeing Is Believing
Curbi‘s vision to curate a new global house music community isn’t just talk, and soon the world will see for itself. At this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event, the U.K. dance music phenom plastered the city with eye-grabbing signage for Seeing Is Believing, his new record label. “you might have seen the posters during ADE and wow am I excited to announce this,” Curbi wrote on social media. “so happy to share that I am launching my own record label called ‘SEEING IS BELIEVING’. cannot wait to release all things house music and to create a new experience in our scene.” Over on the label’s website, visitors will find themselves quickly spellbound with a series of hypnotic video sequences and the mission statement, “you hav...
Curbi Announces Launch of New Record Label, Seeing Is Believing
Curbi‘s vision to curate a new global house music community isn’t just talk, and soon the world will see for itself. At this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event, the U.K. dance music phenom plastered the city with eye-grabbing signage for Seeing Is Believing, his new record label. “you might have seen the posters during ADE and wow am I excited to announce this,” Curbi wrote on social media. “so happy to share that I am launching my own record label called ‘SEEING IS BELIEVING’. cannot wait to release all things house music and to create a new experience in our scene.” Over on the label’s website, visitors will find themselves quickly spellbound with a series of hypnotic video sequences and the mission statement, “you hav...
Burning Man Reveals 2023 Theme, Animalia
Following a successful return to the playa in 2022, the organizers of Burning Man are starting to prepare for next year’s edition by announcing its theme: Animalia. The theme was revealed in a blog post published in The Burning Man Journal by Stuart Mangrum, the director of Burning Man Project’s Philosophical Center. “This year’s Burning Man theme will celebrate the animal world and our place in it—animals real and imagined, mythic and remembered—and explore the curious mental constructs that allow us to believe that imagined animals are real, real animals are imagined, and that somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, mankind is somehow not part of the animal kingdom,” Mangrum wrote. That may take a minute to digest, but it leaves room for in...
Burning Man Reveals 2023 Theme, Animalia
Following a successful return to the playa in 2022, the organizers of Burning Man are starting to prepare for next year’s edition by announcing its theme: Animalia. The theme was revealed in a blog post published in The Burning Man Journal by Stuart Mangrum, the director of Burning Man Project’s Philosophical Center. “This year’s Burning Man theme will celebrate the animal world and our place in it—animals real and imagined, mythic and remembered—and explore the curious mental constructs that allow us to believe that imagined animals are real, real animals are imagined, and that somehow, despite all evidence to the contrary, mankind is somehow not part of the animal kingdom,” Mangrum wrote. That may take a minute to digest, but it leaves room for in...
HHW Gaming: New Study Shows Kids Who Play Video Games Score Higher On Brain Function Tests
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Riska / Getty Parents, listen up, video games are more than likely not ruining your young gamer’s brain, but they might improve how it functions. A new study focusing on adolescent brain functions shows that kids who play video games seem to have better memory and control over their motor skills than kids who don’t pick up the sticks. While the study also does state that video game playing might not be the reason for the differences in brain functions, it doesn’t dismiss the idea of gamers performing better on some tests of brain functions. If that is the case, it could further push the argument for developing video games to help improve and treat cognitive problems. “This study adds to our growing understanding of the associations between playing video g...
Quasi Announce Tour and New Album, Share Video for New Song “Queen of Ears”: Watch
Breaking the Balls of History: 01 Last Long Laugh02 Back in Your Tree03 Queen of Ears04 Gravity05 Shitty Is Pretty06 Riots & Jokes07 Breaking the Balls of History08 Doomscrollers09 Inbetweenness10 Nowheresville11 Rotten Wrock12 The Losers Win Quasi: 12-07 London, England – The Victoria02-10 Boise, ID – Neurolux02-11 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court02-13 Albuquerque, NM – Sister02-15 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger02-16 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall02-17 Austin, TX – The Parish02-18 Dallas, TX – Club Dada02-20 El Paso, TX – Lowbrow Palace02-22 Phoenix, AZ – Rebel Lounge02-23 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s02-24 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon02-25 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club02-26 Sacramento, CA ̵...
Neil Gaiman Announces New Album, Shares Songs With FourPlay String Quartet: Listen
Neil Gaiman—the celebrated author of graphic novels including Stardust, Coraline, and The Sandman—has announced that he’s releasing an album of original music: Signs of Life is due out April 28, 2023, via Instrumental Recordings. The album is an extended collaboration with Australia’s FourPlay String Quartet, with words, music, and backing vocals from Gaiman. Ahead of the release, Gaiman and FourPlay String Quartet have shared two new songs: “Credo” and “Bloody Sunrise,” the latter of which arrives with its own music video. “Bloody Sunrise” includes lyrics, music, and backing vocal by Gaiman and lead vocals from Lara Goodridge. Directed by James Chappell, the video opens with Goodridge lying in a coffin before rising to join the rest of the FourPlay String Quartet for a chilling performanc...
U.S. Girls Share New Song “Bless This Mess”: Watch the Video
U.S. Girls have shared their second new song of 2022: The new track, “Bless This Mess,” arrives with a music video featuring real-life footage of Meg Remy from 1998, digitally altered to match the song’s lyrics. Check it out below. The new visual was created by Remy and artist Evan Gordon. In a press release, Gordon explained how it came to be: I buckled down and painstakingly dragged the eight-minute clip over each word of the song, forwards and then backwards, splitting off any partial or direct match. Beyond my expectations, I was able to find multiple matches for each phrase. From here, I worked on stitching the clips together to make complete phrases, selecting from my list of matches much like making a comp of vocal takes. This video is a realfake. It’s naturally authentic while...
Watch Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul’s New “Mantra” Video
Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul are closing out the year with a gauzy video for Topical Dancer track “Mantra.” Check it out below. In a press release about the song, Adigéry and Pupul said, “Mantra is a reworked version of our Yin Yang Self-Meditation, the audiovisual meditation tape which we released back in 2019. We used elements from this original recording in Mantra such as the stream of consciousness and the the heartbeat which we sped up to use as one of the bass drums in Mantra. Whereas Yin Yang Self-Meditation invites you to look inward, we invite you to express yourselves with ‘Mantra.’” Previous singles from the record include “It Hit Me.” Read Pitchfork’s Rising feature “Dance Duo Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul Want to Make You Move, Laugh, and Squirm.” Content This con...
DJ Snake and Alison Wonderland to Welcome Back Canada’s Longest-Running Halloween Massive
The start of the fall season in Canada comes with mixed emotions for ravers. Dropping temperatures and leafs symbolize that it’s time to pack up outdoor festival camping gear and get ready for a long winter. Halloween can feel like the last yearly hurrah to dress up as wild, sexy and scary creatures to release remaining remnants of animalistic instincts from dancefloors in the summer before the snow falls. SCREAM 2022: The Resurrection, presented by Boodang Canada on October 29th in Edmonton, Alberta is making its return as the largest and longest running Halloween massive in Canada. But what exactly makes this event so special? Read on to find out why 15,000 creatures will be howling at SCREAM 2022. Alison Wonderland There is perhaps no better electronic music artist to headline a Ha...
