The Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp mentorship program has announced its first-ever Women Only Rock Camp, to be held in Los Angeles over the Grammys weekend, January 27th through 30th, 2022. At the program’s Rock Camps, participants form a band where they are then mentored by a counselor and rehearse …
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LeBron James’ transformation from basketball legend to Looney Tunes character is revealed in the latest trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy, due out in theaters and on HBO Max on July 16th. The latest trailer reiterates the film’s Tron-like plot — the Lakers great and his son are abducted …
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A few weeks after he was placed in solitary, Tunc Uraz lost it. He started screaming and hitting his head on the wall. Trembling, he tied his bedsheets into a noose, but there was nowhere to hang it. “My days were nights and my nights were my days, and after …
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It’s been five years since Young M.A.’s “OOOUUU” came out. It’s easy in today’s rapid-fire climate to forget how much of an earthquake that song was. It’s easily one of the most defining New York rap songs of the past 10 years, next to Pop Smoke’s “Dior” and Bobby Shmurda’s …
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Warren Haynes and Robert Randolph delivered a rousing rendition of the Marshall Tucker Band classic “Can’t You See” as part of this year’s Love Rocks NYC benefit concert, which took place Thursday, June 3rd at the Beacon Theatre. Guitarist and former New York Yankees great Bernie Williams and the event’s …
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Musical styles in Africa and the Caribbean have a long and closely intertwined history. One of the classic examples involves an interchange between the Congo and Cuba. In 1933, the company EMI launched a new series dedicated to reissuing recordings of Cuban son — tunes driven by a guitar-like instrument …
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Neko Case has released a new version of herHell-On track “Halls of Sarah,” produced by Portuguese-American musician RAC, along with the announcement of her new weekly Substack newsletter, Entering The Lung. “I’ve always been in love with nature,” Case said in a statement. “I have felt ‘outside’ of it for …
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Veteran Glaswegian DJ and producer Al Kent acts as a masterful mixologist on “The Loneliest One,” creating a chillingly good single by blending throbbing rhythm from a late-Seventies Ashford & Simpson record with towering vocals from the Four Tops‘ Levi Stubbs in the 1960s. While the original Four Tops cut, …
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Following a two-year hiatus due to the the pandemic, Coachella and Stagecoach will finally return in April 2022, the festivals’ promoter Goldenvoice announced on Tuesday. Coachella is slated for April 15-17 and April 22-24, and customers can register for the show’s advance sale, which will begin on June 4th at …
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More than a year after the pandemic reached the U.S. and less than six months after vaccination began, the country reached a milestone Friday — now more than 50 percent of the population has received at least one Covid-19 vaccine dose. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control …
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