TWENTY CONTESTANTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD REVEALED AT AUGUST 28th PRESS EVENT NETFLIX DOCUSERIES ANNOUNCED FOR 2024 AUDITION PROGRAM “THE DEBUT: DREAM ACADEMY” SET TO PREMIERE ON SEPTEMBER 1, 8AM U.S. PDT ON YOUTUBE AND ABEMA (JAPAN) [August 28, 2023 – Santa Monica]—Today, music industry powerhouses HYBE and Geffen Records revealed the 20 contestants from around the …
Ez Mil shares deluxe LP ‘DU4LI7Y: REDUX’ & “Realest” ft. Eminem lyric video + track “Podium” out now
Photo credit: Jayar Tolentino MULTIFACETED FILIPINO-AMERICAN MUSICIAN EZ MIL SHARES THE DELUXE VERSION OF SECOND LP DU4LI7Y DU4LI7Y: REDUX OUT NOW LISTEN TO THE LP HERE & SHARES TRACK “PODIUM” LISTEN HERE “REALEST” FEATURING EMINEM LYRIC VIDEO IS OUT NOW LISTEN HERE | WATCH HERE PLUS, EZ MIL SIGNS TO EMINEM & DR. DRE’S SHADY RECORDS/AFTERMATH ENTERTAINMENT/INTERSCOPE RECORDS LEARN MORE …
Ariana Delawari is an Afghan-American musician, activist and filmmaker. Her new solo album, I Will Remember, is out today on Manimal Vinyl / Virgin Music. She spoke with NPR’s Ailsa Chang about the record and has also shared a new music video for the album’s title track. Her film We Came Home (2013) documents her family, her travels to and from Afghanistan over …
Anthony Cruze (as 2GreenDollars) is the Australian pioneer and ethical innovator of AI technology and content in music and video. The first “AI” produced Music and Video (Warm, Silky) premiered to the world by Cruze in 2017. A Content Creator, Producer and working International DJ now in his 35th career year, recently had successfully changed …
Marc Ang (MA): Aron, thank you for joining me. It’s been a while, but Britney Spears is back on the news. She is releasing a memoir and some former flames are now trying to potentially block her from releasing content before it’s released. Aron Solomon (AS): First of all, this came from the US version …
Larry Ramos (April 19, 1942 – April 30, 2014), the first Asian-American to win a Grammy Award, was of Filipino descent. Born in Hawaii, his first instrument was the ukulele. He won the Grammy playing banjo with the New Christy Minstrels in 1963, but he is most widely remembered for a long singing and guitar-playing …
Happy Valley, Oregon – Wednesday, July 26, 2023 – A music festival globally renowned for its environmental sustainability practices, Pickathon announces a huge step towards the future of a truly Zero Emissions festival. Partnering with Toyota Racing Development (TRD USA) and the Pacific Northwest Toyota Dealers Association (PNTDA), Pickathon 2023 will be the first ever music festival to use a Hydrogen …
Aug Stone writes for The Quietus and The Comics Journal and his latest novel, The Ballad Of Buttery Cake Ass, recently made Vulture’s Best Comedy Books of 2023 list. The book is his ode to obsessive record collecting and what it’s like to be in your first band. It’s very funny but also a love letter …
You have to be of a certain age – to be able to remember the year 1984 very clearly – to begin to understand the impact of Tina Turner’s famous “comeback.” To understand that her resurrection was multi-layered; to comprehend how important that was to countless women. Yes, there was the incredible music… but the …
Put your head in the vice, demanded the uniformed figure twice. Or I will squeeze your balls under my jackboot, with firmness and without emotion, either will suit. Our torture methods will force you to cooperate. You acquiesce or we target your mate. If you prefer, the instructions will consist of a haiku. We want …
All Photos by Holly Homan. On the evening of May 5 I had the honor of finally seeing the infamous Pussy Riot. For those of you not in the know, Pussy Riot is fronted by Nadya Tolokonnikov who was imprisoned in 2012 for two years in Russia for openly criticizing the Putin regime. She is …
SEATTLE – Pearl Jam will hit the road in August and September performing nine shows across St. Paul, Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Worth and Austin. Special guests Inhaler will open the Chicago, Indianapolis and Austin shows. Support for the St. Paul and Fort Worth dates will be announced in the coming weeks. A special ticket pre-sale for all tour dates begins …
Surrealist blues poet and cultural worker aja monet has released another moving single from her forthcoming album when the poems do what they do, slated for release June 9 via drink sum wtr, a new imprint of Secretly Canadian. “for sonia” is a love poem for the legendary poet Sonia Sanchez and the inspiration behind …
Surrealist blues poet and community organizer aja monet has announced her debut album when the poems do what they do is set for release June 9th via drink sum wtr, a new Secretly Canadian imprint. As previewed by the recently released piece “the devil you know,” and the newly shared “castaway,” the album’s thematic origins center around Black resistance, love, and the inexhaustible quest …
Social historian and the coolest guy in the 21st Century, Pat Thomas, just tweeted: “60 years ago this week – the Beatles debut LP is unleashed into the world (at least in the U.K.); so fresh, visceral, original, vibrant – still exciting to hear it today – it topped the British album charts for 30 …
Credit: Nairobi Jones LoRen is excited to present the music video for her new single “Black Women,” an examination that the Pittsburgh-based singer-songwriter hopes will further dismantle the “strong Black woman narrative” but rather embrace their humanity and the variety of emotions they possess. A stunning visual that amplifies the soul-stirring message of the song, “Black …
Org Music is once again thrilled to be celebrating with participating record stores for the next Record Store Day on April 22. But this year the beloved label that cares as much about music as you do is bringing out a long-underground mystery in subversive Soviet punk history: In 1989, the Ukrainian band Vopli Vidopliassova, …
FEBRUARY 28, 2023 (ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN) – The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban on August 15, 2021, continues to resonate and claim new victims. At the end of 2022, the group banned women from working in local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). No one can say how much worse the oppression against women and girls in …
When Madonna tweeted half jokingly about the swelling on her face subsiding, one could acutely feel the sting she felt to even have to respond back in that way. Of course, such viral and widespread criticism has an effect on a person’s psyche and she’s still at the end of the day, a human. But …
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 16TH, 2023 – British musician, author, and poet Kae Tempest kicks off 2023 with the announcement of a 4-track EP release entitled Nice Idea, in support of Record Store Day. Produced by Dan Carey, the EP tracks were written and recorded over a five-day period, during a brief gap in Kae’s extensive 2022 touring schedule. LISTEN …
Interview with Today’s Esquire’s Celebrity Lawyer Aron Solomon With Britney Spears dominating the news again, just hours ago, the “Baby One More Time” hitmaker and her husband Sam Aghzari shut down rumors that she needed help and an intervention, a narrative outlets like TMZ and some “fans” on the Internet have been spreading. Britney stated, …
Photo By Joshua Black Wilkins Sunny War will release her New West Records debut Anarchist Gospel on February 3rd, 2023. The 14-song set was produced by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes, Hurray for the Riff Raff) and features appearances by Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Allison Russell, David Rawlings, Jack Lawrence of the Raconteurs, Micah Nelson, John …
There is nothing that pairs with New Year’s Eve as well as Champagne (or Prosecco, or Cava). Champagne is an excellent choice to celebrate one door closing and another door opening, but there are a lot of ways to step up your bubbly game – or celebrate with a unique cocktail that is perfect for …
What follows is another powerful chapter in my ongoing musical journey. While volunteering my regular Monday evening shift at the local no-kill animal shelter for dogs and cats, C.A.R.E. (Community Animal Rescue Effort), YouTube played two excellent songs in succession which had never previously been heard by my ears and I must tell you about …
Los Angeles, CA (December 16, 2022) – On Thursday, December 8th, 2022, the Estate of one of the most influential and legendary American entertainers of all-time—Sammy Davis Jr.—orchestrated an homage in honor of his 97th birthday at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California, by hosting a very special and intimate private ceremony. The commemoration began at 1:30pm, and the proceedings …
NEW YORK, NY (December 05, 2022) – Speaking straight from the heart and delivering a must-hear statement, buzzing Chicago phenom KB Mike writes an open letter to his city with a new single and music video entitled “Chiraq” today via Republic Records. Listen to “Chiraq”: HEREWatch the “Chiraq” video: HERE On the track, emotionally charged piano and strings set the scene as KB Mike promises, “I’ll paint you a picture.” He proceeds …
“I don’t know if people realize this, but the hood has lots of comedians. And this one guy walked up to me and he was like, ‘What ship is you the captain of?’ I still think about this to this day.” – Fantastic Negrito In celebration of his fourth GRAMMY nomination for his song “Oh Betty” in …
Photo by Paul R. Burley – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94250424 Five centuries before Columbus made his journey to the New World, a party of Viking explorers led by Leif Eiriksson set sail from Greenland westward to the North American continent on a voyage of discovery. After the successful journey, word traveled back via …
Dyatlov Pass is an 8 – song historical concept album by Welcome to the 21st! about the mysterious fate of eight college – age students and their guide who died while on a winter trek in the USSR’s Ural Mountains in February 1959. The students were found over time after they disappeared, with varying injuries, and …
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