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Hobbies That Can Make You Money

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Hobbies That Can Make You Money

It’s the dream, isn’t it? A recreational hobby that you make you money, a side hustle that can provide that little extra income to fund the things you love. While hobbies are often undertaken for simple enjoyment purposes the internet has allowed for so many hobbies to provide a revenue stream for many and here are some hobbies that could provide you with a little added bonus. 

Gaming

If you are an avid gamer then this is a match made heaven. The last ten years have seen monetisation in gaming explode and its notoriety as a popular sport in the United States climb the ranks. There are several different revenue options when it comes to online gaming and they vary from one-off lump sums to monthly incomes. Ways in which gamers can make money are prize money, salaries, sponsorship, live streaming or via the powerhouse that is YouTube. What is more, the amounts earned can vary from very modest sums to absolutely eye-watering amounts. 

Trading

Trading has been a source of professional income for decades but with the expansion of virtual services trading has transcended beyond business districts to people’s livings rooms. Whether you deal in Forex Trading or cryptocurrency exchange trading can be a pleasurable pastime that gives novice and professional traders the opportunity to earn a profit. 

Blogging 

Blogging still remains one of the most popular online hobbies and even earners. While the average blog earning is thought to be modest and huge amounts of time and dedication is required to earn a substantial living through a blog, a passive income is possible. Some ways bloggers can earn money is through advertising, affiliate marketing or sponsored content.

Pet Sitting and Dog Walking

Moving away from the virtual world and bringing you back to the hard ground as you know it. If your passion lies away from the computer screen and you have a love affair with animals then why not consider pet sitting or dog walking. A household pet is a loved and treasured addition to any family and the overwhelming majority of pet owners will do anything to ensure their pet is well looked after. If you can offer services such as dog walking or pet sitting to facilitate the lives of pet owners it is sure to provide you with satisfaction and an additional income. 

Baking 

Perhaps your creative flair lies in the kitchen and you have a penchant for a biscuit base or piped icing. If you fancy yourself the next bake-off star then why not marry up your skill sets with the power of social media and promote your online baked goods online. You could start by sharing recipes or video tutorials online to gain interest and a following, or by offering your cakes to friends and families to gain awareness. Be sure to photograph and share all of your bakes online as and when you do them. As things progress you could look to monetise your hobby whether it is selling your cakes, creating online subscriptions services, or simply through advertising on your ever-popular baking site.

Snail Mail Releases Video for New Song ‘Ben Franklin’

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Snail Mail Releases Video for New Song ‘Ben Franklin’

Snail Mail has shared a new single called ‘Ben Franklin’, the second offering from her upcoming LP Valentine. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Josh Coll, who also helmed the visual for the lead cut and Song of the Week ‘Valentine’. Check it out below.

“I wanted to sonically and lyrically get out of my comfort zone with Ben Franklin,” Lindsay Jordan explained in a statement. “It felt only right that the visual accompaniment should include dancing in front of a camera and holding a 10 foot snake close to my face.”

Snail Mail’s new album, the follow-up to 2018’s Lush, is set for release on November 5 via Matador.

13 Beautiful Stills from If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

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13 Beautiful Stills from If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk was received with almost as much praise as his 2017 Best Picture winner, Moonlight. The writer-director’s highly anticipated follow-up is based on James Baldwin’s eponymous novel. From the beginning of the film, it’s clear that the story will tackle issues of race head-on. The poetic film follows a non-linear structure and is narrated by Tish, particularly in flashback sequences.

Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) have grown up in New York, and as they get older, their friendship turns into a romantic relationship. However, their love meets obstacles when they struggle to find a landlord who will rent to people of colour. Later, Fonny is falsely accused of raping a stranger despite evidence that suggests his presence at the crime scene was impossible. While Fonny is arrested, Tish learns that she’s pregnant with his child. Along with support from her family, Tish must fight to prove Fonny’s innocence in a city where nobody is willing to listen.

Warm and vibrant hues contrast against the cold, inhospitable setting and help viewers feel closer to Tish and her family, as do intimate shots of the characters looking directly into the camera. The cinematography is as much a part of telling the story as the plot is. Here are thirteen beautiful stills from If Beale Street Could Talk.

Adele Confirms Release Date for New Album ’30’

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Adele Confirms Release Date for New Album ’30’

Adele has confirmed the release date of her first album in six years. As teased in a billboard campaign, it’s called 30 and it’s out November 19 via Columbia. The pop star revealed the news on Twitter, writing, “I’ve learned a lot of blistering truths about myself along the way. I’ve shed many layers but also wrapped myself if new ones. Discovered genuinely useful and wholesome mentalities to lead with, and I feel like I’ve finally found my feeling again. I’d go so far as to say that I’ve never felt more peaceful in my life. And so, I’m ready to finally put this album out.” Check out her post below.

30 will mark Adele’s fourth album, following 2015’s 25. The lead single from the record, ‘Easy On Me’, is set to arrive this Thursday night.

Erin Rae Announces New Album ‘Lighten Up’, Unveils Video for New Song ‘Modern Woman’

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Erin Rae Announces New Album ‘Lighten Up’, Unveils Video for New Song ‘Modern Woman’

Nashville songwriter Erin Rae has announced a new album titled Lighten Up. Produced by Jonathan Wilson, it’s due for release on February 4, 2022 (via Thirty Tigers) and includes contributions from Meg Duffy (Hand Habits), Ny Oh, and Kevin Morby. Today, Rae has previewed the LP with the new song ‘Modern Woman’, which comes with a music video featuring Brittany Howard, Kelsey Waldon, Michaela Anne, and others. Check it out below.

“‘Modern Woman’ from the start is meant to be a little cheeky, coming from me, a white femme-presenting woman, but it just sort of spilled out one day in the kitchen during the pandemic,” Rae told Rolling Stone. She continued:

It’s been so incredibly powerful to witness the discussion and evolution of gender norms through my peers and friends, as well as the representation of all bodies breaking more and more into mainstream media. The song is basically a speech to a figurative person who is uncomfortable with the disintegration of a tired definition of what it means to be a woman.  With the video, Joshua Shoemaker and I wanted to celebrate and represent our friends in the community who relate to the term “woman” in different capacities, and basically brag on the diverse community of small business owners Nashville holds, and the work they are all doing to push Nashville forward, often against its will, into this new world of inclusivity.

Erin Rae released her last album, Putting on Airs, in 2018. “My last record was a lot of self-assessment and criticism, and trying to kick old habits and ways of relating and not relating to people,” Rae said. “This one is about blossoming, opening up, and living a little more in the present moment. Fully experiencing what it is to be human.”

Lighten Up Cover Artwork: 

Lighten Up Tracklist: 

1. Candy & Curry
2. Can’t See Stars
3. True Love’s Face
4. Gonna Be Strange
5. California Belongs To You
6. Cosmic Sigh
7. Modern Woman
8. Drift Away
9. Enemy
10. Mind/Heart
11. Lighten Up & Try
12. Undone

Rave Ami Announce New Album ‘Let It Be’, Share Video for New Single ‘The Hexer’

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Rave Ami Announce New Album ‘Let It Be’, Share Video for New Single ‘The Hexer’

Rave Ami – the Pittsburgh indie rock trio of guitarist/vocalist Joe Praksti, bassist Pat O’Toole, and drummer/vocalist Evan Meindl – have announced a new LP. It’s called Let It Be and it’s set for release on November 19. The record includes the previously shared track ‘Saints on Silver’ as well as the newly unveiled single ‘The Hexer’, which arrives with an accompanying video directed by Ryan Hizer. Check it out below and scroll down for the album’s cover art and tracklist.

Praksti had this to say about the new single in a statement:

The discourse of understanding constitutes itself on translating pure experience through a universally agreed-upon dialect of symbols and associations that are themselves predicated on preexisting knowledge generated by past experience and the discourse therein. 

The individual finds themselves adrift in a sea of information and archetypes. It flows forever, within and without. Think about Jung’s Collective Unconscious, spoken from the perspective of Cartesian Doubt. Then throw out the baby with the bathwater. You’re a worm with a human face – let it be.

Rave Ami dropped their sophomore full-length, All Great Bands Break Up, in 2018.

Let It Be Cover Artwork:

Let It Be Tracklist:

1. Nausea ad Nauseam
2. Secrets Of The Universe
3. Saints On Silver
4. Graduation Day
5. Glass Piece
6. Mighty Maltz Waltz.
7. The Hexer
8. Light Switch
9. (Tell Me When You) Find It 

Mr Twin Sister Announce New Album, Release New Song ‘Ballarino’

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Mr Twin Sister Announce New Album, Release New Song ‘Ballarino’

Mr Twin Sister have announced their next LP, Al Mundo Azul. The New York group’s fourth full-length album and first since 2018’s Salt is due out November 19. Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Ballarino’. Give it a listen below.

Lead singer Andrea Estella explained in a statement about the new song: “It’s about having access to a smartphone, and how it changed my lifestyle: looking to it for everything, and being addicted to having it held up in front of your face at all times. The theme is the feeling of something new. Wonder.”

Of the album, the group’s Gabel D’Amico said: “We wanted to flip stylistic switches to their opposite positions. Immediacy over complexity, alien sounds over natural ones, loose playing over perfect takes. A bright record to come after all the nighttime music we’ve made.”

Al Mundo Azul Cover Artwork:

Smile and Robyn Team Up on New Song ‘Call My Name’

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Smile and Robyn Team Up on New Song ‘Call My Name’

Smile – the project of Joakim Åhlund and Peter Bjorn and John’s Björn Yttling – have teamed up with Robyn for the new song ‘Call My Name’, which comes with an accompanying video. Check it out below.

“I love singing ‘Call My Name’ and it was a true pleasure to record it and rave around in this beautiful song together with Joakim and Björn,” Robyn said in a press release. Yttling added: “‘Call My Name’ is a quite simple song about unconditional love, and the will to try and protect the one you love from a chaotic and threatening outside world.”

Åhlund, who wrote and produced songs for 2010’s Body Talk and 2005’s Robyn, said: “We’ve had the song knocking about for quite some time, but when Robyn sang it, she really lifted it to another level, her vocal is just packed with so much emotion.”

‘Call My Name’ is set to appear on Smile’s upcoming album Phantom Island, which is out November 19 via Chimp Limbs/INGRID.  It includes the previously released single ‘Eon’, featuring Swedish singer Freja the Dragon.

Mabe Fratti Announces New EP With Concepción Huerta, Shares Video for New Song

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Mabe Fratti Announces New EP With Concepción Huerta, Shares Video for New Song

Mabe Fratti has announced a new EP and sample library with experimental artist and musician Concepción Huerta. The four-track Estática and sample library, which consists of sounds influenced by the EP, are out November 11 via SA Recordings. Below, check out the video for the title track, created by Felipe Rebolledo and Concepción Huerta.

“We decided to develop the ideas from the images of a factory, using it as the protagonist of the video, representing the situation of stasis, emptiness and hopelessness,” Rebolledo and Concepción Huerta said in a statement about the visual. “The images are distorted, fragmented, saturated, as they react to the sound looking to embody Mabe’s voice and other sounds, them being the principal aspects that move, decompose and illuminate the
images.

Estática follows Fratti’s recently released album Será Que Ahora Podremos. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Mabe Fratti.

The Chieftains Leader Paddy Moloney Dead at 83

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The Chieftains Leader Paddy Moloney Dead at 83

Paddy Moloney, leader and co-founder of the pioneering traditional folk act the Chieftains, has died at the age of 83. The Irish Traditional Music Archive announced the news, writing that Moloney “made an enormous contribution to Irish traditional music, song and dance … Few people can lay claim to having the level of impact Paddy Moloney had on the vibrancy of traditional music throughout the world. What a wonderful musical legacy he has left us.” No cause of death was disclosed.

Born in Donnycarney, Dublin, Ireland, Paddy Moloney started playing the tin whistle at the age of six and the Uilleann pipes at the age of eight. He formed the Chieftans in 1962 alongside Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy, serving as the band’s leader and primary songwriter. The group signed to Island Records and would go on to release over 40 albums and earn multiple Grammy Awards. They collaborated with everyone from Luciano Pavarotti to Mick Jagger and contributed to a number of film soundtracks, including Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Their last studio LP, 2013’s Voice of Ages, was produced by T-Bone Burnett and featured collaborations with Bon Iver, the Decemberists, Pistol Annies, the Civil Wars, and more.

“Paddy, with his extraordinary skills as an instrumentalist, notably the uileann pipes and bodhrán, was at the forefront of the renaissance of interest in Irish music, bringing a greater appreciation of Irish music and culture internationally,” Ireland President Michael Higgins said in a statement. “His legacy will remain with us in the music which he created and brought to the world.”

The band also paid tribute to Moloney on Instagram, writing, “The Chieftains’ family mourns the loss of our Paddy Moloney. Paddy had so much more music to share and stories to tell. We were lucky we had him for as long as we did.”

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