Fergus, an exciting singer-songwriter who is arguably most prominently known for his piece ‘Nobody Knows,’ has released his latest single ‘Enough for You’ — just yesterday. In this latest ear-pleasing piece, Fergus showcases his soothing, honeyed-like vocals with sombre lyrics which carry the song.
Talking about the song Fergus stated: “I wrote ‘Enough for You’ when I was feeling desperate after the same old fight with a mean drunk. I felt like I was trying really hard to be who they wanted me to be and make it work, but I kept getting shot down. It was one-sided and it hurt me more each time because only I remembered why. ‘Enough for You’ provides the context and sets the scene for all the songs so far this year, and the story is told in the order they were released.”
Blvck Hippie ‘Rhodes Ave’
Entering our radar with a melancholic, soul-driven piece named ‘Rhodes Ave’ is Blvck Hippie, a superb promising Indie Rock band out of Memphis, U.S. With their latest piece, they dive into themes of childhood and expectations, presenting a melodious sound that blends flavours and styles in a seamless-like manner whilst still maintaining a raw, unvarnished sound which keeps us guessing what is next for Blvck Hippie.
The band is currently comprised of Josh Shaw (Lead Guitarist & Vocalist), Casey Rittinger (Drums), Tyler “Chaucer” Marberry (Bass), and Matt Turner (Rhythm Guitar).
Everyone is a product of the environment they exist in, both currently and at any other point of their life, for however long they were there. You carry traces of the people you come across, the books you read, movies you watch, conversations you engage in, and many other things. All these come together to define who you are, to give you identity.
Sociology offers an intriguing view of how these things impact who you are, and how, ultimately, this influences how you interact with others. Those studying the subject in the university understand that there every aspect of life has a broad outlook, and understanding this requires investing in reading more.
Most school libraries have a vast array of choices on the best sociology books, but going in blindly might mean missing out on the best alternatives. Picking the right books allows you to present exceptional work like the one seen in our free examples of sociology essay. You will notice that, when exploring sociology essay examples, the subject matter is critically dissected to envision the passion for the conversation, which is necessary. If you’re looking to get essays written by someone professional check out CustomEssayMeister.
1. Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown
This book explores how finding who you are and embracing that person should be the defining factor for our perception of the world. In this book, Adrienne talks about how the essence of who you are and your decision to be true to that person can be used to organize for activism.
Pleasure activism is an interesting choice in sociology books to read for college students with critical insight on self-reflection. The book advocates for understanding your deepest and most erotic desires and using that to fuel the courses that you stand for. The bottom-line is on how sticking to what you know to be true, and giving yourself the freedom to live by that truth without room for compromise, has a massive impact.
2. Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD
Conversations on a bias are difficult to have, especially when someone insinuates that you are part of the problem. This reluctance leads to silence, which, in turn, translates to the continued propagation of the said bias.
Jennifer L. Eberhardt uses a series of tools, including scientific assessment, investigation, and personal experiences, to write this book that offers insight as to how to have these conversations.
Biased explores the different levels of oppressive culture, with the main focus being on institutional and individual and how this informs systemic bias on a broader scale. She highlights how easy it is to be biased without knowledge, but also offers reassurance that there are ways to identify, address, and curb it.
3. Identities and Inequalities by David M. Newman
Our race, gender, sexuality, and other identifying aspects give a complete definition of who we are. These things, bundled up, give us our identity. This intersectionality is something we have to live with every day. While it is an informing factor to some of our best experiences, it also influences the type of inequality and bias we go through.
In the book, David offers a crucial lesson on the essence of examining and understanding the workings of these diverse aspects of who we are. Like many sociology books, Identities and Inequalities, uses real-time examples, with statistics, on the impact of intersectionality in areas such as police brutality, sexuality.
4. The Sociology Book by Sarah Tomley, Mitchell Hobbs
This is one of the best sociology books, and it aims to simplify the explanation of many sociology concepts that might prove difficult for people to understand. It covers topics such as gender and how it impacts other aspects of life, government, interconnectivity in the modern world.
Other than using simple language to explain complex concepts, The Sociology Book also incorporates the use of structured summaries, enticing graphics, and quotes. To validate the ideas discussed in the book, it looks into the perspectives of re-known world thinkers whose focus was on human behavior.
Conclusion
Some of these incredible sociology books for students don’t make it to the class reading list. While your teacher might not require that you read them or mention them, they are a great resource during the exam.
They also offer additional input to the different papers you will be writing through the course as they cover a wide range of subjects. Ensure to check the library for these and other out-of-class alternatives.
Jouska’s debut album, Everything is Good, begins with less of an affirmation than an attempt to lull the listener into a blissful state of hypnosis. “Your life is broken/ And everything is good,” singer Marit Othilie Thorvik intones on the opening title track, her brittle voice sinking into a wave of swirling synths. “Your love gets darker/ And everything is good.” It rings like the sound of trying to hold yourself together before descending into paranoia – it’s not long before her delivery of the “everything is good” mantra becomes distorted, her vocals dissolving into the ether as an overpowering beat rises to the foreground. That burst of energy lasts only for a few seconds, but there’s a sense of heavenly rapture in all the chaos.
Jouska, the Oslo-based duo also featuring Hans Olav Settem, have proved themselves more than capable of pulling off that balancing act, revealing the darkness behind the shiny exterior that often characterizes their brand of R&B-inflected electronic music. Since releasing their Frog Fiction EP in 2018, they’ve fleshed out their songwriting by focusing more on the narrative and emotional aspects of their compositions, but do so without wringing out the enjoyability or inventiveness that sits at their core. The upbeat ‘Because I Really Don’t Mind’ slips into a dreamy, easygoing rhythm punctuated by a prominent bass line and a vocal cadence reminiscent of Grimes, but also hints at the toxic relationship dynamics that the rest of the album is preoccupied with. “I don’t mind the fact that I’m losing track of you,” Throvik sings, sounding genuinely unperturbed.
The more sinister undertones that permeate Everything is Good start creeping in on the washed out ‘Beat Up Your Baby’, which is followed by the even more pernicious ‘Pink’ featuring Norwegian rapper doglover95. The track finds the group returning to the original refrain that gives the album its title, this time adding, “You don’t even ask how…” Thorvik doesn’t need to fill out the rest, instead letting the warped instrumental and the looming desperation in her voice underscore the tension that otherwise mostly exists in the subtext. By the time we reach ‘Lemon Twigs’, though, she doesn’t hold anything back; the openly melancholic instrumental is opulent yet evocative, while the lyrics are unrestrained in their wrenching vulnerability.
‘Bring You Back’, which previously served as one of Jouska’s most infectious singles, loses none of its power in the context of the record. Featuring production from Sunniva Lindgaard of Sassy 009 and recalling the subtle intimacy of the xx, the track not only boasts one hell of a hook, but also expertly encapsulates the inexplicable desire to cling back to someone you know is bad for you. “I never thought that you could hurt me like that/ Feels like a part of you is stuck inside of my head,” Thorvik sings, mirroring that effect in the song itself. More than just the group’s most effective song, it acts as a necessary moment of clarity in the album’s narrative, a recognition of the full extent of the narrator’s mental disarray.
Unfortunately, though Everything is Good is billed as an album, it plays more like an EP, clocking in at just 23 minutes. While there’s a sense of coherence running through the record’s lyrical and musical themes, it’s not hard to feel like they could have been given more space to really unravel. What’s more, the brevity of the album makes relatively underwhelming cuts like the disjointed ‘Born in Cash’ come off as bigger missteps than they actually are, while interludes like ‘doing stuff that I really love to do’ are rendered somewhat redundant. But in the end, the record proves to be fitting of its title: everything might not be perfect, or even great, but it is certainly pretty good. Besides, Jouska leave no doubt that they have enough ambition in them to deliver something truly mesmerizing in the future.
Demi Lovato and Marshmello have teamed up on a new song titled ‘OK Not to Be OK’. Released to coincide with World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), the track is in partnership with with Hope for the Day, a not-for-profit agency which aims to raise awareness about suicide prevention and mental health education. Check it out below, alongside a music video directed by frequent collaborator Hannah Lux Davis (Ariana Grande, Drake).
Written by Gregory “Aldae” Hein, James Gutch and James Nicholas Bailey, the single serves “as a humbling reminder that it’s ok to let go of feelings of self-doubt and embrace the fact that we’re all human,” according to a press release.
“We are excited to be teaming up with Demi Lovato and Marshmello on this project to break the stigma around mental health on world suicide prevention day,” Hope for the Day founder Jonny Boucher commented in a statement. “Hope for the Day’s work in suicide prevention and mental health education thrives when we collaborate with others and what better than two of the largest artists in the world to work with on a track that reminds everyone, it’s OK not to be OK.”
Earlier this year, Lovato shared the song ‘I Love Me’ as well as the Sam Smith collaboration ‘I’m Ready’.
Usher has dropped a new single called ‘Bad Habits’. The song is set to feature on Usher’s as-of-yet-announced upcoming album, which will be the follow-up to 2016’s Hard II Love. It arrives with an accompanying Chris Robinson-directed video shot largely in a rehearsal space. Check it out below.
In addition to the new single, Usher also recently announced his headlining 2021 Las Vegas residency, with tickets now available for sale. “I have missed performing for my fans live and I am so excited to see them in Las Vegas,” Usher said in a statement. “My residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace will be full of surprises and an Usher experience like they’ve never seen or heard before!”
Angel Olsen has shared a cover of George Harrison’s ‘Beware of Darkness’ via her Instagram page. The 1970 track originally appeared on Harrison’s third solo album, All Things Must Pass. Check out her rendition below.
“The original is pretty great,” Olsen wrote in the video’s caption. “I’m just messing around like a tired sad shit.” She also included the song’s lyrics, adding: “Words are good too.”
Olsen released her most recent studio album, Whole New Mess, last month. Marking Olsen’s first new material recorded and released without any bandmates since 2012’s Half Way Home, it includes 11 tracks, nine of which are stripped-back versions of songs from 2019’s All Mirrors.
James Blake has released a studio cover of Frank Ocean’s ‘Godspeed’. Listen to his poignant rendition of the 2016 Blonde track – which he helped produce and arrange – below.
The singer-songwriter has covered ‘Godspeed’ in the past, having first debuted it live over three years ago at Arizona’s FORM Arcosanti festival. Earlier this year, he shared a stripped-back piano version of the track via Instagram. This time, though, he also dyed his hair blonde to mark the occasion.
Throughout 2020, Blake has performed a series of covers including Nirvana’s ‘Come As You Are’ and Joni Mitchell’s ‘A Case of You’. Back in July, he released the single ‘Are You Even Real?’. His last album was 2019’s Assume Form.
Shame have returned with a new song called ‘Alphabet’ via Dead Oceans. Produced by James Ford, it marks the UK post-punk group’s first new music since the release of their 2018 debut Songs of Praise. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying music video directed by Tegen Williams.
“‘Alphabet’ is a direct question, to the audience and the performer, on whether any of this will ever be enough to reach satisfaction,” frontman Charlie Steen said in a statement. “At the time of writing it, I was experiencing a series of surreal dreams where a manic subconscious was bleeding out of me and seeping into the lyrics. All the unsettling and distressing imagery I faced in my sleep have taken on their own form in the video.”
Previously, Shame shared a cover version of the Christmas classic ‘Feliz Navidad’.
“So take my hand, don’t be afraid/This too shall pass/This too shall pass,” Sia sings over Guetta’s 80s-inspired instrumental. “And we’ll get through it all together/We’ll get through it all together … Let’s love.”
Speaking about the track, Guetta said in a statement: “I love producing club tracks but at the same time, especially now, I feel like creating ‘feel-good’ music. ‘Let’s Love’ is a message of love, hope and bringing people together and once again, Sia has out done herself on the vocals.”
Joni Mitchell is launching a massive series of archival releases. The first installment, Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963 – 1967), arrives on October 30. The five-disc Early Years box set covers the years before the singer-songwriter released her 1968 debut album Song to a Seagull.
Containing six hours of unreleased home, live and radio recordings, the collection will feature 29 unreleased songs as well as various covers, a 40-page booklet with photographs, liner notes that include conversations between Joni Mitchell and Cameron Crowe, and more. The two live performances included in the box set — live at CFQX AM radio station in 1963 and at Canterbury House in 1967 — will also be available to purchase separately.
“The early stuff, I shouldn’t be such a snob against it,” she said in a press release. “A lot of these songs, I just lost them. They fell away. They only exist in these recordings. For so long I rebelled against the term, ‘I was never a folksinger.’ I would get pissed off if they put that label on me. I didn’t think it was a good description of what I was. And then I listened and… it was beautiful. It made me forgive my beginnings. And I had this realization… I was a folksinger!”
Mitchell has also unveiled what is billed as her first known recording, a cover of ‘House of the Rising Sun’ that was recorded in 1963, when she was 19 years old. Listen to it below, and scroll down for the box set’s tracklist.
Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) Tracklist:
Disco One
Radio Station CFQC AM, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (ca. 1963)
1. House Of The Rising Sun
2. John Hardy
3. Dark As A Dungeon
4. Tell Old Bill
5. Nancy Whiskey
6. Anathea
7. Copper Kettle
8. Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
9. Molly Malone
Live at the Half Beat: Yorkville, Toronto, Canada (October 21, 1964)
First Set
10. Introduction
11. Nancy Whiskey
12. Intro to The Crow On The Cradle
13. The Crow On The Cradle
14. Pastures Of Plenty
15. Every Night When The Sun Goes In
16. Intro to Sail Away
17. Sail Away
Second Set
18. John Hardy
19. Dark As A Dungeon
20. Intro to Maids When You’re Young Never Wed An Old Man
21. Maids When You’re Young Never Wed An Old Man
22. The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
23. Deportee (Plane Crash At Los Gatos)
24. Joni’s Parents’ House: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada (February 1965)
25. The Long Black Rifle
26. Ten Thousand Miles
27. Seven Daffodils
Disc Two
Myrtle Anderson Birthday Tape: Detroit, MI (1965)
1. Urge For Going
2. Born To Take The Highway
3. Here Today And Gone Tomorrow
Jac Holzman Demo: Detroit, MI (August 24, 1965)
4. What Will You Give Me
5. Let It Be Me
6. The Student Song
7. Day After Day
8. Like The Lonely Swallow
Let’s Sing Out, CBC TV: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (October 4, 1965)
9. Favorite Colour
10. Me And My Uncle
Home Demo: Detroit, MI (ca. 1966)
11. Sad Winds Blowin’
Let’s Sing Out, CBC TV: Laurentian University, London, ON, Canada (October 24, 1966)
12. Just Like Me
13. Night In The City
Live at the 2nd Fret: Philadelphia, PA (November 1966)
14. Brandy Eyes
15. Intro to Urge For Going
16. Urge For Going
17. Intro to What’s The Story Mr. Blue
18. What’s The Story Mr. Blue
19. Eastern Rain
20. Intro to The Circle Game
21. The Circle Game
22. Intro to Night In The City
23. Night In The City
Disc Three
Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA, (March 12, 1967)
1. Intro to Both Sides Now
2. Both Sides Now
3. Intro to The Circle Game
4. The Circle Game
Live at the 2nd Fret: Philadelphia, PA (March 17, 1967)
Second Set
5. Morning Morgantown
6. Born To Take The Highway
7. Intro to Song To A Seagull
8. Song To A Seagull
Third Set
9. Winter Lady
10. Intro to Both Sides Now
11. Both Sides Now
Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA (March 19, 1967)
12. Intro to Eastern Rain
13. Eastern Rain
14. Intro to Blue On Blue
15. Blue On Blue
A Record Of My Changes – Michael’s Birthday Tape: North Carolina (May 1967)
16. Gemini Twin
17. Strawflower Me
18. A Melody In Your Name
19. Tin Angel
20. I Don’t Know Where I Stand
21. Joni improvising
Folklore, WHAT FM: Philadelphia, PA (May 28, 1967)
22. Intro to Sugar Mountain
23. Sugar Mountain
Disc Four
Home Demo: New York City, NY (ca. June 1967)
1. I Had A King
2. Free Darling
3. Conversation
4. Morning Morgantown
5. Dr. Junk
6. Gift Of The Magi
7. Chelsea Morning
8. Michael From Mountains
9. Cara’s Castle
10 . Jeremy (Incomplete)
Live at Canterbury House: Ann Arbor, MI (October 27, 1967)
First Set
11. Conversation
12. Intro to Come To The Sunshine
13. Come To The Sunshine
14. Intro to Chelsea Morning
15. Chelsea Morning
16. Intro to Gift Of The Magi
17. Gift Of The Magi
18. Play Little David
19. Intro to The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
20. The Dowie Dens Of Yarrow
21. I Had A King
22. Intro to Free Darling
23. Free Darling
24. Intro to Cactus Tree
25. Cactus Tree
Disc Five
Live at Canterbury House: Ann Arbor, MI (October 27, 1967)
Second Set
1. Little Green
2. Intro to Marcie
3. Marcie
4. Intro to Ballerina Valerie
5. Ballerina Valerie
6. The Circle Game
7. Intro to Michael From Mountains
8. Michael From Mountains
9. Go Tell The Drummer Man
10. Intro to I Don’t Know Where I Stand
11. I Don’t Know Where I Stand
Third Set
12. A Melody In Your Name
13. Intro to Carnival In Kenora
14. Carnival In Kenora
15. Songs To Aging Children Come
16. Intro to Dr. Junk
17. Dr. Junk
18. Morning Morgantown
19. Intro to Night In The City
20. Night In The City
21. Both Sides Now
22. Urge For Going
EARLY JONI – 1963 LP TRACKLIST:
Side One
1. House Of The Rising Sun
2. John Hardy
3. Dark As A Dungeon
4. Tell Old Bill
5. Nancy Whiskey
Side Two
1. Anathea
2. Copper Kettle
3. Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song)
4. Molly Malone
LIVE AT CANTERBURY HOUSE – 1967 3LP TRACKLIST:
Side One: First Set
1. Conversation
2. Intro to Come To The Sunshine
3. Come To The Sunshine
4. Intro to Chelsea Morning
5. Chelsea Morning
6. Intro to Gift Of The Magi
7. Gift Of The Magi
Side Two
1. Play Little David
2. Intro to The Dowy Dens Of Yarrow
3. The Dowy Dens Of Yarrow
4. I Had A King
5. Intro to Free Darling
6. Free Darling
7. Intro to Cactus Tree
8. Cactus Tree
Side Three: Second Set
1.Little Green
2. Intro to Marcie
3.Marcie
4. Intro to Ballerina Valerie
5. Ballerina Valerie
6. The Circle Game
Side Four
1. Intro to Michael From Mountains
2. Michael From Mountains
3. Go Tell The Drummer Man
4. Intro to I Don’t Know Where I Stand
5. I Don’t Know Where I Stand
Side Five: Third Set
1. A Melody In Your Name
2. Intro to Carnival In Kenora
3. Carnival In Kenora
4. Songs To Aging Children Come
5. Intro to Dr. Junk
6. Dr. Junk
Side Six
1.Morning Morgantown
2. Intro to Night In The City
3. Night In The City
4. Both Sides Now
5. Urge For Going
