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How to Safely Bet on Sports from California?

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How to Safely Bet on Sports from California?

It is generally agreed upon that California has the largest sports fan base in the U. S. due to the fact that its population is rapidly approaching 40 million people, making it the state with the largest population overall. It should come as no surprise that a large proportion of the locals like placing wagers on the games that they follow most closely.

In this article, you will be able to see the current stance of California on sports betting, and what they are planning to do. You will also be able to view some of the most reliable bookmakers available in the State right now!

Finding a Sportsbook in California

The sports industry is an ever-growing one, and with it, other sub-industries such as sports betting expand as well. With more and more people getting into sports, it leaves a huge potential for sportsbooks to get the attention of these people. If you’re someone that loves sports but doesn’t know how to find a good sportsbook in California, then you have come to the right place.

There are plenty of California sports betting sites available, but it’s all about finding that one bookmaker that will fulfill all your betting needs. Here you will be able to view some of the best available sportsbooks in the market, whilst also seeing the incentives they are offering at the moment. This is surely not one to miss out on!

Is it Possible to Wager on Sports in the State of California?

Whenever it relates to wagering of any kind, including wagers placed online and on sporting events, the state of California has a chequered history. Even though there aren’t any land-based bookmakers in the state at the moment, citizens are still capable of placing bets online at any of a number of different gambling websites.

The current standing of wagering on sporting events In-person wagering on sporting events is prohibited by law in the state of California. With recent lethal heat waves, it’s not surprising to see that many people are looking to get into online wagering. In the state of California, there aren’t any casinos or other traditional gambling establishments at which it is possible to make a lawful bet on a sporting event.

The Professional & Amateur Sports Protection Act was revised by the Supreme Court in 2018, which paved the way for numerous states to govern sports gambling, both offline and online. In 2018, the PASPA amendment took effect.

The Tribal Coalition to Allow Licensed Sports Betting is leading the charge to reform the laws governing wagering in the state of California. Nevertheless, there are attempts to alter these regulations. For decades, tribal chiefs have been making the case to lawmakers in California that the state should authorize and regulate sports gambling.

Authorities were successful in increasing the lawful reach of other gambling activities in 2008, and they aim to make comparable modifications to the legislation that governs betting on sports in the future.

In order to demonstrate popular backing for an amendment to the constitution, the Coalition had provided the state government of California with more than one million individual signatures. In addition to establishing a minimum age for wagering on sports at the state level of 21, the proposal would also:

  • It should be legal to gamble on sports in person at state racetracks and tribal casinos.
  • Gambling should be legalized at all levels of competition, including those at the professional, collegiate, and amateur levels.
  • In high school activities, wagering should be made illegal.
  • The casinos in Native American communities should be allowed to provide roulette and craps.

Residents of California are optimistic that the plan would be accepted by the state government because it has already given its blessing to other initiatives with comparable goals, such as the establishment of the lottery system in 1984.

How Some other States Stack Up Against California When It Comes to Sports Gambling

California is among the states that are one of the very few to take action to legalize and regulate in-state wagering on sporting events. Since the limitations on wagering on sports were dropped in 2018, a total of 26 states in the United States have made sports gambling legal. A number of states, including New York and New Jersey, have made significant progress toward improving the betting experience available to their citizens.

The gaming industry has a huge potential customer base in California because the state is home to even more than a dozen professional sports teams. If wagering on sporting events was made legal in California, the state would reap financial benefits worth hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars.

The adjacent state of Nevada, which is known as the gambling capital of the United States, pulled in a total of $62 million just from sports betting in the month of November 2020. And the state of New Jersey collected a total of $132 million in taxes from internet gambling in the year 2020.

In recent years, even Rhode Island, which has been a stronghold in the fight against online gambling, has developed its own bookmaker. Although there are various limitations placed on wagering, the state can most surely benefit from it financially.

Autre Ne Veut Returns With First New Song in 7 Years

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Autre Ne Veut Returns With First New Song in 7 Years

Autre Ne Vut has returned with ‘Okay’, their first new song in seven years. The track arrives with an accompanying video directed by John Robson and featuring contributions from animator Karl Richter. Check it out below.

In a statement, Autre Ne Veut’s Arthur Ashin explained: “‘Okay’ is about acquiescing, it’s about being patient, it’s about accepting that on the other side of a long journey may be more work, but with any luck, ‘Okay’ is about acceptance. I’m so grateful to be able to share this part of me with y’all again. I’ve missed you.”

Robson added: “We had an interesting challenge of trying to create a music video that takes place at the bottom of the ocean despite being in the midst of a pandemic and on opposite ends of the country. The solution was to create a digitally scanned version of Autre Ne Veut, which was animated completely using body and facial motion capture instead of traditional methods. This process allowed for a deeply intimate and unique performance that lives in a hybrid reality that both mimics real life while at the same time enhancing it beyond anything that could have been shot on camera.”

Autre Ne Vut’s last album was 2015’s Age of Transparency.

Signs Your Home Appliances Are Due for An Upgrade

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Signs Your Home Appliances Are Due for An Upgrade

Owning a home sometimes means stretching your money as thinly as possible to cover many expenses. Sometimes, the expenses may become so overbearing that you start looking for ways to slash as many of them off your list as possible. Home appliances are one of those expenses. While you may want to save money, sometimes your best option isn’t to improvise or duct-tape a faulty appliance. It would be best to upgrade your appliances sometimes, and the following signs will help you know when the time is right. 

Your appliance has reached the average life expectancy.

Every appliance has a life expectancy, after which it will give you more problems than solutions. Of course, the life expectancy of appliances differs from product to product. For example, most refrigerators are designed to last between 10 to 20 years, while air conditioners and heat pumps may last up to 15 years. A dishwasher has a life expectancy of about 10 years, while you can expect your electric oven to last about 13 years. So, take the time to determine how long your appliances have served you and check their life expectancy. If an appliance has hit its average expectancy, it’s time to upgrade it. 

Overheating and overcooling issues.

If your appliance gets too hot during operation, that’s a sign of wear and tear, and you need to replace it. In some cases, an appliance may overheat due to a malfunction in the motor, and it’s best to replace it. However, in most cases, overheating results from an overloaded circuit or poor electrical connection. The main danger of using an overheating appliance is that it can result in fires that may harm you or destroy property at home.  

Regarding overcooling, the coils in an appliance, like an air conditioner, may keep freezing. When this happens too often, something may be wrong internally with your appliance. You can consider looking for parts to fix or replace if a specific part of the appliance is the issue. Otherwise, overheating and overcooling are clear signs that you need to replace or upgrade your appliance. 

The noise is beginning to get overbearing.

It’s normal for many home appliances to drone on during their operation. You may even tolerate or ignore your dishwasher, fridge, or washing machine making noise at night. However, once the noise gets so unbearable that it’s impossible to have a normal conversation when they’re on, you need to consider replacing them. In other words, when your appliances are so noisy that they drown the sounds from your TV and daily conversations, they need to be replaced or upgraded. 

There are too many repairs. 

The older an appliance gets, the less reliable it becomes. Old appliances break down easily, get faulty too often, and attract too many repairing expenses. Some newer home appliances can also break down easily if their manufacturing quality is poor. instead of spending a lot of money to repair an appliance that will break down again, it’s best to replace it. 

Thundercat Covers Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Thousand Knives’

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Thundercat Covers Ryuichi Sakamoto’s ‘Thousand Knives’

To the Moon and Back, a new Ryuichi Sakamoto tribute album that’s intended to celebrate the Japanese composer’s 70th birthday, is set for release on December 2 via Milan Records. It includes contributions from Devonté Hynes, Fennesz, the Cinematic Orchestra, Cornelius, Alva Noto, David Sylvian, and more. The first single from the compilation is Thundercat’s reworking of ‘Thousand Knives’, the title track from Sakamoto’s 1978 debut solo album. Listen to it below.

Album Review: Alvvays, ‘Blue Rev’

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Album Review: Alvvays, ‘Blue Rev’

On ‘After the Earthquake’, a highlight from Alvvays’ third album Blue Rev, the natural disaster in question hovers in the background. Listen close enough you’ll hear singer Molly Rankin noticing the feeling of “the northern tide crashing on the pines,” the kind of lyric you’ll find tucked in parentheses; in the rush of the moment, though, she’s more drawn to the loud noise that’s obscuring the words of a beloved crime show character on TV. It’s hard to tell what’s going on, but it’s happening fast, and a couple is caught in the middle of their own storm. Inspired by Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake, the song compresses all this chaos to focus on the dynamics of a relationship on the verge of a breakdown: “Those days I’d never let you fall apart,” she reminisces as the band makes room for a moment of striking intimacy. “But things fade like the scent of a brand new car/ Why would I ever fall in love again when every detail is over the guardrail?” Suddenly, everything snaps into view.

By now, fans will be familiar with the looming threats that permeate even the Canadian group’s most infectious songs, their unique ability to sneak gut-punching truths and sinister references into their vibrant, jangly brand of dreampop. You can trace this kind of uneasy, open-ended narrative style back to a song like ‘Next of Kin’, off their now-classic indie pop debut. But we’ve waited long enough – Blue Rev is Alvvays’ first album in five years, following 2017’s exuberant Antisocialities – and in this stretch of time, the band has simultaneously roughened and brightened up their approach. As their focus grows sharper and sharper, it only illuminates the raw edge that was both amplified and muffled in their earlier recordings, exposing the nervy detail that might have otherwise been lost in its discordant glow. Aided by producer Shawn Everett, Alvvays’ longest project to date ends up a thrilling ride that takes their uproarious sound and incisive storytelling to new heights.

Even in its most propulsive, sugary moments, the weight of the past hangs heavy over these songs. Rankin doesn’t let her narrator dwell in nostalgia, but she can’t escape it, either. “We used to tell each other all the lies and in a fairly civil way,” she sings with a mix of bemused envy and humour on highlight ‘Velveteen’, before her voice shoots gleefully toward the sky. On the dizzying, rambunctious ‘Pressed’, the sight of some “benevolent collegiate” whose “stride is lengthened by his sense of wonder” causes her to lament, “Oh well, I lost that shine, didn’t I?,” before falling into a series of “Not long ago you…” Clearly, the passage of time hasn’t made it any easier to bear wounds that refuse to heal: “I’ll do my best to keep things light/ But I won’t apologize for something I’m not sorry for,” she insists, yet much of Blue Rev is steeped in regret.

Alvvays know when to rush forth and dial back the tension. Between the mania of ‘After the Earthquake’ and ‘Pressed’ is ‘Tom Verlaine’, which tempers that old flame; flourishes of guitar reverb brush up against Rankin as she assures herself, “I’ll feel better with the breeze on my back/ And I’ll sleep better knowing it’s in the past.” Even in the hypnotic oddity that is ‘Very Online Guy’, the playfully distorted vocals make way for a moment of clear vulnerability. Such displays of restraint can work as a song’s hardest punch, too. ‘Easy on Your Own’ burns with frustration, but it’s not until they hit the brake on the bridge that it cuts through with a startling realization: “I waited so long for you/ Wasted some of the best years of my life/ And I wanted to see it through this time.”

There isn’t a song on Blue Rev that doesn’t hold some kind of spark, but the album is most brilliant for the way it threads its stories, particularly in the latter half. While ‘Tile by Tile’ is haunting and remorseful, the delightfully scuzzy ‘Pomeranian Spinster’ that follows spins right onto the other side. By the time we get to ‘Belinda Says’, the protagonist is finally making her escape, and you get the sense she’s still in that same vehicle, low on fuel and oblivious to the road ahead, with the song blaring from the radio as her one true compass.

Of course, the thrill doesn’t last forever. A few minutes later she’s stuck and down on her luck again, “riding the pine,” not quite as invigorated by the hope of another shot at the love that kicked this whole thing into gear. Rankin has already posed the critical question: “How do I gauge whether this is stasis or change?” None of it ever really fades in the world of Alvvays, who drift restlessly – though not aimlessly – between past and future. But maybe it doesn’t matter – maybe the goal isn’t to find yourself in a new place. If you manage to crawl through the muck of time and still stay pretty much the same person, Blue Rev suggests, that, in itself, is something of a miracle.

Cass McCombs and Weak Signal Collaborate on New Single ‘Vacation From Thought’

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Cass McCombs and Weak Signal Collaborate on New Single ‘Vacation From Thought’

Cass McCombs and Weak Signal have teamed up for the new song ‘Vacation From Thought’. Written and sung by McCombs, it’s part of a collaborative 7″ that also includes the Weak Signal-penned ‘Give it Back’ and marks McCombs’ first new music since the release of Heartmind earlier this year. Give ‘Vacation From Thought’ a listen below.

The new 7″ was recorded to tape with Philip Weinrobe and mastered by Carl Saff. It’s due out November 11 via Wharf Cat.

Sharon Van Etten Unveils New Song ‘Never Gonna Change’

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Sharon Van Etten Unveils New Song ‘Never Gonna Change’

Sharon Van Etten has unveiled a new song, ‘Never Gonna Change’. It’s one of two previously unreleased tracks that will appear on the upcoming deluxe edition of her latest album We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, along with ‘When I Die’. Check it out below.

‘Never Gonna Change’ “is about managing depression and anxiety in the midst of isolation,” Van Etten explained in a statement. “Coping with recurring fears throughout adulthood, acknowledging that flaws, fears and triggers can’t be overcome, they are a constant part of one’s identity to learn to be at peace with.”

The deluxe version of We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong is out November 11 via Jagjaguwar.

Fever Ray Returns With New Single ‘What They Call Us’

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Fever Ray Returns With New Single ‘What They Call Us’

Fever Ray is back with a new single, ‘What They Call Us’, marking Karin Dreijer’s first new music since 2017’s Plunge. It was written and co-produced by their former Knife bandmate Olof Dreijer, and it comes with a video from director Martin Falck starring Karin in a dystopian office setting. Watch and listen below.

Liturgy Announce New Album ‘93696’, Release New Song

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Liturgy Announce New Album ‘93696’, Release New Song

Liturgy have announced a new double LP, 93696, which is due for release on March 24, 2023. Today, we get to hear the album’s title track, along with a mini-album called As the Blood of God Bursts the Veins of Time, comprising a three-movement alternative version of the song – ’93’, ’36’, and ‘696’ – as well as ‘संसार’. Take a listen below.

Founded by guitarist and vocalist Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, Liturgy also features guitarist Mario Miron, bassist Tia Vincent-Clark, and drummer Leo Didkovsky. Their last album was 2020’s Origin of the Alimonies.

93696 Cover Artwork:

93696 Tracklist:

1. Daily Bread
2. Djennaration
3. Caela
4. Angel of Sovereignty
5. Haelegen II
6. Before I Knew the Truth
7. Angel of Hierarchy
8. Red Crown II
9. Angel of Emancipation
10. Ananon
11. 93696
12. Haelegen II (Reprise)
13. Angel of Individuation
14. Antigone II
15. Immortal Life II

Claire Rousay and Circuit des Yeux Announce ‘Sunset Poem’ EP, Share Song

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Claire Rousay and Circuit des Yeux Announce ‘Sunset Poem’ EP, Share Song

Claire Rousay has announced the Sunset Poem EP, which sees the experimental artist reworking three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s 2021 album -io. It’s due out on October 20. She’s also shared her version of ‘Sculpting the Exodus’ to accompany the announcement. Check it out below, along with the EP’s cover art, tracklist, and a video of the two artists in conversation.

“I found Claire Rousay’s music when we were all stuck inside for 2 years,” Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr said in a press release. “Her music kind of gave me the atmosphere of company in a solitary reality. It reminded me of the way I used to interact with music when I was a teenager. A room can become a whole ecosystem once the music is playing. Her deft ability to work with sound in a microscopic way is what makes this collaboration so successful. It was an honor to give Claire the stems of -io. The results are beguiling and immense, like watching lead pipes slowly melt into a metallic river.”

Sunset Poem EP Cover Artwork:

Sunset Poem EP Tracklist:

1. Vanishing
2. Sculpting the Exodus
3. Argument

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