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Ways You Can Locate Independent Casinos That Will Accept Your Registration

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Ways You Can Locate Independent Casinos That Will Accept Your Registration

If you recently registered with the UK Gambling Commission’s GamStop Self-exclusion program, you are to be commended. It takes a responsible gambler to recognize they could be headed for trouble and then takes steps to stop heading for trouble.

As a GamStop blocked gambler, you should be aware that you are officially blocked from using UK-licensed online casinos for the duration of your self-prescribed self-exclusion period.

Assuming you are willing to abide by the terms of your self-exclusion, it’s just a matter of time before your self-exclusion expires and you can reassess your current state of mind.

Ways to Get Around GamStop

Getting around your GamStop self-exclusion is not particularly difficult if you are willing to assume a little bit of extra risk. The risk comes in the form of losing access to the GamStop program and perhaps losing certain protections you would get from the UKGC when using a licensed UK online casino.

Briefly, we thought it was prudent to offer you a list of 6 ways to beat GamStop.

Here is that list:

  • Register and gamble through online casinos that are licensed offshore
  • Use crypto-only casinos that offer a lot of extra anonymity
  • Play casino games for fun on social media: some games offer prizes
  • Use online gambling sites that offer free play
  • Use a partner’s online gambling account with their permission
  • Register with and use independent online casinos operating out of the UK

What is an Independent Casino?

In the UK, an independent online casino would be an online casino that operates without a licence from the UK gambling commission. While it might seem risky to use an unlicensed online casino, many of these standalone casinos listed on the Casino Wise website are actually quite reputable, reliable, and safe.

If you want to go in this direction to avoid GamStop scrutiny, you’ll be happy to learn what most of these sites have to offer. The reality is they offer many of the same things as you might get from a licensed UK casino. That would include:

  • Access to thousands of online casino games
  • Access to video slots from the best online casino software developers in the world
  • Plenty of good and reliable banking options from which to choose
  • Solid bonus offerings, including really aggressive welcome bonuses

Ways You Can Locate Independent Casinos That Will Accept Your Registration

To be clear, there are plenty of independent online casino operators offering casino games in the UK to UK online gamblers. While they are on the border of operating illegally in the UK, they are not that difficult to find. Where can you find them?

First of all, we have already mentioned Casino Wise. Casino Wise is an online gambling review website that reviews non-GamStop or independent operators that are in business in the UK. Sites like this are always a good place to start when looking for a reliable and safe independent casino.

Here’s a little secret. If you are a GamStop blocked gambler, your business is highly desired by independent casinos. They know you are looking for an online gambling home that doesn’t care or know about your GamStop status. They want GamStop gamblers so much that they actively market to such gamblers like you. If they have access to one of your emails, don’t be surprised if they go looking for you.

Another option you might consider is word of mouth. If you ask among the UK online casino community, you might get access to shared information regarding independent casinos that are looking for GamStop business. You might find information in the news or from bloggers who cover online gambling in the UK.

Here’s another thought. The answer to your quandary might still be a UK online casino that is actually UKGC-licensed and a member of GamStop. The reality is some online gambling sites have very weak account verification protocols. If they skip dotting the Is and crossing the Ts on your new account registration, it’s possible your GamStop status might fly under the radar. If not, there is no harm in trying.

In summary, not gambling if you sense problems are coming is a very good idea. If you signed up for a self-exclusion period of 6 months or 1 year, it will go fast enough.

If you have changed your mind, that’s okay as well. You are an adult and have every right to make your own decisions. You now know that should you change your mind, using independent or non-GamStop casinos is an option worthy of your consideration. Just do a little research and make sure you stick with sites that have a well-established strong reputation.

Most Reliable Casino Payment Methods: Pros And Cons

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Most Reliable Casino Payment Methods: Pros And Cons

Welcome, dear reader! In this article, we will reveal one of the vital parts of online casinos: making deposits. Most visitors of online gaming platforms care about the safe connection between their money and casino services. There are lots of ways to complete payment. Therefore, we will present you with the most reliable ones with their pros & cons. Meet a list of the most win-win options below!

E-Wallets: PayPal, Skrill, WebMoney, Neteller, GCash

Everybody is accustomed to e-wallet systems, and the most well-known is PayPal. However, this payment service is the most popular in Europe. For its part, in Asia, GCash wallet has the leading position and if you are searching for some online facilities which support this method.

Read the best Philippines Gcash casinos online rank in 2022 and find some items for you. However, in the Philippines WebMoney, Neteller and Skrill are also very popular thanks to their capability to provide a strong and safe connection between your debit/ credit card and gambling platform.

Advantages

  • Trusted services.
  • Quick in use.
  • Private
  • Are supported at all legitimate casinos.
  • Easy to set up.

Disadvantages

  • Has currency issues.
  • You need to uphold your account to prevent freezing.

Blockchain Technology: Cryptocurrency (Stellar, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP)

Blockchain is a technology that supports virtual money. Now, the most popular cryptocurrencies are Stellar, Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP. Most of the Philippine casinos started its update for cryptocurrency. It’s adored by gamblers due to its complete security and unlimited credibility.

What’s more, their winning will grow every day according to the success of the rate. You also don’t have to visit a building bank to use blockchain technology. It is completely virtual, and you can start using it only after a few clicks on your phone. Good to know that it is also easy in settings and quick in payouts.

Pros

  • Extremely secure (the proof is the fact that Bitcoin had never been hacked).
  • It doesn’t depend on traditional world economics and has a successful development strategy.
  • It is a marker of a safe casino (only licensed casinos use this method).

Cons

Voucher System: PaySafeCard, NeoSurf, Flexepin

There are lots of voucher systems for payment in the Philippines, however, the most popular are PaySafeCard, NeoSurf and Flexepin. Despite the services being different, the working conception is the same. This is also absolutely anonymous and, consequently, secure.

To use this method, you just have to buy a blank with a 16-numbered code at the nearest point where the voucher is. Then, you need to enter your gambling account, choose the method for making deposits and enter the code. No cards and no personal data are required.

Pros

  • Very secure and requires no data about you.
  • It helps to control your expenses on gambling and prevent addiction.
  • Vouchers are widespread and located in every supermarket.

Cons

  • Most of the vouchers have maximum limits under $200.
  • The voucher ticket is lost – money is lost too.

Bank & Card Transfers: Visa and Mastercard

Finally, we are near the most common and useful method: transfers between cards. You just have to attach your Mastercard or Visa card to start making deposits. Surely, you have to share your data with the gambling house, it is very risky.

We recommend you utilize this method in facilities which have a license and are in law. Some casinos may purpose attractive bonuses if you choose your credit or debit card for payment, however, it may be a scam as well as a fair proposal. To protect your data, you should turn on the VPN or utilize prepaid credit cards.

Advantages

  • Wide-spread method.
  • The same card details can’t be used twice so that nobody will steal your money.

Disadvantages

  • Risky.

Final Words

In this article, we revealed the aspect of the Philippines casino payment methods with their pros and cons. There are four useful procedures: E-wallets, blockchain, card transfers and prepaid methods. Which one is the best? Just try and decide on your own!

Knifeplay Announce New Album ‘Animal Drowning’, Share New Song ‘Promise’

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Knifeplay Announce New Album ‘Animal Drowning’, Share New Song ‘Promise’

Philadelphia band Knifeplay have announced their sophomore album, Animal Drowning. The follow-up to 2019’s Pearlty was produced by Jeff Zeigler, who is known for his work with Kurt Vile, Nothing, and The War on Drugs. It’s out October 19 via Topshelf Records, and lead single ‘Promise’ is out today, alongside a video directed by Ben Turok. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.

“We are all born to be free people and artists, meant to go after self-actualization,” songwriter Tj Strohmer said in a statement. “But we are spit out, scared and confused, into the spiritually emaciated modern world. Most people either follow what they’re taught is “practical” or just wither in that fear and confusion.”

Turok commented on the video: “My goal is always to visually represent the worldview of the song. It helps that ‘Promise’ is lyrically kind of straightforward. I wanted to shoot documentary style because I felt like it captured most accurately the often beautiful, sometimes bleak, always chaotic tone of our lives. The images that immediately came to my head were ones of couples because to me romantic relationships always lead to some unavoidable reality, eventually our relationships tell us something we may not want to acknowledge about who we really are.”

Animal Drowning Cover Artwork:

Animal Drowning Tracklist:

1. Nobody
2. Lonely Sun
3. Promise
4. Bleed
5. Animal
6. Deserve
7. Hearts
8. Ryan Song
9. Untitled
10. Cold Rain

Cryalot Releases New Single ‘Labyrinth’

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Cryalot Releases New Single ‘Labyrinth’

Ahead of its release on Friday (September 2), Kero Kero Bonito’s Sarah Midori Perry has shared the final single from her debut EP as Cryalot, Icarus. ‘Labyrinth’ follows the previously unveiled tracks ‘Touch the Sun’ and ‘Hell Is Here’, and you can watch its accompanying video below.

“’Labyrinth’ is a song about hope and our ability to dream even when we are trapped in our own reality,” Perry explained in a statement. “The track draws parallels between the myth of Icarus and the confines of our own emotional landscapes.”

Cryalot is the latest subject of our Artist Spotlight series. Check out the interview here.

Gorillaz Announce New Album ‘Cracker Island’, Enlist Tame Impala and Bootie Brown for New Song

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Gorillaz Announce New Album ‘Cracker Island’, Enlist Tame Impala and Bootie Brown for New Song

Gorillaz have announced a brand new album: Cracker Island is out February 24 via Parlophone. The record will include the previously shared title track (featuring Thundercat), as well as a new song called ‘New Gold’, a collaboration with Tame Impala and Bootie Brown. Check it out below and scroll down for the album artwork and tracklist.

“Cracker Island is the sound of change and the chorus of the collective,” guitarist Noodle said of the new album. Russel Hobbs added, “When the reckoning comes, gotta be ready to step through the gateway. Cracker Island’s got the entry codes…”

”The path to Cracker Island isn’t easy to find ‘cos it’s underwater,” 2D remarked. And Murdoc Niccals commented: “The hallowed tones of Cracker Island will soundtrack our collective ascension into the new dimension! JOIN ME!”

Cracker Island, Gorillaz’s eighth studio LP,  also features guest appearances from Stevie Nicks, Adeleye Omotayo, Bad Bunny, and Beck. It was recorded in London and LA earlier this year with producers Greg Kurstin and Remi Kabaka Jr.

Gorillaz are in the midst of a world tour that kicked off in South America earlier in the year and included a stop at Primavera Sound. A run of shows North American shows will follow in September and October, starting in Vancouver on September 11.

Cracker Island Cover Artwork:

Cracker Island Tracklist:

1. Cracker Island [feat. Thundercat]
2. Oil [feat. Stevie Nicks]
3. The Tired Influencer
4. Tarantula
5. Silent Running [feat. Adeleye Omotayo]
6. New Gold [feat. Tame Impala and Bootie Brown]
7. Baby Queen
8. Tormenta [feat. Bad Bunny]
9. Skinny Ape
10. Possession Island [feat. Beck]

Peel Dream Magazine Unveils Video for New Song ‘Pictionary’

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Peel Dream Magazine Unveils Video for New Song ‘Pictionary’

Joseph Stevens has shared a new single from his third album as Peel Dream Magazine, Pad – out October 7 via Slumberland/Tough Love. Following the previously released title track, ‘Pictionary’ arrives with an accompanying video, which you can check out below.

Talking about the clip, Stevens said in a statement:

I co-directed this video with my talented friend Clayton McCracken, a prominent video artist in LA specializing in live visuals. We filmed the entire thing in his living room, although it feels more like an elaborate stage when you watch it. The song is a baroque ode to “play” in all forms. In it, a set of characters experience a mysterious, orgiastic cataclysm while playing a game of Pictionary. The rest is open to interpretation. According to the story of the album, I’ve been exiled from Peel Dream Magazine. Scenes alternate between me playing the board game, and laboring over a composition. I’m weaving my own reality, and perhaps the very song itself, in the style of this isolated “tortured artist”. I wanted to channel Herman Melville’s Pierre, which tells this gothic 19th century story of an author who drives himself mad while working on his magnum opus – the true story of his own life. I love that kind of stuff. It’s also supposed to be a play on the baroque pop element of the new record, which features harpsichord and chamber strings. I ended up wearing a bunch of Clayton’s clothes that felt very Laurel Canyon 60s LA to me. Oh and look for the missing chunk of the feather pen – it went up in flames from one of the candles during the first take we filmed.

Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré Share New Song ‘Tongo Barra’

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Khruangbin and Vieux Farka Touré Share New Song ‘Tongo Barra’

Khruangbin and guitarist Vieux Farka Touré have shared ‘Tongo Barra’, the latest preview of their upcoming collaborative album Ali, which honours Vieux’s late father, the veteran bluesman Ali Farka Touré. Listen to it below.

Ali is slated for release on September 23 via Dead Oceans. ‘Tongo Barra’ follows the previously released single ‘Savanne’.

Pink Siifu and Real Bad Man Announce New Collaborative Album, Tap Boldy James for New Song ‘Looking for Water’

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Pink Siifu and Real Bad Man Announce New Collaborative Album, Tap Boldy James for New Song ‘Looking for Water’

Pink Siifu and Los Angeles producer Real Bad Man have announced a new collaborative album, Real Bad Flights, which drops on September 16. Along with the announcement, they’ve shared a new single called ‘Looking for Water’, which features Boldy James, who teamed up with Real Bad Man for 2020’s Real Bad Boldy and this year’s Killing Nothing. Check it out and find the album’s cover artwork and tracklist below.

In addition to Boldy James, Real Bad Fights features guest appearances from Armand Hammer, Kari Faux, and Chuck Strangers. “‘Looking for Water’ is just about somebody looking for a way out or a way to get what he need from tha morning to tha night, but from my perspective,” Siifu said in a statement to The FADER. “Risk and rewards and tha other bull shit that comes w tha day to day. Floatin but grinding at tha same time.”

“This was one of the first songs Siffu recorded for the project,” Real Bad Man commented. “He sent it back and it was just the first verse and chorus, and it faded out. I really wanted it to go on longer, it was fire. I had it looping on my speakers. At some point we talked and was like ‘I can hear Boldy on this track’, and Siffu was with it.”

Last year, Pink Siifu released his album GUMBO’!.

Real Bad Flights Cover Artwork:

Real Bad Flights Tracklist:

1. Real Negro Life [feat. Pier GKFAM]
2. Looking For Water [feat. Boldy James]
3. Tokyo Blunts [feat. Armand Hammer & Conquest Tony Phillips]
4. Astro Russian [feat. Amani]
5. View Of France [feat. Ahwlee]
6. Off The Pane [feat Kari Faux & EZ]
7. Pour The Wine [feat. Chuck Strangers & Peso Gordon]
8. Po Drama [feat. Lojii]
9. Real Bad Gospel

OFF! Share New Single ‘Kill to Be Heard’

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OFF! Share New Single ‘Kill to Be Heard’

OFF! have dropped a new single, ‘Kill to Be Heard’, the second offering from their forthcoming album Free LSD. Give it a listen below.

Free LSD, the band’s first full-length album in eight years, will be released on September 30 via Fat Possum. The album was announced last month with the single ‘War Above Los Angeles’.

Quicksand Release New Song ‘Giving It Away’

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Quicksand Release New Song ‘Giving It Away’

Quicksand have returned with a new single called ‘Giving It Away’. It arrives ahead of a tour with Clutch and Helmet in support of their 2021 album Distant Populations, their second LP since reuniting in 2017. Listen to it below.

“The working title for this song was ‘Greatest Quicksand Song Ever’ so you can imagine it was a very tough call leaving this song off Distant Populations,” the band explained in a statement. “The only reason we could agree on to leave it off was that we wanted to have some really strong material in reserve for later in the year. Ultimately the title came from the most prominent line in the song which is an embrace of the present which is very in line with our thinking with Distant Populations, we’re super proud of this one and are very psyched to share it with the world.”

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