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MIKE, Wiki, and the Alchemist Release 3 New Songs

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MIKE and Wiki have teamed up with the Alchemist for three new tracks: ‘One More’, ‘Be Realistic’, and ‘Odd Ways’. The EP arrives in conjunction with a new campaign from Patta and Tommy Hilfiger, and the title track is accompanied by a video from director Nicholas Stafford Briggs. Check it out below.

“The 1st time i ever heard the word Girbaud or Hilfiger was from a Grand Puba verse,” Alchemist wrote in an Instagram post. “They said they wanted to do something with @wikset , & asked me if there were any other dope new artists from NY I thought would be dope to add to the mix. I showed them one video of @mikelikesrap and they were instantly sold. I had been working with Mike & had been wanted to work with Wik , & they already rocked with each other , so it was perfect.”

“We all linked in Amsterdam, ate some fire Surinam food, listened to beats, and put the play in motion,” he added. “They said do whatever we want and gave us full creative control with the music. We ended up making a full plate, but the first course is a 3 song 12” featuring Mike & Wiki , produced by The Alchemist, brought to you by Patta & Tommy Hilfiger.”

The Patta x Tommy collection lands on Friday, December 2. MIKE has a new album coming out on December 21 called Beware of the Monkey.

How to Buy a Property that Suits Your Style

Personal style is usually put to one side when buying a property; things like price and practicality often take center stage. However, personal style is also an important consideration, especially if you want a home to present the right image to friends, family, and coworkers. This is a big factor when it comes to choosing the correct property, and even choosing the right property experts.

Property Styles 

Whether it is the clothes you wear, the company you keep, or the restaurants you frequent, there is a range of styles to choose from that can fit with your personal tastes or juxtapose them. Property styles are no different. Property can be traditional, modern, rustic, or something else. 

Make sure the place you live also fits your personal styles and expectations. If you have a modern style in your wardrobe, why not live in a modern property as well? Identify your primary style, and it helps to narrow down the property styles you have to choose from when buying.   

The Front Door 

The front door is the first this you will encounter when you travel to view a property, but don’t make it a deal breaker. If the property ticks a lot of boxes for you, but it doesn’t look nice from the outside, you can always view it as a work in progress and upgrade it with personal style. 

If the front door fits with your expectations, you’re in luck; there is little you need to do; otherwise, you will have to invest in an upgrade. The front door is the first thing people see when they come to your property, and you want it to complement your personal style.  

The Kitchen 

The kitchen is the heart of the home, and it says a lot about your personality and lifestyle as well. A new kitchen can be an expensive installation, so it makes sense to consider the space carefully when searching for a new home. It’s sometimes worth some additional investment. 

When a property has a nice kitchen, you can expect to pay more for it, so makes sure the kitchen you buy fits your personal style and expectations. The last thing you want is to buy a property with a pricey kitchen and have to refit it; it’s better to buy one that needs a refurb.  

The Floor Space 

Are you the type of person who likes open spaces, or do you prefer neat spaces where everything is organised and stored away? Again, you will pay more for a home that has additional floor space, like bedrooms upstairs and outdoor patio areas with social spaces. 

Choosing luxury real estate options to suit your style means thinking about your lifestyle and how you intend to entertain guests when they come to visit. Are you going to spend more time in the kitchen, the games room, or the patio outdoors? Find a property that aligns with your social requirements.  

Final Thoughts 

There’s a lot to think about when you are buying a property, such as the overall price, the quality of the building, and what the property offers in terms of floor space, kitchen quality, and bonus rooms. It’s also important to consider your personal style to ensure the property feels like home.

Daisy Harris Unveils New Song ‘Known’

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Daisy Harris has shared a new song called ‘Known’. It’s the latest preview of her upcoming EP Forest Girl Rock, which is out on December 9. Check it out below.

Harris recorded and produced ‘Known’ with her cousin DAVOLI. “Being able to make this song with Davoli in his beautiful studio was an absolute dream,” she commented in a statement. “I love it and I hope its warm, sweet vibe brings listeners peace and joy.”

Forest Girls Rock will follow Harris’ debut record, Tornado Dreams, which arrived earlier this year. “I really do believe this is my best work yet,” she said. “It’s been a blast to make this EP with my dad and cousin also, whose talent and openness I’m so grateful for.”

Sunny War Releases New Song ‘Higher’ Featuring David Rawlings

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Sunny War has released a new track, ‘Higher’, which features David Rawlings. It’s taken from the Nashville-based singer-songwriter’s upcoming album Anarchist Gospel, which also includes contributions from Jim James, Allison Russell, the Raconteurs’ Jack Lawrence, and more. Listen to ‘Higher’ below.

“I wrote ‘Higher’ around this time last year, just a few days after my ex collected the last of his belongings from our apartment,” War explained in a press release. “The break up was fresh and I was thinking about all the years we spent together. I was also thinking about how much stronger I was before our relationship. I remember feeling really weak at the end… I knew it was over when I didn’t even have the energy to fight anymore. The ‘I am out of remedies, at least I’m not a liar’ lyric sums up how I felt when I knew it was really over and time to be honest about it. All I could do at that point was let go and try to figure out how to get back to whoever I was back when I respected myself. It was the same person my ex was attracted to in the first place that he unknowingly destroyed.”

Anarchist Gospel is set to land on February 3 via New West Records. It was led by the single ‘No Reason’.

Kele Announces New Album ‘The Flames pt. 2’, Shares New Single ‘Vandal’

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Kele Okereke has announced a new album, The Flames pt. 2. The Bloc Party frontman’s sixth solo LP is slated for release March 24 via KOLA Records/!K7. To accompany the news, Kele has shared a new single called ‘Vandal’, which you can check out below, along with the cover artwork and tracklist.

‘Vandal’ finds Kele channeling his frustration with what Britain stands for and what it means to be British, according to a press release. “As a British born Nigerian, that debate has made me angry,” Kele said. “It has felt like for these last few years I have been carrying around a lot of that anger, so with ‘Vandal’ I felt I needed to put it somewhere useful.”

“There haven’t been many things that have made me feel proud to be British recently but watching those people in Bristol pulling down the Colston statue made me feel immensely proud,” he continued. “It was ordinary people saying ‘no, this slaver does not represent my Britain’. It was an act of defiance that I understood and I suddenly got a glimpse of a Britain I could believe in.”

The Flames pt. 2 will follow 2021’s The Waves pt. 1, which Kele wrote and recorded during lockdown while feeling “lost at sea.” He explained:

I always knew that I would find a way out of that feeling, and I always knew I was going to make a response to The Waves.

Fire is powerful, it is both creation and destruction and I wanted that tension to somehow be reflected in the music, the sound of being consumed by our desires, of feelings burning so intensely that they literally burn out.

Like The Waves it was important that all the sounds of the record were made by my electric guitar. Writing and recording a record within these parameters has forced me to become more creative as a musician, from the looped ambient textures to the brittle drum machine rhythms. it’s all made by my guitar and my loop pedals, and that’s how it will be performed.

The Flames pt. 2 Cover Artwork:

The Flames pt. 2 Tracklist:

1. Never Have I Ever
2. Reckless
3. And He Never Was The Same Again
4. True Love Knows No Death
5. Vandal
6. Her Darkest Hour
7. No Risk No Reward
8. Someone To Make Me Laugh
9. I’m In Love With An Outline
10. Acting On A Hunch
11. Kerosene
12. The Colour Of Dying Flame

Albums Out Today: Stormzy, Fievel Is Glaque, SpiritWorld, Elder

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on November 25, 2022:


Stormzy, This Is What I Mean

Stormzy is back with his third album, This Is What I Mean. The follow-up to 2019’s Heavy Is the Head was executive produced by British producer PRGRSHN and features guest appearances from Sampha, Jacob Collier, Debbie, and more. “When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” Stormzy said in a statement. “People saying: ‘We need to make an album.’ ‘We need to make some hit records.’ But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music. Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album.”


Fievel Is Glaque, Flaming Swords

Fievel Is Glauque, the rotating international ensemble helmed by New York-based pianist Zach Phillips and French-Belgian singer Ma Clément, have released their studio debut. While last year’s compilation God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess was primarily composed by Phillips, Flamings Swords sees him and Clément working together as a composing duo. “Musically, Ma directed melodic impetus and I directed harmonic and rhythmic framing,” Phillips explained in a statement. “Lyrically, we fought and embraced our initial impulses alternatingly; above all, we tried to trust and document the psychodynamics of the process itself rather than attempting to express concrete, prefab emotional or intellectual messaging. This approach to writing is intended to promote poetry while avoiding alibis and the hall-of-mirrors reproduction of excessive self-identification.”


SpiritWorld, Deathwestern

SpiritWorld have released their sophomore album, Deathwestern, via Century Media Records. Following their 2020 debut Pagan Rhythms, the new LP sees the Las Vegas metallic hardcore outfit reuniting with producer Sam Pura. “I started writing our new album right when I finished Pagan Rhythms,” bandleader Stu Folsom said in press materials. “At that point, I had been playing guitar everyday for about a year and it was – no joke – the highlight of my days. Just banger riff after banger riff jumping out of the Viper Blood Tele. It took six months to get four songs together that I thought could stand up to Pagan. Then I knew I had another full length.”


Elder, Innate Passage

Elder have dropped their latest album, Innate Passage, via Stickman Records. The progressive/heavy rock quartet, which is now mostly based in Berlin, recorded the follow-up to 2020’s Omens at Cloud Hill Studios in Hamburg. “This record channels the surreal world we live in from a fantastical point of view, not super-literally, and how we as humans processed that; everyone on their own passage through time and space and whatever version of reality they chose for themselves,” founder Nick DiSalvio explained in a statement. “The phrase ‘Innate Passage’ appeared to me when writing the record. Passage and transition are necessary in the human condition, and this process is intrinsic to us. All the growth and introspection we underwent in the past few years totally made this apparent to me more so than any other experiences in life so far.”


Other albums out today:

Ingredient, Ingredient; Marcus Paquin, Our Love; Nightshift, Made of the Earth; Andrew Wasylyk, Hearing the Water Before Seeing the Falls; High Command, Eclipse of the Dual Moons; s ​t ​a ​r ​g ​a ​z ​e, One; Waajeed, Memoirs of Hi-Tech Jazz; Lykotonon, Promethean Pathology; Noémi Büchi, Matter; Jamie Beale, Hello Nimbus; George Issadikis, Navigating the Kali Yuga vol 1; Roy Montgomery, Camera Melancholia; Mike Gangloff, Evening Measures; Property, Water Temple; Flight Coda, a window at night the 27th.

The Different Types of Acoustic Panels and Their Uses

Do you have a noisy office? Is your home theater not giving you the sound quality you were hoping for? Are you looking to improve the sound insulation in your home or office? If so, acoustic panels may be the perfect solution for you! Acoustic panels are panels that are designed to improve the acoustics of a room. They come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and can be made from a variety of materials. In this blog post, we will discuss the different types of acoustic panels and their uses.

What are acoustic panels and where they can be used?

Acoustic panels are sound absorbing panels that are used to improve the sound quality in a room. They are usually made of porous material or insulation that absorbs sound waves, which helps to reduce echoes and reverberation.

Acoustic panels can be used in any room where poor sound quality is a problem, such as home theaters, recording studios, classrooms, and auditoriums. They are also commonly used in offices to help reduce noise levels and create a more productive work environment.

The different types of acoustic panels and what are they used for

There are a variety of acoustic panels, and each is used for a different purpose. Some panels are designed to reduce echoes and reverberation in a room, while others are meant to dampen noise pollution.

Some common types of acoustic panels include:

– Absorptive panels: These panels are designed to suck up sound and reduce echoes and reverberation. They are typically made from fiberglass, mineral wool, or foam.

– Reflective panels: These panels reflect sound waves rather than absorb them. This can help to control the directionality of sound in a room and reduce noise pollution.

– Diffusive panels: Diffusive panels help to break up sound waves and prevent them from bouncing around a room in a consistent pattern. This can help to create a more balanced acoustic environment.

How to choose the right acoustic panel for your needs?

When choosing the right acoustic panel for your needs, there are a few factors to consider. The first is the size of the room and how much soundproofing you need. Second is the type of noise you want to block out. The third is your budget.

There are two types of noise: broadband and narrowband. Broadband noise is made up of many different frequencies, while narrowband noise consists of one or a few specific frequencies. Acoustic panels work better at blocking broadband noise than narrowband noise.

The most common type of acoustic panel is the fiberglass panel. It’s affordable, durable, and effective at blocking both broadband and narrowband noise. However, fiberglass panels can be quite heavy, so they are only sometimes the best choice for small spaces.

Another type of acoustic panel is a foam panel. Foam acoustic panels are lightweight and cost-effective, but they don’t provide as much noise reduction as fiberglass acoustic panels. They’re also more prone to absorbing moisture and developing mold if installed in damp environments.

Where to install acoustic panels in your home or office for best results?

When it comes to acoustics, every room is different. The best place to install acoustic panels in your home or office really depends on the specific needs of the room.

Some rooms may require more dampening than others, and some panels may work better in one corner of a room versus another. Generally speaking, you’ll want to place acoustic panels as close to the source of the noise as possible.

That said, here are a few general tips for installing acoustic panels in your home or office:

– Try to avoid surfaces that already reflect sound (like windows and mirrors), and focus instead on walls and ceilings.

– Make sure the panels are securely attached to the wall or ceiling so they don’t move around.

– For maximum acoustic dampening, consider using multiple acoustic panels in each room.

Why the World Needs More Art: Importance of Arts and Culture in Education

Since ancient times until the present, art has been an essential component of society. However, over time, the value of art has diminished. Many students do not continue on to study the arts in college or university because subjects in schools like music, art, and drama have been marginalized. 

What the world would be like without the beauty of paintings, music, dance, literature, and other forms of expression, however, should make us seriously consider the value of art. Many people ought to ask themselves, “Why is art important?” before dismissing the field as unimportant and irrelevant.

Why Is Arts Important For Humans

Don’t undervalue the value of the arts because without imagination and creativity, life would be rather dull and colorless. All forms of art allow us to express who we are and what we believe, and some even become a part of who we are. Even in schools where it is most necessary, many people do not take it seriously. Art is typically the first subject to be eliminated when budget cuts occur. 

But is it wise to take this away, particularly at a time when young minds are developing and attempting to make sense of the world? Politics, linguistic, and cultural barriers are all transcended by art. It may be a means of nonverbal communication that unites people from various backgrounds. 

Why Pursue A Degree In Arts, Culture, And Society

The degree program in Art, Culture & Society equips you to play a significant part in every aspect of the arts and culture industry, including theatre, museums, film, and festivals. Pursuing an art degree can expand your horizons and allow you to explore various forms of creative expression while gaining specialized skills. If you opt for an online program, you can expand your horizons and learn various forms of art. You can also use the power of the internet and equip yourself with study material and read notebanks for free.

The online arts degree program often uses an international strategy that incorporates contemporary modes of art and culture production, consumption, and distribution outside of and across national cultural boundaries. You receive training to use cutting-edge knowledge of policy, marketing, audiences, and education to establish new models for the management of arts and culture.

Importance Of Arts And Culture In Education

The demands of the modern world must be met by young people’s education because the world is changing too quickly. The arts and culture are essential components of comprehensive and intense training. The pandemic made people realize the value of life, and as a surprising change, people started getting more inclined toward learning arts and cultures. 

While some reminisced about their old hobbies and took up new ones, a lot of people took it up a notch and enrolled for arts degrees. Recent research found that in 2020, 26.3% of EU students pursuing careers in the cultural sector were majoring in the arts, 9.7% in journalism and information studies, and 8.8% in architecture and town planning.

The strength of a top-notch education where the arts and culture are subjects is a prerequisite for America’s global structure, innovative culture, and entrepreneurial spirit. 

Increased Student Engagement

Arts and culture are practical subjects with quick payouts because they emphasize positive changes. Education enables students to appreciate various aspects of society and comprehend how to interact with people in various contexts. Arts provide students with exceptional opportunities to demonstrate their abilities through genuine presentations and exhibitions.

These subjects aid students develop their ability to speak up for themselves and others and think critically. They offer platforms for connecting with others and using new knowledge, making learning interesting.

Encourages Students To Develop Positive Attitudes

In learning centers and elsewhere, the arts and culture help to promote positive attitudes, empathy, and more pro-social behaviors. It encourages students to develop positive attitudes, behaviors, and lifestyles. Arts and culture help people from different backgrounds understand and appreciate one another’s differences. They promote comprehension.

Lessons learned in these areas can be used to develop consistent positive behaviors and lifestyles. Life improvement and advancement require time. Students who study arts and culture learn that success in these fields requires adaptability and persistence.

Boosts Creativity

In the twenty-first century, one of the top skills that employers seek is creativity. Connecting the dots to come up with unique, useful solutions is a valuable skill for every employee, no matter what field or country they work in. 

Students who receive an education that is rich in the arts outperform their peers who receive a limited or no art education in terms of valuations. The subjects offer greater flexibility and adaptability by creating a setting that fosters creativity. It is a necessary skill in a world that is changing quickly. 

In education, creativity is very helpful, especially when writing various essays. Because their essays lack originality, many students look for essay help. You won’t encounter any difficulties finishing other papers that require your attention once you develop your abilities in this area.

Improves Critical Reasoning Abilities

The arts encourage sophisticated thinking that can be applied to other academic fields and beyond. Students use the abilities they have developed in the arts to perceive, interpret, and create various points of view in order to examine and synthesize data. 

Because of current technology, students are exposed to a lot of data that needs to be scrutinized, so this is helpful. It aids them in locating relevant information required for their research projects.

Enhances Leadership Skills

The capacity for leadership is enhanced by involvement in the arts and cultural education. Learners develop a variety of skills, including decision-making, tactic development, thinking, and forecasting, which are essential for leadership and living a fulfilling life. 

Culture fosters the strong sense of identity that students need to put their newly acquired skills to good use. Students gain self-assurance and realize there are many meaningful ways they can influence the world.

Makes Students Understand The Importance Of Teamwork

Another crucial skill that students need to develop in school is teamwork. It can be difficult to communicate and advance when working with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. Students can respect everyone and cooperate for shared objectives by learning about the culture. The study also aids in dispelling untrue myths about various cultures. Culture offers learners the sense of community they crave.

The creation of art, however, involves students and transforms them into contributing members of society. It enables them to cooperate for the greater good. Students learn about teamwork when they collaborate to create an artistic project. Arts and culture foster community among students, enhancing school safety and improving learning environments. 

4 Alarming Reasons Why You Should Cut Your Alcohol Intake Today

Drinking alcohol is an extremely popular pastime, and that’s likely why there are so many pubs, bars and clubs across the globe. However; just because drinking alcohol is popular, it doesn’t mean it’s good for your body or mind in any way, shape or form. In fact, alcohol has so many potential side effects, and drinking regularly can actually put you at serious risk. 

In this article, 4 different reasons why you should cut your alcohol intake will be discussed in detail. With any luck, this information will help you to make a smarter choice the next time you’re craving a glass of something, encouraging you to say no to alcohol for the sake of your well-being. 

So, if you’re interested in learning about some of the adverse reactions that can occur as a result of regular drinking, then read on to uncover more information. You’ll be kicking alcohol to the curb before you know it!

Alcohol Is Terrible For Your Kidneys 

It has to be said that alcohol can have a devastating impact on your kidneys, especially when you consume a high volume of alcohol in a short time frame. Your kidneys are there to filter out harmful substances from your blood, and one damaging substance that it actively attempts to filter out is alcohol. However, alcohol can actually lead to changes in the function of your kidneys, limiting their ability to filter your blood as is required. Besides filtering your blood, your kidneys perform a number of other important tasks. One such task is maintaining the right amount of water in your body, but alcohol can impact on their ability to do this. Alcohol dehydrates the body, which in turn can affect the normal function of all of your cells and organs, including your kidneys. It’s important to realize that drinking too much alcohol can also mess with your blood pressure, and high blood pressure is a common cause of kidney disease. It’s clear to see that alcohol and your kidneys just don’t gel, so if you want to look after your organs then you need to take steps to limit your drinking sooner rather than later. 

Alcohol Causes Low Mood & Depression 

Alcohol is a depressant, which means that it alters the balance of chemicals in your brain leading to symptoms like low mood, irritability and potentially even suicidal thoughts. Drinking heavily and regularly is associated with depression, as drinking more than the recommended limit of 14 units a week has a negative impact on your brain chemistry and subsequent mental health. Alcohol actually slows down many of the processes that take part inside your brain and central nervous system, and this is why you will initially feel less inhibited. Although you might feel more relaxed to begin with when you start out a drinking session, these effects will wear off fast leaving you with confusion and upset, likely leading you to drink more and more. If you use alcohol to mask any feelings of depression, then there’s a huge risk that you can become reliant on it. Alcohol dependence is almost always coupled with upsetting and difficult mental health issues, so it’s best to work towards limiting your intake before alcohol can impact your long term well-being. 

Alcohol Limits Fertility & Worsens Gynaecological Health 

Alcohol can directly impact on your fertility no matter whether you are male or female. For men, it can decrease their sperm quality, reduce their testicular size, decrease libido and even less to impotence – all of which can limit fertility drastically. For women, alcohol can have a more systemic response, affecting the reproductive hormones and causing abnormalities in the menstrual cycle as well as an increased risk of miscarriage and worsened gynaecological health. Alcohol disrupts a woman’s natural hormonal balance inside the reproductive system, which can in turn cause menstrual irregularities, and even trigger menstrual cycles where ovulation fails to take place. It’s important to note that period pain can be directly linked to how much alcohol you have consumed in the lead up to your menstrual cycle starting, and drinking alcohol can increase the intensity and impact of most gynecological conditions including extreme period pain. You might also be asking, can alcohol cause a UTI? The short answer is yes, so if you want to protect your fertility and overall reproductive or gynecological health, then avoiding alcohol is something you should no doubt consider. 

Alcohol Causes Weight Gain 

It’s common to see heavy drinkers boasting a particularly round beer belly or a swollen chin-neck area, but even those who don’t consume large amounts of alcohol can still be subjecting themselves to an increased likelihood of serious weight gain. One of the biggest reasons why alcohol can cause weight gain is the simple fact that it’s high in calories. Alcohol as a substance is a close second only to pure fat when it comes to calories, and you’d likely be surprised to find out just how many calories are in the average drink. Having a few glasses of beer or wine might seem like nothing, but in fact you could be consuming the same calories as an entire plate of food! Alcohol can also wreak havoc with your metabolism, as your body will begin to use all its energy to burn off the alcohol you’ve consumed rather than burning fat and sugar as it normally would. It also has to be said that drinking alcohol can make you feel more hungry than usual, which is exactly why so many city-center fast food outlets are open until the early hours of the morning. No matter whether you’re a heavy drinker or if you stick to one glass a night, the chances are you’re going to be gaining weight due to your drinking habit. 

Cutting your alcohol intake will help to prevent all of the issues that have been mentioned in this guide. Removing alcohol from your diet and lifestyle isn’t always easy, but it is certainly more than worth it.

Ethel Cain Releases New Song ‘famous last words (an ode to eaters)’

Ethel Cain has released a new song titled ‘famous last words (an ode to eaters)’. “can’t stop thinking abt bones and all,” Ethel Cain wrote on SoundCloud, referring to Luca Guadagnino’s new film starring Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalame as two hungry lovers. “this one’s for lee and maren <3.” Take a listen below.

Bones and All features an original soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, which came out last Friday. Ethel Cain’s debut album, Preacher’s Daughter, was released earlier this year.