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Caroline Polachek Releases Video for New Song ‘Billions’

Caroline Polachek has released a new song called ‘Billions’. The track, co-produced by Polachek and Danny L Harle and featuring London’s Trinity Boys & Girls Choir, comes with a video co-directed by Polachek and Matt Copson. Check it out below.

“The overabundance of this world overwhelms me,” Polachek said of ‘Billions’ in a statement. “Sometimes it seems like ultimate tragedy, the earth being pillaged and destroyed for it. Sometimes it seems pre-human, beyond morality, sublime. I don’t pick sides, I just live here, with you. How does it feel, being so rich?”

The new single will be part of a 7″ vinyl with a B-side featuring a rework of Polachek’s recent Oneohtrix Point Never collaboration ‘Long Road Home’, which you can also hear below. Since releasing her 2021 single ‘Bunny Is a Rider’, Caroline Polachek has teamed up with Christine and Charli XCX for ‘New Shapes’ and joined Murkage Dave on ‘Awful Things’.

Why Is Having Fast Payout Casinos So Important?

More often than not, people tend to be more concentrated on the variety of games offered by an online casino or if they have free cash bonuses. With that, the manner of deposit and withdrawal processes matter before anything else when selecting a casino. The thrill brought by casino sites will subside if you have to wait for a few more days to withdraw your winnings. You would like to look for fast payout casinos for that reason and ensure secure access to your winnings.

Engaging with instant payout casinos aces up your sleeve, so you can have possession of a bunch of money to invest in bets. It is mainly because they usually permit withdrawal of funds within the next 24 hours to their players. It’s completely different from slow payout casinos, which generally take several weeks or months to process a withdrawal request. Taking it into consideration, it makes you wonder why dealing with fast payout online casinos in Australia matter at all. Does it genuinely give a more significant advantage to players given speed?

What Are Fast Payout Casinos?

Fast payout casinos are gaming dens that indispensably prioritize the prompt and efficient processing of player withdrawal requests.  As a competitive positioning strategy, casinos often associate themselves as fast-paying casinos to light players’ fire. This type of casino has a minuscule pending timescale to none and can transfer your cash in its entirety.

Why Payout Speed Matters?

A clear indication that a casino has exceptional internal processes and control regarding withdrawal response is its ability to process requests with the slightest delay. It’s indisputable that playing at online casinos is quite risky. Therefore, assuring the players with quick payouts can make them more laid back and doubtless about their gaming involvement. For further elaboration of the benefits of fast payout casinos, let’s dive into the following details:

  1. On-the-Spot Payment –Withdrawal requests are processed when a player applies for it and sends the money within the next day.
  2. Impressive Budgeting Control – You are ensured of the exact money transferred to your account and can track when it is received; it gives you the leisure to plan which gaming slots you prefer to spend and even formulate a gambling strategy.
  3. Better Gaming Experience – Players delve into online casinos because of the entertainment it brings to them. If it pays out slowly, it will stress players instead of relieving their uneasiness. Therefore, the smooth-running withdrawal process offered by fast payout casinos will surely step up their gaming experience.
  4. Customer’s Trust and Support – Aside from quick withdrawal processing, fast payout casinos usually provide several customer support options. The choices include email, phone line, and live chat with a customer support representative. By doing so, the casinos can address the concerns and complaints of the players right away, resulting in a strengthened relationship between the two parties. In addition, it will erase all doubts of the players, for it assures that their issues are accounted for and will be resolved immediately.
  5. Great Payout Rates – Playing at fast-paying casino sites will probably give you no additional fees in any transactions. It means that you can avail higher payout rates since higher winnings are attainable.

What Influences Payout Speed?

Various factors determine if the withdrawal process of a casino is speeding up or slowing down. The foremost factor has relevance to the online casino itself. Do they have enough staff to cater to the day-to-day operations and the concerns of the players? In fast payout casinos and significant online casinos, the segregation of duties is well-defined as they assign teams according to deposits, payouts, and withdrawals. Still, it may be the other way around for smaller online casinos.

The withdrawal method applied is another issue to take into consideration. Some ways have slower processing than others, so there will be additional time for the whole transaction if a player chooses it. One more factor that slows the process is the unawareness of a player about wagering requirements and the lowest deposit amounts. They can easily miss it out since these conditions laid out by fast payout casinos are written in small print most of the time.

Final Thoughts on Fast Paying Casinos

To abolish your worries and doubts away, find the most trustworthy payment processor to guarantee a reliable process while you’re having a good time. Let yourself be engrossed in the exhilarating experience effectuated by casino sites, especially now that the future of fast payout casinos is brighter ahead because some payment methods are slowly adopting cryptocurrency payment systems!

High Paying Career Options For Creative People In 2022

Experienced, creative professionals with in-demand skills are getting paid better each year. After the economic slump and hiring freeze of 2020 and 2021, the job market is finally picking up speed starting in 2022. If you have experience in the creative field like design, user experience modelling, arts, or fine arts, there is a high possibility you could land your dream job pretty soon. 

Countries like the United States and Canada are already hiring creative professionals for several excellent job roles in high paying positions. If moving to a new country is something you are looking at, you should get help on immigrating to Canada and consider the job opportunities there. While moving to a new country isn’t always a piece of cake, one of the first things to consider is the job market and roles that fit your skill sets. 

Let us help you with some high paying career options for creative people in 2022. 

 

Creative Director:

Creative Directors are primarily responsible for managing the end-to-end creative process and ensuring quality control and production requirements. They manage and lead large creative teams and actively direct all team members in the advertising, marketing, and production processes for online, TV, PR, and media channels. They are also responsible for ensuring brand voice, tonality, and content is uniform across all streams. 

Most large brands require experienced creative directors with a minimum of 8 years of experience in the field. Creative directors with suitable expertise and education backing their skills get approximately $140,000 per annum with a host of benefits and take home incentives. A strong background in video content creation and editing or copywriting is usually one of the most basic requirements for this job position. 

Creative Directors have extremely transferrable job roles and are in excellent positions to shift from their home country to another. Depending on the years of experience and the fields worked, getting a higher salary jump and better benefits is possible.

Front-end Web Developer:

Front-end web developers are responsible for bringing cohesive structure to UX, digital marketing, design, and ideas. These professionals must write comprehensive code for mobile and web-based applications, develop appealing user experiences, and control and manage the web development process across multiple channels. This job role is collaborative, so most web developers need proven track records of team building, cross-group work experience, and several soft skills. 

Besides communication skills, front-end web developers also need to be wizards at HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and sometimes jQuery. Most brands also prefer hiring someone with experience in Adobe Creative Suite and content management systems. The average salary for this position is $95,000 and more. 

Front-end Web Developers are not specific to any field and have a lot of scope to move between cities or countries. Developer job opportunities in countries like the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and more are excellent. 

Public Relations (PR) Director:

PR Directors excel at creating go-to-market public relations strategies, overseeing the budgets, developing and managing large PR teams, and ensuring implementation of all PR initiatives. PR Directors ensure uniformity in the brand voice, manage all positive and negative associations with the brand, and help in improving the overall business or company image in front of the consumers and general public. 

Public Relations Directors are also responsible for arranging interviews with celebrities, bringing them on board as the face of the brand for marketing activities, using influencers to create a positive buzz, dealing with sensitive issues surrounding the brand, and dealing with the brand reputation. The approximate salary of a PR Director is $100,000 for someone with experience working in large companies. 

With the onset of so many opportunities being opened in different countries, most PR Directors also have a lot of scope to shift. The job is applicable across several large fields and geographies. If you plan to shift, you should try to get the legalities and paperwork done as soon as possible, so you can hunt for accommodation and employment in the new country. It is also good to ensure you look towards selling your current house, fix claims for housing disrepair, and start winding down the entire household. Doing this will help save a lot of time and money in the long term. 

Other jobs also have an excellent scope of work and high salaries like UX Designers, Art Directors, Interactive Art Directors, Brand Managers, Mobile Designers, Advertising Directors, and more. Most of these jobs are highly transferrable and can be sought in different countries with a better chance of employment, standard of living, and salaries.

Fleet Foxes Announce 2022 World Tour

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Fleet Foxes have announced a headlining tour in support of their 2020 album Shore. Set to kick off on June 27, the tour will mark the band’s return to live shows since 2018 and spans North America, the UK, and Europe. It will feature Robin Pecknold joined by multi-instrumentalists Skyler Skjelset, Casey Wescott, Christian Wargo, and Morgan Henderson. Tickets go on sale on Friday, February 18. Check out the full list of dates and a tour trailer below.

Fleet Foxes 2022 Tour Dates:

Jun 27 – Salt Lake City, UT – Sandy Amphitheater
Jun 28 – Denver, CO – The Mission Ballroom
Jul 1 – Dallas, TX – The Factory in Deep Ellum
Jul 2 – Houston, TX – 713 Music Hall
Jul 3 – Austin, TX – Moody Amphitheater
Jul 5 – Phoenix, AZ – Arizona Federal Theatre
Jul 6 – San Diego, CA – Cal Coast Credit Union Amphitheater
Jul 8 – Los Angeles, CA – The Greek Theatre
Jul 9 – Santa Barbara, CA – Santa Barbara Bowl
Jul 10 – Berkeley, CA – The Greek Theatre
Jul 12 – Portland, OR – McMenamins Edgefield Amphitheater
Jul 15 – Seattle, WA – King County’s Marymoor Park
Jul 29 – Raleigh, NC – Red Hat Amphitheater
Jul 30 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy
Jul 31 – Pelham, TN – The Caverns
Aug 2 – Minneapolis, MN – Surly Brewing Festival Field
Aug 3 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Aug 5 – Detroit, MI – Masonic Temple Theatre
Aug 6 – Toronto, ON – Massey Hall
Aug 9 – Columbia, MD – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aug 10 – Boston, MA – Leader Bank Pavilion
Aug 12 – Philadelphia, PA – The Mann Center
Aug 13 – New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium
Aug 26 – London, UK – All Points East
Aug 28 – Dublin, IE – National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
Aug 30 – Edinburgh, UK – Usher Hall
Aug 31 – Glasgow, UK – O2 Academy Glasgow
Sep 2 – Wiltshire, UK – End of the Road Festival
Sep 3 – Manchester, UK – O2 Apollo Manchester
Sep 5 – Paris, FR – Salle Pleyel
Sep 6 – Antwerp, BE – De Roma
Sep 7 – Brussels, BE – Ancienne Belgique
Sep 9 – Amsterdam, NL – Paradiso
Sep 10 – Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg (Ronda)
Sep 11 – Berlin, BE – Columbiahalle

 

The Beths Share New Single ‘A Real Thing’

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The Beths have dropped a new single called ‘A Real Thing’. Their first new song since the release of their 2020 LP Jump Rope Gazers, the track arrives ahead of the group’s upcoming UK tour. Check out a video for it below.

“‘A Real Thing’ is a kind of anxiety dream. It’s a bit muddled, a bit frantic, a bit sinister,” lead singer Liz Stokes explained in a press release. “It’s what came out of my guitar in late 2020, post NZ election (and U.S. election). I was limply reaching for optimism about the future, but was really just marinating in dread.”

Maria BC Announces New Album ‘Hyaline’, Unveils New Song ‘The Only Thing’

Maria BC has announced their debut album, Hyaline, which comes out May 27 via Father/Daughter (US) and Fear of Missing Out Records (UK). Today’s announcement comes with the release of a new single called ‘The Only Thing’, alongside an accompanying video. Check it out below.

The Ohio-born, Oakland, CA-based artist recorded Hyaline in their untreated apartment when they used to live in Brooklyn, using tracks recorded directly into their phone and audio samples collected over the years alongside ethereal guitars and minimal percussion.

‘The Only Thing’ is “about allowing yourself to be seen fully by another person. When you find they aren’t afraid, you realize you shouldn’t be either,” Maria BC explained in a statement. “It took me a bunch of tries to finish the arrangement for this one. It felt too sparse, while the song is about that full, effervescent, sun-is-coming-up feeling of new love. I spent several weeks adding parts and scrapping them — you know, getting nowhere. Then, at some point, I realized the refrain of another song I was working on had the same chord progression as ‘The Only Thing’ refrain. I turned that into a kind of counter-melody, Liz Fraser style, and I think it tied the whole thing together.”

Hyaline will follow Maria BC’s debut EP Devil’s Rain.

Hyaline Cover Artwork:

Hyaline Tracklist:

1. No Reason
2. April
3. The Only Thing
4. ROF
5. Keepsakes
6. Rerun
7. ***
8. Betelgeuse
9. The Big Train
10. Good Before
11. Hyaline

Father John Misty Shares Video for New Song ‘Q4’

Father John Misty has shared a new single, ‘Q4’, taken from his upcoming fifth album Chloë and the Next 20th CenturyIt arrives today alongside a video directed by Grant James, with title design by Rafa Orrico and animation by Cossa. Check it out below.

The follow-up to 2018’s God’s Favorite Customer is due for release on April 8 via Sub Pop. Father John Misty announced the LP back in January with the single ‘Funny Girl’, which landed on our Best New Songs series. On April 14, the singer-songwriter will celebrate the release of Chloë and the Next 20th Century with a pair of performances presented by Rough Trade and Rockefeller Center at the Rainbow Room in NYC.

Kathleen Frances Releases New Single ‘Boy’

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Kathleen Frances has released a new single called ‘Boy’. It’s the third single from her forthcoming debut EP Through the Blue, following ‘Shout Love’ and ‘Grown’. Give it a listen below.

“This one took me ages to write,” Frances explained in a statement. “I was really hurting from a breakup. I just wasn’t ready to go there. I had a few nice ideas but nothing that felt right. It was all too surface level. I had to find what I really felt about it deep down, underneath the feelings of betrayal and bruised ego. I had to figure out what I really wanted from this person now.”

“Things change, people change,” Frances continued. “It’s sad but it’s also hopeful, it allows you to take stock and figure out what you really want. With this song, I was attempting to get the balance right between cathartic sadness and self assuredness.”

Through the Blue is due out on March 2. Last month, Frances shared a cover of Electric Youth and College’s ‘A Real Hero’ as part of Secretly Canadian’s 25 year anniversary celebrations.

Helena Deland Releases New Single ‘Swimmer’

Helena Deland has shared a new single called ‘Swimmer’. It marks the Montreal singer-songwriter’s first solo release since her 2020 debut album Someone NewCheck out its self-directed video below.

‘Swimmer’ is dedicated to Deland’s mother, who passed away last year. In a statement, Deland wrote:

A little while after finding out that my mother was sick and that our days together were numbered, I went through a fundamental change, faced as I was with the need to reconsider things I had taken for granted. Growing older with her was now an impossible scenario, but I was being offered a suspension, some time to understand and try to change patterns that had been detrimental to our relationship, and to love her how I wished for her to be loved.

I feel that we are in a similar predicament with the world, faced with the climate crisis.

Some losses are too big to wrap our minds around. Here, I am on the beach, watching my mother swim, faced with the immensity of the ocean, of our fragility, riding the troughs of magical thinking and crests of acceptance.

“How detailed and hopeful,
how exact
everything is in the light
on the rippling sand,

at the edge of the turning tide —
its upheaval —
its stunning proposal —
its black, anonymous roar.”

– Mary Oliver, “Clamming”, Dream Work

‘Swimmer’ arrives ahead of Deland’s 2022 tour, which includes dates supporting The Weather Station and Andy Shauf. Last year, she released Hildegard, a collaboration with Ouri. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Hildegard.

Watch Little Simz Perform ‘Introvert’ and ‘Woman’ at BRIT Awards 2022

Little Simz performed a medley of ‘Introvert’ and ‘Woman’ at the 2022 BRIT Awards, where she was joined by The Crown‘s Emma Corrin in a surprise appearance. Watch their performance at London’s O2 Arena below.

The UK rapper was nominated for four awards at this year’s BRITs, including MasterCard Album of the Year (for Sometimes I Might Be Introvert), Artist of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best Hip Hop/Grime/Rap Act. She took home the award for Best New Artist.