Devo will be donating their licensing revenue from their song catalog for the entire month of April to support the Ukrainian people and refugees, Billboard reports. The money will go to Music Saves UA and World Central Kitchen, and the group is asking others in the industry to join them in the effort.
“Vladimir Putin’s rape of a sovereign nation, Ukraine, whose citizens are committed to democratic rule of law should not and cannot stand in the 21st Century,” Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale said in a statement. “To help the victims of Putin’s unprovoked war, Devo will be donating these revenues from the licenses of our song catalog throughout the month of April. We invite our rights holder partners in masters and publishing matters to join us in doing the same. Further we encourage all successful recording artists to do something similar to help make this gesture reach critical mass.”
Music Save UA representative Vlad Yaremchuk commented: “The whole team at Music Saves UA is incredibly grateful for all the donations and constant help and support from the world of music and culture. Our incredible team and dozens of volunteers who joined our cause are working 24/7 to provide supplies and aid via our humanitarian HQ in Kyiv. Every penny that reaches us is put to good use immediately, especially as we work to establish new centers on the Moldovian and Romanian borders for those fleeing. Every act of support is invaluable for us and we deeply appreciate it.”
Weezer appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night (March 21) to deliver a performance of their new single ‘A Little Bit of Love’. The group turned the late-night show stage into a forest, with a rabbit playing mandolin and frontman Rivers Cuomo donning an elf costume. Watch it below.
‘A Little Bit of Love’ is the lead track from the band’s new EP SZNZ: Spring, which arrived last Sunday to coincide with the spring equinox. It’s the first of four seasonally-themed EPs Weezer are set to release this year, each interpolating a movement from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.
For a pop star like Charli XCX, framing is everything. At least since the release of her 2016 Vroom Vroom EP, the British singer’s career has been viewed as a constant push-and-pull between two conflicting musical identities: pop futurist or mainstream hitmaker? While her more spontaneous and experimental releases – from the forward-thinking pop of her 2017 mixtapes to 2020’s landmark quarantine album how i’m feeling now – might be more impactful in the wider musical landscape, her 2019 album Charli successfully bridged that gap by offering a portrait of the artist that sounded polished and seamless yet boundlessly messy and weird. Rather than exploring new ways of merging those two sides, CRASH steers clearly in one direction, making the star-studded Charli seem more like an attempt to achieve blockbuster status than a free-flowing experiment. It’s been positioned as her “main pop-girl moment,” with Charli ushering in her sellout era and embracing the “ultra pop star” version of herself. Whichever way you put it, it’s a move that comes into sharp contrast with the bracing vulnerability of an unplanned project like how i’m feeling now.
What’s potentially concerning about this commitment to dive into “all that the life of a pop figurehead has to offer in today’s world – celebrity, obsession, and global hits,” is not really the suggestion of a conventional pop sound; Charli has more than it takes to sell it. It’s how all of it is delivered with a tongue-in-cheek self-awareness that shows her pulling away from the sincerity that has marked so much of her output, perhaps in an attempt to create some necessary distance between her and the audience after the intensely collaborative process and revealing nature of her previous record. CRASH is the final in a five-album deal Charli signed with Atlantic when she was a teenager, and it has a way of obscuring her true intentions by presenting her as this “otherworldly figure” whose next move you’ll never be able to predict. In effect, it subverts the expectation of the artist as someone always inching closer to a more definitive and unified sound, instead hinting at a perpetual evolution.
Framing aside, CRASH has a defiantly restless character that’s still quintessentially Charli, even if the aesthetic – from the carefully crafted visuals to the ‘80s-style production – leans firmly into nostalgia. If there’s one way she’s removing a piece of herself from the picture, it’s by becoming less self-referential than simply referential. Sure, there are echoes of ‘Gone’ propelling highlight ‘Constant Repeat’, and I don’t need to explain how the album extends her long-standing fascination with car metaphors. From a stylistic standpoint, you can draw parallels to Charli’s work in the early 2010s, further complicating the relatively recent perception of her as a pop vanguard. But where previous Charli projects have seemed more interested in tracing her own musical history by playfully reimaginingherownsongs, CRASH finds pleasure in interpolating classics, most outwardly on ‘Used to Know Me’, which uses the backbeat from Robin S.’s 1990 hit ‘Show Me Love’, and ‘Beg for You’, a collaboration with Rina Sawayama that lifts its melody and chorus from September’s Europop jam ‘Cry for You’. And while she once reminisced about singing Britney Spears back in her old neighbourhood, here she actually enlists ‘…Baby One More Time’ co-producer Rami Yacoub for the track ‘Lightning’.
Though ‘Used to Know Me’ and ‘Beg for You’ stand among the album’s more lackluster moments, ‘Lightning’ finds Charli at her most electrifying and inventive. Aided by Ariel Rechtshaid’s textured production, the track both builds on and flips its power ballad foundations, accentuating the fractured emotions at its core. With lyrics like “Tell me what you want and I’ma give it to ya,” it’s one of the songs you can easily interpret as commentary on the major-label system that tends to exploit female stars like Charli from a young age. The album’s opening lines certainly take on a new meaning in this context: “I’m about to crash into the water, gonna take you with me/ I’m high voltage, self-destructive, end it all so legendary.”
Charli might well be trying to make a point about the music industry here, but it’s not enough to approach the album solely from this angle. The narrative around how i’m feeling now was as much about the unprecedented circumstances that led to its creation as it was about its heartfelt portrayal of relationships during lockdown, and while it’s understandable that CRASH shifts the focus more towards Charli’s recalibrated image and sound, it has a way of undermining the emotional nuance that continues to define her writing. You can talk about what it means for Charli to team up with peers like Caroline Polachek and Christine and the Queens on ‘New Shapes’, or about whether the track really hits (for my money, it does), but there’s also something to be said about how it manages to reframe the self-destructive tendencies laid out in the opener – her inability to stay in one place or commit to a single partner – as potentially liberating for both parties: “We could fall in love in new shapes.” Her interplay with Polachek and Héloïse Letissier adds new dimensions to this unconventional study of intimacy, each responding to its central declaration from a unique perspective.
Though the sonic palette of the album mostly reflects Charli’s renewed sense of confidence, it’s not the only mode she operates in. Over dreamy, pensive production courtesy of Ian Kirkpatrick, she returns to the theme of self-sabotage on ‘Move Me’, where she holds herself accountable for her actions: “Call it what you want, I got a habit for destruction/ Take all of your trust and then betray it like it’s nothing/ I think it’s in my soul, the way I run from something real and leave you wondering.” Here, rather than feeding into the recklessness that pop allows for, she uses its emotive capabilities to communicate her love in a way that’s earnest and grounded. It doesn’t always work: ‘Every Rule’ might be another affecting ballad, but it doesn’t hold the same impact as, say, Charli’s ‘Official’. More interesting is the way it’s juxtaposed with the goofiness (and cynicism) of follow-up ‘Yuck’, a reminder that Charli’s work surveys contradictory emotions as much it does musical styles.
Ultimately, it’s hard to decide if CRASH is an album about self-destruction or reinvention. It finds Charli XCX settling into a recognizable sound, but it comes with the promise that it’s only temporary. Regardless, it no longer seems fair to relate to her music as an expression of conflict, but rather multiplicity and openness. When it comes to fully embodying those qualities, however, the album musically stands in its own way, keeping things safe instead of taking more chances to step into the unknown. It lacks the sense of freedom she tapped into with Charli, even if, by the end, she proves that’s exactly the goal behind everything she does. The two final tracks, ‘Used to Know Me’ and ‘Twice’, kill the momentum the album has mostly sustained up until this point, the latter reaching for a kind of transcendence but failing in execution. As Charli considers the end of the world to remind herself of what really matters in life, she doesn’t leave the impression it’s really the end – at least not the one where she takes us with her. Whatever the future holds, she keeps this personal vision at the back of her mind, knowing only she can make it real.
Denzel Curry has enlisted T-Pain for ‘Troubles’, the latest offering from his upcoming album that’s out at the end of the week. The track was produced by Kenny Beats and DJ Khalil and comes with an accompanying video directed by Adrian Villagomez. Check it out below.
Curry’s new album, Melt My Eyez See Your Future, includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Walkin’ and ‘Zatoichi’. In addition to T-Pain, the record features contributions from 6lack, Rico Nasty, JID, slowthai, Thundercat, Robert Glasper, Karriem Riggins, JPEGMAFIA, and more.
Fontaines D.C. have previewed their forthcoming LP with its title track. ‘Skinty Fia’ is the third single to be released from the album, following ‘I Love You’ and ‘Jackie Down the Line’, both of which landed on our Best New Songs segment. Check out the song’s Hugh Mulhern-directed video below.
Skinty Fia, the follow-up to 2020’s A Hero’s Death, is due for release on April 22 via Partisan Records.
Quasi, the project of Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes, have signed to Sub Pop. According to a press release, the duo are currently working on their first album for the label, though details have yet to be revealed. They’ve also announced a run of North American tour dates with Superchunk and Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers. Find the full list of dates below.
Quasi released their last album, Mole City, in 2013. The new project will mark Weiss’ first LP since she left Sleater-Kinney in 2019 following the release of The Center Won’t Hold.
Quasi 2022 Tour Dates:
Sat Mar. 26 – Boise, ID – Treefort Music Fest
Mon Apr 04 – Seattle, WA – Neumos *
Tue Apr 05 – Portland, OR – Revolution Hall *
Mon Apr. 11 – Buffalo, NY – Rec Room ^
Tue Apr 12 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace ^
Wed Apr 13 – Detroit, MI – El Club ^
Thu Apr 14 – Chicago, IL – Schubas ^
Sat Apr 16 – Minneapolis, MN – 7th St. Entry ^
Mon Apr 18 – Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room ^
Tue Apr 19 – Denver, CO – Globe Hall ^
Wed Apr 20 – Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge ^
Thu Apr 21 – Boise, ID Neurolux ^
Fri Apr 22 – Portland, OR – Dante’s ^
Sat Apr 23 – Vancouver, BC – The Fox Cabaret ^
Sun Apr 24 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s ^
Tue Apr 26 – San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill ^
Wed Apr 27 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo ^
Thu Apr 28 – San Diego, CA – The Casbah ^
Fri Apr 29 – Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole ^
Sat Apr 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar ^
Sun May 1 – Santa Fe, NM – Tumbleroot Brewery ^
Mon May 2 – Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep ^
Tue May 3 – Wichita, KS – WAVE ^
Wed May 4 – Kansas City, MO – recordBar ^
Thu May 5 – St. Louis, MO – Blueberry Hill Duck Room ^
Fri May 6 – Indianapolis, IN – The Hi-Fi ^
Sat May 7 – Louisville, KY – Zanzabar ^
Sun May 8 – Charlottesville, VA – The Southern ^
*with Superchunk
^ with Jon Spencer & the Hitmakers
Adia Victoria has shared a new single called ‘Ain’t Killed Me Yet’, her first new music since the release of 2021’s Southern Gothic. Listen to it below.
Talking about the new track, which was written as a response to Lucille Clifton’s poem ‘Won’t You Celebrate With Me’, Victoria explained:
There was little to celebrate in life the Spring of 2020 but living itself. With the live music industry shuttered to a close I was forced to find a new way to live. I took a job at Amazon to pay the bills and on the way to the warehouse for a red-eye 10 hour shift I considered my dilemma. Racing through empty streets at 2 am, trying to keep to steps ahead of a virus I couldn’t make sense of, life was lived in barest of immediacy–one breath to the next. That Spring I would end every journal entry with “Life ain’t killed me yet.”
‘Ain’t Killed Me Yet’ is the blues existentialism pared down to its bones. It is the irreverent celebration of those who meet life on their own terms. When the future is uncertain, the immediacy of the pleasures and vagrancies of the now is all that matters. I wrote ‘Ain’t Killed Me Yet’ while behind the wheel on the way to work in a warehouse where death was a real possibility. The blues anchored me in the now so that I could not only survive but I could give the finger, and blow smoke in the face of my fear and anxiety.
Your feet are often the first part of your body to show signs of wear and tear, so it is essential to look after them properly. Here are some tips to help keep them healthy:
Wear Appropriate Shoes
Wear comfortable shoes that fit well. It’s essential to choose shoes that support your feet and don’t cause too much pressure on the heels or toes. If you’re going to be doing a lot of walking or standing, choose shoes with good cushioning and shock absorption.
The shoes you wear determine your posture and can prevent back problems and other issues further up the body. For example, too big shoes can cause blisters, while too small shoes can cause corns and calluses.
Moisturise
Moisturize your feet regularly, using a foot cream or lotion. This will help keep the skin on your feet soft and supple and prevent it from becoming dry, cracked, or calloused.
Scrub
Wash your feet every day using soap and warm water. Be sure to scrub between your toes to remove any dirt, sweat, or bacteria lurking there. DryAfter you wash your feet, thoroughly dry them before moving on to the next step. You don’t want any moisture to remain on your skin, as this can lead to fungal infections or other problems.
Always Wear Shoes In Public Places
Wearing shoes in public places is one of the most important things you can do to protect your feet. It helps prevent cuts and scrapes and protects against diseases contracted through contact with contaminated surfaces. If you must go barefoot, clean your feet thoroughly afterwards. Wash them with soap and water and dry them thoroughly.
Don’t Ignore Foot Pain
If you are experiencing foot pain, it is essential to see a doctor. Ignoring pain can lead to further injury and damage to your feet. There are many different causes of foot pain, and a doctor will be able to diagnose the cause of your pain correctly. Once the cause is determined, you can be treated accordingly. Treatment options for foot pain vary depending on the underlying cause. However, some common treatments include rest, ice, elevation, and over-the-counter pain medication.
Treat Yourself To A Pedicure
If you have never had a professional pedicure, you are missing out! Not only will your feet look and feel amazing afterwards, but the process of soaking and exfoliating your feet can do wonders for your overall foot health.
Toenails will be trimmed and filed, calluses and dead skin will be buffed away, and your feet will be massaged with lotion. If you get pedicures regularly, you can even nip potential problems in the bud, as your nail technician will be able to spot early signs of things like fungal infections. Who knows, after taking care of your feet, you may even sell feet pics.
It is essential to look after your feet, and the above tips should help you keep them healthy. If you have any concerns, be sure to consult with a podiatrist. Taking care of your feet will help you stay active and avoid potential injuries. Keep your feet happy and healthy!
The popularity of online betting is only increasing, whether it is through playing a casino game or wagering on the outcome of an event, like a sports match. There are several platforms where a keen gambler can place their online bets, and this simple guide will delve into some of the considerations that you should make before choosing which online betting platform to use. These include the site’s trustworthiness, the range of games available, and whether it has a gambling license, which is a must!
Online gambling these days can be done using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, and this can generate higher-stakes bets and bigger prizes. When gambling with Bitcoin, it is even more important to use a platform you can rely on, and that suits your needs.
What Is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a digital currency, or cryptocurrency, which can be traded, bought, and sold online. Its value is known to fluctuate dramatically, which makes it a highly intense and volatile currency to gamble with. However, this also means that you have the potential to win very big in a single day. Moreover, when you do win an online bet using Bitcoin, you can then save the winnings in your online wallet and watch their value continue to increase as the value of the cryptocurrency goes up.
Bitcoin has become a popular currency to gamble with as it offers you anonymity and security online. This means that even government agencies are not able to trace your online gambling movements. Consequently, you can avoid your gambling winnings being subject to taxes or investigation.
How To Choose Your Betting Site
When doing your research for a good, trusted, and secure online Bitcoin betting site, it is very useful to use a comparison tool. You will find several different sites, all offering varying services and perks with online betting, and you could easily become overwhelmed. A great resource is this list of some of the best Bitcoin gambling sites and their individual benefits. By checking out the direct comparison of these platforms, you can make a more informed and sure choice of which to use when placing your Bitcoin bets.
Some of the key factors to consider when selecting your Bitcoin betting site include but are not limited to, the range of cryptocurrencies the site allows you to bet with. This will matter to those keen online gamblers who deal with more than one kind of digital currency. Moreover, bear in mind that some sites will let you play anonymously, while others do not offer this feature. If your online betting habit is something you prefer to keep private, this will be a key consideration for you.
Finally, it is strongly recommended that you look into the trustability of the online gambling site. If you use a dodgy site that has no positive reviews and is not legitimate, you could find that your digital currency is stolen, and if this happens you will not receive a refund. Please ensure that you research your online betting site well and find one that you feel secure using.
Features To Avoid
If you are researching online Bitcoin gambling sites, there are some things you should know to avoid. For instance, a disappointing selection of betting options. You should check out the variety of sports and casino games offered. If the site you are looking into does not offer you the game of your choice, there is no sense in investigating it further.
On top of this, make sure the gambling site seems legitimate and secure. Every gambling site should have an appropriate betting or gaming license from a recognized agency or authority. If it does not boast this feature on its site, it likely does not have the license, and so is not legally allowed to offer gambling services.
Try Bitcoin Betting Today!
Now that you know, in simple terms, what Bitcoin is, how to choose a betting site, and what to avoid, it is time you give online gambling a shot. When choosing your Bitcoin betting site, bear in mind its trustworthiness, security, and legitimacy. Does the site boast a betting or gaming license? Does the site offer a wide selection of games to bet on? And can you use a range of cryptocurrencies, if that feature appeals to you?
Remember, the value of Bitcoin will fluctuate regularly and significantly. If you have Bitcoin winnings sitting in your wallet and the value of the currency is a little low, fear not. Save your Bitcoin gambling winnings and wait for the next upswing in the cryptocurrency’s value. Before you know it, you will have made a lovely profit.
It’s no secret to many that Twitter is once again gaining momentum and may even overtake Facebook. Therefore, developing and promoting your own business on this social platform is the right decision for modern entrepreneurs. In this article, we will tell you how to promote your Twitter account.
Is it worth it
The answer is definitely positive. Now it remains to understand how to do it correctly in order to achieve the best results. Of course, you can sell your products outside the Internet, but in today’s realities, where information technology rules, it is very difficult to do this. Especially considering the highest level of competition.
Many businessmen are intimidated by getting started in social networks because it requires effort at the first stage. In addition, entrepreneurs are often repelled by the need to invest in promotion. Of course, it’s pretty easy to buy followers on Twitter so you don’t have to spend time developing ads and analyzing your audience. However, this is just an additional way to attract an audience, so you should focus on investing your efforts, not your budget.
How to get a large number of subscribers
If you have created an account, then keep in mind that if it is empty, then this is of little use. Theoretically, everything is very simple: you need to regularly post cool content so that they want to repost it, use hashtags, use keywords, make tweets that are logical and understandable to a wide audience, subscribe to new users, be active on the network, comment on posts, etc.
If you keep doing all this, then you probably won’t have to buy Twitter followers to attract an audience. On the one hand, it may seem that there is nothing complicated in this. But, on the other hand, entrepreneurs who decide to come to this platform face a number of problems. So, according to the results of their work, they do not receive new customers, regular customers ignore invitations, and there is no talk of new orders through the social network at all. What to do?
Most importantly, make your account attractive to potential customers. If it is really interesting, then it will be liked and reposted. In other words, the content you post will be read. And it’s really cool.
Use the correct tags. They do a great job on this social platform. It is extremely important that the hashtags are relevant to the topic of the tweet and profile. A couple of tags will suffice here. Focus on quality, not quantity. For example, you can use the naming of your company as a tag.
Be sure to complete your account information. Why is it necessary? Because this is the easiest way to tell everyone about yourself. Properly informing the target audience is a good step that works to improve the brand’s reputation. Here it is necessary to place such information as: the physical address of the company, a link to the site, information about the company, its mission and practical benefits.
How to promote an account using communications with users
Effective interaction with the audience is the key to successful promotion on any platform. If you decide to develop your brand on Twitter, then communicate with your followers. Subscribe to your customers, competitors, suppliers and so on.
Communicate, build the right dialogue, not a monologue. Engage in online discussions under tweets, react to negativity, thereby reducing it.
Create relevant and useful content
If you post something, be original and unique. Post only quality content in your account, this is a smart way to promote your profile.
There are several types of tweets:
posts that are immediately sent to the news feed of subscribers. All answers will also be visible to everyone.
mentions — messages where other users are mentioned with a link to their profile.
there are also direct tweets. They are sent personally to specific followers.
retweets — tweets from other people that you can share with your followers.
Use all available opportunities to promote your business on social networks. So you can get new customers and tell the world in bright colors about your brand.
