The Lemon Twigs appeared on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they performed their recent single ‘My Golden Years’. In his introduction, Falson also revealed that the duo have a new album on the way called A Dream Is All We Know, which will follow last year’s Everything Harmony. Watch the performance below.
Holly Humberstone Joins Del Water Gap on New Song ‘Cigarettes & Wine’
Del Water Gap – the solo project of Samuel Holden Jaffe – has enlisted Holly Humberstone for the new single ‘Cigarettes & Wine’. Check it out below.
“‘Cigarettes & Wine’ is an ode to a transatlantic long distance relationship,” Jaffe explained in a statemenet. “It’s about finally getting to catch a moment with the person you’ve been missing the most, and the threads that keep you connected when you’re once again forced to say goodbye.”
Humberstone added: “Working on ‘Cigarettes & Wine’ with one of my favourite artists has been so much fun. I first met Holden about three years ago at the very start of my career when we played a show together at The Roxy in Los Angeles. It was my first time in the states and I’d been a huge fan of Holden’s music and so I was pretty star struck! As the years have gone on I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot more time in the states, but have definitely felt the pressures that long distance can put on relationships and I think that’s something that a lot of touring artists can really relate to. It’s a song that is so meaningful to me and being able to create it with one of my favourite writers has really been a dream and I hope people love it as much as we do.”
Del Water Gap’s second album, I Miss You Already + I Haven’t Left Yet, came out last year on Mom+Pop. Holly Humberstone released her debut LP, Paint My Bedroom Black, in October.
Billy Joel Releases ‘Turn the Lights Back On’, First New Song in 17 Years
Billy Joel has returned with ‘Turn the Lights Back On’, his first original song in 17 years. The song was produced by Freddy Wexler and co-written by Joel, Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector. Listen to it below.
‘Turn the Lights Back On’ marks Billy Joel’s first new music since the 2007 songs ‘All My Life’ and ‘Christmas in Fallujah’. His last pop album was 1993’s River of Dreams, though he released the classical music album Fantasies & Delusions in 2001.
Billy Joel is set to perform at the 2024 Grammys this weekend. It will be his first time playing the ceremony in 22 years.
5 Mistakes to Avoid When Playing Online Slot Games
Online casino games are undeniably appealing. The fact that you can play from anywhere and the wide variety of casino games available at your fingertips have made online gambling incredibly popular. That said, before you immerse yourself in online action here are a few things you need to know.
In this article, we have compiled a list of common mistakes that players make when chasing the coveted jackpot prize.
1. Not Setting a Budget
Managing your bankroll comes before everything and this goes for both online and physical casinos. Set a budget beforehand and stick to it. This should be an amount that you can afford to gamble away. Keep track of your spending, and most importantly, don’t get carried away if you are having good luck.
Even if you win a jackpot, make sure you cash out the prize immediately. This way you will have a bigger budget for your next session, setting yourself up for a refreshing start. Incorporating this strategy will help you maximize your wins in the long term.
2. Not Taking Advantage of Bonuses and Promotions
Credible casinos often run promotions that reward players with extra cash. Most casinos offer these bonuses and promotions to attract new players and encourage them to try out more games. Depositing with crypto is another promotion that you should be on the lookout for, as these typically reward more than traditional currency deposits.
Some promotions are reoccurring while some are one-time rewards that may give you up to 2x your original deposits. So, read the terms of bonuses carefully, as some platforms have rollover requirements that players need to meet before cashing out their winnings.
3. Not Understanding the RTP
Chances are you might have heard of RTP or Return-To-Player but don’t understand what it means. RTP is a percentage that shows how much money is returned to the player based on their bet amount. Mostly slot machines use this concept to determine how much a player can win and how much the house profits.
For instance, a slot with an RTP of 97% means the player can expect $97 back for every $100 wager. RTP is a long-term average which means the percentage of all money wagered on a game is paid back to players over time, so this is by no means a guarantee.
4. Playing at Unlicensed Casinos
Many states do not allow gambling within their borders, but at the same time, they do not restrict online gambling. Most credible online gambling establishments that offer slots are registered in countries where gambling is legal.
Licensed online casinos ensure that their players get a fair gambling experience and provide 24-hour customer assistance through various channels. You can find the licensing information of an online casino establishment on its website footer or “About” page. If the website looks shady and doesn’t have much information, it’s likely unlicensed so stay away from those.
5. Avoid Falling into Sunken Cost Fallacy Trap to Win Big in the Long Run
Everybody has losing streaks and since casino games are all about luck you will often get disappointing results before you hit the jackpot. As we mentioned earlier, manage your bankroll by setting aside cash that you can afford to lose.
The entire gambling experience should be fun and entertaining. It would help if you learned how to make informed decisions to maximize your winning and when to stop. Just because you have already spent a lot doesn’t mean you have to continue the cycle. Don’t chase losses, come back next time, and test your luck again. This is the most effective way of avoiding falling into the sunk cost fallacy trap.
What Are Slots with Sizeable Payouts & Flexible Bet Range?
There are hundreds of slots available online, but only a few of them shine due to their high payouts and big grand prizes. High payout slots are determined by their gameplay mechanics that feature free spins, multipliers, bonus rounds, and retriggers. Of course, as you play slots with sizeable payouts, you may aim for the jackpot, which exists as a grand prize, however, there are several other ways online slots pay out their rewards.
“A Night with Cleo” Slot is especially known for its progressive jackpot and gambling feature with the potential to multiply your original wager by several times. “Golden Buffalo” is another high-paying slot that offers 4,096 ways to win. Not only that but it also features three winnable jackpots.
Other notable high-paying slots are Lawless Ladies, Reels & Wheels, Fury of Zeus, 777 Deluxe, Mythic Wolf, and Pirates Pick.
Wrapping Up
Understanding the mechanics and concepts behind slot games is crucial for winning more frequently. Once you learn and practice different types of games enough you will have an easier time exploring your options. This can be applied to other games besides slots as well. Additionally, you can make use of “Free Play” modes to understand the games better without wagering real money.
Does Real-Time Strategy have a Place in the Gaming Ecosystem?
Real-time strategy games belong to a sub-genre that encourages you, as a player, to make decisions. It may be that you have to manage resources, build units or defend your territory from hostile invaders. You’ll have to do this while racing against the clock, and other people. Real-time strategy games are all about pace, and whether you are in charge of a whole civilisation or working as a simple farmer trying to make a profitable harvest, time management and solid strategy adoption are key to success.
Real-Time Strategy is Changing the Game
Real-time strategy games are influencing the gaming ecosystem as we know it. Strategy games are known for being both fast and intensive. In some ways, however, they also force you to slow down. When building an empire, it may take you several hours to establish a barracks or construct a stable so you can train horsemen. At the same time though, you may be forced to make important decisions regarding your battle strategy in a matter of seconds. Pacing is everything, and the ebb and flow of this genre is one of the many things that helps to make it so appealing.
Casino games follow a very similar concept. Games like poker happen in real time, with players having to make quick decisions based on the cards that are dealt. You may spend hours coming up with a strategy, only to pivot at the last second in an attempt to outsmart opponents. Other casino games, including online pokies at Sky City also work in real-time, with strategic decisions including whether to hold or nudge, along with the introduction of bonus rounds. Games like this show that real-time strategy games are not localised to consoles, and in reality, play a major part in the traditional gaming ecosystem too.
The Boom Behind Real-Time Strategy Games
Real-time strategy games are experiencing a huge boom right now. A lot of this comes down to the fact that people simply want more from the games that they play. At one point, people wanted better graphics, which then moved to people valuing the importance of a good storyline. Game developers are continually trying to keep up with the constant demand of players, and this is where real-time strategy games have a big part to play. Real-time strategy games utilise something human in a very digital world, the concept of time. They bring a human element to virtual games and force you to use the time you have to your advantage. Time management is key, and although with some games, when you hit pause, the game stops, that isn’t usually the case with RTS games. The virtual world will keep ticking over as the hours in your day go by. Your crops will grow, your armies will continue to fight under your banner and things will continually develop.
AI mechanics play a huge part in RTS games and with the recent advancement of AI, it’s no surprise to see that it is helping to bring this underground genre back into the forefront.
Lana Del Rey Announces New Country Album ‘Lasso’
Lana Del Rey has announced she has a new country album in the works. The singer-songwriter confirmed her plans for a new LP, titled Lasso, at Billboard’s pre-Grammy event in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.
Del Rey took the stage to pay tribute to Jack Antonoff, who’s competing for his third consecutive win as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical at this year’s Grammys. ”If you can’t already tell by our award winners and our performers, the music business is going country,” Del Rey told the crowd. “We’re going country. It’s happening. That’s why Jack has followed me to Muscle Shoals, Nashville, Mississippi, over the last four years – to write our album, coming out in September, called Lasso.”
The new album will follow 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, which earned the singer five Grammy nods, including Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Album. Her song ‘A&W’ is up for Song of the Year and Best Alternative Music Performance, while ‘Candy Necklace’ with Jon Batiste is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Back in December, Del Rey shared a cover of the John Denver classic ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’.
Torrey Share New Single ‘Bounce’
Bay Are band Torrey have shared ‘Bounce’, the latest offering from their self-titled sophomore album, which arrives March 8 on Slumberland Records. It follows lead single ‘No Matter How’. Check it out below.
“Even people who seem like they’ve got it all together have doubts and insecurities — ‘Bounce’ is about that conflict,” the band explained in a statement. “It’s a call and response between joys and fears, highs and lows, wrapped in walls of sound and static.”
Album Review: Future Islands, ‘People Who Aren’t There Anymore’
Last year, Samuel T. Herring lent his voice to one the most memorable hooks on billy woods and Kenny Segal’s masterful Maps. “I can’t take you with me, but I be on your phone,” the Future Islands frontman – also a rapper who made his own joint LP with Segal, Back at the House, in 2019 – on ‘FaceTime’, capturing of the essence of a song about the pervasive loneliness and strange comfort of life on the road. There’s a kind of disassociation the mind enacts in order to reconcile the two, which is mirrored in Segal’s woozy, hypnotic production. Much of Future Islands’ latest record, People Who Aren’t There Anymore, their first since 2020’s As Long As You Are, digs into a similar headspace – having to stay strong for people who are far away, keeping it together in a world that’s falling apart, saving face – but the band’s taut, forceful brand of synth-pop is made for desperately clinging to the ideal, not the reality of sinking away. “Life is imperfect bodies/ And perfect sounds,” Herring sings on ‘Peach’.
With their increasingly refined sound, Future Islands tend to bury the imperfections, but not the yearning, until it’s clear they’re fuelling each other. The record revolves around the disintegration of a romance that’s not presented in any linear fashion, but Herring’s framing feels deliberate as soon as he introduces us to its early peak on the opener, ‘King of Sweden’. He’s long given up on “the certainty of love,” he admits on ‘The Fight’, a song whose emotion runs parallel to ‘FaceTime’: “Can I do it alone? dNow I’m back in my cell/ Back with myself/ Waiting on the phone.” But rather than drift back or accept defeat, he resolves to keep striving, even as the cracks in the relationship begin to show. On the more upbeat ‘The Thief’, he confesses, “I know I was gone/ But I was here all along/ Hidden in the things you keep,” while ‘Deep in the Night’ and ‘Say Goodbye’ radiate devotion. But it’s only so long you can repeat the same cycle before realizing you’re stuck in limbo and losing yourself in the process; People Who Aren’t There Anymore doesn’t just refer to those who, for whatever reason, leave, but the version of yourself who already has.
While it doesn’t directly chronicle the love that’s fading, the album is energized by the push-and-pull of hope and despair that are always in its orbit. Racing to the steady groove of ‘Peach’, which came out all the way back in 2021, Herring reaches for acceptance in an unforgiving world, one he’s quick to blame on the next track, ‘The Sickness’. By that point, though, he’s already faced the harsh truth on ‘Corner of My Eye’, a mid-album ballad set on the darkest nights when you realize “It all can leave you, in the blink of an eye.” You can’t pretend “nothing’s wrong” and “everything’s a mystery” when it’s staring you right in the face. “It’s perfect, so it’s done,” Herring sings. By which he means, it was, and it’s time to move on.
Though packed with anthemic singles that easily sit alongside their best, People Who Aren’t There Anymore feels more substantial for giving room to these moments of poignant clarity. Herring is an incredibly unique and emotive vocalist who can provide nuance just by winding his poetry around a song, but the richness and immediacy of the songwriting here speaks for itself; you get the sense that he’s processing grief in real-time, even if the songs took different forms over the years, and will continue to do so. “If you listen to other Future Islands songs, it’s me singing about a long past, or maybe a not-so-close past, but it’s like a reflection,” he said in a recent interview. “These were songs written in really emotional times, so there’s still some reckoning and understanding to be gained.” The album rewards you for staying with it, not least because the emotions never feel quite the same – and only then can you recognize the ones worth holding on to.
Raymond Weil Unveil Their Inaugural Millesime Collection
The well-established watch brand Raymond Weil announced their inaugural millesime collection, which pays homage to horological heritage and traditions while celebrating refined design simplicity.
The millesime collection showcases a complex and carefully orchestrated watchmaking process and comprises two horological variations: 2925 and 2930. Both models are housed in a slim stainless-steel case, measuring 39.5mm in diameter — making it perfect for those who like to stay in the middle lane when it comes to size.
The millesime 2930 features a small seconds display at 6 o’clock which is enhanced with subtle details. Just recently, this new millesime automatic small seconds timepiece has won the Grand Prix de l’Horlogeriel’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG) 2023 Challenge Watch Prize.
The millesime collection is available now at Raymond Weil, starting from £1,395.
10 Best Quotes from The Power of the Dog (2021)
The Power of the Dog (2021), directed by Jane Campion, is a movie based on the 1967 novel The Power of the Dog by Thomas Savage. By blood, Phil and George Burbank are wealthy ranchers in Montana in 1925. When George marries Rose with her son and moves in with them on the ranch, everything takes a turn. The Power of the Dog (2021) ends with an unexpected plot twist that will captivate audiences.
In addition to the excellent performance, direction, and atmospheric portrayal of the American West, this film also presents themes of family dynamics, masculinity, and repressed emotions. In this movie, Benedict Cumberbatch received several award nominations for his role as Phil Burbank, which has been highly praised by critics.
- Peter Gordon: [reading from the Psalms] “Deliver my soul from the sword. My darling from the power of the dog.”
- Peter Gordon: When my father passed, I wanted nothing more than my mother’s happiness. For what kind of man would I be if I did not help my mother? If I did not save her?
- Phil Burbank: Bronco Henry told me that a man was made by patience in the odds against him.
- Rose Gordon: We’re not unreachable.
- Rose Gordon: I had to kind of live in this really painful, insecure, terrible place, and feel terrible about myself the whole time, so that’s not the most fun. But I do it for Jane!
- Phil Burbank: You have to understand why these damaged people are causing damage to others and themselves. Whether that’s world leaders on the stage — strong men in politics who have risen again in recent times — or whether that’s something in your own life or culture.
- Bronco Henry: “That Saddle Belonged To Bronco Henry, The Greatest Horseman I Ever Knew.”
- Phil Burbank: “Just Know A Man’s Feeling For Another Can Go Very Deep. It Happened With Me And Bronco, Shocked The Life Out Of Me I Can Tell You.”
- Phil Burbank : Yeah… he was. He was more than that. Once, he saved my life. We were way off up in the hills shooting elk, and the weather turned mean. Bronco kept me alive by… lying body against body in a bedroll. Fell off to sleep that way.
- Peter Gordon : You want me, Mr. Burbank? Phil Burbank : Well, I don’t see any Mr. Burbank here. I’m Phil.
