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Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, Missy Elliott Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees

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Kate Bush, Rage Against the Machine, Missy Elliott Among Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2023 Inductees

The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame has announced its 2023 inductees: Kate Bush, Rage Against The Machine, George Michael, Missy Elliott, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, and the Spinners.

DJ Kool Herc and Link Wray will receive the Musical Influence Award, while the Musical Excellence Award is going to Chaka Khan, Al Kooper and Bernie Taupin. The late Soul Train host Don Cornelius is this year’s Ahmet Ertegun Award recipent. The artists who were nominated for 2023 induction but were snubbed are A Tribe Called Quest, Cyndi Lauper, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Soundgarden, Warren Zevon, and the White Stripes.

The 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony takes place Friday, November 3 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. “This year’s incredible group of inductees reflects the diverse artists and sounds that define rock’n’roll,” John Sykes, president of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, said in a statement. “We are honored that this November’s induction ceremony in New York will coincide with two milestones in music culture; the 90th birthday of Willie Nelson and the 50th Anniversary of the birth of hip-hop.”

Speakers Corner Quartet Enlist Kae Tempest for New Song ‘Geronimo Blues’

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Speakers Corner Quartet Enlist Kae Tempest for New Song ‘Geronimo Blues’

Speakers Corner Quartet have linked up with Kae Tempest for ‘Geronimo Blues’, the latest single from the South London collective’s upcoming record Further Out Than the Edge. Listen to it below.

“It made sense to build the track around their vocals, as the poetry felt better suited to a more stripped back, cinematic feeling,” the group’s Biscuit explained in a press release. “The lyrics and themes are timeless. When we discussed it recently, we felt like the song’s texture is sand and the emotion is time.”

“The relevance of this song comes around and around. All of the subject matter feels like it’s on loop,” drummer Kwake Bass said, with bassist Peter Bennie adding: “Yeah, I’m always surprised just how relevant the lyrics feels, no matter how many times I’ve listened to it.”

Further Out Than the Edge is due out June 2 on OTIH Records. It includes the previously unveiled singles ‘Can We Do This?’ (featuring Sampha), ‘fix’ (with Tirzah), and ‘On Grounds’ (featuring Coby Sey).

Witch Share New Single ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’

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Witch Share New Single ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’

Witch have shared a new single, ‘Unimvwesha Shuga’, the second preview of their first album in 39 years. It follows Zango‘s lead offering ‘Avalanche of Love’, which features Sampa the Great. Take a listen below.

“In that studio, we felt the freedom to express ourselves in ways that are often restricted in our own culture because of us being women,” the group’s Theresa Ng’ambi said in a statement. “‘Unimvwesha Shuga’ is an expression of love and passion, we (Hanna and I) were gossiping about our fantasies as girls and the things we dreamt to express but wouldn’t normally be able to. To us, singing these words was a liberation to express our crazy fantasies.”

Zango is slated to arrive on June 2 via Desert Daze Sound.

Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Achtung’

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Modern Woman Release New Song ‘Achtung’

Modern Woman have released a new single, ‘Achtung’. Following last July’s ‘Ford’, the track was produced and mixed by Oli Barton-Wood and mastered by Jason Mitchell. Check it out below.

“‘Achtung’ was a song that I wrote around the bassline when I didn’t have any other instruments around, which when we developed as a band focused on trying to build a kind of tension and release within the music,” frontperson and guitarist Sophie Harris said of the song in a statement. “Lyrically it’s a bit of a stream of consciousness about memories of childhood.”

“‘When I was in school I used to live round the corner from a friend who I had a real crush on. His parents were German, and his Dad scared me,” Harris continued. “If we were in his room and had the window open, we could hear his neighbour playing hymns on the piano. His dad also used to come in and shout at us if we were doing things we weren’t supposed to, which was often. The song is made up of snapshots of images of going round to that house as there were a lot of emotions flying round. It definitely reminds me of a more innocent time.”

Carla J Easton Returns With New Song ‘One Week’

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Carla J Easton Returns With New Song ‘One Week’

Carla J Easton is back with a new song called ‘One Week’. It’s the first single from her upcoming album SUGAR HONEY, the follow-up to 2020’s Weirdo, which is due out in October via Olive Grove Records. Check it out below.

“’One Week’ was recorded live off the floor at MacArts (Galashiels) and engineered by longtime collaborator Stephen Watkins,” Easton explained in a press release. “It’s produced by my drummer Calum Muir and I co-mixed it with Ronan Breslin at La Chunky Studio (Glasgow). What’s been so exciting about creating my latest work is that it’s the first time me and my live band have produced all the tracks”

She added: “I’m really interested in the way we recall memories and use days of the week as markers for remembering previous events. ‘I must have went for dinner on Tuesday because on Monday night I was out with a friend’ etc. So that idea was the starting point for the story of a relationship unravelling fast.”

Last year, Easton and Simon Liddell’s project Poster Paints released their self-titled debut LP. Revisit our Artist Spotlight Q&A with Carla J Easton.

Great Movies for Students That Can Help in Many Ways

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Great Movies for Students That Can Help in Many Ways

The process of learning consists of various academic assignments. Some of them are easy to complete, and others may puzzle you a lot. Students commonly like to write essays, reports, and reviews about movies, especially when these are movies about students. They are close to them because they commonly focus on their own needs, fears, beliefs, and hopes. It’s not always easy to highlight such essentials. At times, students simply don’t have enough experience to reflect their ideas on paper.

Some folks cannot write great papers just because they don’t watch good pieces. They don’t want to undergo college student burnout just because some of their tasks are too hard to complete. Thus, we want to help such students. The experts from AffordablePapers, which is a top-rated cheap essay writing service, have analyzed thousands of movies they all watched to recommend the best ones. These are not only movies about students and education. These are movies for students as they focus on various crucial issues. If you find that our list offers pieces that have to relate to student life, don’t be surprised. It means they can teach you something vital!

The Lord of the Rings

The trilogy of The Lord of the Rings fairly belongs to the best movies for students and anyone else of all time! Numerous awards in various categories leave you breathless for a while. Which one of the 3 films to watch? You should watch them all! Each part teaches you many vital morals and makes you reconsider some of your foundations.

The central idea is a fight of good against evil. Yet, it invoices such things as faith, resistance to evil, real friendship, dignity, loyalty, and so on. While some heroes give in to the worst, others find hope in each other and the ones they love. It is about making the choice that can lead you to victory or failure. We can withstand all the evil if we have faith in other people.

Good Will Hunting

This is one of the true masterpieces of movies for college students. It suits youngsters greatly because it focuses on a teen who has a brilliant mind but definite personal issues. He has no purpose in life, and one experience professor tries to help him. The psychologist tries to dig into the root of the problem and finds opposition. Moreover, he likewise faces his own issues. These two turn out to be tied to one another. If they find out how to collaborate, both of them will find the required solutions. Otherwise, everything may go amiss.

The Graduate

This one belongs to the most motivational movies for students. It is about a youngster, a graduate, and in the middle of a serious life choice. His father has already decided what career he must follow. Nonetheless, the graduate realizes that this path is false for him. There is also love and other vital things for teens. Therefore, this piece is captivating for all students.

In Pursuit of Happyness,

We need to mention this piece as one of the most inspirational movies for students and simply everyone. It is a true story about a lonely man with a kid. He loses a job, and all seem to turn their backs on him and his issues. Nonetheless, the main hero does not give up when most people would. This is a miraculous story of success. Some might claim that it’s another Hollywood scenario. Nonetheless, it’s a real story, and it may inspire a lot of people. It is especially vital for teens who are only trying to find their life and career aims. Watch it to realize that everything is possible if you really want to enjoy success. Pursuit your happiness to be happy!

Hidden Figures

We are convinced that “Hidden Figures” is a great piece that is worth your attention. It is based on real events that took place while the launching of Apollo-11. Yet, it mainly focuses on 3 Afro-American women who work at NASA. Those were bad times for all black people who are only were getting on their road to equality.

One of the women turns out to be a mathematician genius who can calculate better than any computer. She works separately from the main experts because of racial issues. Yet, she does not complain and fulfills her duties perfectly. At the time, it turns out that the team of Apollo-11 has serious problems, and all the members may die. The woman is asked to help, and she shows that the computer is wrong. Will others listen to her or to the computer? Watch this captivating piece to find it out!

Les Misérables

This one is a special film we have kept to end our review. It’s a musical, and it is perfect! The famous creation of Victor Hugo was filmed ideally, and all the actors performed excellently. The musical gets a hold of your heart instantly and will not let you before it ends. You should not miss this impressive movie!

The Bottom Line

It is very interesting to watch various movies with different plots and topics. Many of them let you review the same issue from a new angle. They can even change your opinion. It’s helpful for students to watch great pieces and afterward write reports to express their thoughts creatively.

EP Review: Beach House, ‘Become’

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EP Review: Beach House, ‘Become’

The five songs on Become, the new EP Beach House released for Record Store Day that is now available across digital platforms, clearly belong in the same universe as the duo’s 2022 album Once Twice Melody. They’re all lifted from the same sessions, and at one point, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally felt like they created their own little world. “To us, they are all kind of scuzzy and spacious, and live in the spirit realm,” they wrote, which, typical sonic signifiers aside, seems like the only relevant precondition for being included in the Beach House canon. They work their magic in the exact ways you expect them to, but they also manage to wander far from the easily identifiable. The group rolled out Once Twice Melody in four chapters over several months, and as a late addition to the saga, Become does not offer further context or clarity. It doesn’t fold these chapters into any kind of neat story, and nor does it venture beyond the musical experiments they already showcased on that sprawling LP. But yes, it exists in the same realm, providing an opportunity to step back into it and take pleasure in that old, placeless yearning.

Any fan of Once Twice Melody can only be glad Beach House chose to shine a light into these previously hidden corners, even if none of them hold a candle to the record’s most memorable highlights. Separated from while emulating its epic sheen, these songs feel like a generous offering with little to prove and plenty to enjoy, and whatever lack of definition or sense of direction turns out to be part of the charm. Opener ‘American Daughter’ conjures the band’s signature dreaminess but seems to work backwards from it, picking up steam and laying out foggy visions of a girl before Legrand even utters the words “dreamt about her.” It’s a compelling song about the fragments of memory that burn brighter in the effort to forget, and as it keeps gathering momentum, the certainty of the singer’s affirmation – “To know her/ Is to love her” – is clouded by an image that’s fading away, veering into abstraction and even cliché.

‘Black Magic’ revolves around a similar idea but adds less heft to the swirl. “It’s strange and makes you wonder,” Legrand sings over enchanting guitars that belie a great emptiness, never quite naming the thing or “her.” It floats in a familiar fashion that doesn’t ask much of you but to linger a bit, maybe try and fill in the gaps. The more time you spend with them, the more the tracks seem to complement each other: ‘Devil’s Pool’ is even more languid and distant, but it’s paired with an endearing melody that prevents the wistfulness from becoming unbearable, while ‘Holiday House’ is sturdier and wide-eyed. There are echoes of Once Twice Melody‘s ‘Superstar’ and ‘Runaway’ in the latter song, but there’s something curious about its steady, unchanging pace, befitting a collection that keeps the engine running mostly by looping the past.

Beach House seem all too aware of this: “It’s not really where we are currently going, but it’s definitely somewhere we have been,” they said of Become. Shortcomings aside, it’s hard not to indulge and stay in that place for the little while it lasts, even if it begs a bigger question: Where are they currently going? There’s barely a hint in these songs, which at best serve as another reminder of what they’ve always done so remarkably well. “Love is like a fire/ Light it, it goes higher,” goes the title track; Become is Beach House just keeping hold of the torch.

The Hives Announce First New Album in 11 Years, Share Video for New Single

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The Hives Announce First New Album in 11 Years, Share Video for New Single

The Hives have announced their first new LP in over a decade. The follow-up to 2012’s Lex Hives is called The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, and it’s set to arrive on August 11 via FUGA. Lead single ‘Bogus Operand is accompanied by an Aube Perrie-directed video, which you can check out below.

“There’s no maturity or anything like that bullshit, because who the fuck wants mature rock’n’roll?” frontman Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist said of the new LP in a statement. That’s always where people go wrong, I feel. ‘It’s like rock’n’roll but adult,’ nobody wants that! That’s literally taking the good shit out of it. Rock’n’roll can’t grow up, it is a perpetual teenager and this album feels exactly like that, which it’s all down to our excitement – and you can’t fake that shit.”

A press release describes the lore around the album as such:

As the album’s macabre title hints, the band’s extended absence from the studio has been no hiatus but rather a horror story. The Hives now admit they have not seen nor spoken to their founder, mentor and songwriter, the perpetual limelight-shunning Randy Fitzsimmons, since the release of 2012’s Lex Hives. Following the recent discovery of a hidden away obituary and cryptic poem in the local paper of the Northern Vastmanland town where The Hives are from, the band members were led to Fitzsimmons’ tombstone. Upon digging the freshly interred ground, the band found not a body but instead several tapes, suits, and a piece of paper bearing the words “The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons” typed up as if a title. Whether a hoax or Fitzsimmons’ opening gambit, remains to be seen. The uncovered tapes included the demos that would become the twelve new songs on The Death Of Randy Fitzsimmons.

The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Cover Artwork:

The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons Tracklist:

1. Bogus Operandi
2. Trapdoor Solution
3. Countdown To Shutdown
4. Rigor Mortis Radio
5. Stick Up
6. Smoke & Mirrors
7. Crash Into The Weekend
8. Two Kinds Of Trouble
9. The Way The Story Goes
10. The Bomb
11. What Did I Ever Do To You?
12. Step Out Of The Way

Sen Morimoto Shares Video for New Song ‘If the Answer Isn’t Love’

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Sen Morimoto Shares Video for New Song ‘If the Answer Isn’t Love’

Chicago artist Sen Morimoto has announced his signing to City Slang with a new single, ‘If the Answer Isn’t Love’. The track arrives with an accompanying video Morimoto co-directed with New Trash. Watch and listen below.

“In the face of imminent climate disaster, war and unending sickness it’s natural to start considering what will remain and what might have made it all worth it,” Morimoto said of the song in a press release. “I want the sound of my music to reflect that same urgency – instruments warbling and splattered over the beat, melodies tangled and contradicting. I wrote this song about the enduring power of love and the struggle to hang onto that feeling when in crisis.”

Back in 2020, Morimoto released a self-titled LP via his own label Sooper Records.

Luck or Skill? Understanding the Odds in Online Casino Games

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Luck or Skill? Understanding the Odds in Online Casino Games

Are you an experienced gambler looking to increase your success in the online casino world? Or are you a novice uncertain of how to approach betting and gaming? Whatever level of expertise you have, it is important to understand how luck and skill work together when it comes to successful gambling. While luck can play a part in whether or not winning streaks continue, understanding the odds that come with each game can help improve your chances of success over time. In this blog post, we’ll be taking a deeper look into understanding these odds as we explore what role luck has versus what role skill plays when gambling online.

Overview of the Online Casino Industry and Its Popularity

The online casino industry has exploded in popularity in recent years, attracting millions of players worldwide. Its convenience, accessibility, and a wide variety of gaming options have made it a favorite among both seasoned gamblers and casual players alike. From traditional slots and table games to live dealer experiences and sports betting, there is no shortage of entertainment options for players to choose from. Additionally, the best online casinos for Australians offer a range of bonuses and promotions to help incentivize players to stay engaged. The industry has also embraced mobile technology, offering players the ultimate gaming experience on the go. With its growing popularity, the online casino industry is expected to continue to innovate and evolve, providing endless entertainment opportunities for players in the years to come.

Understanding the Differences between Luck and Skill in Online Casino Game

Online casino games have become increasingly popular in recent years. While some players swear by their strategies and believe they can consistently win, others attribute their success to pure luck. But is it luck or skill that determines a player’s outcome in these games? It’s important to understand the difference between the two. Luck is an unpredictable force that cannot be controlled, while skill involves knowledge, experience, and the ability to make informed decisions. In online casino games, luck may play a role in the short term, but over time, skill will prevail. Understanding this distinction can help players make better decisions and avoid becoming too reliant on luck alone. So, the next time you play your favorite online casino game, remember that skill may be your key to success.

Examining the House Edge and RTP of Popular Casino Games

Have you ever wondered what gives casinos their edge over players? It’s called the “house edge,” and it’s how casinos make their money. But don’t be discouraged, understanding the house edge can actually help you make smarter bets and possibly even walk away with some winnings. By examining the house edge and RTP (return to player) of popular casino games like blackjack, roulette, and slot machines, you can gain insight into the odds of winning and strategize accordingly. So before you hit the casino floor, take some time to learn about the house edge and how it affects your chances of success.

Tips for Increasing Your Chances of Winning in Online Casinos

With its ease and fun selection of games, online casinos have become a well-liked activity. It might be discouraging, though, to put time and money into these sites and not get much in return. You need to be strategic and intelligent in your approach if you want to maximize your chances of winning at online casinos. Utilize bonuses and special offers, look for games with the best odds, and prudently manage your bankroll. Furthermore, it’s critical to play responsibly and avoid chasing your losses. You’ll be on the road to success and have a chance to win large at online casinos if you heed this advice.

Different Strategies to Improve Your Odds at Gambling

Gambling can be a thrilling activity, but it can also be incredibly frustrating when the odds are not in your favor. Fortunately, there are several strategies that can help improve your chances of winning. One effective technique is to set a budget and stick to it, avoiding the temptation to bet more money than you can afford to lose. Another helpful strategy is to focus on games that offer better odds, such as blackjack or baccarat, rather than games like slot machines or roulette, which have higher house edges. Finally, it’s important to know when to quit while you’re ahead, as chasing losses can quickly lead to even bigger losses. With these tips in mind, you can increase your chances of success at the casino and make gambling a more enjoyable experience.

Exploring the New World of Social Casino Games and How They Change The Odds

Social casino games have taken the world by storm, revolutionizing the way people interact with online gaming. These games have created a new, exciting world where players can compete with others, play free games, and even win real money. With such a wide variety of options available, social casino games are now one of the most popular forms of entertainment. However, as with any other form of gambling, it is important to understand the odds. These games can be addictive, and it is essential that players know what they are getting into before they begin. Whether you’re looking for a little bit of fun or the chance to win big, social casino games are a fantastic way to enjoy the thrill of gambling without the risk.

It is abundantly evident from this blog post that in order to stand a chance of winning at online casinos, both skill and luck are essential components. Players can increase their chances of succeeding in their gaming endeavors by being aware of the differences between those two components. Additionally, knowing the house edge and RTP of different games can help players make better choices when it comes to which games to play. In addition, players can utilize a variety of methods and tips to improve their odds of winning at gambling. Final point: If players want to keep the odds in their favor, social casino games on websites like Facebook provide a fresh way for them to enjoy the rush and excitement of gambling without risking too much cash or time. To increase their chances of having a successful night at the online casino, it’s critical for all players, whether seasoned veterans or relative newbies, to understand how skill and luck interact.

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