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MUNA Share Video for New Single ‘One That Got Away’

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MUNA Share Video for New Single ‘One That Got Away’

Following their first-ever Coachella appearance over the weekend, MUNA have shared a new single called ‘One That Got Away’. It arrives with an accompanying video co-directed by Ally Pankiw and Taylor James and featuring Australian actor and singer Caitlin Stasey. Check it out below, along with MUNA’s just-announced UK and European tour dates.

“This song is just rubbing your hot ass in the face of someone who messed up their chance of being with you,” the band’s Katie Gavin said of ‘One That Got Away’ in a statement. “It’s a bit vengeful and mean, but also fun. Fuck it. Once I sent Naomi and Jo the demo they really took the cockiness in the lyric and vocal performance and carried it to the extreme with the production of the track. It became this super bombastic, Janet Jackson-era track. Ally Pankiw, who directed the music video with Taylor James, then came up with the idea of putting the music video in a criminal underworld, which we thought fit perfectly. Plus we wanted an excuse to dress Jo up like The Bear.”

MUNA released their third, self-titled album last year.

MUNA 2023 UK and European Tour Dates:

Aug 13 – Copenhagen, DK – KB Hallen *
Aug 15 – Berlin, DE – Verti Music Hall *
Aug 16 – Cologne, DE – Palladium *
Aug 18 – Biddinghuizen, NL Lowlands
Aug 19 – Kiewit-Hasselt – Pukkelpop
August 20 – London, UK – Gunnersbury Park *
August 25 – Leeds, UK – Leeds Festival
Aug 16 – Edinburgh, UK – Connect Festival
Aug 27 – Reading, UK – Reading Festival
Aug 28 – Dublin, IE – Royal Hospital Kilmainham *

~ supporting boygenius

 

Christine and the Queens Enlists 070 Shake for New Single ‘True Love’

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Christine and the Queens Enlists 070 Shake for New Single ‘True Love’

Christine and the Queens has teamed up with 070 Shake for ‘True Love’, the latest single from his upcoming album PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE. It follows lead single ‘To be honest’, which the artist performed on Colbert last week. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Christine and the Queens and filmed in Los Angeles, below.

In addition to ‘True Love’, 070 Shake appears on another track on PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE, ‘Let me touch you once’. The follow-up to last year’s Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) also features three collaborations with Madonna, as well as co-production from Mike Dean.

Jay-Z Shares ‘Empire State of Mind’ Remix Featuring Gil Scott-Heron

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Jay-Z Shares ‘Empire State of Mind’ Remix Featuring Gil Scott-Heron

Over the weekend, Jay-Z performed his first show in four years at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris to mark the opening of the ‘Basquiat x Warhol. Painting Four Hands’ exhibition. During the performance, he debuted a new version of his 2009 hit ‘Empire State of Mind’ that mashes up the original with Gil Scott-Heron’s 2011 song ‘New York Is Killing Me’. Today, he’s unveiled the remix under the name ‘NEW YORK (CONCEPT DE PARIS)’. Give it a listen below.

Jai Paul Announces First-Ever Headline Shows

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Jai Paul Announces First-Ever Headline Shows

After his making his live debut at Coachella over the weekend, Jai Paul has announced his first-ever headline shows. Later this month, the elusive musician will play a pair of concerts in New York, one at the Knockdown Center in Queens and another at Brooklyn Steel in Brooklyn, before returning to the UK for two hometown shows at London’s Outernet. Tickets will be available via a ballot on Jai Paul’s website. Find his schedule below.

Jai Pual 2023 Tour Dates:

Apr 25 – Queens, NY – Knockdown Center
Apr 26 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Steel
May 9 – London, UK – HERE @ Outernet
May 10 – London, UK – HERE @ Outernet

The Weeknd’s HBO Show ‘The Idol’ Gets Premiere Date, New Teaser Trailer

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The Weeknd’s HBO Show ‘The Idol’ Gets Premiere Date, New Teaser Trailer

The Weeknd’s much-delayed, controversial show, The Idol, finally has a premiere date. It’s set to arrive on HBO on Sunday, June 4, a few weeks after debuting out-of-competition at the Cannes Film Festival. There’s also a new teaser trailer for the show, which you can watch below.

Co-created by Sam Levinson, Abel ‘The Weeknd’ Tesfaye, and Reza Fahim, The Idol stars Tesfaye as a nightclub owner and cult leader alongside Lily-Rose Depp, who plays a pop star whose career has been derailed. Other cast members include Troye Sivan, Dan Levy, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Eli Roth, Hari Nef, Jane Adams, Jennie Ruby Jane, Mike Dean, Moses Sumney, Rachel Sennott, Ramsey, Suzanna Son, and Hank Azaria.

Mo Troper Releases New Song ‘For You to Sing’

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Mo Troper Releases New Song ‘For You to Sing’

The Portland artist Mo Troper has released a new single called ‘For You to Sing’, following up his 2022 album MTV. Check it out below.

“‘For You to Sing’ nearly ruined my life,” Troper shared in a press release. “At the end of last year I got the keys to a couple of studios around town and it was one of the worst and best things to ever happen to me. This recording is the direct result of that. I ended up bouncing over 70 individual tracks–some recorded to 2″ tape at the studio, some recorded at home on my laptop, iPhone and 8-track–to a 24-track tape machine. It’s a song about rumor, innuendo and other pervert stuff. It’s a Carnival of Jealousy.”

Album Review: Feist, ‘Multitudes’

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Album Review: Feist, ‘Multitudes’

On the final track of her new album, Multitudes, Leslie Feist speaks clearly and directly to her audience. “Don’t be sad, my friends/ That’s the last thing you’ll hear me say,” she sings. “If you’re sad, my friends/ Why would I take that away?” The sentences, strung with warmth and candor, don’t contradict each other – far from cluttering her message, it finds the singer-songwriter embracing each possibility with intention and open arms. Both things are simultaneously true: There’s no need to bring more sadness into the world, or bring people into sadness – that’s not the point of music, or any life-giving form of art – but if that’s part of your experience as you listen, take it in. In her effort to do the same while creating, Feist has delivered one of her most inviting and unpredictable records to date.

Multitudes, her sixth studio LP, doesn’t swing between extremes so much as it contains – well, it’s there in the title. Following her 2019 arena tour and before the start of the pandemic, Feist adopted her first child, Tihui, and when the world shut down, they lived with her father, the abstract painter Harold Feist, before he passed away a year later. Many of its songs started as lullabies sung to her daughter, and the project was first conceptualized as an immersive multimedia show alongside production designer Rob Sinclair. After workshopping the songs in a series of performances, she spent a few weeks tracking the album at a home studio near the California redwoods with frequent collaborators Robbie Lackritz and Mocky (Blake Mills also contributed production on a few tracks). Given the circumstances, it’s remarkable how effortlessly the collection itself tunes into the blurry space between new motherhood and new loss, between the self and the collective.

Starkness – both musical and emotional – is a quality Feist’s music has retained for a long time. But if you’re a fan of 2017’s Pleasure, which has become my go-to Feist record, you might miss the raw swagger that made its intimacy particularly special. But the hushed, introspective nature of Multitudes feels both natural and complex, its dynamism not absent but somewhat outstretched. The songs are intertangled even, and especially, when they contrast each other. In the thrilling opener ‘In Lightning’, she channels the elastic energy of Dirty Projects or Björk to mold chaos into a thunder that’s in step with her body: “If I’m frightened it’s just because/ Of the power vested in me.” It’s followed by the sparser ‘Forever Before’, which locates a different kind of power in the same place: “I’m soft in the heart/ Where hard edges align.” As she meditates between the words “fear” and “fearless,” her calm presence allows them to peacefully co-exist. And on the rowdy, magnetic ‘Borrow Trouble’, what might have been a scream of frustration on Pleasure scans instead as acceptance, absorbing the noise and harnessing the tension into an anthem of uplift.

There are moments when Feist’s directness is at once incisive, honest, and a little funny, and it’s often interesting to see what roads it takes her down. “Everybody’s got their shit/ But who’s got the guts to sit with it?” begins ‘Hiding Out in the Open’, which ultimately leads her to a revelatory bit that can be hard to stomach: “Love is not a thing you try to do/ It wants to be the thing compelling you.” On the previous track, the truth that “sometimes we don’t get to/ Love who are meant to” is self-evident but just as difficult to grapple with, but in doing so, she stumbles upon more complicated realizations, like: “Even denial is romantic/ And that’s romance’s disadvantage.”

Feist increasingly looks further out into the world, particularly in the second half, which gets to some weirder, more mystical places. But she’s the kind of songwriter who’s skilled in offering a way into the uncanny and ineffable, whether the scale is cosmic or personal. “I feel like I’ve decided that I wanna get a little subterranean and maybe acknowledge my shadow self,” she said in a recent interview, and she edges deeper in on the mesmerizing ‘I Took All of My Rings Off’, which is potent with symbolism. When she sings of being one with nature, as in ‘Become the Earth’, it feels like an embodied, transformative journey, echoed in the vocal layers and glitches that dizzy and reorient her. But it’s one of the more unassuming, maybe even weaker lullabies on the record that manages to sneak in the most revealing piece of wisdom. “The endless weight of our lives/ Can be lifted up like wings/ The underneath of our lives/ An effortlessness in it sings,” Feist observes on ‘The Redwing’. You just have to listen for it.

This Week’s Best New Songs: Jessie Ware, Dawn Richard, Angel Olsen, and More

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This Week’s Best New Songs: Jessie Ware, Dawn Richard, Angel Olsen, and More

Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this best new music segment.

This week’s list includes ‘Forever Means’, the wistfully intimate title track from Angel Olsen’s new EP; another excellent single from Jessie Ware’s upcoming album, the infectious, uplifting ‘Begin Again’; Dawn Richard’s giddy, hard-hitting new single ‘Bubblegum’; billy woods and Kenny Segal’s Sam Herring-assisted ‘FacetTime’, a sullen, dreamy single about life on the road that leads their forthcoming collaborative LP; Girl Ray’s effortlessly groovy and joyful new track ‘Hold Tight’; Kara Jackson’s ‘lily’, a lovely, affecting cut off her debut album; the Tallest Man on Earth’s stunning, hopeful ‘Looking for Love’, lifted from his latest album Henry St.; and ther’s ‘big papi lassos the moon’, a whirring, dynamic highlight off their new record.

Best New Songs: April 17, 2023

Angel Olsen, ‘Forever Means’

Song of the Week: Jessie Ware, ‘Begin Again’

Dawn Richard, ‘Bubblegum’

billy woods and Kenny Segal feat. Sam Herring, ‘FaceTime’

Girl Ray, ‘Hold Tight’

Kara Jackson, ‘lily’

The Tallest Man on Earth, ‘Looking for Love’

ther, ‘big papi lassos the moon’

Legendary Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal Dead at 92

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Legendary Jazz Pianist Ahmad Jamal Dead at 92

Legendary jazz pianist and composer Ahmad Jamal has died, The Washington Post reports. No cause of death was disclosed. He was 92 years old.

Born Fredrick Russell Jones in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Jamal began playing piano when he was three years old. At the age of seven, he started studying under Mary Cardwell Dawson, who would go on to found the National Negro Opera Company. After graduating from George Westinghouse High School in 1948, he began touring with George Hudson’s Orchestra before moving to Chicago, where he formed his own trio, the Three Strings, in 1951.

The Three Strings served as the house band at Chicago’s Pershing Hotel in 1958, and it was during their residency there that they recorded the influential 1958 album At The Pershing: But Not For Me, which featured a standout rendition of ‘Poinciana’. Following the success of that LP, Jamal opened his own club in Chicago called the Alhambra, where he recorded several albums until its closure in 1961.

Throughout his eight-decade career, Jamal worked with Richard Davis, Israel Crosby, Vernel Fournier, Jamil Nasser, Frank Gant, and many others. His 1969 album The Awakening was sampled in songs by Gang Starr, Shadez of Brooklyn, and Nas, while De La Soul sampled his 1974 song ‘Swahililand’ for the title track to Stakes Is High. He released his last album, Ballades, in 2019.

In 1994, Jamal received the American Jazz Masters award from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2017, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to music history.

The Benefits of Decentralization in the Online Gambling Industry

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The Benefits of Decentralization in the Online Gambling Industry

Online gambling is part of a massive entertainment industry that was born many years ago but still continues to grow. Unfortunately, traditional online casinos have always been pretty unsafe.

However, blockchain technology and decentralization seem ideal for solving this issue. Actually, they’re seen as the next natural phase in the industry’s development.

Blockchain technology is a popular decentralized ledger with countless applications in multiple sectors. It facilitates different processes, from recording transactions to tracking assets.

Now, many claim that the gambling industry can benefit from decentralization and blockchain technology in terms of security and transparency.

Is this true? What can decentralization do for this industry? What are the potential benefits? Read on to find the answers!

What Is Decentralized Gambling?

A new definition has emerged and started to gain popularity: decentralized gambling. Essentially, it’s what you already know – getting involved in games or activities where you risk something valuable in order to make money – with elements of blockchain technology.

Decentralized gambling involves digital transactions with tokens, which occur on an encrypted blockchain network.

As mentioned, the blockchain is a public ledger. Therefore, decentralization in online gambling can help keep online wagers’ integrity and protect both data and transactions.

Besides making every transaction visible to the public, decentralization can remove standard fees charged by traditional banking methods and make the experience even more affordable and accessible.

There are two common elements when it comes to decentralized gambling: crypto casino games and smart contracts. Check out the benefits that both bring to the industry below!

Benefits of Using Cryptocurrencies for Online Casino Gaming

Thanks to the blockchain technology and decentralization factor that they possess, cryptocurrencies offer many benefits to online casino gaming. These are:

No Official Governing Body

One of the main advantages of decentralization over cryptocurrencies and casino games is that there is no entity or figure governing them. Users have full control over their funds.

Also, no authority agency or individual can take away users’ cryptocurrencies or freeze their accounts. As a player, you can fully operate all required transactions.

Lower Fees

If you need to make a casino deposit or withdraw your winnings and use cryptocurrencies, there will be little to no fees on each transaction. This happens because there are no middlemen in the process.

Although several casinos charge fees, they’re usually low. Also, even if you have to pay extra costs for using cryptocurrencies, you can enjoy a faster transaction, which is also worth spending a few pennies.

Fast Transactions

Compared to bank transfers, crypto wallet services also offer much faster transactions. As a result, players can transfer or withdraw funds from their casino accounts in no time.

Privacy

If you use a crypto wallet, you can be sure your personal data won’t be attached to your transactions, as often happens with credit cards. Instead, your withdrawals and deposits are anonymous.

Safety

Since you don’t have to submit personal data, crypto transactions can protect you from identity theft. Also, there are no chargebacks after you send transactions, as they’re immutable and unalterable. As a result, there are fewer risks for online gamblers.

Benefits of Using Smart Contracts for Online Casino Gambling

Smart contracts are pieces of code stored on the blockchain as software programs. At a basic level, they store different rules and respond to certain events with specific actions.

If a decentralized online casino uses a smart contract, when winning a game, it will release your winning funds, for example.

In addition, smart contracts can verify that an event that supposedly occurred did or didn’t happen. However, these programs don’t require human involvement. They’re self-executable.

Like cryptocurrencies, smart contracts are also immutable and can be verified by anyone on the network.

Now, these pieces of code have been introduced to the online gambling industry. Therefore, gamblers can try their favorite games without risking their cash or personal data through casinos’ traditional processes, which are unreliable.

Smart contracts allow users to feel safe and knowledgeable when they put their hard-earned money in a casino. In addition, these programs offer the following benefits:

No Manipulation

Nobody can manipulate a smart contract. Once it starts, it’s unalterable and cannot be manipulated by any company or individual.

Equal Control

Casinos that use smart contracts put the same amount of control on gamblers’ hands. You’ll have the same level of knowledge as the company.

No Human Interference

With smart contracts, which are fully automated, you can hold funds and earnings or losses away from you. However, there’s no human intervention during the process.

No Scams

Smart contracts also make casino transactions more transparent. As a player, you can be sure you won’t be scammed. Everything is out in the open.

Anonymity

Like cryptocurrencies, smart contracts allow anonymous transactions. As a result, there’s no risk of exposing sensitive data or your identity to potential theft.

No Government Control

Also, thanks to decentralization, no company, government agency, or individual can exercise authority or interfere during the execution of the smart contract.

The Future of the Gambling Industry

Although the future of online gambling could be affected by different factors, most perspectives view decentralization as a key actor in the industry’s development.

Keeping their funds and winnings in digital wallets or making transfers through cryptocurrencies offers many benefits to gamblers. From increased security and privacy to enhanced control and transparency, blockchain technology brings many advantages.

Furthermore, the future of the online casino industry is driven by payment safety, anonymity, and data privacy trends. If there’s something that can provide all these benefits, it’s the decentralization of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies.

Fortunately, more and more online casinos have turned to crypto. Most are accessible from any tablet, computer, mobile device, and laptop. Therefore, gamblers can play their favorite games from anywhere in the world.

However, blockchain technology now makes this experience more secure, transparent, and enjoyable.

In addition, the blockchain and cryptocurrency world is vastly developing, which means you can’t see what the future holds. Decentralization may even bring many more benefits to the online gambling industry in the following years.

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