This time of year is all about gratitude and giving back, and when it comes to marketing, there are a lot of different ways to go about it. You can focus on paid advertising, organic growth or even a mix of the two. But one thing that a lot of …
Read More »'The Job Is Going to Die': Songwriters Say More Change Is Needed to Survive in the Music Industry
Lauren Christy has had a hand in some of the biggest hits of the past 20 years. As a songwriter and producer, she’s made a living co-writing hits like Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8ter Boi,” “Complicated” and “I’m With You” alongside Jason Mraz’s breakout single “The Remedy (I Won’t Worry),” and tracks …
Read More »Helena Bonham Carter Really Went to Bat for Johnny Depp and J.K. Rowling
Helena Bonham Carter went all out in defending Johnny Depp and J.K. Rowling in a new interview with The Times UK. She said Depp had been “completely vindicated” after his libel suit against Amber Heard, and it was a “load of bollocks” that Rowling was being criticized for her comments …
Read More »Trump, Done with Democracy, Calls on Kari Lake to Be 'Installed' as Arizona's Governor
Donald Trump on Monday declared the Arizona midterm election “yet another criminal voting operation” and demanded that defeated gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake be “installed Governor of Arizona.” Much of Lake’s Trump-backed campaign was centered around bolstering unfounded claims of electoral fraud in the 2020 election, and the former TV anchor …
Read More »The Note That Creates a Musician and Some of My Basic Understandings
Humans listening to sounds in nature from animals like birds may have been the first instances of mimicry or creating music.The earliest evidence of a musical instrument in the world is a 43,000-year-old bear femur found in a cave and declared by experts to be a flute made by Neanderthals, …
Read More »Buffalo Shooter Pleads Guilty to State Charges in Racist Attack
Payton Gendron, the now-19-year-old gunman who has been accused of killing 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo in May has pleaded guilty to all 25 state charges against him in an Erie Country court on Monday, Nov. 28, The New York Times reports. Gendron was indicted by a …
Read More »Florida Face Eater Avoids Trial With Last-Minute Insanity Plea
Austin Harrouff, the Florida college student accused of killing two people and eating the face of one of his victims, was found not guilty by reason of insanity in a plea deal approved just as his murder trial was set to begin, CBS News reports. Harrouff, now 25, was facing …
Read More »Hear Metallica Rage for the Ages on 'Lux Aeterna,' First Track From '72 Seasons'
Seven years after releasing their last studio album, Metallica are raging back with a gut-punching new song, “Lux Æterna,” which is Latin for “eternal light” and part of the Catholic requiem mass. Amid slashing guitar riffs and battering-ram bass drumming, frontman James Hetfield sings about casting out “demons that strangle …
Read More »Leonard Cohen's 1973 Yom Kippur War Concerts to Get the Limited Drama Series Treatment
Leonard Cohen’s visit to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War will be turned into a new limited TV drama, Who By Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai, Variety reports. The new show is based on journalist Matti Friedman’s 2022 book of the same name. Friedman discovered and was allowed …
Read More »The Magic of Vale: Meet the Twin Sisters From Cartagena Known for Spellbinding Harmonies
Across their EP Abismos, sisters Valeria and Valentina Perez are perfectly in sync, their diaphanous voices winding in and out of each other to create unexpected harmonies at every turn. As preternatural as it sounds, they admit it took them a while to find the sense of unity that’s defined …
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