Artist Rights Alliance (ARA) has shared an open letter signed by artists such as Mick Jagger, Lorde, Pearl Jam, Courtney Love, Elvis Costello, Lykke Li, Blondie, Jason Isbell, Sheryl Crow, Green Day and more on the unauthorized use of music of politicians. The artist-led non-profit organization requests that the political …
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In May Spotify released the beta version of a new feature called Group Session, which allows premium users in the same neighborhood to share the ability to play, queue, and skip songs while listening together. Now, the streaming platform has announced a Group Session update that allows you to listen …
Read More »Trent Reznor, Kamasi Washington, RZA, Most Emmy Nominees 2020
Nominees for the 2020 Emmy Awards have been announced. Nominees in the music categories include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who earned outstanding music composition awards for a limited series, film, or special (original dramatic score) and original music and lyrics featured for his work on HBO Watchers. Labrinth also …
Read More »Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes
This is the Strange saga of how scientists went to some of the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean, dug 250 feet into the sediment, collected an ancient community of microbes, took them back to a laboratory, and revived them. And you’re going to think: Why, in the already horrible …
Read More »‘Ghosts of Tsushima’ is not Samurai Cinema, it is a popcorn movie
Growing like A kid immersed in American popular culture, it’s hard to escape the impression that samurai are really cool. Japanese figures, the military nobility of a certain period in Japanese history, beginning in the 12th century, have been completely absorbed by American pop nerdiness and have become infinite amazing …
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