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R&B Neo-Soul Artist ZENESOUL Searches for “That Love” in New Single

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R&B Neo-Soul Artist ZENESOUL Searches for “That Love” in New Single

“It just needs to be true,” Canadian R&B Neo-soul and Afro-beat artist Zenesoul says, as she looks for “That Love” in her newest single — available now.

“When I first heard the beat from my producer, Larumadeit, I instantly thought of that nostalgic type of love people had in the past,” Zenesoul — Angie Akhinagba — shares of the song teeming with the lush, enveloping sound that’s all her own. “Think: 90s Black love culture found in movies, family TV shows, and R&B music of the time.

“And this is how I usually write… Not with pen and paper, but with hearing the music, getting a theme or a vibe in mind, and then singing melodies and lyrics to expand it into a song.”

Born in Nigeria and based in Toronto, Zenesoul (zen-soul) released her debut EP, Worth, in 2019. Since then, a steady stream of ceiling-shattering singles — including “Love and Be Loved,” “Sunday,” and “I Will Not Be Silenced” — succeeded 2020’s premiere full-length, Coffee.

“My previous project, Coffee, took listeners through my tribulations with toxic love,” Zenesoul expands. “Since then, I’d made a pact to only search for the best love, so the song became a manifestation of the love I wanted in my life after such hard times dealing with it in the past.

“So in the lyrics of ‘That Love,’ I explain I’m no longer settling for an inferior love anymore…” she continues. “I will only love someone that loves me the same way and, since I”m not perfect, their love doesn’t need to be either.

“It just,” she underscores, “needs to be true.”

With more than 875,000k streams across platforms, Zenesoul has performed at the This is Brampton: NXNE music festival, and garnered multiple features across playlists, blogs, and podcasts — including CTV Morning Live, Earmilk, Rory from the Joe Budden Podcast and R&B Radar.

Video: Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell’s Angel in 1967

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Video: Hunter S. Thompson meets a Hell’s Angel in 1967

In this clip from 1967, Hunter S.Thompson comes face to face with a member of the Hell’s Angels. Thompson became known internationally for his book “Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs”. He spent a year living and riding with the Angels, experiencing their lives and hearing their stories first hand. The biker says 60% of the book is “cheap trash”.

Iggy Pop Wrote An Essay on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Iggy Pop Wrote An Essay on Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Disney Hits’ First-Ever Music Channel to Launch on SiriusXM

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Disney Hits’ First-Ever Music Channel to Launch on SiriusXM

SiriusXM announced today Disney Hits, a brand-new, first-of-its-kind music channel launching on SiriusXM on Thursday, March 25.

SiriusXM’s Disney Hits channel will feature everyone’s all-time favorite Disney music from movies, television shows and more, all on one channel. The channel will showcase songs from classics such as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Toy Story to newer favorites such as Frozen 2, Moana, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, Descendants 2, and many more. Listeners can also expect special musical Disney-themed hours and celebrity guest hosts.

Hollywood Records’ artist and Descendant‘s star Sofia Carson will be the channel’s first celebrity guest host taking over with a special Be Our Guest 4 The Day hour. Sofia Carson will be playing and talking through her top 4 favorite Disney songs as well as her new single. Be Our Guest 4 The Day featuring Sofia Carson will air on Friday, March 26 at 9:00 am ET, 12:00 pm ET, 3:00 pm ET and 6:00 pm ET.

Disney Hits will also present a new featured hour premiere every Monday at 12:00 pm ET. The first musical Disney-themed hour, airing Monday, March 29 will be “Disney Princesses,” playing songs from Disney favorite princesses including Tiana, Cinderella, Ariel, Belle and more. Following Disney Princesses, SiriusXM subscribers will be able to tune in on Monday, April 5 for a “Disney Villains”  hour, where listeners will hear songs from villains they love to hate including Cruella de Vil, The Lion King’s Scar, The Little Mermaid’s Ursula and more.

Disney Hits will launch on Thursday, March 25 at 12:00 pm ET and will be available to listeners nationwide on SiriusXM radios (channel 302) and on the SiriusXM app. For more information on SiriusXM’s Disney Hits channel visit: http://siriusxm.com/DisneyHits.  #DisneySXM

Subscribers can listen online, on-the-go with the SiriusXM app, and with Amazon Alexa, the Google Assistant or however they stream at home. Go to www.siriusxm.com/ways-to-listen to learn more.

60 Songs From 1998 Will Put You Right Back In The Moment

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60 Songs From 1998 Will Put You Right Back In The Moment

Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell of The Hood Internet remixed more than 60 hit songs from 1998 in just under 4 minutes. I have to praise them like I should.

Featuring 2Pac, Aaliyah, Aerosmith, Air, Alanis Morisette, Barenaked Ladies, Beastie Boys, Belle and Sebastian, Big Pun and Joe, Boards of Canada, Brandy and Monica, Britney Spears, Cake, Cardigans, DMX, Eve 6, Fastball, Fatboy Slim, The Flys, Garbage, Goo Goo Dolls, Hieroglyphics, Hole, Jay Z (ft Amil and Ja Rule), Jimmy Eat World, Juvenile (ft Mannie Fresh, Lil Wayne), Korn, Lauryn Hill, Lenny Kravitz, Local H, The LOX (ft DMX and Lil’ Kim), Madonna, Manic Street Preachers, Massive Attack, Mercury Rev, Moby, Monifah, N.O.R.E., Neutral Milk Hotel, New Radicals, Nicole Wray (ft Missy Elliott and Mocha), The Offspring, OutKast, Pras Michel (ft Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Mýa), Pulp, Refused, Semisonic, Silkk Tha Shocker, The Smashing Pumpkins, Stardust, Whitney Houston.

Seattle Sounders introduce Jimi Hendrix-themed jersey

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Seattle Sounders introduce Jimi Hendrix-themed jersey

Seattle Sounders FC today unveiled its new secondary kit for the 2021-2022 Major League Soccer seasons, a vibrant and original design paying homage to legendary musical artist and Seattle native Jimi Hendrix. Officially dubbed The Jimi Hendrix Kit, the dynamic purple, orange and yellow uniform was inspired by Hendrix’s love of color and psychedelic patterns.

The design is part of MLS and adidas’ “Community Kit” line, introduced this season to allow clubs the opportunity to create secondary kits rooted in individual meaning for each team. The Jimi Hendrix Kit was conceived as a way for Sounders FC to not only honor Hendrix and his place as a Seattle icon, but, on a larger scale, to recognize and celebrate the meaningful principles of peace, love and giving for which Hendrix stood.

“We couldn’t be more excited and proud to finally introduce The Jimi Hendrix Kit to the world; a true intersection of sports, music and pop culture,” said Sounders FC Owner and President of Business Operations Peter Tomozawa. “Jimi’s legacy looms large, not just here in Seattle where he was born and raised, or for the Sounders, where his iconic rendition of ‘All Along the Watchtower’ has been a part of matchday tradition for years, but across the entire world. In his short life, Jimi gifted us with his talent, and, even more so, with his generous and loving spirit. We wanted this kit to embody that colorful, creative personality, while also using it as a way to further good, just as Jimi used his own platform.”

The Jimi Hendrix Kit also has purpose beyond the pitch. Sounders FC is partnering with recently announced club partner, the Puyallup Tribe’s Emerald Queen Casino to donate proceeds up to $50,000 from the first 30 days of The Jimi Hendrix Kit’s sales made at official team Pro Shop locations and on MLSstore.com to five local nonprofits: TheJimi Hendrix Park Foundation, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP), the Northwest African American Museum (NAAM), RAVE Foundation and the Tacoma Public Schools Indian Education Program.

These selected nonprofits will intentionally use the funds for one or more of the following purposes, in alignment with Sounders FC’s Social Justice Framework: to empower local BIPOC youth; to provide access to sports, art and music for local BIPOC youth; and to honor the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Through these donations and continued collaboration with the nonprofits, Sounders FC will ensure that The Jimi Hendrix Kit serves a larger purpose.

“Seattle was and always will be Jimi’s home. The Sounders are Seattle’s own, as well,” said Janie Hendrix, President & CEO of Experience Hendrix, LLC. “Collaborating with the Sounders to create a jersey is our way of playing for the home team. We’re celebrating two local heroes and at the same time supporting a cause that unifies. Jimi was all about honoring the place you come from. This venture allows us to give back to the community he loved. That’s something I think would make Jimi proud.”

The kit itself is one of the most unique designs Sounders FC has ever showcased, standing out even at first glance, but then replete with distinctive detailing on closer inspection. The primary purple color is accented with bright orange and yellow and features a swirling, psychedelic pattern – a nod to Hendrix’s affinity for vivid colors and patterns, highlighted on his album covers and through his personal style.

A reproduction of Hendrix’s authentic signature is stamped on the bottom left corner of each jersey front, and the neck tape features lyrics from his “Straight Ahead,”reproduced from his own handwritten copy of the song. The line reads, “We got to stand, side by side,” and signifies Sounders FC’s belief in the importance of coming together, both on the pitch as supporters, fans, players and coaches stand together on matchdays, but also in the community and as citizens of the wider world.

The right jersey sleeve features the logo of the Puyallup Tribe, an original steward of land throughout what is now known as the Puget Sound. The tribe and its Emerald Queen Casino recently signed a multi-year partnership with the Rave Green.

“We’re thrilled to kick off our partnership with Sounders FC with our logo on this special kit. We love giving back to the community, and this jersey will help support those efforts,” said Puyallup Tribal Chairman Bill Sterud. “The logo isn’t just a fish; it’s a salmon and it represents our salmon relatives that we fight every day to protect. We are proud that it is featured on the Sounders’ uniforms.”

Zulily remains Sounders FC’s jersey partner, entering the third year of a partnership that has seen the club reach the MLS Cup Final in both 2019 and 2020, claiming victory in 2019 at home in front of a record-setting crowd at Lumen Field.

The Jimi Hendrix Kit is now available for purchase at Sounders FC Pro Shop locations and at MLSstore.com. The first 100 Sounders FC Season Members to purchase one of the jerseys at the Lumen Field Pro Shop will also receive a free, limited-edition Jimi Hendrix Signature Scarf. The scarf features the same bold colors seen throughout the kit, with a pattern inspired by the guitar strap Hendrix wore at his famous 1969 Woodstock performance. The scarf also features his replicated signature and the same lyrics from “Straight Ahead” that are featured on the jersey neck tape.

A scarf with the same design, but without Hendrix’s signature, will also be available for purchase at the Lumen Field Pro Shop in limited quantities while supplies last.

Additionally, fans visiting the Lumen Field Pro Shop starting today, Thursday, March 25 and running through Sunday, March 28, have the opportunity to take a photo in front of aJimi Hendrix backdrop. Stop by to pick up a new kit and take a photo to celebrate Hendrix’s legacy.

Sounders FC hosts Minnesota United FC on Friday, April 16 in the Rave Green’s opening match of the 2021 MLS season, with kickoff slated for 6:30 p.m. PT. Following a 2020 season played almost exclusively in closed-door matches due to COVID-19, the club is working with the State of Washington and Public Health – Seattle & King County to welcome fans back in-stadium in a limited capacity in 2021. Further details regarding attending matches is forthcoming.

Eminem’s Rap God Mashed Up With Over 55 Different Songs in 6 Minutes

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Eminem’s Rap God Mashed Up With Over 55 Different Songs in 6 Minutes

William Maranci has done it again, mashing Eminem’s Rap God with Nirvana’s In Bloom, They Might Me Giants’ Ana Ng, the theme song from Curb Your Enthusiasm and over 50 other songs.

Guy Performs Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” On A Low-Budget Drum Kit And It’s AWESOME

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Guy Performs Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” On A Low-Budget Drum Kit And It’s AWESOME

Don’t have a ‘real’ drum kit, but still want to be a tubthumper? Deden Noy did, and made his own drums from plastic buckets, water bottles, scrap metal, and packing tape to rock out on Rush’s classic Tom Sawyer.

My Next Read: “Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of The Lunachicks” by The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury

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My Next Read: “Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of The Lunachicks” by The Lunachicks with Jeanne Fury

Fallopian Rhapsody: The Story of the Lunachicks is a coming-of-age tale about a band of NYC teenagers who forged a sisterhood, found salvation, and fervently crashed the gates of punk rock during the ’90s, accidentally becoming feminist icons along the way. More than that, this is a story about the enduring friendship among the book’s three central voices: Theo Kogan, Sydney Silver, and Gina Volpe. They formed the Lunachicks at LaGuardia High School (of “Fame” fame) in the late ’80s and had a record deal with Blast First Records as teenagers, whisked into the studio by Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.

Over the course of thirteen-ish years, the Lunachicks brought their brand of outrageous hard-rockin’ rebelliousness around the world countless times, simultaneously scaring conservative onlookers and rescuing the souls of wayward freaks, queers, and outcasts.Their unforgettable costume-critiques of pop culture were as loud as their “Marsha[ll]” amps, their ferocious tenacity as lasting as their pre-internet mythology. They toured with bands like the Go-Go’s, Marilyn Manson, No Doubt, Rancid, and The Offspring; played the Reading Festival with Nirvana; and rocked the main stage at the Warped tour twice.

Yet beneath all the makeup, wigs, and hilarious outfits were three women struggling to grow into adulthood under the most unorthodox of conditions. Together onstage they were invincible B-movie superheroes who kicked heaps of ass–but apart, not so much. Depression, addiction, and identity crises loomed overhead, not to mention the barrage of sexist nonsense they faced from the music industry.

Filled with never-before-seen photos, illustrations, and ephemera from the band’s private archive, and featuring contributions from Lunachicks drummer Chip English, founding member Sindi B., and former bandmate Becky Wreck, Fallopian Rhapsody is a bawdy, gripping, warts-and-all account of how these city kids relied on their cosmic creative connection to overcome internal strife and external killjoys, all the while empowering legions of fans to shoot for the moon.

For readers of Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band, and Chrissie Hynde’s Reckless, Fallopian Rhapsody is the literary equivalent of diving headfirst into a moshpit and slowly but surely venturing up to the front of the stage.

With Guitars Played by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, This Auction Goes to 11

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With Guitars Played by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, This Auction Goes to 11

A rock-and-roll hall of fame’s worth of instruments take center stage at Heritage Auctions this spring. Not to mention a 1956 Bigsby electric guitar made for Louisiana player and poet Luke Charpentier Jr. – and, likely, the last axe ever made by Paul Bigsby, the oft-unheralded genius and solid-body pioneer who quietly did as much as anyone to make music loud. This Bigsby’s inclusion alone would make the April 11 Guitars and Musical Instruments Signature Auction event, which features more than 200 lots, a landmark sale.

“But the breadth of this event is just staggering, even to those of us who put it together,” says Aaron Piscopo, Director of Vintage Guitars & Musical Instruments at Heritage Auctions. “These aren’t just pieces owned or played by famous people. These are the tools used to craft milestone moments, and iconic instruments that resulted in indelible sights and sounds. Frankly, it’s an honor and privilege just to be around them, to hold them, much less share them with fans for whom these are treasured memories as much as collectible keepsakes.”

Perhaps none more so than the 1965 Martin D-35 being offered, which looks like, feels like and plays like any other ’65 Martin D-35, which is to say better than most guitars ever made. The pickguard’s been changed out; the neck, dinged by use; the three-piece Brazilian rosewood back cracked a bit by age. But that just means the guitar, among the first D-35s ever made, has character. Experience.

Except this one isn’t like any other 1965 Martin D-35. This one you’ve heard; this one, you know.

This one, Bruce Springsteen used on May 2, 1972, when he famously auditioned for talent scout John Hammond at Columbia Records’ New York City offices. This one, Springsteen held that same night, when he played a hastily put-together gig at Greenwich Village’s Gaslight to show Hammond he could hold an audience. This 1965 Martin D-35, Springsteen used during the recording of his first two records, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, which bookended 1973 and made a national star out of the local hero from Freehold, New Jersey.

“He plays it on ‘It’s Hard to Be a Saint in the City,’ ‘Growin’ Up,’ ‘Incident on 57th Street,’ ‘New York City Serenade,’ ‘4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),’” says Bob Spitz, who would know. There were other songs, too. Some released; many, still unheard.

The guitar belonged to Spitz, who among Springsteen’s first management team in the 1970s. Spitz, who grew up in Redding, PA., says his parents drove to Gibson’s factory in Nazareth to buy the guitar for the then-exorbitant price tag of $450. In time, others would play that Martin, Spitz says, among them Graham Nash and Phoebe Snow. But every time Spitz held that guitar, or just looked at it, he thought of that scrawny, scrappy comer from Jersey.

“It brought back a wave of memories and took me right back to the early 1970s,” Spitz says. “We were in New York, and he was staying in my tiny studio apartment on the nights he didn’t go back to Asbury Park. Bruce was in the hammock I had strung across the room. He would have a notebook on one knee and the guitar on the other while he composed. Those are the memories I have.”

Spitz, too, has brought to this event a 1957 Martin D-18, gifted to him by Suze Rotolo while the writer worked on his acclaimed 1989 tome Dylan: A Biography.

Rotolo told Spitz she, too, had received the guitar as a present – from none other than folksinger and songwriter Tom Paxton, who was at Gerde’s Folk City the first night Dylan ever performed on a Greenwich Village stage.

“Suze and I became close when I was working on the book,” Spitz says. “I lived a couple blocks away, and when she was packing up to go back to Italy permanently, she said, ‘I have this guitar, do you want it? I know you play.’ She said, ‘It belonged to Tom Paxton, who left it here, and that Bob wrote on it when he lived here.’

“I mean. There was Suze right in front of me, the woman standing with Dylan on the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. I said to her, ‘You will know I will take good care of this guitar and play it often.’ And I did. For decades. And now it’s someone else’s turn.”

Just as it’s soon to be someone else’s shot at wielding the ESP 400 Series Natural Solid Body Electric Guitar Kirk Hammett can be seen playing in the forever-haunting video for “One,” the final single off the band’s 1988 album … And Justice For All. The video was a landmark moment in MTV history for countless reasons: It was the band’s first video; it famously alternates between performance footage and devastatingly haunting excerpts from the 1971 antiwar film Johnny Got His Gun; and a decade after its 1989 debut, MTV put “One” at No. 38 on its list of the 100 Greatest Music Videos Ever Made. It’s also one of the greatest metal moments in the history of the volume knob.

So, too, of course, is any guitar Eddie Van Halen ever touched, including the Kramer Striker/Ripley Rosewood Fingerboard Frankenstrat Solid Body Electric Guitar appearing in this event. To be sure, Van Halen had myriad Frankenstrats over the years; most he made, some were rendered by others. This one, believed to have been used as a backup during the tours supporting 1984 and 5150, was specially crafted by one of EVH’s most trusted collaborators: the late Steve Ripley, who most famously made the guitar used on “Top Jimmy.”

Speaking of: Jim Heath, best known as the Rev. Horton Heat, has consigned to this auction two extraordinary items – not merely his 1964 Fender Jazzmaster Sunburst Solid Body Electric Guitar, which helped transform this hero of Dallas into an international myth and matinee idol and would be headline enough, but the blue-plaid suit the Rev wore on the cover of his band’s Sub Pop Records debut 1990 Smoke ‘em If You Got ‘em. Heath has been man things in his storied career, among them: The Last Rockabilly, Slicked-Back Punk in a Late-Night Lounge, Gentleman County Swinger. A little bit of all of that resides in this combo platter in the midst of this rock-and-roll buffet at auction April 11.

And then there is this smash hit from Buddy Rich: the very same 1978-79 Ludwig White Pearloid Drum Set the voluble speed demon brought on The Tonight Show during those epic showdowns with Johnny Carson’s house-band drummer Ed Shaughnessy. So enamored of this kit was the late-night host – and drummer himself, and a pretty good one at that – Carson would up taking home Rich’s drums. The provenance is as spectacular as a Rich solo: The set comes from Don Sweeney, who spent 20 years working on the show and eventually telling its history in a 2006 book. Now, he shares a piece of that Rich history at Heritage Auctions.

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