Marley Marl was no joke. Search around for the different shows and stations he rocked throughout the 80s and 90s and you’ll hear he was one of the best.
This 2-hour set is from January 13, 1989 on 107.5 FM WBLS.
That Time Noel Gallagher plays in a fan’s house in 2006
“You gonna do the clap………………?”
On December 1, 2006, Ben Haynes got the concert of a lifetime when Noel Gallagher of Oasis performed at his home in the small English Midlands town of Poynter.
In 1972, Italian Singer Sings The Trippiest Song with English-Sounding Gibberish
“Prisencolinensinainciusol” by Italian singer Adriano Celentano, and performed by Celentano and his wife, singer/actress-turned-record producer Claudia Mori was released as a single in 1972.
The song is intended to sound to its Italian audience as if it is sung in English spoken with an American accent, designed to be “Bob Dylan-esque”; however, the lyrics are deliberately unintelligible gibberish with the exception of the words “all right”. Celentano’s intention with the song was not to create a humorous novelty song but to explore communication barriers. “Ever since I started singing, I was very influenced by American music and everything Americans did. So at a certain point, because I like American slang—which, for a singer, is much easier to sing than Italian—I thought that I would write a song which would only have as its theme the inability to communicate. And to do this, I had to write a song where the lyrics didn’t mean anything.”
Process of transformation from carbon to diamonds
You must have often wondered what it takes into the making of a diamond. The beauty and luster of the diamond that you see on the outside is just one part of it.
Yes, a diamond formation starts from the carbon. Read the following points to get a fact-check about the entire process. Brief yourself about the technicalities that go into the formation of the diamond, starting from the very basic but quintessential carbon.
- Beginning from the mantle of the earth.
To a layman, a diamond is found in a commercial mine. But if we try digging deeper, we find that a diamond is actually formed inside the mantle of the earth. It is approximately about 150 kilometers below the earth’s crust. Diamond formation starts in the diamond stability zone in the upper mantle. It is a high pressure region with a temperature of over thousand degrees Celsius. Thereafter, the gems are brought to the earth’s surface at the time of any seismic event.
- Getting to the subconduction zones.
The carbon accumulation into diamond is said to take place in the subduction zone. It is a place for the tectonic plates to gather together, by way of continuous movement beneath the surface of the earth. Also, scientific research states that subducted sea water is also responsible for the conversion of carbon into diamonds in the subconduction zones. So the next time you see the engagement rings in Hatton Garden, you know where they have originated from.
- Formation of allotropes.
The property of carbon allows the carbon atoms to arrange themselves in many different physical forms. These physical forms are termed as allotropes. In a diamond, the carbon atoms form a covalent bond with one another. Therefore, they produce a three dimensional network solid structure.
- Acquiring unique shades and textures.
The transformation of the carbon into a diamond withstands all types of exposures to gases, minerals, and elements found in the proximity of the ore. The colour acquired by the diamond comes from the matter it comes into contact with during this phase. A different hue of a diamond does not make a diamond faulty. The only reason behind different colours is the difference in the surface of contact, that further gives the diamonds a unique beauty and texture.
As good things take time, that is why the best of the diamonds take hundreds and even thousands of years to emerge into the beauty that they are. The process starts beneath the surface of the earth, and ends up in the stores of the jewellers Hatton Garden. That is why an investment in a diamond is absolutely worth it. With different varieties of colours of diamonds, you can pick the one that enhances your fashion statement. One thing that you must be assured about is that all of them are derived from carbon.
Best E-Liquid Subscriptions Tips You Will Read This Year
If you’re looking to start the year right and turn over a new leaf, what better way to do it than by changing your daily habits and routines? Go for a jog instead of staying in bed, scrolling your phone an extra hour in the morning. Stay organized with your groceries and start meal-prepping on the weekends. Get e-liquid subscription boxes instead of visiting vape stores in person – after all, you still need to stay safe and practice social distancing as much as possible.
E-liquid subscription boxes can get you the best vape deals even without seasonal discounts. You can enjoy extra convenience, extra savings, and extra pleasure from your vape sessions. But, if you want to enjoy everything that e-liquid subscriptions can offer truly, you need to be smart about approaching them. Here are the best tips that will get you the most out of your e-liquid subscriptions!
Find a Reputable Retailer
E-liquid subscription boxes are nothing new. Vape stores across the nation have been offering them for a while now, but what should you do if your favorite local store doesn’t have them? Well, you’ll need to do some research.
The vape market size has been expanding over the past few years. It’s expected to grow at a rate of 23.8% a year from 2020 to 2027. That means that many players are trying to enter the market and profit from it. These players aren’t dedicated to the consumers or the quality of their products. They are focused on their potential revenue only.
Unfortunately, many vape stores simply aren’t as good as they appear at first glance. So, before you opt for an e-liquid subscription box from the first online vape store you encounter, do some research. Check the customer reviews on-site and off it. Research a store’s social media. See what others are saying about it. It’s the best way to find quality products without having to test every single one of them.
Research the Price-to-Value Ratio
Once you’ve found a good, reputable vape store, it’s time to check out what they have on offer. Don’t immediately look at the price. Check out the store’s brand partnerships first (unless it only offers e-liquids made in-store). Some of the most popular brands include Oneup Vapor, Bomb Bombz, Mighty Vapors, Citricity, and the like. They all offer high-quality vape juices with many exciting flavors.
Vape juice subscription boxes from popular brands are often a bit more expensive, but they offer excellent value, making them well worth it.
If you have a favorite vape juice brand, then look for stores offering the said brand and then compare them. Pay attention to the number of vape juices you’re getting with your subscription box, as some subscriptions are only more affordable because you’re getting fewer or smaller bottles.
Experiment With New Flavors
Vape juice subscription boxes are the perfect opportunity for experimenting with new and exciting flavors. Don’t be afraid to mix things up. You don’t always have to go for the most popular flavor categories such as fruit, candy, or mint. Try a cheesecake flavor or champagne. Coffee vape juice could blow your mind, and the rich honey flavor can overcome your tastebuds with sweetness.
Since vape juice subscription boxes are often the most affordable way to get your fill of e-liquids, you don’t have to worry much about wasting your money – even if it turns out that you don’t like a flavor. So, play around, who knows – maybe you’ll find your next favorite vape juice!
Make Sure to Get Enough E-Liquid to Last You a Month
Most stores that offer vape juice subscription boxes only deliver them once a month, so you’ll want to make sure that you get enough bottles to last you until your next box arrives. If you’re new to vaping, it might be challenging to calculate how many bottles you’ll need.
In essence, a single 10ml bottle of vape juice can last anywhere from just a couple of days to even a couple of months. It all depends on how often you vape. If you used to smoke tobacco cigarettes and switched to vaping to quit, it might be easier to determine the right amount of vape juice.
A 10ml bottle is roughly the equivalent of 100 cigarettes. So, if you used to smoke ten cigarettes a day, you’d need just about three vape juice bottles to last you a month.
But don’t worry if you make a mistake with your first order. You can always change the number of vape juice bottles for your next box.
Final Thoughts
Vape juice subscriptions are the simplest way to get your hands on high-quality e-liquids. So, find a reputable store, examine its price-to-value ratio, play around with the flavors, and determine the right quantity for your needs. Once you get your box, all that’s left to do is enjoy.
Sting Celebrates 30th Anniversary Of ‘The Soul Cages’ With Digital-Only Expanded Edition Out January 15
Today, Sting announces the 30th Anniversary of his stirring third album, The Soul Cages, by releasing a digital-only expanded edition.
Originally released in January 1991, the Expanded Edition features the original nine-song Soul Cages album plus 13 bonus tracks that consist of remixes, extended mixes, and a pair of songs sung in Spanish and Italian incarnations. Seven of these bonus tracks have not been previously available for digital download or streaming.
The core nine-track song cycle for The Soul Cages centers around Sting’s deep sense of personal loss following his father’s passing. The balance of the album’s lyrical content embarks on a recurring seafaring motif in honor of his father’s lifetime lamentation about never becoming a sailor, one of his unrealized personal dreams. The opening track, the slow-churning “Island Of Souls,” follows a son’s reverie about his fervent wish to take his shipbuilding father somewhere, anywhere out on the water in order to get away from it all, while “Why Should I Cry For You” chronicles the arc of the narrator’s fragile inner resolve. The relatively jaunty nature of the hit single “All This Time” runs cleverly counter to its burial-at-sea narrative, as the majestic, moody album closer “When The Angels Fall” ruminates on Sting’s staunch Catholic upbringing and the long-term effects of familial spiritual beliefs.
In fact, the ongoing impact of the deeply entrenched subject matter comprising The Soul Cages would remain with Sting, the artist for decades to come. Ultimately, it fueled him to author the music and lyrics for his first stage musical, The Last Ship, which debuted in 2014 and focused on the rise and fall of the shipbuilding industry in his native England.
Produced by Sting and Hugh Padgham, The Soul Cages also marked the first occasion that longtime stage and studio collaborator, the acclaimed guitarist Dominic Miller, appeared on one of Sting’s albums. Other notable topline Soul Cages creative contributors include keyboardists David Sancious and the late Kenny Kirkland, saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and drummer Manu Katché. For his own part, Sting played bass, mandolin, and synthesizer on The Soul Cages, in addition to singing all of the album’s lead vocals.
The Soul Cages has been certified platinum by the RIAA, and it topped the album charts in five countries, including the U.K. and Canada, topping out at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200. The album’s lead single, “All This Time,” made a tremendous chart impact right out of the gate, ultimately reaching No. 5 on the U.S. Hot 100, No. 1 on both Mainstream Rock and Modern Rock, and No. 9 on Adult Contemporary. The title track, “The Soul Cages,” won a Grammy for Best Rock Song in 1992, and it climbed to No. 7 on Mainstream Rock and No. 9 on Modern Rock. The album’s other key singles were “Mad About You” and “Why Should I Cry For You.”
THE SOUL CAGES – EXPANDED EDITION [digital only]
Island Of Souls
All This Time
Mad About You
Jeremiah Blues (Part 1)
Why Should I Cry For You
Saint Agnes And The Burning Train
The Wild Wild Sea
The Soul Cages
When The Angels Fall
I Miss You Kate (Instrumental) [Bonus Track]
Come Down In Time [Bonus Track] *
Tempted (Live) [Bonus Track] *
Ne Me Quitte Pas (Live) [Bonus Track] *
Oo La La Hugh [Bonus Track] *
Mad About You (Original Remix) [Bonus Track] *
Mad About You (Remix Edit) [Bonus Track] *
Mad About You (12″ Remix) [Bonus Track] *
Mad About You (Italian Version) [Bonus Track]
Why Should I Cry For You (Spanish Version) [Bonus Track]
Why Should I Cry For You (Extended Mix) [Bonus Track]
The Soul Cages (Edit) [Bonus Track]
All This Time (Edit) [Bonus Track]
* Not Previously Available Digitally
First Time Recorded Live in 40 Years: BENTWOOD ROCKER Release Video Album
First at it in 1977, Bentwood Rocker continue to craft their legacy in the making with this, the first instalments of their new visual album — available now.
Fans of the five-piece were treated to the first taste with the double release of “I’m Not Taken” and “Give Her An Inch” this month. The Ontario-based rockers have five additional songs to follow, all professionally captured via Empire Theatre’s Music City Mondays series — a pandemic-related initiative by the Belleville-based venue.
“This is the first time in our over 40 years together that the band has been recorded live!” they marvel.
It’s yet another milestone for members Dan Thompson, Eric Baragar, Mike Goettler, Barry Haggarty, and Steve Smith.
Since staking claim to their rightful spot on the Canadian music map, the course of their careers have seen them serve countless albums and singles; they’ve shared the stage and studio with the likes of Randy Bachman, Bob Dylan, Sass Jordan, Tom Cochrane, producers Jack Richardson (Bob Segar, Alice Cooper), Terry Brown (Rush), engineers Dennis Hetzendorfer (The Bee Gees, John Mellencamp), Mike Jones (Bryan Adams, Blue Rodeo), and more.
Having started as a studio project in the late ‘70s after more than a decade prior of performing mostly cover material under the name Sands of Time, the group added vocalist Thompson to the mix and set off to create original lyrics and compositions.
With their debut album, Not Taken, first out in 1979, Take Me To Heaven followed in 1982. There was a self-titled offering, Bentwood Rocker in 1996, and The Works — a boxset — in 2000. In all there’s been eight albums altogether and, in 2017, the band reconvened in the studio to rock out an EP trilogy — aptly titled Take One, Take Two, and Take Three. In 2020 they extended a single, “Hold On,” to the masses as well.
“Over forty years…” they say. “Over forty years of recording and performing together as a group, with all original members.
“That’s what sets us apart in the world of popular music.”
X Ambassadors Announce New Project (Eg)
X Ambassadors have announced a new project called (Eg), a multi-part series featuring collaborations with an eclectic mix of emerging artists. Today, the multi-platinum-selling rock band share the first single and video from (Eg) — “ultraviolet.tragedies” by X Ambassadors with Terrell Hines, a euphoric yet explosive track that perfectly captures the project’s boundary-breaking sensibilities. “ultraviolet.tragedies” by X Ambassadors with Terrell Hines is available now.
https://youtu.be/uNQWlPafjq0.
Also featuring up-and-coming artists Jensen McRae and Earl St. Clair, (Eg) was conceived as an outlet for X Ambassadors’ more free-flowing and left-of-center impulses. The project is a natural progression for the hyper-creative and highly collaborative band, whose output includes producing and writing for global superstars like Rihanna and working extensively with Lizzo on her massively successful 2019 album Cuz I Love You (including co-writing and producing tracks like “Jerome,” winner of Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards).
As lead singer Sam Nelson Harris reveals, (Eg) took shape from an undeniable urge to showcase some of the talent they’ve discovered through their production and co-writing work. “We wanted to give voice to these incredible artists that people may not have heard yet, and really let their imagination be at the forefront of everything,” he says. “They’re all very much artists with their own unique style that’s so specific to them; they truly don’t care about fitting into any sort of mold, or curating their sound to anything other than what they envision.”
With its bass-heavy grooves and furious momentum, “ultraviolet.tragedies” was sparked from a jam session between X Ambassadors and Hines, a multi-instrumentalist who released his critically acclaimed Portal One: The Mixtape last August. Capped off by an epically eerie operatic climax from Harris, “ultraviolet.tragedies” is accompanied by an equally enthralling visual that transcends the traditional music-video format by integrating elements of an off-the-cuff conversation in which Hines speaks with Harris about his origins as an artist, including his upbringing in Georgia. X Ambassadors used Microsoft Azure Kinect Body Tracking SDK and bespoke software meant to serve as a tool for artists aiming to capture 3D joint data of subjects’ movements in real-time. Microsoft Azure Kinect’s Sensor SDK also provides the ability to capture and output real-time point cloud; the output is then seamlessly integrated into 3D software, ultimately opening a new medium for creative expression.
X Ambassadors’ first new music since their spring 2020 single “Zen” (a collaboration with K.Flay and grandson that’s now amassed over 17 million streams), (Eg) came to life as the band completed their third full-length effort, due out later this year. According to Harris, the project has already had an indelible impact on their evolution as musicians and creators. “All the artists we’ve worked with on (Eg) have reminded me how important it is to make what you love and not think twice about it,” he says. “When people hear the project, I hope they come away with that same sense of freedom, and also just feel the pure joy that comes from the art of collaboration.”
X Ambassadors made their full-length debut with VHS, a 2015 release that saw the band transition from Ithaca alt-rockers and Brooklyn-indie-scene outsiders to Billboard stalwarts. Now certified platinum, VHS provided an intimate look at Sam Nelson Harris and his brother Casey Harris’s youth, delivering the genre-defying hits “Unsteady” and “Renegades” and leading to a three-year global touring odyssey as well as a string of high-profile festival performances. VHS was followed by X Ambassadors’ 2019 sophomore album ORION, which the band supported with an extensive headline tour of the U.S. Their ’60s and ’70s soul, R&B, inspired Belong EP was released last March.
The core of his sound is a living mix of eerie soul, alt-pop, hip-hop, post-punk, and southern funk, but Terrell Hines is a world-builder with a voracious mind. This Georgia-born, Los Angeles-based visionary has created an entire ecosystem for his songs, where sonic structures and lyrics are just as likely to be inspired by the sociopolitical as the personal, by functional architecture as abstract art, by the austere science of survivalism as the limitless potential of technology. The best part is, you don’t have to know all that to feel the holistic magic of Hines’s work. We hear immediacy, exuberance, freedom, and ingenuity — music as surprising as it is captivating — while he sees a burning question: “If shit popped off and society had to be rebuilt,” asks Hines, “how would I do it?”
TIRED OF TALKIN’ by Hamilton, ON’s STEVE STRONGMAN Gets Reissued by Stony Plain Records
Award winning bluesman Steve Strongman has joined forces with Linus Entertainment in a multi-faceted deal that sees the Hamilton-based company globally representing his music publishing catalog and the distribution of his sound recording catalog, as well as future recordings and songwriting.
This deal includes being signed to Stony Plain Records, and Steve Strongman’s 2019 release Tired of Talkin’ is now benefitting from a global release with the promotional attention this album deserves. As an established Canadian artist building awareness across the US, Strongman has been earning rave reviews as an emerging talent on the scene. Beyond Strongman’s skills as a songwriter, guitarist and front man is his ability to engage his audience and deliver an outstanding performance at every live show.
Strongman’s 7th studio recording: Tired of Talkin’ is destined to further establish the guitar slinger’s reputation as one of the most exciting artists on the International Blues scene. Strongman’s impressive resume includes stints opening for guitar legends B.B. King, Buddy Guy, and Johnny Winter. The performer’s breakthrough 2012 release A Natural Fact was hailed as a standout, earning Maple Blues Awards for Recording, Songwriter, and Guitarist Of The Year as well as a 2013 Juno Award for Blues Recording Of The Year.
Strongman has been delighting audiences around the world with his take on the blues for decades, liberally applying swampy swagger and sweetness to shuffles, ballads, and four-on-the-floor chuggers alike. Now seven albums deep, Strongman is already well known as a solo artist within the blues community.
A new album from Strongman is in the works and will be released alongside his back catalog on the Linus affiliated roots and blues label, Stony Plain Records.