Kellindo is best known as energetic side-man and collaborator to Janelle Monae, playing guitar on her four GRAMMY Award-nominated records and touring the world on some of the biggest stages — including the Oscars and GRAMMYs, and for everyone from David Letterman to Karl Largerfeld to The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Not only is he currently putting the final touches to his epic rock-opera album debut, Shattered Rhapsody, but he can also be heard on Janelle’s new single, “Turntables.”
His musical story however, starts way before that…
Born from a gifted bloodline that includes James Brown band members Melvin and Maceo Parker, and the first black law professor at Columbia University — his father, Kellis Parker — Kellindo was just eight years old when he first picked up guitar.
Now, after over a decade of performing with geniuses like Prince and Stevie Wonder, he’s ready to strike out on his own with his own distinctive brand of soul inflected rock ’n’ roll.
A string of eclectic singles (including “When Flowers Could Dance,” which has been streamed over 125,000+ times) and the Summertime Remixes EP on Quickfix Recordings have led to this new release. “Long Gone” is a no-nonsense hook-and-riff driven rocker with a nice, big chorus and the kind of flashy fret work that made him stand out in the first place.
You will be humming it into your mask for days, and Kellindo will soon be a name with no need for associations.
Accidents are such a bad experience that we all ought to avoid. Sadly, they may occur every day. After being involved in an accident, you may suffer painful injuries. These injuries can have a long-term effect on your body. You may need to spend a lot of money to cater for medical expenses after being injured in an accident. If you were not the driver at fault during the accident, you need to file a case to seek compensation. Dealing with the legal compensation process on your own can be a task for you, especially when you are still recovering from the accident injuries. Therefore you need to hire an auto accident attorney to represent you and fight for your compensation rights.
Below are the benefits you get for hiring an auto accident attorney:
Communicate with the at-fault driver’s insurance company.
The attorney will notify the at-fault driver’s insurance company on your behalf about the accident. Insurance companies mostly aim to spend the least amount of money when paying compensation to victims. They can even deny your compensation claims and blame you for being the at-fault driver. Hiring an auto accident attorney will ensure the insurance company takes your request and you get fair compensation.
Collect evidence to support your claim.
You need to show evidence of the accident to prove you were not the at-fault driver. Your personalinjury lawyer will help you by collecting police reports, pictures of the accident scene, looking for people who witnessed the accident happen, your damaged car photos, and your medical information.
Help to collect your medical information.
When filing a claim, your lawyer will collect your medical information. Your doctor gives the lawyer this information. This information helps you know how much the insurance company will compensate you for medical expenses after an accident. This medical report includes severe injuries like brain damage, nerve damage, spinal damage, fractures, and amputations. This information will also help you know the extent of your injuries and their effects in the future.
Help to file your legal claim.
If you have no idea about the relevant procedure after an accident, it will benefit if you hire a lawyer. A lawyer who knows auto accident laws will help you to file your claim to seek compensation. The lawyer will help determine how much your claim needs to be compensated based on the accident injuries. They ensure you file your claim before the state deadline. The insurance company will not pay for late-filed claims.
Help to negotiate for your claim settlements.
After you file your claim, an auto accident attorney will negotiate a fair settlement for you. The attorney will send a demand letter to the insurance company, asking them for compensation. The insurance company will compensate for the medical expenses you have incurred, property damaged, wages you lost due to accident injuries, and any other future expenses you will incur caused by accident injuries. Your lawyer will negotiate with the insurance company to ensure you get a fair amount to compensate for your losses.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience began to record their version of Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” on January 21, 1968, at Olympic Studios in London. According to engineer Andy Johns, Jimi Hendrix had been given a tape of Dylan’s recording by publicist Michael Goldstein, who worked for Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman. “(Hendrix) came in with these Dylan tapes and we all heard them for the first time in the studio”, recalled Johns.
Samples of more than 60 songs from 1992 mixed together into one 3½-minute song by The Hood Internet, featuring (takes a deeeeeeep breath) 10,000 Maniacs, 4 Non Blondes, Alice in Chains, Annie Lennox, Aphex Twin, Arrested Development, Beastie Boys, Black Crowes, Blind Melon, Charles & Eddie, The Cure, Das EFX, Def Leppard, Digable Planets, Dr. Dre, Dream Theater, En Vogue, Faith No More, Geto Boys, House of Pain, Ice Cube, INXS, Jade, King Missile, Kris Kross, L7, Mary J. Blige, Megadeth, Neil Young, Opus III, Paperboy, Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle, Pearl Jam, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pharcyde, Positive K, Prince, R.E.M., Radiohead, Rage Against The Machine, Screaming Trees, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Snap, Sophie B. Hawkins, Soul Asylum, Stereo MC’s, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Sublime, Ugly Kid Joe, Us3, White Zombie, Whitney Houston, Wreckx-N-Effect, Wu-Tang Clan.
William Maranci continues his strokes of genius by combining the Beastie Boys song “Intergalactic” with the perfectly funky “Ghostbusters” theme song by Ray Parker Jr.
TwinsthenewTrend listened to Bob Dylan, the 60’s counter-culture icon, after seeing his name mentioned in President Obama’s book A Promised Land. They also got to ask President Obama a few questions, and they’ll ask him even more on the December episode of BookTube only on YouTube December 16, 2020.
Sesame Street’s Grover and the then-U.S. State Department’s Deputy Secretary, now the next US secretary of state, Tony Blinken meet up at the United Nations in New York City to talk about refugees.
Foo Fighters have released a new Amazon Original EP, Live On the Radio 1996, available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music. The four songs that comprise Live On the Radio 1996 were originally recorded in 1996 as part of the ROCKLINE radio show by producer Scott Weiss. Now a digital audio producer for Amazon Music, Weiss recently rediscovered the long forgotten recordings and, thanks to Bob Coburn and the ROCKLINE crew, prepared them for re-release.
The EP features acoustic versions of songs culled from the band’s eponymous debut and 1997’s The Colour and the Shape, as well as the non-LP track “How I Miss You.” The final song is a never-before-released version of “Wattershed” that features Dave Grohl replacing the song’s lyrics with the retelling of a recent trip to Canada, sung in the style of Fred Schneider of the B-52s.
“The band laughed and then dove in and started to work up the idea. The show would cut away for commercials and [Foo Fighters] would practice the new Wattershed idea,” said Weiss of the moment. “The version of Wattershed that would soon be known as ‘Water Fred’ was born.” Fans can read Weiss’ full account of the recording session here as a part of People of Rock And Roll, an ongoing project where fans share personal memories of their Foo Fighters experiences over the years.
The EP arrives as the Foo Fighters celebrate their 25 year anniversary as a band. Last week, they performed their 1999 hit “Learn To Fly” from The Troubadour in Los Angeles on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The band were scheduled to mark their quarter century milestone with The Van tour, which was canceled in August due to COVID-19. Recently, the band announced a new line of merch offerings commemorating each of their studio albums released during their career.
To listen to Live On the Radio 1996 (Amazon Original), Amazon Music listeners can simply ask, “Alexa play the Amazon Original by the Foo Fighters” in the Amazon app for iOS and Android and on Alexa-enabled devices. In addition to the Foo Fighters, Amazon Music listeners can access hundreds of Amazon Originals featuring both emerging and established artists across numerous genres, available to stream and purchase only on Amazon Music.
Rockline ‘96 tracklist:
1) How I Miss You (Amazon Original)
2) Up In Arms (Amazon Original)
3) For All the Cows (Amazon Original)
4) Wattershed (Amazon Original)
Today, singer/songwriter/feminist/activist/author DIY icon Ani Di Franco announces her twenty-second album Revolutionary Love, set for release January 29, 2021 on her Righteous Babe Records label. Revolutionary Love is Di Franco’s first studio album since her acclaimed 2019 memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream. Rooted in her poetic lyricism and ever-commanding vocal work, the album unfolds in an understated yet captivating alchemy of folk and soul and lushly textured jazz-pop. The title track, a bold message of irrepressible hope, is available today, along with previously released songs “Do or Die” and “Contagious.”
Revolutionary Love (inspired by Valarie Kaur’s book See No Stranger) is a natural evolution for Di Franco, who has often seen her songs as reflections of not only her personal life but also society at large. With the current divisions and strife in our world, Di Franco sees “Revolutionary Love” as a vital next step. She says, “It’s about carrying the energy of love and compassion into the center of our social movements and making it the driving force. It’s about finding it within ourselves to stay curious about our opponents instead of shutting down.”
Di Franco wrote many of the new tracks on the road prior to returning home to New Orleans in February 2020. While the country soon encountered COVID and solitary lives, Di Franco felt the urgent need to collaborate creatively and record. With her activism at the forefront, she recalls, “I felt very strongly that I needed a horse to ride to try to help get out the vote—to get people inspired and get them believing in democracy, believing in each other and in themselves.”
Di Franco headed to Durham NC, where she teamed up with Brad Cook to record Revolutionary Love with an eclectic group of musicians. The lineup included percussionist Brevan Hampden (Hiss Golden Messenger, Milton Suggs), horn/flute player Matt Douglas (The Mountain Goats, Josh Ritter), keyboardist Phil Cook (Megafaun, Shouting Matches), drummer Yan Westerlund (Quetico, Mipso) and Di Franco’s longtime touring band Terence Higgins on percussion and Todd Sickafoose on bass. With many of the performances captured in one or two takes, Revolutionary Love reveals Di Franco’s tremendous gift for seizing the moment of performance and transforming confusion into clarity, pain into perseverance.
Widely considered a feminist icon, Grammy winner Ani Di Franco is the mother of the DIY movement, being one of the first artists to create her own record label in 1990. While she has been known as the “Little Folksinger,” her music has embraced punk, funk, hip hop, jazz, soul, electronica and even more distant sounds. Her collaborators have included everyone from Utah Phillips to legendary R&B saxophonist Maceo Parker to Prince. She has shared stages with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Greg Brown, Billy Bragg, Michael Franti, Chuck D., and many more. Her last studio album Binary was released in June 2017 on Righteous Babe Records. Her memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream was released in May 2019, and Di Franco released a No Walls Mixtape alongside the book, offering a new take on songs related to the memoir.
