“You’re ugly!”: Avengers: Endgame stars Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson take it in turns to INSULT EACH OTHER on BBC Radio 1’s Playground Insults.
You don’t want to play “The Slap Game” with Jason Momoa
Game of Thrones co-creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff detail the time David played Jason Momoa in ‘The Slap Game.’
Video: Rolling Stones Gather Moss from 1964
The Rolling Stones – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts – have a little fun trying to hitchhike along the side of the road and then head onto play a show in Hull, England in front of hundreds of screaming teens in 1964.
E-Cigarette Rules in Concert Venues Across Canada
While e-cigs are considered different than traditional tobacco for many reasons, they’re typically considered one and the same under the eyes of the law. For concertgoers in Canada, knowing whether or not they’re allowed to vape within the confines of a venue is important information to have. With this in mind, we’ve included the smoking and vaping policies of the most popular concert venues in Canada.
Scotiabank Arena
This multi-purpose arena in downtown Toronto is home to many amazing games and concerts. If you’re thinking about attending one of these live events, you’re likely asking yourself if you’re allowed to vape inside the Scotiabank Arena. The answer is that you’ll have to head outside to the smoke pit to join the traditional tobacco users. There is no vaping or e-cigs allowed inside the arena.
Bell MTS Place
Home of the Winnipeg Jets, MTS Centre is a strictly non-smoking center. They do include e-cigs as part of their non-smoking policy. You’ll have to leave the premises in order to utilize your e-cig or other smoking products. What’s more, concertgoers should consider stocking up on juice through their preferred online vape shop prior to getting to downtown Winnipeg. Otherwise, they risk waiting in long lines in the limited number of shops in the area. However, some online head shops like https://www.yocanvaporizer.com are open 24/7.
The Commodore Ballroom
This downtown Vancouver music venue that holds just under 1000 people is a non-smoking establishment. This includes e-cigs and vaporizers. There is also no re-entry at this venue, so once you leave, you can’t come back inside.
Centre Bell
Formerly known as the Molson Centre, Bell Centre is an entertainment complex located in Montreal. If you want to catch a Montreal Canadiens game or concert at Centre Bell, you’ll need to know that this center has a smoke-free environment. This includes vaporizers and e-cigs.
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Located in downtown Vancouver, this performing arts venue is one of the most popular places to catch some amazing shows. This theatre sports a no-smoking policy, which includes vaping and e-cigs. However, they do have designated areas within the building perimeter where you can enjoy a hit.
The Orpheum
This music and theatre venue is located in Vancouver, Canada. It harbors a strict no-smoking in the theatre policy which includes e-cigs and vaporizers. They do have designated smoking areas on the premises which you can take advantage of.
Rexall Place
Home of the Edmonton Oilers, Rexall place has a no-smoking policy at its facility. This includes e-cigs. You’ll have to exit the facility to use your device and will not be allowed in once you leave.
Vancouver Playhouse
This theatre company offers many artistic and musical performers. They do have a no-smoking policy that they uphold, which includes e-cigs. They do, however, have designated smoking areas that you can go to outside of the theatre. They allow remittance into the theatre with a ticket.
Canadian Tire Center
Located in Canada’s capital, the Canadian Tire Center is home to the Ottawa Senators. If you plan on catching a game, you’ll want to know that this center has a smoke-free environment. They do have designated smoking areas outside of the venue for before and after the match.
Scotiabank Saddledome
If you’re looking to enjoy watching the Calgary Flames play, it’s likely the Scotiabank Saddledome is on your schedule. This facility does sport a smoke-free environment, which includes the use of vaporizers and e-cigs. They do offer designated smoking areas outside of the dome you can use.
Rogers Arena
The place you’ll find the Vancouver Canucks, Rogers Arena, is another strictly non-smoking environment. They classify e-cigs and personal vaporizers as part of smoking products. This facility will not let you in once you leave to utilize your device.
The Prince Estate Announces New Prince Album “Originals”
Prince will forever be remembered as a commanding live performer, chart-topping recording artist, and music business revolutionary. Yet for all the time he spent in the spotlight over his four-decade-long career, Prince also worked tirelessly behind the scenes to nurture talent and pen songs for the rising artists he respected.
This June, The Prince Estate, in partnership with Warner Bros. Records and TIDAL, will release Originals, a 15-track album featuring 14 previously unreleased recordings that illuminates the vital, behind-the-scenes role Prince played in other artists’ careers. The tracks were selected collaboratively by Troy Carter, on behalf of The Prince Estate, and JAY-Z.
Starting June 7, Originals will stream exclusively on TIDAL for fourteen days. In the spirit of sharing Prince’s music with his fans as he wanted, the album will be available to stream in Master quality via TIDAL’s HiFi subscription tier. Members will be able to hear the recordings just as the artist intended the tracks to sound.
On June 21st, Warner Bros. Records will release this extraordinary body of work, sourced directly from Prince’s vast archive of Vault recordings, via all download and streaming partners and physically on CD, while 180 gram 2LP and limited edition Deluxe CD+2LP formats will follow on July 19th.
By the mid-1980s, Prince was dominating the charts even as a writer/producer with songs he’d composed and recorded for others. In addition to releasing nine of his most commercially successful full-length albums, he also wrote and recorded endless reels of material for proteges The Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E., Apollonia 6, Jill Jones, the Family, and Mazarati. Occasionally, Prince’s original demo recordings would be used as master takes on their albums, with only minor alterations to the instrumentation and a replacement of the vocal tracks. Other times, artists would rely on his demos to guide them through their own recording process, with Prince’s initial take informing their final version of his song. The aggregate effect was a complete saturation and transformation of the pop music landscape, with Prince both leading and subverting mainstream culture.
Several of the iconic songs found on Originals were considerable hits for the artists who recorded them. Sheila E.’s “The Glamorous Life” reached #1 on the dance charts in 1984, while the enormous success of “Manic Monday” propelled the single and its accompanying album, The Bangles’ Different Light, to the #2 spot on the pop charts. The Time’s Ice Cream Castle, featuring the top 20 “Jungle Love”, spent a whopping 57 weeks on the Billboard 200. And in 1991, Martika enjoyed international success with “Love… Thy Will Be Done”, a top 10 hit in France, Australia, the UK and the USA.
Originals pulls back the curtain to reveal the origins of these familiar songs, in addition to deeper album cuts such as Vanity 6’s “Make-Up,” Jill Jones’s “Baby, You’re a Trip,” and Kenny Rogers’ “You’re My Love.” The album also features Prince’s majestic original 1984 version of “Nothing Compares 2 U,” released in 2018 as a standalone single.
1. Sex Shooter
2. Jungle Love
3. Manic Monday
4. Noon Rendezvous
5. Make-Up
6. 100 MPH
7. You’re My Love
8. Holly Rock
9. Baby, You’re a Trip
10. The Glamorous Life
11. Gigolos Get Lonely Too
12. Love… Thy Will Be Done
13. Dear Michaelangelo
14. Wouldn’t You Love to Love Me?
15. Nothing Compares 2 U
Video: That time the Libertarian Party nominated Howard Stern for Governor
During his radio show on March 22, 1994, Stern announced his candidacy for Governor of New York under the Libertarian Party ticket, challenging Mario Cuomo for re-election. Stern planned to reinstate the death penalty, remove highway tolls to improve traffic flow and limit road work to graveyard shifts hours. Stern announced that once those three goals were accomplished, he would resign and pass the governorship to his lieutenant. At the party’s nomination convention on April 23, Stern won the required two-thirds majority on the first ballot, receiving 287 of the 381 votes cast; James Ostrowski finished second with 34 votes.[114] To place his name on the final ballot, Stern was obliged to state his home address and complete a financial disclosure form under the Ethics in Government Act. Stern applied for an injunction as he wished to avoid stating his income; the request was denied by a judge on August 2. Stern withdrew his candidacy in an on-air press conference two days later, saying: “I spend 25 hours a week telling you all the most intimate details of my life … One fact I’ve never revealed is how much I make and how much money I have … it’s none of your business.”
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Bruce Springsteen’s Western Stars, New Studio Album Out on Columbia Records June 14
Bruce Springsteen’s first new studio album in five years takes his music to a new place, drawing inspiration in part from the Southern California pop records of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. The album was recorded primarily at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. Columbia Records will release Springsteen’s 19th studio album on June 14. Western Stars will be available for pre-order on Friday, April 26.
“This record is a return to my solo recordings featuring character driven songs and sweeping, cinematic orchestral arrangements,” says Springsteen. “It’s a jewel box of a record.”
The 13 tracks of Western Stars encompass a sweeping range of American themes, of highways and desert spaces, of isolation and community and the permanence of home and hope.
Ron Aniello produced the album with Springsteen and plays bass, keyboard, and other instruments. Patti Scialfa provides vocals and contributes vocal arrangements on four tracks. The musical arrangements include strings, horns, pedal steel and contributions from more than 20 other players including Jon Brion (who plays celeste, Moog, and farfisa), as well as guest appearances by David Sancious, Charlie Giordano, and Soozie Tyrell. The album was mixed by Tom Elmhirst.
Bruce Springsteen’s recording career spans over 40 years, beginning with 1973’s ‘Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ’ (Columbia Records). He has garnered 20 Grammys, won an Oscar and a Tony, been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received a Kennedy Center Honor, and was MusiCares’ 2013 Person of the Year. Springsteen’s memoir ‘Born to Run’ (Simon & Schuster) and its companion album ‘Chapter and Verse’ were released in September 2016, and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November 2016. His historic 236-show run of ‘Springsteen on Broadway’ at Jujamcyn’s Walter Kerr Theatre from October 2017 to December 2018 also yielded an accompanying soundtrack album and Netflix special.
Western Stars Track Listing:
1. Hitch Hikin’
2. The Wayfarer
3. Tucson Train
4. Western Stars
5. Sleepy Joe’s Café
6. Drive Fast (The Stuntman)
7. Chasin’ Wild Horses
8. Sundown
9. Somewhere North of Nashville
10. Stones
11. There Goes My Miracle
12. Hello Sunshine
13. Moonlight Motel
How to be Ned Flanders with Okilly Dokilly
Metal band Okilly Dokilly frontman Head Ned explains that to sing like Ned Flanders, one must “channel everything that is not Ned Flanders — all the pent-up hatred from never getting your power tools back, from trips to the post office, from constant encounters with foot-longs — you take it and you push that with the diaphragm and from there you can scream all the diddilies that you want”
Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” Played On The Theremin
Great songs don’t always need words. “The Great Gig in the Sky” from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon, by Richard Wright and Clare Torry, played on theremin, an early electronic instrument controlled without contact.