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The Trailer For Lilly Singh – Super Woman – New Film “A Trip To Unicorn Island” Is Here

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The Trailer For Lilly Singh – Super Woman – New Film “A Trip To Unicorn Island” Is Here

The pure love for YouTube star Lilly Singh — known as Super Woman to her fans — is what drove hundreds of young teens (“Team Super”) to the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre IMAX to see the premiere of her YouTube Red original documentary A Trip To Unicorn Island, produced by Astronauts Wanted.

Since launching her “Superwoman” channel in 2010, the Canadian-Indian digital star has amassed nearly 7 million subscribers and over 880 million views. She is known for her uplifting, honest videos and hilarious impressions of her parents. The film, directed by Scott Winn, follows Singh’s journey on her 26-city tour around the world.

The tour was Singh’s way of bringing her fans to her happy place, known as “Unicorn Island.”

Via Mashable

David Bowie Comic Book Pays Tribute To The Iconic Singer

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David Bowie Comic Book Pays Tribute To The Iconic Singer

After his untimely death earlier this month, David Bowie left behind more than a legacy of memorable songs, but bequeathed an indelible imprint on popular culture as well. Storm Entertainment captures this spirit in a new tribute comic book biography released this week.

Tribute: David Bowie, available in both print and digital, follows the enigmatic artist’s innovative career from his through early days as David Jones through his ever-changing metamorphoses into a rock god, tortured artist, thin white duke and blinded prophet.

Written by Mike Lynch and Michael L. Frizell with art by George Amaru and Vincenzo Sansone, the book pays homage to one of the most influential artists any generation, constantly reinventing himself while defying convention. The one-shot features three collectable covers by Sansone, David Frizell, and Graham Hill.

The book builds on the previously published Fame: David Bowie and completes his life story. Fans of Bowie will recognize his transformation from the iconic Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane to pre-punk Berliner to the The Thin White Duke and even in his star turn as the Goblin King in the 1986 movie “Labyrinth.”

“Bowie should not be remembered for his multiple personas, but rather for his desire to push musical and artistic boundaries,” said writer Michael Frizell. “He was on the forefront of so many musical movements; psychedelic, glam, Krautrock, funk, grunge, and his latest post modern masterpiece and farewell gift Black-Star.

Storm Entertainment president Darren G. Davis added, “I hope readers come away with not simply a sense of the richness of his life, but how he influenced practically every artist that came after; regardless of genre.”

The “Tribute” series serves as a pop culture companion to Storm Entertainment’s successful “Female Force,” “Political Power,” “Orbit,” and “Fame” series. The biography comic form allows Storm’s talented writers to delve into the history of certain newsworthy figures and explore what shaped them. Storm Entertainment’s biographical comic books have been featured on CNN, Politico, Roll Call, The Today Show, FOX News, and in People Magazine among thousands of others.

“Tribute: David Bowie” is available on your e-reader from iTunes, Kindle, Nook, Wowio, ComiXology, DriveThru Comics, Google Play, My Digital Comics, Overdrive, Iverse, Biblioboard, Flipkart, ComicBin,Axis360, Blio, Entitle, Comicblender, Kobo and wherever eBooks are sold. Print copies can be ordered exclusively at ComicFleaMarket.com.
Print copies of Tribute: David Bowie can be ordered starting at $3.99 at Comic Flea Market by going here.

Storm has published well-received tribute biographies of other musicians, John Lennon, George Harrison, Whitney Houston, Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobian, Jerry Garcia and more.

You can download this title on ComiXology, DriveThru Comics, Google Play, My Digital Comics, Overdrive, Iverse, iTunes, Kindle, Biblioboard, ComicBin, Nook, Kobo and wherever eBooks are sold.

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The Bizarre Story Of How Lionel Richie Co-Wrote “We Are The World” With Michael Jackson

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The Bizarre Story Of How Lionel Richie Co-Wrote “We Are The World” With Michael Jackson

Lionel Richie has shared the strange story of how he wrote “We Are the World” with Michael Jackson. During an interview with Kevin Spacey that was part of the ceremonies honoring Richie as this year’s MusiCares Person of the Year, Richie remembered:

I’m at Michael’s house trying to write “We Are the World” and his dog is barking and his Mynah bird is yelling “Shut up” [repeatedly at the dog]. I see albums falling over. I look again and see more falling over and there’s an albino python [coming toward me]. I will admit I was screaming like a white woman. Michael goes, “Oh my God, Lionel. There he is, he wants to play with you.” I know you want a spiritual tale about how we brought this song [to’ you, but that’s how it was for three days.

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Arcade Fire have released video of David Bowie tribute parade

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Arcade Fire have released video of the David Bowie tribute parade they led through the streets of New Orleans shortly after the icon’s death.

The history of Arcade Fire and David Bowie goes back to 2005, when the band appeared on the British/U.S. television special “Fashion Rocks”, on which Bowie joined them for “Wake Up”. This recording, as well as recordings of the band’s collaboration on Bowie’s “Life on Mars” and “Five Years,” were made available on the iTunes Music Store in a virtual live EP. The same trip to New York City took them to the Late Show with David Letterman and a concert in Central Park. The Central Park show featured a surprise appearance by Bowie.

Bruce Springsteen memoir coming in September

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Bruce Springsteen memoir coming in September

The Boss has a book deal.

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Bruce Springsteen has spent the past several years working on a memoir, which will come out Sept. 27, four days after Springsteen turns 67.

The title, of course, is “Born to Run.” Financial terms were not disclosed, although his deal is almost certainly worth millions.

“Writing about yourself is a funny business,” Springsteen said in a statement that will appear in his book. “But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.”

According to Simon & Schuster, Springsteen will tell his story with “disarming candor” as he remembers his childhood in New Jersey, his rise to superstardom and “the personal struggles” that inspired such classics as “Born to Run” and Thunder Road.”

Via MPR

David Foster Wallace On Depression Is Eerily Accurate

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David Foster Wallace On Depression Is Eerily Accurate

“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise.

Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”

– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

You’ll Spend Hours On ‘Scaled In Miles’, The Interactive Timeline Detailing The Incredible Career of Miles Davis

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You’ll Spend Hours On ‘Scaled In Miles’, The Interactive Timeline Detailing The Incredible Career of Miles Davis

He changed the course of music five, maybe six times, so just how can we comprehend the impact of Miles Davis? Even more importantly, how can you get closer to his music, while on the web? Boston-based design shop Fathom has just done it. They’ve created a remarkable interactive map that utilizes integrated audio along an intricate timeline of the incredible career of Miles including exactly the musicians with whom he’d worked and the places where he recorded and performed, while proudly ignoring both his detractors and the need for hit albums.

Nearly 69 years ago, on April 24, 1945, a young trumpet player named Miles Dewey Davis got the chance of a lifetime. He had recently left his native East St. Louis for New York City, and at only seventeen years old, he was playing alongside the legendary Charlie Parker. On this day, he was heading into the recording studio for the first time. Perhaps he wasn’t quite up to the task: in his first recordings, Miles’ playing comes across as tentative, especially when compared to Parker’s confident saxophones. But Miles soon found his voice, and over the next forty five years, his vision pushed him into uncharted territory and repeatedly redefined the scope of jazz.

But Miles Davis didn’t do it alone. At every step of his career he surrounded himself with wonderfully talented musicians who became innovators in their own right. Gil Evans’ arrangements helped drive the birth of cool jazzs and supported Miles’ orchestral explorationss of the late 1950s. Before he formed his own quartet, John Coltrane helped Miles break away from the tight chords of bebop to play with looser modes and scaless. And in his bands of the 1960s and 70s, Miles was backed by players who would become the vanguard of ’70s rock fusions, including Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and John McLaughlin.

Here is a look at the history of Miles Davis’ career and collaborations according to his recording sessions as documented by the Jazz Discography Project. Over four hundred recording sessions are shown in a timeline across the middle of the screen. The circles above it represent the nearly six hundred people who played those sessions; larger circles indicate more sessions with Miles. Scrub and click over the timeline to highlight the people who played with Miles on each date. You can also find specific artists and highlight their sessions by clicking on the circles, or by entering different names in the search box. And if your browser plays audio, you can listen to samples from iTunes in the upper left.

Fathom also created a beautiful print that maps out Davis’ career in blue and gold and is available for purchase.

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104-year-old woman yarn bombs her town

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104-year-old woman yarn bombs her town

Grace Brett is a member of a secret band of guerilla Crocheters, who have bedecked their town in artful crochets. Called the Souter Stormers, the group hit various landmarks in Selkirk, Borders, with their yarn work last week, following hours of preparation. Members of the yarn bombing team are mainly over 60, but Grace – the oldest – has lived over a century.

From psychedelia to drum’n’bass, John Peel shaped a nation’s – and the world’s – taste in music

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From psychedelia to drum’n’bass, John Peel shaped a nation’s – and the world’s – taste in music

Oldfield. Led Zep. John Lydon. High Contrast. All four had been championed early in their careers by John Peel. Drum’n’bass DJ High Contrast, who assembled the soundtrack to the athletes’ parade, had appeared on The John Peel Show with his very first single, released on a small south London label in 2001. As for Oldfield, his multimillion-selling Tubular Bells franchise might have died at birth, had it not been for Peel’s enthusiastic support in 1973. He called it the best album he’d heard since Sgt Pepper and the ball started rolling.

The list continued. Happy Mondays. The Specials. Pink Floyd. New Order. The common factor was Peel. Pink Floyd were virtually the house band on his progressive rock show, Top Gear, in the late 1960s. New Order, emerging hesitantly from the ashes of Joy Division, have admitted they owe their existence to Peel. David Bowie. Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All brought to Radio 1 – and to public attention – by Peel. For Bowie, this meant valuable airplay on Top Gear in 1967–68 at a time when all he had to show for his efforts was a flop single about gnomes. For Frankie Goes to Hollywood, it meant an invitation to perform onstage – in their bondage gear and G-strings – when Peel’s travelling DJ roadshow entertained students at North Cheshire College in Warrington on a December night in 1982. “Relax” was still a year away.

We’re all, in a sense, living in Peel’s world today. Stroll down any high street and you’ll see a Ramones or a Nirvana T-shirt coming towards you. The person wearing it may know nothing of how those names entered the culture, but neither of them would have got very far without Peel. He first played Nirvana in January 1989, almost three years before “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was released. His tireless promotion of the Ramones in May–June 1976 quite simply began a revolution.

Via The Guardian

These WWE Wrestlers Stopped A Live Event, And Wait Until You See Why

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These WWE Wrestlers Stopped A Live Event, And Wait Until You See Why

I love it when WWE does things like this. I worked with them for a decade or so, and their passion towards kids are second to none. After finishing a taping of Monday Night Raw, WWE Superstars John Cena and Sting took time out of their schedules to make seven-year-old Kiara Grindrod’s day.

Suddenly, it got very dusty in here.

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