Roxy Music singer and mastermind Bryan Ferry grew up in the sooty industrial North. His father tended to pit horses in the local mine in Washington, where the glum employment options for men were the mine or the steel factory. Roxy Music…
The Future of Music One Record at a Time
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TJ Norris
– Oct 10, 5:00 PM
All of these are out on the shelves (virtual and otherwise) released today, and believe you me, it's an A to Z of challenging, ethereal and otherwise thrilling sounds from various points on the planet. Tune in! Dose Curves (Backward Music) is the…
Will it or won't it appear? This is the question being asked across the art world about the Salvator Mundi - the first Leonardo to be discovered for more than a century - as the Louvre prepares for its blockbuster da Vinci exhibition. With just…
Digital Trends
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Georgina Torbet
– Oct 12, 10:31 AM
Two new sets of images from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have revealed more about the history of water on Mars. Scientists believe that billions of years ago, Mars had a thick, dense atmosphere that trapped heat and allowed liquid water…
VentureBeat reports on two new high fundings for startups developing artificial intelligence. Umbo Computer Vision (UCV) works on autonomous video security systems to businesses, while Xor is developing an AI chatbot platform for recruiters and job…
Country music has a surprising amount of blackness woven into the fabric of its history. While American-style country music might not seem like the thing to catch on in Africa, it became extremely relatable through the parallels between the…
The Hollywood Reporter
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Richard Newby
– Oct 12, 9:00 AM
“Beware that his shadow doth not burden your dreams with horrible fears.” For nearly as long as we've been making movies, we've been using them to explore our darkest fears and desires, to drain the imitations of life from actors so…
Rock And Roll Globe
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Jim Allen
– Oct 11, 12:47 PM
The Jerry Garcia Band always seemed a bit like an alternate universe version of The Grateful Dead — one where Jerry's genius strode a similar path, but interacted with another batch of bandmates in an entirely different way. From 1975 until…
As any well-read jazz fan will know, Art Blakey was so much more than a powerhouse drummer armed with a swashbuckling, polyrhythmic style. He was also a charismatic bandleader who co-founded The Jazz Messengers and led the legendary group from 1956…
From Ananny's introduction: “I want to briefly describe how I think about the focus of today's conversation — digital media, public life, and democratic self-governance. Specifically, I want to offer some ways of thinking about what…
