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Uncensored Comedy Actress Roundtable With Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and More

Aug 17, 2015

Why does Amy Schumer think that women need to stop apologizing? Which of TV’s top comedy actresses have received rape and death threats? And what is a penis bag, anyway?

Six top actresses — Lena Dunham, 29 (Girls); Ellie Kemper, 35 (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt); Kate McKinnon, 31 (Saturday Night Live); Gina Rodriguez, 30 (Jane the Virgin); Tracee Ellis Ross, 42 (Black-ish); and Emmy nominee Schumer, 34 (Inside Amy Schumer) — recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter for a raunchy, R-rated roundtable discussion where nothing was off limits. (At one point, one of the six women offered another oral sex.)

Stevie Wonder announces extended fall 2015 run of Songs in the Key of Life Performance Tour

Aug 17, 2015

Legendary singer, songwriter, musician and producer Stevie Wonder announced today an extended and final run of dates for his SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE PERFORMANCE Tour due to popular demand. Wonder will bring the critically-acclaimed performance, which is a live adaptation of the iconic Songs in the Key of Life album, to 20 North American cities
beginning September 30 in Montreal, QC. Produced by Wonder Productions and Live Nation and promoted by Live Nation, the tour will continue to cities such as Washington, DC, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto, Chicago, Detroit and Kansas City before concluding in New York City at Madison Square Garden on November 24.

Citi® card members will have access to pre-sale tickets beginning Tuesday, August 18 at 12 p.m. local time through Citi’s Private Pass® Program in select cities. For complete pre-sale details, visit www.citiprivatepass.com. General tickets for select cities will be available beginning Friday, August 21 at 10 a.m. local time. Please see below for full details.

These 20 dates follow the tour’s initial extended run of dates in March 2015; those dates were added as a result of high demand from the tour’s initial run in the late fall of 2014. While returning to many cities, many fans will have the chance to see the show for the first time in their area.

This leg will mark the final performances in a live tour setting in the U.S. The final show at Madison Square Garden will bring the tour full circle as Stevie concludes the tour at the same venue it began on November 6, 2014.

Rolling Stone declared that “the show is possibly 2014’s greatest testament to the limitless potential of American music itself,” while Billboard stated that “the music still resonates” and that Wonder provides an “electrifying concert… and had the audience roaring and standing on its feet.”

Throughout his career, the celebrated singer has amassed 49 Top 40 singles, 32 #1 singles and worldwide album sales of more than 100 million units. He has received 25 Grammy Awards, an Oscar, and a Golden Globe; is an inductee into the Rock and Roll, Songwriters’ and NAACP Halls of Fame; and is the youngest recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. Stevie has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and is a designated U.N. Messenger of Peace with special focus on persons with disabilities. He continues to be pivotal in U.S. and world events, demonstrating the activism that has made him such a vital voice for social progress and world harmony.

FALL 2015 SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE PERFORMANCE TOUR DATES
Date City Venue On Sale (all local time)

September 30 Montreal, QC Bell Centre Friday, August 21 @ 12 p.m.
October 3 Washington, DC Verizon Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 7 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 9 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 11 Hartford, CT XL Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 14 Newark, NJ Prudential Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 16 Chicago, IL United Center Saturday, August 22 @ 10 a.m.
October 19 Pittsburgh, PA Consol Energy Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m.
October 23 Kansas City, MO Sprint Center Saturday, August 22 @ 10 a.m.
October 25 St. Louis, MO Scottrade Center Friday, August 21 @ 12 p.m
October 31 San Antonio, TX AT&T Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 3 Oklahoma City, OK Chesapeake Energy Arena Saturday, August 22 @ 10 a.m.
November 5 Little Rock, AR Verizon Arena Saturday, August 29 @ 10 a.m.
November 7 Indianapolis, IN Bankers Life Fieldhouse Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 10 Knoxville, TN Thompson-Boling Arena Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 14 Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Arena Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 17 Charlottesville, VA John Paul Jones Arena Friday, August 28 @ 10 a.m
November 19 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 21 Detroit, MI Joe Louis Arena Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m
November 24 New York City Madison Square Garden Friday, August 21 @ 10 a.m

Why Marc Maron Loves Vinyl

Aug 17, 2015

The appeal of vinyl is a mysterious thing. Even when you talk to people who make records, who know how the sound gets from the groove to the stylus into the amp and out through the speakers, it’s still kind of magical, in some weird way. The idea of analog, even with its crackle and pops, the idea of this sound being pulled off this rotating disc through these other elements, I think there’s integrity to that, as opposed to this mystifying sequence of zeroes and ones that make that digital sound. I have no idea how the hell that works. It seems detached, inhuman.

At some point in the last two years, I got a renewed interest in playing records. I’d had turntables before, and I had a box of records that I’d been carting around since high school. I always knew in the back of my head that records had more integrity than digital music. I went to interview Jack White at his place in Nashville, and he’s a real analog guy. He had these Mackintosh tube amps, and I got hung up on the idea of getting a tube amp, but the ones Jack had were $15,000. There was no way I could spend that kind of money on stereo equipment and enjoy it; I’d always be thinking, does this sound like $15,000? I don’t think so.

I’ve got around 2,000 records now, and I play music constantly. I’ve been through some hard relationships lately and music seems to fill the gap. Now I can listen to all these different bands, from all the different periods in my life, bands I’ve never heard of, new bands, old bands … If you sit down with good equipment and listen to vinyl, it’s pretty astounding. I listen to albums I’ve had my whole life and I’ve never heard them quite like this.

Via The Guardian

The Dead Weather return with ‘Dodge and Burn’ out September 25

Aug 17, 2015

Third Man recording group The Dead Weather — Jack White, Alison Mosshart, Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence — has announced the release of their long anticipated new album. DODGE AND BURN – the band’s third album and first full-length release in five years – will be available everywhere on Friday, September 25th. The album will be available for pre-order worldwide beginning this Friday, August 21st, with digital pre-orders receiving an instant download of the album’s electrifying new single, “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles).” The new single will also be available digitally worldwide on August 21st.

Released today, the brand new single, “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles),” is streaming now exclusively via global music and entertainment platform, TIDAL. The Dead Weather has also premiered the ferociously compelling Ian & Cooper-directed video for “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles).” Watch a teaser HERE and view the entire video via TIDAL.

Recorded in Nashville during breaks in each member’s ever-busy schedules, DODGE AND BURN was heralded back in October 2013 as the band and Third Man Records announced an innovative long-term plan that would see a series of Dead Weather 7-inch singles released in the year and a half leading up the album’s release. On July 6, 2015, DODGE AND BURN was officially announced along with Third Man Records’ Vault Package #25 featuring the only limited edition version of the new album, the only physical version of new single “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles),” and more. The Dead Weather have now unveiled the complete track list for DODGE AND BURN, which features the four previously released Vault tracks remixed and remastered and eight new songs:

I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)
Buzzkill(er)
Let Me Through
Three Dollar Hat
Lose The Right
Rough Detective
Open Up
Be Still
Mile Markers
Cop and Go
Too Bad
Impossible Winner

The Dead Weather first united after Alison Mosshart’s band The Kills supported Jack White and Jack Lawrence’s band The Raconteurs on a string of North American dates. The trio followed the tour with a few informal recording sessions at White’s famed Third Man studio, soon augmented by Raconteurs collaborator/Queens of the Stone Age multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita. The result proved extraordinary – The Dead Weather’s debut album, HOREHOUND, arrived in July 2009 to worldwide critical acclaim and a top 10 Billboard 200 chart debut. The four musicians celebrated the release with a 23-date North American tour before reconvening at Third Man in December for three further weeks of writing and recording.

Released less than a year after their debut, SEA OF COWARDS made it abundantly clear that The Dead Weather were no mere side project — White, Mosshart, Lawrence, and Fertita were now a band. Ultimately named among the top 15 on Rolling Stone’s “30 Best Albums of 2010,” SEA OF COWARDS drew rave reviews for its aggressive songcraft and overwhelming intensity, as did a worldwide tour highlighted by sold out headline dates and showstopping appearances at such legendary festivals as Coachella, Glastonbury, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

Since then, The Dead Weather collective has remained busy as ever, constantly adding new milestones to their already-illustrious résumés. Born as a one-off collaboration between friends and tourmates, The Dead Weather has since evolved into one of the most vital and provocative bands in contemporary rock ‘n’ roll and DODGE AND BURN sees The Dead Weather pushing their creative line of attack to its very limits.

Guilty Simpson’s Sets “Detroit’s Son” Release on September 11

Aug 17, 2015

Guilty Simpson may have worked with hip-hop production luminaries from as far afield as California, New York and the UK, but his roots are forever in his hometown of Detroit.

It was fellow Detroit native J Dilla who gave Guilty his debut, on “Strapped” from Jaylib’s Champion Sound (2003), and “As Serious as Your Life,” a Four Tet remix. At Dilla’s request, Guilty joined the Stones Throw fold, releasing his debut solo album Ode To The Ghetto in 2008, which established him as one of Stones Throw’s flagship artists.

Two years later, Guilty returned with producer Madlib for OJ Simpson (Stones Throw, 2010), which Pitchfork heralded as “cohesive, focused, and flat-out fun… one of the best hip-hop records of the year.”

After a collaboration with the late Sean Price and producer Black Milk as Random Axe, and another with producer Apollo Brown, Guilty’s next appearance on Stones Throw was shorter but no less pivotal – a guest verse on “Fitta Happier” by Geoff Barrow’s hip-hop production super-group Quakers. Time spent with Quakers co-founder Katalyst in Australia yielded an artistic chemistry between the MC and producer, and led directly to Guilty’s third album for Stones Throw.

Detroit’s Son distils the essence of what made Ode To The Ghetto an underground classic. With the subject of life in the Motor City placed front and center, Guilty’s uncompromising rhymes fit seamlessly with Katalyst’s hard-hitting beats. The raps are every bit as gritty as on Ode or OJ, but there’s also a little light relief on tracks such as “Smoking,” probably about as close as Guilty will get to a summer anthem.

This is the Detroit MC on his best form, rapping over beats perfectly tailored to his rough baritone. Guilty Simpson has always been skillful at combining hardcore rap with thought-provoking observations about the world around him, and it’s this talent that comes to the fore on Detroit’s Son.

Insomniac founder’s response to drug-related deaths at raves

Aug 16, 2015

Rave culture and shows have been in the news recently, and again, for all the wrong reasons, with overdoes happening at an alarming rate. Following the death of two teenage girls at HARD Summer Music Festival in drug-related complications, Insomniac founder Pasquale Rotella, whose Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) is one of the largest EDM events in the world, wrote a response for the culture to step back and see what the real problem is.

yI’ve been incredibly saddened by yet another loss of life that’s been attributed to our culture, and I have spent the last week reflecting on how the story has played out in the media. First and foremost, my heart goes out to the friends and family of those two young women.

We don’t condone or tolerate drug use, but the problem here isn’t raves or dance music, or even festivals in general. The health impact of drug abuse in our country extends far beyond what happens at our events.

I lost five friends to drug overdoses at a young age, none of which occurred at dance music festivals; most of them weren’t even fans of the genre. No one wrote about them.

Dance culture has survived for decades and has never been more popular. Banning these events at facilities where we are able to provide first-rate medical care and emergency services is not the answer. I hope that policymakers and the media do not turn their backs on a cultural movement that is thriving and brings so much happiness to a generation that, quite frankly, needs an environment where they can feel loved and accepted. Most just want healthy interaction with their peers. I know that if I didn’t have access to this community growing up, my life would have taken a much different turn.

I see nothing but great opportunity within large gatherings—the opportunity to promote health, happiness, individuality, and human connection.

If we’re trying to create a safe and secure environment for these passionate fans, sending them back into the unregulated underground isn’t a step in the right direction.

We all need to do our part in creating a national dialogue that educates our youth and encourages them to be accountable for their choices—especially when it comes to drugs.

This is still the greatest tweet ever.

Aug 16, 2015

Person Asks Online For Advice On How To Deal With Grief. This Reply Is Incredible.

Aug 16, 2015

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SiriusXM Launches New Music Channels

Aug 16, 2015

SiriusXM announced today that it has launched four new music channels that will further expand the range and depth of the company’s industry leading line-up of commercial-free music channels.

The new channels will feature expertly-curated music in the Pop, Rock and Hip-Hop/R&B genres.

The introduction of these innovative new channels is consistent with SiriusXM’s track record of developing unique formats not heard on traditional broadcast radio, such as The Coffee House, Lithium, Chill, Pop2k, Y2Kountry and Faction.

“Our lineup of commercial-free music channels continues to evolve to meet the changing tastes of our growing subscriber base and to satisfy the next generation of core subscribers,” said Steve Blatter, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Music Programming, SiriusXM. “Building on our success at delivering an unmatched curated listening experience, several of the new channels feature music and artists from a period when many of our subscribers first connected with this music. These new and innovative radio formats make our broad range of music channels stronger than ever.”

Velvet (channel 13): Today’s top contemporary pop vocalists showcasing artists like Adele, Beyoncé, Sam Smith, Idina Menzel, John Legend and Adam Lambert. Velvet will launch with special guest DJ sessions with Idina Menzel, Josh Groban and Adam Lambert.

FLY (channel 47): Hip-Hop and R&B from the ’90s and 2000s featuring artists like Jay-Z, Destiny’s Child, Outkast, Mary J. Blige, P. Diddy and Missy Elliot. Fly will launch with a special guest DJ sessions hosted by R. Kelly, Warren G. and Nelly.

Turbo (channel 314): Hard Rock music from the ’90s and 2000s featuring artists such as Linkin Park, Korn, Papa Roach, Godsmack and System Of A Down.

Poptropolis (channel 300): Pop hits from the ’80s through 2000s featuring artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna, George Michael, Alanis Morissette, Pink and Kelly Clarkson.

Additionally, SiriusXM will launch Limited Edition, channel 18, on August 13—which will be the home for SiriusXM’s exclusive, limited-run channels. SiriusXM’s Road Trip Radio, the limited-run channel featuring summer driving tunes—a mix of music from all genres and eras—will be available on SiriusXM’s Limited Edition beginning August 13.

The channels, available on satellite will also be available through the SiriusXM Internet Radio App on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.

Metallica Is Going To Get Their Own Pinball Machine

Aug 16, 2015

Stern Pinball, Inc., the world’s oldest and largest producer of arcade-quality pinball games, announced today the re- introduction of their previously sold out Metallica Monsters Premium pinball machine. The highly popular Metallica title honors one of the world’s foremost rock bands. Metallica’s notoriously fast tempos and aggressive musicianship set the tone for an exciting pinball player experience.

Players bang their heads and their flippers to 12 classic Metallica hits including “Master of Puppets,” “One” and “Fade to Black.” Other action-packed game features include an electric chair, snake, grave marker and unparalleled magnetic action. “The longevity of the Metallica title has strengthened our commitment to produce high-energy music titles,” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO of Stern Pinball, Inc.

Metallica Premium features exclusive game art and a one-of-a-kind collectible Sparky toy designed by world-renowned pop culture artist “Dirty” Donny Gillies. Donny is a well-known freelance artist who creates paintings, album covers, show posters, concert posters, vinyl toys and skateboards. “Since working with Stern to create one of a kind Metallica pinball art, I have become an even bigger fan of what Stern is doing to grow pinball,” said artist Donny Gilles a dedicated pinball enthusiast.

Metallica’s Premium Model will have a $7,595 MSRP and are available through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world.