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Rock The Bells Festival Returns This August Celebrating 50 Years Of Hip-Hop

Rock The Bells, the global platform dedicated to elevating Hip-Hop culture from its roots to the modern day, announced today the return of the Rock The Bells Festival, taking place on Saturday, August 5, 2023 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, NY. The dynamic, day-long celebration will serve as THE pinnacle moment to celebrate 50 Years of Hip-Hop, with a legendary lineup in the city that launched a movement and shifted culture.

Today also marks the 5-year anniversary of Rock The Bells, marked by the premiere of Rock The Bells Radio on SiriusXM. In celebration of these milestones and their continued partnership, a dedicated billboard will be on display in Times Square above the Pedestrian Plaza, live for 24 hours only.

The festival lineup will be announced in April, and attendees can expect performances by some of Hip-Hop’s most revered icons, including MCs, DJs, and producers, in addition to one-of-a-kind immersive experiences underscoring Hip-Hop’s impact on fashion, art, and food over the span of five decades.

“For 50 years, Hip-Hop has impacted the world, often without recognition. At Rock The Bells, we consistently honor the culture through creative content, commerce, and experiences and this year, we’ve made it a priority to show up for the culture on another level,” said LL COOL J, Founder and CEO of Rock The Bells. “The Rock The Bells Festival is the place to be to celebrate Hip-Hop and capture the breadth of its impact throughout generations in music, fashion, art, and more. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime experience. If you love Hip-Hop, you know where to go on August 5.”

The festival also kicks off a week of live events, activations, and programming moments leading up to National Hip-Hop day on August 11th, the official, recognized anniversary of the culture.

Fans can sign up today to be first in line to access presale tickets on April 11 at rockthebellsfestival.com for the most talked about 50 Years of Hip-Hop celebration during the festival.

BTS POP-UP: Space of BTS in New York Will Open In April

BTS are a seven member group from South Korea that have become global pop icons. With constant success since their debut in 2013, BTS have been breaking records worldwide, including six No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 singles, and multiple sold-out stadium shows worldwide. The BTS POP-UP: Space of BTS in New York will be at The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards on Level 3. The BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS arrives perfectly with BTS member SUGA’s World tour in New York on April 27th, 2023.

The long-awaited BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS in NEW YORK will be the first comprehensive and official BTS store in the United States. The New York pop-up will have the longest opening duration of three months.

This spectacular store will carry several new merchandise lines like 2022 DALMAJUNG, BTS in BUSAN. In addition, previously extensive and newly added collections will be available, such as SOWOOZOO, IN THE SOOP BTS ver. Season2, TinyTAN, BTS PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE, BUTTER and many more . With numerous interactive photo opportunities, customers can expect a fantastic experience at the new BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS in NEW YORK. Shoppers can expect an opening day gift with purchase and a limited edition BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS in NEW YORK slap wristband. Along with a wide variety of BTS merchandise from stationery, apparel, homeware, and fashion items. Due to the high demand for merchandise, these products will be sold until supplies last and have limited restock once sold out.

BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS will bring exceptional products inspired by BTS albums to New York for an immersive in-store experience equipped with new interactive elements. Hudson Yards is New York’s newest neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards feature over 100 diverse shops and a collection of leading, high-profile brands— perfect for tourists and local shoppers alike. Following the anticipation of the BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS in TORONTO, store hours for the New York pop-up have been extended two hours before and one hour after traditional mall hours on opening day.

Excitement is buzzing with the BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS coming to New York! The store is set to open in late April 2023.

Ran by HYBE, previous BTS POP-UP : SPACE OF BTS stores have been a global success with multiple store locations in Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju. Resulting in long-line ups and high levels of returning customers excited for exclusive BTS merchandise.

George Harrison Breaks Down The Beatles’ Abbey Road Song-By-Song Upon Its Release In 1969

On 26th September 1969 Australian (and then Canadian-based) journalist Ritchie Yorke asked George Harrison to give track-by-track feedback on The Beatles’ last recorded album. This is that review with audio enhanced.

Drew Lynch’s Comedy Show Goes Off Script After He Gets Heckled About His Height

Comedian Drew Lynch was in the middle of a joke when a first row heckler called him out on his height. What happened next shows you what a masterful improver he is.

My Next Read: “Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture” By Barbara Charone

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Access All Areas is a personal, insightful and humorous memoir packed with stories of being on the cultural frontline, from first writing press releases on a typewriter driven by Tip Ex, then as a press officer for heavy metal bands taking the bus up to Donnington Festival with coffee, croissants and the much more popular sulfate. To taking on Madonna, an unknown girl from Detroit, and telling Smash Hits ‘you don’t have to run the piece if the single doesn’t chart’, and becoming a true pioneer in music, Charone continues to work with the biggest names in music, including Depeche Mode, Robert Plant, Foo Fighters and Mark Ronson at her agency MBCPR.

The story of how a music-loving, budding journalist from a Chicago suburb became the defining music publicist of her generation, Access All Areas is a time capsule of the last fifty years, told through the lens of music.

The Beatles’ Isolated Vocals For “Revolution”

The Beatles’ “Revolution” must have been a favourite by the band – no less than three versions of the song were recorded and released in 1968, all for the band’s self-titled double album: a slow, bluesy arrangement (titled “Revolution 1”) that would make the final tracklisting for the LP; an abstract sound collage (titled “Revolution 9”) that originated as the latter part of “Revolution 1” and appears on the same album; and the faster, hard rock version similar to “Revolution 1”, released as the B-side of “Hey Jude”

Pittsburgh-Based Pop Singer Valentina Cherico Releases “Teach Me How To Love Again”

They say time can heal a broken heart, but sometimes the pain can seem like too much to bear. Nobody knows this more than Pittsburgh-based singer-songwriter Valentina Cherico as she laments in her new single “Teach Me How To Love Again.”

A gentle piano and Cherico’s soft and vulnerable vocals start the song off as she looks back on the heartbreak she has endured and wonders if it will ever end. Once the pre-chorus hits, Cherico’s vocals take on a beautiful tone that leads into the chorus that asks how she will know when true love finds her.

“My heart can’t take no more
I open one more door
But nobody’s there

How will I know?
How will I feel
When the time is right for me”

As the song continues, Cherico’s angelic voice gradually grows more powerful and combines with the softer tones from earlier to showcase her range. Her vocals and the song’s lyrics are reminiscent of one of Cherico’s artistic influences, the late Selena Quintanilla and her song “I Could Fall In Love With You”.

Of the song’s inspiration, Cherico states that it came from personal experiences. “I wrote “Teach Me How To Love Again” at a time where I felt very lost. My heart was broken by people who I trusted and loved. I thought that I would never meet someone who would love me or treat me right.”

The single is complimented by an intimate music video that shows Cherico playing the piano and singing alone in a white dress. She is also shown wearing white while walking around town. The video captures Cherico’s search for true love and the helplessness she feels while trying to do so.

By the time Cherico’s vocals crescendos to a high note, there is a sense of newfound hope conveyed. The singer asserts this herself as she explains, “This song and music video is dedicated to anyone that has lost love, or has given up in believing that true love even exists. This song is to encourage those people that you are not alone in your search.”

A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cherico got her start within her musical family. As a young child, she’d watch her father and older sister perform in a group called “Cassanova”. She’d eventually join the group herself as she studied piano.

From a young age, Cherico also had an interest in acting, attending Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School before appearing in various stage musicals. Her most notable appearance as an actress and singer would be doing background roles for the series “American Rust” starring Jeff Daniels.

As a solo singer, Cherico recorded her first original tune, “There’s No Stopping Me,” alongside Grammy nominated and multi-award-winning music producer, Roy Hamilton, III. The song debuted in August 2021. The following year, she released her Latin/Pop single titled “Believe In Yourself”, which was streamed in over 89 countries and played all over the U.S. and Europe.

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Toronto Folk-Rocker Kari Lyn Explores the Duality of Comfort and Grief on “Anyways”

The grief from losing a loved one can often feel unbearable, but those small moments where we still sense that person’s presence in our lives can offer great comfort. Toronto-based folk-rock songstress Kari Lyn captures this duality of melancholy and comfort in her reflective new single “Anyways.”

With countrified guitar, soothing harmonies, and her straightforward vocal delivery, “Anyways” deals with the unexpected death of Kari Lyn’s father in 2017 when she was living in Australia, halfway around the world from her native PEI.

“Taking that 30-hour flight home was the hardest thing I’ve ever been through,” she says, “but when I returned home, the biggest thing anyone said was how proud my father was about my traveling and the fact that I was following my dreams.”

One of her favorite memories is of dancing with her father to “It’s Your Love” by Tim McGraw. “He would pick me up and spin me around in the living room, which sparked the beginning of my love of music,” she recalls. “You can hear the inspirations from that song in ‘Anyways.’”

The radio turns to our favourite song
And I’ll find a dime just to lead me along
I know you’re right there with me
I hear your voice within me
I feel the love reach from the tune
In my heart we spin around the room
Like the way we used to do

“Dimes, to some, represent that someone is watching out for you above and that you are on the right path,” Kari Lyn explains. “That is where the line in the bridge, ‘I’ll find a dime just to lead me along,’ comes from. I’ve found dimes in the most random places, when I’m going through the toughest times and it always gives me comfort.”

Kari Lyn has spent her whole life surrounded by music and storytelling. Growing up in North Rustico, PEI, listening to the “Saturday Night Hoedown” radio station, and stories told by her “PEI-famous” grandfather, Tommy Gallant, she was constantly inspired to share her truth through her lyrics. At 19 years old, she left home for a trip to Thailand, resulting in almost five years of travel, getting out of her comfort zone, and experiencing everything from scuba diving and climbing active volcanoes, to learning new languages and cultural traditions.

Inspired by these travels, she returned to PEI and wrote and released her debut album Hit The Ground, which was nominated for Rock Album of the Year at the 2020 Music PEI awards. Currently, this Cottage-Core Rockstar has upcoming releases from her newest EP, Nightmarin’, which explores themes of duality.

Victa Releases Pop Single “Where Did You Go?”

“Where Did You Go”, the new single by Ottawa, Ontario based Victa, is a masterful piece of poignant pop production.

It’s a song about love, loss and heartbreak, as Victa sings over a gently strummed acoustic guitar weaved together with a catchy, afrobeat rhythm. Victa’s melodic vocal delivery lays bare the singer’s pain and confusion, as he wonders why his relationship has fallen apart.

“Where did you go?” he pleads, longing for her return and painting a vivid picture of his loneliness. He’s loved and lost before and isn’t ready to let yet another one get away.

“We were never just friends
I’m too fly to hold you down
But I hope that you stick around
Cause’ I’ve been hurt before“

Soaring synths combine with a driving beat as the track reaches its emotional climax. It combines elements of pop, hip-hop, R & B and electronic music into one melodic, hook-infused package, produced by Muto Beats and engineered by Alejandro Santos.

Victa’s vocals and songwriting prowess on the melancholic and introspective “Where Did You Go” belie his relatively young age. It wasn’t that long ago when his friends in high school would make fun of him for writing raps and performing them at lunch hour.

“I grew up surrounded by music my whole life,” Victa, real name Victor Gabriel-Hanson, says. “I fell in love with the way music makes me feel. I began to cultivate my passion for creating and performing from a young age.”

Victa’s debut single, “Switching Sides,” was released in 2020, followed by a string of successful releases. “Where Did You Go” comes hot off the heels of the sultry and seductive “Keeping Score”, which was nominated by Ottawa’s Faces Magazine for Best Music Video of the Year.

For “Where Did You Go”, he’s back working with that video’s producer, Francis Klan ‘Chleepy’, along with Unknwnroz, who helped Victa come up with a sexy, steamy and provocative storyline that drives home the emotion of the song. It’s sure to win more nominations for the young artist.

The up-and-coming singer and songwriter is honing his craft as a student in Algonquin College’s Music Industry Arts program as he carves his way into the music industry.

“I’m passionate about music and almost everything I do in my spare time is related to composing, writing lyrics and envisioning the next project to manifest my future in music,” he says.

Perhaps that’s why his twelve recorded tracks and four music videos thus far have all been produced with a professionalism that wouldn’t make them out of place amongst the music of his idols, such as TheWeeknd, Drake and A$AP Rocky.

As Victa’s star continues to rise, he is poised to become a prominent figure in the Canadian music scene and beyond. “Where Did You Go” is the next step to getting him there.

Logic Announces U.S. Tour On Top Of New Album Release “College Park”

On the heels of releasing his eighth studio album, College Park, Grammy-nominatedrapper, singer, songwriter and record producer Logic has announced a U.S. tour produced by Live Nation. “Logic: The College Park Tour with Special Guest Juicy J” is set to kick off May 25th in Madison, Wis. (full routing below). Additionally, BobbyBoy Records’ own C Dot Castro and Travis Stacey will be opening all shows.

Tickets will be available starting with Citi presales beginning Tuesday, March 7th. More info on Citi presale is below. The general on sale for will begin Friday, March 10 at 10am Local Time on livenation.com

College Park encompasses Logic’s musical and life journey to date while it also celebrates a new beginning for the rapper. Following a 10-year stint with Def Jam Records, Logic took a leap to the independent side and partnered with BMG for this latest release, which features singles including “Wake Up,” “Paradise II” featuring Norah Jones, “Highlife,” and “Lightsabers.”

Most recently, the track “Self-Medication” has been generating buzz across socials channels thanks in part to track features Seth MacFarlane, Redman, & Statik Selektah. The song is currently the biggest gainer on the Top Songs USA Spotify chart and receiving 1M streams per day.

VIBE called the album “Chock-full of well-placed guest appearances as well as powerful solo fare” and deemed College Park “…a cohesive long player…” while Hot97 stated, “The album stylistically gives off old school vibes.”

LOGIC ON TOUR

May 25 Madison, Wis. The Sylvee
May 27 Chicago, Ill. Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom ^
May 28 Detroit, Mich. Fox Theatre
May 31 Akron, Ohio Akron Civic Theatre
June 02 Boston, Mass. MGM Music Hall
June 03 Bridgeport, Ct. Hartford Healthcare Amphitheater
June 04 New York, N.Y. Hammerstein Ballroom
June 07 Philadelphia, Pa. The Met
June 08 Washington, DC Echostage ^
June 10 Charlotte, N.C. Skyla Credit Union Amp
June 11 Jacksonville, Fla. Daily’s Place
June 12 New Orleans, La. Fillmore
June 14 Houston, Texas 713 Music Hall
June 15 Austin, Texas Moody Center
June 16 Dallas, Texas South Side Ballroom ^
June 19 Denver, Colo. Fillmore Auditorium
June 20 Salt Lake City, Utah Union Event Center
June 22 Seattle, Wash. WAMU Theater ^
June 23 Portland, Ore. RV Inn Resorts Amp
June 25 San Francisco, Calif. The Masonic
June 28 Los Angeles, Calif. YouTube Theater
June 29 San Diego, Calif. Gallagher Square at Petco Park
June 30 Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona Financial Theatre
^ without Juicy J

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