Australian police have thwarted a billion-dollar international drug smuggling operation — reportedly with the help of a giant seal. An international investigation into the drug gang reached its climax last week after an abandoned yacht was found on the shoreline of Stick Island, off the coast of Western Australia, sparking a search for its occupants.…
via A Sleepy Giant Seal Helped Foil an International Drug Smuggling Operation in Australia — TIME
We spend a great deal of energy praising the actresses we think of as great—the Meryl Streeps, the Cate Blanchetts, the Julianne Moores. But we don’t always know what to do with the charming ones, the ones who dole out pleasure in the movies we often catch up with months or years after their release,…
via Hustlers Proves Jennifer Lopez Has Been This Great All Along — TIME
The compilation will be released on World Mental Health Day. Orphan. Records has enlisted 15 musicians to contribute to their upcoming charity compilation Or.VA1. All proceeds will be donated to the New York branch of the Child Mind Institute, a non-profit that works with children struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Or.VA1 will feature…
Artist and songwriter Alex Hall is the first signing under the new partnership The post Downtown inks publishing admin and JV deal with Nashville’s Twelve6 Entertainment appeared first on Music Business Worldwide.
The next full moon is set to make an appearance on the most ominous date on the calendar this month. A September full moon, also known as a “Harvest Moon,” will be visible to many Americans this Friday the 13th. According to NASA, the moon will be full early Saturday morning, Sept. 14, at 12:33…
Vudu, the streaming service owned by Walmart, announced a new feature today that will make it easier for viewers to avoid sex and violence in movies. Anyone who’s watched an R-rated movie on broadcast television or on an airplane is probably familiar with films that have been “edited for content,” but Vudu’s new Family Play…
The Paris-based, Iranian duo’s second release for the French label. 9T Antiope have released their sophomore album for eilan records. Grimace follows their label debut Isthmus, which was released in early 2017. Vocalist Sara Bigdeli Shamloo’s solemn poetry and composer Nima Aghiani’s stark, cinematic soundscapes occupy rhythmically distinct but tonally overlapping planes in order to,…
via 9T Antiope return to eilan records with Grimace — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
The Russian-born, Berlin-based musician plays Sustain Release this weekend. Alexandra Zakharenko, who mainly publishes music, mixes and radio shows under her alias Perila, will release her debut album as Aseptic Stir for Russian label Klammklang. Many of the album’s tracks were previously released on the artist’s SoundCloud page and explore her ongoing interest in ASMR-inspired…
Seven tracks that explore as many styles. Brooklyn-based musician Nik Dawson, aka Bookworms, has self-released a new mixtape titled dyslexia. The seven tracks each explore different electronic realms that range from to barely-there atmospheric murmurs to club-adjacent modular dance music, once or twice removed from convention. A few months back, Dawson contributed two tracks to…
via Bookworms shares free-form mixtape dyslexia — FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.
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