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(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.) — Nine firefighters responding to a fire aboard a ship in Florida have been hospitalized after the ship exploded, injuring eight and sending one to a hospital for heat exhaustion, authorities said. The explosion occurred nearly three hours after firefighters first responded to a ship at Blount Island after reports of a fire…

via 9 Firefighters Hospitalized After Ship Explosion in Florida — TIME

Deal covers Paterson’s entire catalog Source

via Cooking Vinyl Publishing signs UK dance producer Dr Alex Paterson of The Orb — Music Business Worldwide

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump took a victory lap Friday morning after the government reported surprising job gains for last month, seizing on the data to predict that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and its economic disruption was in the rear-view mirror. The unemployment rate dropped to a better-than-expected 13.3%, but that is still…

via ‘This Is a Great Day for Him.’ Trump Invokes George Floyd’s Name in Praise of U.S. Jobs Report — TIME

‘We want to save our unique cultural landscape.’ Source

via Germany commits $1.1bn to ‘restart’ cultural sector post lockdown, including $170m for live music — Music Business Worldwide

Management company Milk & Honey ‘eliminated’ word from its company dealings yesterday Source

via Republic Records dumps the word ‘urban’ from its company vocabulary — Music Business Worldwide

A live improvisation celebrating Chicago’s twin legacies of house music and jazz influenced by the black music of the American South. Theaster Gates describes The Black Monks as “amateur historians, senior docents, and non-sponsored bootleg preachers”, situating them within both a tradition of black music of the American South, which includes the blues, gospel and…

via Theaster Gates & The Black Monks connect Chicago house to spiritual jazz with Furthermore — FACT Magazine

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So far, the music of 2020 has been defined by its absences. Tours have been postponed; festivals have been canceled. Many high-profile artists, including The Dixie Chicks, Sam Smith and Alanis Morissette, have scrapped their albums for the time being, leaving immense holes in the year’s release calendar. But plenty of excellent music has been…

via The Best Albums of 2020 So Far — TIME

(MIAMI) — A re-energized Tropical Storm Cristobal advanced toward the U.S. Gulf Coast early Saturday, bringing with it the heavy rains that already caused flooding and mudslides in Mexico and Central America. After weakening to a tropical depression while moving over land in Mexico’s Gulf coast, Cristobal headed back into the southern Gulf of Mexico…

via Re-Energized Tropical Storm Cristobal Surges Toward U.S. Gulf Coast — TIME

by Ashlee McNicol Being a writer is no easy feat. You stay up late, wake up early, and repeat. You spend hours and hours creating fantasy worlds with characters that you love like your family, watching them experience miracles just as easily as pain, and grow like your own kids.

via 5 Things You Should Know About Authors — A Writer’s Path