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Thousand Times Teams Up With Grammy Winner Wonder Arillo & Multi-Platinum Superproducer Nico Nice Wit It

Thousand Times Teams Up With Grammy Winner Wonder Arillo & Multi-Platinum Superproducer Nico Nice Wit It.Music Producer Thousand Times brings together Polo G’s Billboard charting producer Nico Nice Wit It together with Grammy winner Wonder Arillo on ‘Slime Season Vol 1’.The producer has also recruited Charlotte NC’s top MCs M.A.C. K.I.L.L.A. and Maestro. The record was recorded and engineered by [...]

Love it or hate it, TikTok is changing the music industry

“Tik-a-Tok-a-Who?”, was Adele’s response to her management’s suggestion to promote her music to younger audiences on Tiktok, the video-sharing platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance. “If everyone’s making music for the TikTok, who’s making music for my generation?”, she asked. Adele might resist, but the platform has nonetheless been popularising and promoting her song Easy on me, with creators using it in almost [...]

Legendary band Yothu Yindi and their trailblazing call for a treaty

Few musicians have had as profound an impact on Australia’s cultural and political life as those in Yothu Yindi. Formed in 1986, this revolutionary band brought together Indigenous musicians from the Yolŋu town of Yirrkala in Northeast Arnhem Land and their non-Indigenous, or Balanda, friends who played in a Darwin band called the Swamp Jockeys. Their union became fertile ground for [...]

‘Oh creator, it’s you I now renounce’: How death metal lyrics echo some Bible passages, and what it means

The other day I came across a Buzzfeed quiz that asked me: “Heavy metal lyric or bible verse?” As someone who is a PhD candidate in religious studies and loves heavy metal, I was surprised to see that I hesitated on a number of my responses. Why does heavy metal use so many biblical references and symbolisms? As I researched, I rediscovered [...]

How hip-hop in the classroom is raising the volume of learning: 4 essential reads

Scholars trace the origin of hip-hop to a “back to school jam” that DJ Kool Herc threw in an apartment in the South Bronx in 1973. Today the music genre is one of the most popular in the [...]

Great headphones blend physics, anatomy and psychology – but what you like to listen to is also important for choosing the right pair

Between music, podcasts, gaming and the unlimited supply of online content, most people spend hours a week wearing headphones. Perhaps you are considering a new pair for the holidays, but with so many options on the [...]

Analysis suggests China has passed US on one research measure

After decades of dominance by the United States, a new measure suggests that China edged the U.S. in 2019 on [...]
Study identifies ways that lawyers could make their written documents easier for the average person to read

Legal documents, such as contracts or deeds, are notoriously difficult for nonlawyers to understand. A new study from Massachusetts Institute [...]
WEF Young Scientists call to address Missing Link between policy and science

Scientists from the World Economic Forum’s Young Scientists community want to see the social value of scientific research better recognised [...]
Centuries-old naval warfare capture documents now online

Centuries-old documents related to the capture of ships by the British are accessible online from today, for the use of [...]
An online game to crowdsource the science of letter shapes

A team of cognitive scientists lead by Dr. Yoolim Kim (Korea Institute at Harvard and Max Planck Institute for the [...]

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