Posts made in June 2017

YOUNG THUG RELEASES THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED “BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS”

ICONIC SUPERSTAR ANNOUNCES VISIONARY NEW PROJECT

WIDE RANGE OF INTERNATIONAL LIVE APPEARANCES SLATED THROUGH THE SUMMER

“BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS” ARRIVES EVERYWHERE TODAY

(New York, NY) 300 Entertainment recording artist Young Thug has announced details of his upcoming new project. “Beautiful Thugger Girls” is available at all digital music retailers and streaming services here.

“Beautiful Thugger Girls” sees the visionary multi-art form superstar singing all 14 tracks on a collection of songs recorded earlier this year. Young Thug heralded the project this week via a post on his hugely popular Instagram (@thuggerthugger1). The post earned immediate media attention from a number of top music media outlets.

One of popular music’s most charismatic and crowd-pleasing live performers, Young Thug will celebrate “Beautiful Thugger Girls” with a series of North American dates, including headline shows and appearances on Future’s blockbuster “Nobody Safe Tour” slated for Ridgefield, WA’s Sunlight Supply Amphitheater (June 11th) and Austin, TX’s Austin360 Amphitheater (June 23rd). Other U.S. dates include the star-studded BET Experience Live, at Los Angeles’ Staples Center on June 24th and Wantagh, NY’s Billboard Hot 100 Music Festival (August 19th-20th). In addition, appearances are also set for a number of upcoming European festivals, including London’s Wireless Festival (July 7th-9th), Gothenburg, Sweden’s Way Out West Festival (August 10th-12th), and Helsinki, Finland’s Flow Festival (August 11th-13th).

“Beautiful Thugger Girls” marks Young Thug’s first new release since last year’s widely acclaimed mixtape, JEFFERY. The 10-track collection, executive produced by Wheezy and TM88, is available now at all leading DSPs and streaming services.

JEFFERY made a spectacular chart debut upon its release, arriving at #8 on the overall Billboard 200 as well as at #5 on the “Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums” tally. The collection – which features tracks like “Wyclef Jean” and the smash “Pick Up The Phone (Feat. Quavo,” performed by Young Thug and Travis Scott – also drew unprecedented critical attention, with Rolling Stone applauding “Thugger’s strongest collection since 2014” by noting that, “as usual it’s Thug’s own sound that predominates: the heroic howls, rasps, mumbles and wheezes of a man who is as captivating a vocalist as any in pop.” The former Jeffery Lamar Williams makes black comedy out of irrepressible sound,” wrote legendary critic Robert Christgau in NOISEY, “cutting the fool with such delight that I found myself not just engaged but agape. Nude or digital, speaking or chanting, narrating or bragging, exclaiming or explaining, sobbing or gasping or chuckling or cackling, his hoohoos and melismas and blahs and mwas and frogcroaks and put-puts are the message.” “Thug understands the modern pop song construction better than anyone: anything and everything can be a hook,” declared Pitchfork. “For nearly 42 minutes, JEFFREY explores spacing, lines, form, texture, and beauty…It’s rangy and stunning, an exciting new curve in the fascinating Young Thug arc.”

“BEAUTIFUL THUGGER GIRLS” TRACK LIST

1. Family Don’t Matter ft. Millie Go Lightly (Produced by Wheezy & Rex Kudo)

2. Tomorrow Till Infinity (Produced by Ben Billions & Rex Kudo)

3. She Wanna Party ft. Millie Go Lightly (Produced by Charlie Handsome & Rex Kudo)

4. Daddy’s Birthday (Produced by London On Da Track & Scott Storch)

5. Do U Love Me (Produced by London On Da Track)

6. Relationship ft. Future (Produced by Billboard Hitmakers & BL$$D)

7. You Said (Produced by Wheezy)

8. On Fire (Produced by Wheezy & Charlie Handsome)

9. Get High ft. Snoop Dogg & Lil Durk (Produced by Young Chop)

10. Feel It (Produced by Wheezy)

11. Me Or Us (Produced by Charlie Handsome, Rex Kudo & Post Malone)

12. Oh Yeah (Produced by Wheezy)

13. For Y’all ft. Jacquees (Produced by Billboard Hitmakers)

14. Take Care (Produced by JUDGE)

For more information, please visit:

Official: youngstonerlife.com

Instagram: instagram.com/thuggerthugger1

Facebook: facebook.com/youngthugmusic

Twitter: twitter.com/youngthug

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NEW ARTIST ALERT: JAIRA BURNS x UGLY

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CHECK OUT JAIRA BURNS’ NEW SINGLE “UGLY”

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ABOUT JAIRA BURNS
Singer Jaira (pronounced Jair-ruh) Burns discovered her voice the old fashioned way — in the shower. A precocious 9-year-old, who was always cranking up the radio and warbling along, she challenged her mother to an impromptu sing-off of the Pat Benatar classic, “Love Is A Battlefield.”
The family home had one tiny bathroom so Jaira’s mom was always in the mirror doing her makeup and singing while her daughter bathed. “I can do it just like that,” Jaira remembers hollering back one morning. “My mom was like, ‘No way, come on!’ She sings a line and I sing it back to her. Then she’s like, ‘Sing this line.’ We went back and forth until my mom blurts, ‘Oh my God, Jaira, you can really sing.’”
Born and raised in Vandergrift, a small, rundown town 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh, the prospects for Jaira actually breaking into the music industry were slim. But that didn’t stop the blossoming powerhouse vocalist from putting in work. She honed her natural ability by belting out popular cover tunes over instrumentals she found on YouTube and eventually started posting videos.
Halfway through 6th grade, she left and started Cyber School so she could spend more time focusing on her art. “It’s a lot harder than people think because you have to set boundaries for yourself,” assures the blue-eyed, blue-haired beauty. “As a child it’s hard to do that. Mondays I would do all of my work for the rest of the week and then sing all day while my parents were gone.”
Eager to learn guitar, she began cleaning houses with her mom until she had enough money to buy her first axe. As fate would have it, one of her mom’s clients, Tom Danaher, happened to reconstruct guitars for Fleetwood Mac and The Who. Impressed by the talented pre-teen’s strong work ethic and sheer ambition, Danaher offered to give Jaira weekly lessons for free.
“That’s when the hunger set in for me to learn and sponge in everything – with this man,” she explains. “He was just so knowledgeable. I really learned how to play guitar, build guitars and fix guitars as well, because he taught me that craft.”
When Jaira was 13, she met local up-and-coming producer, Ryan M. Tedder aka Ryghteous Ryan, through an attorney they both knew. A self-taught musician just eight years her senior, Ryan had already gotten placements with Wiz Khalifa (“Red Carpet”) and Neyo (“Me And You” w/ Kandi Burrus) and was actively looking for new artists to work with under his Upscale Music Group banner.
“I played Rihanna’s ‘Man Down’ on my guitar and sang,” recalls Jaira. “Ryan said immediately, ‘You’re amazing. We need to work.’” A week later, they recorded the teenage love song, “SMH,” at Pittsburgh’s famed ID Labs Studios. “It wasn’t the first time I had a microphone in my hand, but it was my first time in a studio. The session went smoothly and by the time we were done, I knew Ryan and I were meant to go on this journey together. I still get butterflies every time we go into the studio.”
The pair, now inseparable, continued developing, writing and recording together for the next few years. They quietly released an untitled, experimental, 5-song EP in 2014, which was shopped to a few indie labels on the East Coast. “It was beautiful, honestly, but it wasn’t me,” Jaira admits.

 

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W Hotels of New York Celebrates Pride Week

 

Images by Karston Tannis

 

In celebration of Pride Week, on June 23rd, W New York, W New York – Downtown, W New York – Union Square, and W New York – Times Square will be launching — for the first time ever — Drag Queen Sips. 
 
Swapping happy hour for a sassy surprise, different drag queens will await guests and visitors in the hotel Lifts with colorful complimentary cocktails, a technicolor testament to the hotels’ passion for Pride. Guests and visitors alike will be wowed with an extravaganza eleganza upon entering the Lifts at each hotel. The timing of Drag Queen Sips will vary slightly at each property, starting between 3:30pm – 8pm on Friday, June 23rd. 
 
Drag queens in the lively lineup include: Marti Gould Cummings, Monet, Dina Delicious, and Pixie Aventura. The Lifts may be small but the entertainment will be fierce.

 

 

Pink Flamingos (W New York – Downtown/Red)
1.5oz Four Pillars Gin Rare Dry
2oz cranberry juice
1oz pink grapefruit juice
2 dashes Peychauds bitters
Serve tall, garnish w/ grapefruit wedge

 

Shante, You Stay ( W New York – Union Square/Yellow)
1oz Four Pillars Gin Navy Strength
1oz Dolin Sweet Vermouth
1.5oz orange juice
Serve on the rocks, garnish w/ orange half wheel

 

Karma Chameleon (W New York – Times Square/Green)
1.5oz VDKA 6100
2.5oz cucumber juice
.75oz lemon juice
.5 simple syrup – 1:1 sugar to water
Serve tall, garnish w/ a mint spring and/or cucumber wheel

 

Let’s Have A Ki-Ki ( W New York/Blue)
1oz VDKA 6100
1oz Blue Curacao
.75oz lemon juice
.5oz simple syrup
Serve tall, top soda, garnish w/ lemon wheel

Introducing: Alpha Piano

The Austrian technology company, ALPHA Pianos, develops outstanding and sophisticated electronic keyboard instruments of highest quality that incorporate unique and innovative features in exceptional product designs. Founder and CEO Mario Aiwasian worked as Sales Manager, Product Manager and Product Developer for computerized Grand Pianos at famed Austrian Piano manufacturer Bösendorfer before he founded his own company in a charming village close to Vienna. The first line of products, the Alpha Grand and Alpha Studio digital pianos, feature full-fledged wooden concert piano actions with the absolutely authentic feel of playing a large acoustic concert grand. With mPiano, ALPHA Pianos offers the next innovative MIDI controller that has already attracted the eyes of renowned artists and resellers alike.
 
We currently have two product groups in our portfolio:
·         Digital High End Pianos (Alpha Studio/Alpha Grand/ALPHA Tour)
·         Keyboards (mPiano)
 
Both instruments dispose of novel technical concepts as well as various playing options and they are characterised by an unique and magnificent design which – even before officially being launched – won the prestigious international RedDot Design award for Product Design in 2016.

Ai Weiwei: It’s always the others

Starting in September at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is taking over the whole of the Palais de Rumine with more than 30 often monumental works.

 

Recent and monumental pieces : Ai Weiwei, one of the most significant and influential artists of the last decade, is back in Switzerland. After his very first European solo show at the Bern Kunsthalle in 2004, the Chinese artist has once again accepted an invitation from Bernard Fibicher, director of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (mcb-a). For this exhibition – the last at mcb-a on its present site, before the move to PLATFORME 10 – Ai Weiwei is throwing a party, with works spilling out of the exhibition rooms into the Palais de Rumine’s public spaces and the museums of archaeology and history, zoology, geology and numismatics.

 

From 22 September 2017 to 28 January 2018, the exhibition Ai Weiwei: It’s Always the Others will bring together more than 30 works dating from 1995 to the present in the majestic rooms of the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts – as well as in all the Palais de Rumine’s other museums. The Zoology Museum, for example, will be hosting a dragon 50 metres long, suspended over visitors’ heads. Monumental in scale but subtle in its use of silk and bamboo, this installation has only been shown once before, in the New Industries Building, a disused warehouse that once served as a workshop for prisoners in Alcatraz. The traditional symbol of Chinese imperial power, the dragon as appropriated by Ai Weiwei becomes a sign of personal freedom. The individual kites making up its body carry quotes from imprisoned or forcibly exiled political activists including Nelson Mandela, Edward Snowden – and Ai Weiwei.

 

Works in porcelain, wood, aluminium, marble, jade, glass, bamboo and silk, together with wallpaper, photographs, videos and a film, testify to the rich variety of Ai Weiwei’s oeuvre and his profound knowledge of his country’s cultural tradition. At the same time, however – and here we detect a spirit akin to that of Marcel Duchamp – in a playful or iconoclastic way he rechannels his traditional motifs, methods and materials into a critique, overt or covert, of the Chinese political system. His most recent works bear on the troubling complexity of international issues including economic dependency and refugee flows. This exhibition at the Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne hails a true all-rounder: a remarkable visual artist, an encyclopaedic mind, a gifted transmitter of ideas and a man coming to grips with the world’s major problems. Ai Weiwei may well be the first truly “global” artist.

 

One of the show’s most spectacular works is the vast field of handpainted porcelain sunflower seeds that provide its Sunflower Seeds title. Ai Weiwei had 100 million of them made – 150 tonnes – by 1600 men and women workers in the factories of Jingdezhen in China, and 10 tonnes will be spread over mcb-a’s biggest room. China’s favourite nibble during the Cultural Revolution, sunflower seeds had a universally obvious symbolic value: like sunflower plants, the citizens of the People’s Republic of China were turning their heads towards their sun, Mao Zedong. The ironic implications of this installation lie in the way it was made, at the opposite pole from “Made in China” mass production: each seed is hand-painted and thus unique, and the political message is unambiguous.

THE JAPANESE HOUSE UNVEILS NEW TRACK “3/3”

June 13, 2017 — The Japanese House has unveiled a new track “3/3,” the next song to be taken from her forthcoming EP Saw You In A Dream, released June 30 via Dirty Hit / Interscope Records.

“3/3” follows “Saw You In A Dream” and “Somebody You Found” and once again shows Amber Bain adapt her unique sound in exciting ways with emotive vocals over slick production and electronic layers.

The EP release comes ahead of a run of summer festivals including Latitude, Parklife, Reading & Leeds, Lollapalooza and Outside Lands.

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The Japanese House “3/3”
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POLARIS® SLINGSHOT® TEAMS UP WITH UNITED WAY

Slingshot’s “We Dare You” Test Ride Campaign to Raise up to $25,000 for the United Way and Offer $20 Gift Cards for Each Test Drive

MINNEAPOLIS (June 5, 2017) – With the weather throughout the country ideal for open-air cockpit adventures, thrill seekers and adrenaline junkies have been officially challenged by Polaris Slingshot ®, daring them to visit a local Slingshot dealership and test drive the bold, three-wheeled roadster that offers a distinct on-road experience like nothing else in the marketplace.

To further “triple dare” the adventure seeker, from June 5 through July 31st, consumers that test drive a Polaris Slingshot, will receive a $20 gift card. For every ride, Polaris Slingshot will make a charitable donation to the national United Way up to $25,000.

“There is no better time than the summer months to enjoy the one-of-a-kind Slingshot,” said Kevin Reilly, Vice President of Marketing – Polaris Motorcycle Division. “Slingshot is a vehicle you can only fully understand by sitting behind the wheel and experiencing it’s handling and performance. Customers that accept our challenge and test drive a Slingshot will receive a gift card. For every test drive completed during the campaing, we will make a monetary donation to one of our favorite charities, the United Way.”

The Polaris Slingshot pushes the boundaries of what a vehicle should be. Its sleek, striking styling and unique three-wheeled platform turns heads on the road while its interior design and features give the feel of driving an exotic sports car. Currently, 30 states require merely a drivers license to enjoy the exhilarating, powerful enjoyment that the Polaris Slingshot has to offer with the remaining states soon to follow.

Owners can customize and personalize their Slingshot with dozens of Slingshot Engineered Accessories, including styling enhancements, tech and audio components, storage options, wind deflectors, riding gear, helmets, driving jackets and street wear. Most of the vehicle accessories are offered in a variety of factory color-matched options.

For more information about Slingshot visit PolarisSlingshot.com. Follow us at Facebook.com/PolarisSlingshot, @Slingshot on Twitter and @polarisslingshot on Instagram.

Polaris Slingshot recommends drivers and passengers always wear a DOT-approved, full-face helmet and fasten seat belts when operating.

Third Annual Velo & Vines Century Ride

HEALDSBURG, Calif. (June 10, 2017) – Nearly 100 cyclists from Sonoma County and across the United States rode in the third annual Velo & Vines Century Ride in Healdsburg today, raising more than $160,000 for the UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF).
 
The 100-mile ride began at the Arnot-Roberts Winery and continued through the rolling hills and valleys of Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River – a signature cycling route in the region. UnitedHealthcare executives, including UHCCF President Matt Peterson, also attended the event.
  
UHCCF provides medical grants that help children gain access to health-related services not covered, or not fully covered, by their parents’ commercial health insurance plans. Since 2007, UHCCF has awarded over 13,000 grants valued at more than $35 million to children and their families across the United States for treatments associated with medical conditions such as cancer, spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, hearing loss, autism, cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, ADHD and cerebral palsy.

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Learn More about McPherson Wines

The McPherson family has been a part of Texas grape growing and winemaking for over 40 years. McPherson Cellars was created to honor Winemaker Kim McPherson’s father Dr. Clinton “Doc” McPherson, a founder and pioneer of the modern Texas wine industry. In 1976 Doc, then a Chemistry Professor at Texas Tech University, and Bob Reed founded Llano Estacado Winery in Lubbock, one of the first post-Prohibition Texas wineries. Doc was one of the state’s prime grape growers and was the first in Texas to plant Sangiovese in his Sagmor Vineyard.

 

Visit their Website http://www.mcphersoncellars.com/