Blues

‘Guilty!” a lone voice cries out from the back of London Palladium, where blues legend Bonnie Raitt has just introduced a song for those who have experienced heartbreak. The voice speaks for everyone in the venue, and the song is I Can’t Make You Love Me – a ballad which Raitt transformed into the most universally shattering song about a breakup this side of Roy Orbison.It’s one of many songs tonight where Raitt’s laidback-but-rip-your-guts-out take on classic themes of love and endurance is in full bloom. In front of a…

In some shocking news for Elon Musk, more than half of the earliest subscribers of Twitter Blue who paid $8 a month are no longer subscribed and have reportedly ditched the Blue check marks.According to a Mashable report, Out of about 150,000 early Twitter Blue subscribers, "just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30".Citing data scraped by independent researcher Travis Brown, the report said that not many Twitter Blue subscribers are sticking around.Musk or Twitter was yet to…

In some shocking news for Elon Musk, more than half of the earliest subscribers of Twitter Blue who paid $8 a month are no longer subscribed and have reportedly ditched the Blue check marks.According to a Mashable report, Out of about 150,000 early Twitter Blue subscribers, "just around 68,157 have stuck around and maintained a paid subscription as of April 30".Citing data scraped by independent researcher Travis Brown, the report said that not many Twitter Blue subscribers are sticking around.Musk or Twitter was yet to…

Photo via Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s most beloved found family of misfits has taken its last bow. And with them, director/writer turned co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn. Thankfully, it sounds like they went out with a bang, judging by the early reviews, and Rotten Tomatoes scores for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. The film, which held its world premiere on Wednesday, is currently enjoying a 91 percent critical score on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes with 32 critics weighing…

The late British jazz singer George Melly used to ask his audiences: “Who is the greatest blues vocalist Britain has ever produced?” He’d tease them, asking, “Mick Jagger? No! Steve Winwood? No! Van Morrison? No!”, before suggesting the greatest of all time was Ottilie Patterson. Who?County Down-born Patterson surely is the finest blues vocalist hailing from these damp isles. She was also an excellent jazz and folk singer, and her mellifluous voice can even be heard singing Shakespeare sonnets and baroque late-60s…

Supermarkets. What are they? Places to shop, to fill your fridge? Sociologists have argued that they are “non-places” – soulless, inferior to more modestly sized grocers, evidence of the horrors of modern agronomics, shrines to the banality of consumerism. For Don DeLillo, in White Noise, a supermarket “changes us spiritually, it prepares us, it’s a gateway … All the letters and numbers are here, all the colours of the spectrum, all the voices and sounds, all the code words and ceremonial phrases.”Annie Ernaux, winner of…

Ads on Twitter can be annoying, as you see them just about everywhere on the platform. Well, according to XDA Developers, Elon Musk promised to cut ads in half with Twitter Blue. Well, that day has come, but it’s not quite what we imagined.One of users’ main gripes with Twitter Blue was the fact that you’re paying money every month, but you still have to see ads throughout the interface. You’d expect the money you’re paying each month to offset the loss in ad revenue. But that’s not the case.Twitter Blue now has half…

Teen dramas are all the rage, but society is running out of ideas. How many ways can you spin the same coming of age story? Developer KO_OP has risen to that challenge with its upcoming narrative rhythm game, Goodbye Volcano High, by daring to make something new: a high school dinosaur simulator. Goodbye Volcano High - Story, Gameplay & Release Date | PS5 & PS4 Games Goodbye Volcano High ditches your regular old mammals and instead focuses on teenage dinosaurs on the brink of extinction. Fang, a senior with…

Steep price increases for food and supplies are affecting Petco and Chewy. Steep price increases for food and supplies are affecting Petco and Chewy. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

If you somehow haven’t heard of Mickey7 yet, you will soon: Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel will be a 2024 Bong Joon-ho movie (retitled Mickey17) starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Ashton’s sequel, Antimatter Blues, arrives in stores today, and io9 has the first chapter for you to read (or listen to!) right here.It’s described as the “thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.” Here’s a more detailed synopsis,…