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Jen Cloher – I Am the River, The River is MeKey track: Mana TakatāpuiJen Cloher set a high bar after their two previous albums – 2013’s In Blood Memory and 2017’s self-titled masterpiece – were both shortlisted for the Australian Music prize. With a new band and a richly textured new sound, I Am the River, The River is Me also made this year’s shortlist, and it might just be the best album of the three. Coming out as non-binary and embracing their matrilineal Māori heritage, Cloher is as warm and generous as ever, but…

Troye Sivan has announced the details of his biggest European headline tour, which will take place in May and June 2024. In. support of his album ‘Something to Give Each Other’, the 17-date run is produced by Live Nation. It will kick-off in Portugal on 29th May 2024 at Lisbon’s Coliseu dos Recreios. The run will then continue with shows and festivals in Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland before wrapping in the UK at the iconic OVO Arena Wembley and …

"It's like a weird fucking dream," the pop star said of the sketch (in which a woman's dreams are haunted by dancing Troyes) Troye Sivan is fully embracing the unique privilege of being spoofed on Saturday Night Live, even changing his Instagram profile picture to Timothée Chalamet (a.k.a. “lil Timmy Tim”) portraying him on the sketch show. The “Troye Sivan Sleep Demon” sketch was a highlight from this weekend’s episode, with Sarah Sherman playing a woman whose dreams are haunted by Sivan…

During his second stint as host of Saturday Night Live, Timothée Chalamet portrayed a wide range of musicians, from Willy Wonka during his singing monologue to the godawful SoundCloud rapper Smoke Chedda Tha A$$ Getta during a “Rap Roundtable” sketch. And then, seemingly out of nowhere, he popped up in a tank top as pop star and The Idol actor Troye Sivan. The sketch opens with Bowen Yang’s doctor interviewing his patient, played by Sarah Sherman, about why she can’t sleep at night and suffers from sleep…

The singer shot his shot with Stray Kids member Hyunjin on TikTok, but decided to hit the breaks on that front after receiving some death threats Troye Sivan is 0-2 when it comes to his online crushes. Earlier this month, the singer documented a crushing saga in which he shot his shot at a chef he saw on Instagram who happened to be in the same city as him, only to find out when they linked up to hang that he was third-wheeling his friend and her boyfriend. And about a month before…

Troye Sivan has addressed the backlash to his music video for “Rush,” which has been criticized for not showcasing a variety of body types.The Australian singer acknowledged the criticism and opened up about his personal experiences with body-shaming in a Billboard interview that came out Tuesday. The music video for “Rush” — which features primarily thin, muscular performers of various genders touching, kissing and dancing with each other — has also been praised for its expression of queer joy.“I definitely hear the…

Some gays weren’t feeling the ‘Rush’ after watching the video for Troye Sivan’s new song — and the Australian pop star says he now understands why. Last week, Sivan marked his anticipated musical comeback with the release of sexy, gay, ode-to-poppers earworm “Rush,” and with it arrived a horny, gloryhole-featuring video that had some queer people divided over the body diversity (or lack thereof) within it. Some, including the homosexual journalist writing this story, criticized Sivan for opting for…

Polydor Records is set to release the highly anticipated third studio album from Troye Sivan, titled ‘Something To Give Each Other’, on 13th October 2023. The album is a vibrant celebration of sex, dance, sweat, community, queerness, love, and friendship. To kickstart the excitement, Sivan has released the album’s first single, ‘Rush’, which is out now.“‘Rush’ embodies the feeling of kissing a sweaty stranger on a dance floor, a two-hour date that turns into a weekend, a crush that lasts through winter and summer,”…

Pnau and Troye Sivan – You Know What I NeedFor fans of: Modjo, Spiller, Chillout SessionsOn only the second day of the season, Pnau dropped the first serious contender for song of the summer. Enlisting international juggernaut Troye Sivan to drape his Timberlake-esque vocals over a bright and breezy track that recalls every teenage beach party this side of Groovejet, Pnau paint in primary colours on You Know What I Need, with blindingly bright synth patches, walls of Sivan-harmonies and an irresistibly smitten lyric set…

Introduction to Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and Coherent Point Drift (CPD) MethodsPhoto by Ellen Qin on UnsplashIn my work as an algorithm developer, I use point clouds as 3D representation to solve several problems. Some of my projects required aligning two sets of points with one another, which is not trivial.This problem is called Point Cloud registration. Given several sets of points in a different coordinate system, the goal of the registration is to align them one to another. The alignment is done by finding a…