Image Image Credit Stephane Cardinale – Corbis / Contributor via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: ASAP Rocky says ‘Don’t Be Dumb’ will move away from flex-heavy lyrics and focus on emotional depth. The Harlem rapper credits fatherhood and personal growth for the shift in tone. Rocky’s evolving sound reflects a deeper message, moving
Image Image Credit Prince Williams / Contributor via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium Key Takeaways: Quavo will perform at the 2025 MLB All-Star Players Party in Atlanta on July 14. The celebration highlights Atlanta’s influence on music, sports and culture during All-Star Week. Previous Players Parties have featured Offset, Jack Harlow and Lil Jon, setting
A new report by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) finds that more than half of the 95 legal cases initiated around the world since 2009 by those impacted by the energy transition were documented in Latin America and the Caribbean (53%). Indigenous peoples filed almost half of all cases recorded worldwide (47%…
Global Tourism Leaders to Convene in Rome for WTTC Summit – Image Credit WTTC Visit The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) will hold its 25th Global Summit in Rome from September 28-30, 2023, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has announced that its 25th Global Summit will
We live in uncertain times. Just this week, as this issue of CONTRACTOR gets ready to go to press, missiles are (again) flying over the Middle East—some of them American. Aside from the risk to human life (which includes the more than 40,000 service members the United States has in the area) there are the
Guitar Girl Magazine is proud to premiere the brand-new music video from genre-defying singer-songwriter, filmmaker, and healer Aviana And The Pure Root. Titled “Through His Eyes,” the video is the first chapter in her Love Spells visual EP trilogy — a stirring exploration of soul connection…
Photo Credit: John Matychuk Hundreds of venues that received pandemic relief through the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program are now facing unexpected demands from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to return those COVID relief funds. These letters were issued without prior warning and inform the recipient that the SBA has determined their grant was
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Photo Credit: Netflix (Saja Boys in ‘K-pop Demon Hunters’) Netflix’s animated film ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ has upended the global music landscape, propelling its fictional boy band, Saja Boys, to a historic milestone on Spotify. The film was released on June 20 and quickly became a streaming sensation, amassing more than 33 million views in two
Photo Credit: AI band The Velvet Sundown As an AI band goes viral on Spotify, a former employee at the streaming juggernaut says the platform has “no protections” against AI bands and music. The Velvet Sundown, a fake band created using generative-AI platform Suno, has gone viral after garnering 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In
