Congressman Carbajal Urges Senate Leaders to Consider His State-Level Red Flag Legislation with Bipartisan Legacy
Carbajal promotes bill with Sen. Feinstein that incentivizes states adopting red flag laws, which has enjoyed bipartisan support, law enforcement endorsement
Washington, May 27, 2022
Tags: Preventing Gun Violence
Today, amid reports that the U.S. Senate is engaged in bipartisan discussions about ‘red flag’ law legislation, Congressman Salud Carbajal (CA-24) wrote to U.S. Senate leaders to highlight his legislation that incentivizes states to adopt these laws.
“As members of the United States Senate from both sides of the aisle are reportedly discussing legislation that would encourage states to set up red flag laws, I urge you to consider my legislation that I have championed in the House—the Extreme Risk Order Protection Act…which would provide the framework to do just that,” said Rep. Carbajal. “In so many school shootings, from Parkland to Sandy Hook to Columbine, there have been stark warning signs that red flag laws could have helped intervene and prevent these unspeakable tragedies. These laws have been shown in my home state of California to take guns out of violent and threatening situations, saving lives.”
Carbajal’s Extreme Risk Order Protection Act would create a grant program at the U.S. Department of Justice to encourage states to adopt ‘red flag’ laws and support the 19 states that have already implemented them.
Carbajal has championed this legislation since coming to Congress in 2017. In past years, the measure has enjoyed bipartisan support in the House and has received the endorsement of multiple law enforcement agencies.
The measure is also expected to receive a vote in the House in the coming weeks, along with H.R. 2377, Congresswoman Lucy McBath’s Federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Act.
The full text of the letter can be found here and below:
Dear Leaders Schumer and McConnell:
As members of the United States Senate from both sides of the aisle are reportedly discussing legislation that would encourage states to set up red flag laws, I urge you to consider my legislation that I have championed in the House—the Extreme Risk Order Protection Act (S. 1819/H.R. 3480) —which would provide the framework to do just that.
This legislation, which is co-led by my colleague Senator Feinstein in the United States Senate, would help states enact laws so that family members could go to court and ask a judge to prevent someone who is clearly violent or intent on committing violence from buying or having a gun. And when combined with Representative McBath’s Federal Extreme Risk Order Protection Act at the federal level, we can create avenues to reduce gun violence across the country.
I have championed this bill since I first came to Congress in 2017. And in previous years, this bill has enjoyed bipartisan support in the House and the support of a broad spectrum of stakeholder groups including law enforcement organizations.
The Extreme Risk Order Protection Act would provide a safety measure for our homes, schools, and communities, while ensuring due process rights are protected.
If there is sufficient evidence that an individual poses a risk to themselves or others, Extreme Risk laws allows law enforcement to disarm these individuals in crisis. They are based on states’ already-established domestic violence protective order processes and there is due process by allowing the individual the ability to appeal the court order at any time.
This legislation is personal for me. Eight years ago this week, my alma mater University of California Santa Barbara saw six murdered in a mass shooting by a young man who had shown such stark signs of threat to his community that his own mother warned local law enforcement of his desire to hurt others.
And in so many school shootings, from Parkland to Sandy Hook to Columbine, there have been clear warning signs that red flag laws could have helped intervene and prevent these unspeakable tragedies.
Indeed, while we can never know for sure if a red flag law could have prevented this week’s horrific shooting in Texas, these laws have been shown in my home state of California and others to take guns out of violent and threatening situations, saving lives. And since we know that these attacks often have contagious, copy-cat effects across our country, getting more red flag laws on the books would also help ensure Uvalde or Buffalo does not inspire future attacks on other communities across our nation.
Already, nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have enacted versions of extreme risk laws. And in the House, I am pushing my colleagues to pass my bill, as well as Representative McBath’s bill that would mirror this state-based approach in our federal courts.
While no single bill is the panacea, the American people are counting on us to act on gun violence and protect our children. Already, the vast majority of Americans have repeatedly voiced support for these red flag measures.
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COMMON SENSE QUESTIONS: Lately, it seems that CNN is determined to grade President Biden like a scorecard at a baseball game. They are continually talking about his “poll numbers,” which don’t mean a thing. It’s time to ask what CNN’s motives are.
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COMMON SENSE SAYS: Never underestimate the opposition. If we don’t fight every day, Republicans may successfully overturn legitimate elections and trashing the Constitution.
COMMON SENSE SAYS: The media loves polls. Run a headline with “Biden’s approval ratings falling,” and you’ll get readers. The problem is that the media loves to grade politicians like sports players.
COMMON SENSE SAYS: When politicians, who say they are Democrats, fail to support their President, something is dreadfully wrong. The Washington Post says, “the Democratic Party’s divide isn’t being described accurately — or at least completely. Some of the moderates aren’t just wary of controversial ideas. They are wary of
COMMON SENSE SAYS: When your state is one of the states that lead the nation in COVID infections and deaths, and you threaten to fine businesses that mandate vaccines for employees, you’re complicit in murder. DeSantis has gone beyond reason, fact, and science and must be stopped at all costs.
COMMON SENSE SAYS: When Southern states lead the nation in chronic, preventable, health conditions there is something wrong. Republicans have allowed bigotry to flourish, and they thrive off division because they know it’s the only way they can win elections.
COMMON SENSE SAYS: When you skip a memorial for the victims of 9-11 and talk about scheduling a boxing match, you’re pretty much devoid of empathy and a sorry excuse for a human being.
COMMON SENSE SAYS: When someone who called military dead “losers” calls the families of the military members who were killed in Afghanistan, you know it was for one thing only: political headlines. A draft-dodging coward who used the military for his own political advantage stoops even lower.

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Milestone Media is a company best known for creating the Milestone comics imprint (that was published through DC Comics) and the Static Shock cartoon series. It was founded in 1993 by a coalition of African-American artists and writers (namely Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle) who believed that minorities were severely underrepresented in American comics. Milestone Media was their attempt to correct this imbalance.
Christopher Priest participated in the early planning stages of Milestone Media, and was originally slated to become the editor-in-chief of the new company, but bowed out for personal reasons before any of Milestone titles were published.
Fundamental to Milestone’s agreement with DC was they would not relinquish any of the legal or creative rights to their work. Throughout the negotiations, Milestone, and their lawyers, insisted on three basic points: (1) that they would retain total creative control; (2) that they would retain all copyrights for characters under the Milestone banner; and (3) that they would have the final say on all merchandising and licensing deals pertaining to their properties. In essence, DC had in effect licensed the characters, editorial services, and creative content of the Milestone books for an annual fee and a share of the profits.
All Milestone Media titles were set in a continuity dubbed the "Dakotaverse", referring to the fictional midwestern city of Dakota in which most of the early Milestone stories were set. Before any titles were published, an extensive "bible" was created by McDuffie and other early creators, which provided back-story and information on all of the original Dakotaverse characters, as well as detailed information about the history and geography of Dakota. Cowan produced the original character sketches that served as a guide for the other artists.
Milestone had several advantages in its publishing efforts: Their books were distributed and marketed by one of the "big two" comic book publishers, the comics industry had experienced remarkable increases in sales in preceding years, they featured the work of several well-known and critically acclaimed creators, they used a coloring process that gave their books a distinctive look, and they had the potential to appeal to an audience that was not being targeted by other publishers. They also suffered from several disadvantages: The comics market was experiencing a glut of "new universes" as several other publishers launched superhero lines around the same time, a significant number of retailers and readers perceived the Milestone books to be "comics for Blacks" and assumed they would not interest non-African-American readers, the books received limited exposure beyond existing comics-shop customers, the coloring process added slightly to the cover price of their books, and overall comics sales had peaked around the time of Milestone's launch and declined dramatically in the years that followed. It also should be noted that even though they received press coverage from non-comics related magazines and television, they were virtually ignored by the comic book press such as Wizard Magazine.
Milestone cancelled several of its lower-selling series in 1995 and 1996, and aborted plans for several mini-series. Heroes, a new team book featuring Static and several of its more popular second-tier characters, was launched, but failed to sell well enough to justify an ongoing series. Milestone shut down its comic book division in 1997, with some of the remaining ongoing series discontinued in mid-story. Today, it is primarily a licensing company, focusing on its television property, the Emmy Award and Humanitas Prize winning animated series Static Shock.
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Anspaugh DJ, et al. (2011). Coping with and managing stress. In Wellness: Concepts and Applications, 8th ed., pp. 307–340. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Freeman L (2009). Relaxation therapy. In Mosby's Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Research-Based Approach, 3rd ed., pp. 129–157. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
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New Delhi: A panel to examine the issue of merging rail budget with the general budget is likely to submit its report within 10-15 days. The report is being finalised and will be submitted to the Finance Minister in the next 10-15 days, sources said.
The government last month constituted a 5-member committee comprising senior officials of the ministries of finance and railways to work out the modalities for the merger.
Once the report is submitted, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley will take a call on whether to break the 92-year old tradition of presenting a separate Rail Budget, by merging it with the Union Budget, sources added.
Earlier this year, a committee headed by NITI Aayog member Bibek Debroy, in a report titled 'Dispensing with the Railway Budget', recommended that the two budgets should be merged.
Last month, Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu had said, "I had written to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for merger of the Rail Budget with General Budget. This will be in the Railway's interest and also in the nation's interest. We are working out the modalities."
The public sector behemoth has to bear an additional burden of about Rs 40,000 crore on account of implementation of the 7th Pay Commission awards, besides an annual outgo of Rs 32,000 crore on subsidies.
Besides, the delay in completion of projects resulted in cost overrun of Rs 1.07 lakh crore and huge throw-forward of Rs 1.86 lakh crore in respect of 442 ongoing rail projects. If the merger happens, Indian Railway will get rid of the annual dividend it has to pay for gross budgetary support from the government every year.
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i is asking a federal judge to immediately stop the city from conducting homeless encampment sweeps in Kakaako.
A hearing on the matter is set for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
The ACLU sued the city last week, challenging two ordinances — arguing they are being improperly assessed, just as Department of Facility Maintenance workers began a scheduled series of block-by-block sweeps of lower Kakaako.
Meanwhile those who support the actions of the state and city to gradually clear Kakaako of the homeless campers think the strategy is working to send more people to shelters.
A request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction was filed by ACLU attorneys Monday afternoon. It seeks to stop the city from “seizing and immediately destroying non-abandoned property belonging to homeless individuals in Honolulu.”
The motion alleges the city has improperly conducted its enforcement of the Stored Property and Sidewalk Nuisance ordinances because it has failed to sufficiently warn people that their items would be taken and failed to give them adequate time to appeal the actions, the request states.
“Our understanding is that they have been immediately destroying property and they’ve indicated their intention to continue to destroy property immediately,” said Daniel Gluck, ACLU of Hawai‘i attorney. “The due process clause of the Constitution requires notice and an opportunity to be heard. The city can’t just say we’re going to come and seize your car and not give you a chance to say what the city is doing is illegal.”
City spokesman Jesse Broder Van Dyke said the Caldwell administration would not comment on the lawsuit.
Earlier Monday afternoon, as a city crew was removing items left behind by homeless campers in the area bounded by Keawe, Ilalo and Coral streets, city Facility Maintenance Director Ross Sasamura said the city had issued few 24-hour notices of the impending removal of property because the area was being cleared using the Sidewalk Nuisance Ordinance. That law, unlike the Stored Property Ordinance, does not typically require a 24-hour notice be given to the camper before items can be removed.
“(The) Sidewalk Nuisance Ordinance allows for summary removal, as do some provisions of the Stored Property Ordinance when there’s public health and safety issues, or any kind of impediment to the orderly operation of a government facility,” he said. He said, however, that as a courtesy, city officials did post notices informing people that the enforcement actions were coming.
Sasamura’s crew removed materials from the area as uniformed deputy sheriffs and plainclothes Honolulu police officers helped direct traffic and keep the sidewalks clear of pedestrians.
A strong stench permeated the air along Ilalo Street, and there was little that appeared salvageable. “There’s a lot of debris,” Sasamura said. When the crew began at about 11 a.m., there were only two people milling around, and it was unclear whether they were former campers in the area or just there to rummage for salvageable items, he said.
A few moments later a woman who said she lives on nearby Ohe Street and was on her way to the Next Step Shelter to do laundry surveyed the area being cleared out. “It’s about time,” Linda Hillier said, explaining that her side of Kakaako was much cleaner.
She picked up a basket of hypodermic needles and put them among a bag of her belongings. After pointing out they could be exchanged for new needles, Hillier insisted that she wasn’t going to do that and was only picking them up so others wouldn’t take possession of them.
Broder Van Dyke said that on Sept. 8 city crews removed 1.56 tons of trash, approximately 8.4 cubic yards of which consisted of metals, and issued three removal notices for items that were stored. On Thursday city crews removed 3.17 tons of trash, approximately 2.5 cubic yards of which were metals, and three shopping carts, Broder Van Dyke said. No removal notices were issued.
But according to Gluck, “there are vastly greater numbers of people who are homeless than there are shelter beds available. We think that individuals who are homeless can validly argue they have nowhere else to go, and if they validly can argue they have nowhere else to go, then it’s unconstitutional for the city to punish them for being homeless and to essentially declare they cannot have any property of any kind.”
While some of the campers may have gone into shelters, Gluck said, others have been moving deeper into the core of the homeless encampment near the Children’s Discovery Center. “I don’t know what the city is going to do when it gets into the more densely populated area,” he said. “You have hundreds of people who are living there. You don’t have enough shelter space for everybody.”
But the overall strategy used by the city-state partnership to tackle homelessness in Kakaako in a gradual manner makes sense and has been effective, said Scott Morishige, the state’s coordinator for homeless services.
From Aug. 7 through Monday, 86 people from the Kakaako area have been placed into shelters or other types of housing, Morishige said. That’s about 29 percent of the 293 people who were counted during the first week of August, he said. That includes about 12 families, he said. They have gone primarily into space provided by the Institute for Human Services in Iwilei, the Next Step Shelter several blocks away from the encampment, and the Lighthouse Shelter in Waipahu.
“I think the 86 individuals is a reflection of the combined efforts of the state, city, service providers and other organizations,” Morishige said.
The methodical, go-slow approach ensures that areas are cleared only when shelter space is available, he said.
Connie Mitchell, IHS executive director, said that both the men’s and women’s shelters under her management have seen an uptick in people being housed.
The men’s shelter took in 16 people last week, up from the normal six to seven, Mitchell said. Meanwhile the women’s shelter has been seeing six or seven new clients per week recently, up from about two to three intakes a week, she said.
“They’re actually coming in from a lot of different places, including from Kakaako and Waikiki,” she said.
Some may also be coming from the Kapalama Canal area, where up to 100 people were staying along the banks of the waterway. Since the city began putting up fencing along Kohou and Kokea streets, the homeless who had been camping there have moved elsewhere.
Other IHS programs, not just shelter ones, have also been busier in recent weeks, Mitchell said. For instance, more than 45 people have called in to inquire about the upcoming Hale Mauliola transitional service center at Sand Island, which will be a partnership of the agency and the city.


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The world produces sufficient food to feed the whole global population of about seven billion people. Why does hunger still exists? According to the World Food Programme (WFP), there are six reasons why and how hunger exists:
Poverty trap. People who are poor to sustain their body’s regular nutritional needs cannot afford to buy their own food which makes them more vulnerable to hunger. Children who suffer from malnutrition will more likely to get affected by hunger and poverty.
Farmers who live in developing countries cannot afford to buy seeds for their planting. With this, they cannot grow the crops that would provide them daily food for their families. Other people do not have their own land, water, and education, which makes the poor trapped in poverty and consequent hunger.
Lack of investment in agriculture. There are too many developing countries that lack key agricultural infrastructure. Lack of agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation and farm-to-market roads results to lack of storage facilities, high transport costs, and unreliable water supplies. All of these results can obstruct the agricultural limits and access to food.
Regular and simple investments in improving land management, efficient use of water, and creating more resistant seed types available can cause significant improvements. According to a research conducted by UN Food and Agriculture Organization, allotment in agriculture is five times more helpful in alleviating poverty and hunger than any other sector development.
Climate and weather. Natural disasters can bring negative impact to food security. Natural disasters like flooding, drought, and tropical storms can cause negative consequences for the hungry poor in developing countries.
One of the most common causes of food shortages in the world is drought. Recurrent drought causes heavy livestock losses and crop failures in some parts of Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, in the year 2011. In 2012, there was a similar event that happened in the Sahel Region of West Africa.
What makes the natural disaster more destructive is the deforestation. Deforestation could accelerate the erosion of land which could be used for growing foods.
War and displacement. War affects millions and millions of people around the world and consistently disrupts food and farming operations. It forces millions of people to flee their homes, which leads to hunger. The conflict in Syria is a recent example of this.
Food can sometimes also be used as a weapon in war. Soldiers will starve their opponents into submission by destroying their food and livestock which affects and systematically wreck local markets. Farmers abandon their land because their fields are often mined and water wells contaminated.
Unstable markets. Poor people cannot afford to buy their food because of unstable markets prices. The poor needs enough food to consistently sustain their health and price spikes can prevent the poor from buying food which can have a negative and lasting consequences especially to small children.
Consumers often shift to cheaper and less nutritious foods when the price rises, thus, increasing the risks of malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies.
Food wastage. About 1.3 billion tons of food is never consumed and wasted. With all that amount of food that is never consumed is a missed opportunity to improve global food security and defeat hunger.
Take a look and observe how hunger affects the population. Remember that hunger is caused by numerous conditions which may affect almost everyone in the world.

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
We talked about this band signing to Island UK a few weeks back, and now they're back in the news with their first official video. Their debut album is out this fall (as of now, UK only), but the band has done some dates here in the US, so they are obviously planning a larger attack here.
Those of you who have not been won over by their music NEED to see these guys live. One of the best acts in Britain right now.

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411’s Top 200 Albums Of 2016 (75-51)
I hope you all had happy holidays, a merry Christmas or, alternately, a really nice weekend. Now as a treat (that may well make you fuming mad) it’s time to finish off our Top 200 countdown.
As always, remember to catch up on the list so far before reading on and feel free to enjoy our Spotify Playlist if you’d like to sample the sounds as you read along.
75. The Violent Sleep Of Reason by Meshuggah
The 411: I apologetically included Meshuggah in a tracks of the month column earlier this year. Back then, I assumed my own nostalgia for Meshuggah’s intuitive brutality was clouding my judgment and putting a smile on my face – but, lo and behold, they only went and delivered an album that has left critics and fans purring (so it wasn’t just me then?). The Violent Sleep Of Reason does have its flaws, as many have pointed out, the urgency of the lyrics doesn’t translate into an aggression that sounds earnest. Instead, The Violent Sleep Of Reason’s primary selling point is its craftsmanship – i.e. what 90% of high-end metal has been relying on since the late 2000s. Meshuggah are one of those bands that appear to have developed telepathy: the are so attuned to each other that their music snaps, chugs and snorts with an ungodly precision. Pistons fire, oil spills and millions of hammers strike in unison as great steam jets fire skyward, but just as Meshuggah’s machinery threatens to become farcically fussy, they wisely pull back and allow the world to admire the hulking monolith they have created. The Violent Sleep Of Reason is an unrelenting, but incredible well drilled beast.
The Critics Say: “It’s reliably puzzling and brain-meltingly good.” Kerrang
74. Varmints by Anna Meredith
The 411: Now this is an absolute delight; a debut album ten years in the making, Varmints sees Anna Meredith use her experience as a composer-in-reseidence for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to combine the pleasingly solid and real sounds of classical instrumentation with the shimmering, sugar of synthesis. Better yet, she overlays her own distinctly thin vocal into this heavenly blend. The resulting music is as confounding as it enchanting. Rather than contrasting the artificial with the organic the two sounds meld, not seamlessly (this is a curious and daring listen), but in a way that hides rather than exaggerates the differences. What is left is a slight and summery sound that carries the rigor of precision machinery, but the playful chicanery of woodwinds and strings. The listener is pulled in familiar discretions – there’s bulldozing synth rock, glittering disco, malfunctioning electronica, ambient drift and slight indie to be found on this record – but while genre (and even influence) are easily detected, Anna Meredith’s sound is entirely her own. Furthermore, unlike so many of her peers, Meredith is unafraid to inject some virtuosity into the proceedings – “R-Type” ratchets up and up and up in a way that would have once been considered uncouth, while “Still” feels like something Bach might cook up if he were re-animated and told harpsichords were over and handed synthesizer instead. Meredith, it would seem, is unconcerned with convention or kudos – and all the better for it.
The Critics Say: “A poised and playful opus of 11 tracks dominated byt the sound of maxed-out 1980s 8-bit videogame soundtracks zapped 300 years into the future.” The Wire
73. Big Day In A Small Town by Brandy Clark
The 411: Brandy Clark is a veritable small town supernova: I don’t know what happened to the woman who wrote the slight 12 Stories, but, as good as she was, I don’t miss her. Before us stands a stadium sized, radio ready phenomenon writing snappy hits with a sharp satirical eye and not a hint of bland universalism. At last, proof that Miranda Lambert isn’t the only one: Big Day In A Small Town might not shift units on the scale of the cosy clique of country headliners, but it sounds like it could and that is the key. BDIAST feels authentic, earthy, evidently observed first hand, but also brazen, bold and expansive. The production is tight and polished in the extreme without ever feeling anodyne and its hard to overstate how darn difficult it is to pull of this balancing act in modern country. There are still softly, softly moments befitting her debut (“Homecoming Queen”) and they serve as welcome counterpoints to the righteous oomph of the self-affacing “Broke” or the snarky shuffle of “Daughter”. Remarkably, despite ramping up the laughs and the audacity across the LP, when it comes time to close the show, Brandy Clark retains the tender credibility necessary for heavy hearted closers “Drinkin’ Smokin’ Cheatin’” and “Since You’ve Gone To Heaven” to hit their mark.
The Critics Say: “These diorama-songs of a Mayberry gone to seed don’t sound to different from what you might hear on mainstream US radio–only much more lovingly observed and finely crafted.” Uncut
72. A SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH BY STURGILL SIMPSON
The 411: The cosmic cowboy has crash landed on planet earth and discovered his soul (or soul music at least). That’s the flashy headline for Sturgill Simpson’s hotly anticipated third album, but the truth is far more understated. Simpson has dispensed with the mind melting cosmos and has embraced his role as a father – passing on his hopes, fears and best advice to his son. He doesn’t cast an alien eye on life on earth as the title might suggest, but a very human one atop a series of stunning guitar driven arrangements that merge hard rock, rootsy Americana, Christian country, funk horns and soothing soul (courtesy of The Dap Kings).
Despite his better instincts, Simpson lets his experience and anxiety color his advice. He offers platitudes (“Just stay in school/Stay off the drugs”) and encouragement (“live a little”). Unlike Macklemore, he doesn’t appear like some saintly super-dad dreamed up by a liberal think tank; Simpson is torn between the man he’s always wanted to be and the very real dangers that lie in wait for his son. In truth, Simpson has nothing new to say and therein lies the beauty of this rambunctious alt-country gem. There is no magic bullet, no one combination of words that solves the dilemma of parenting, just a lot of angst, plenty of crossed fingers and, at the end of the day, hopefully a few good times.
The Critics Say: “Whether by Simpson’s own design or in spite of it, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth is ahead of its time.” Pretty Much Amazing
71. Upland Stories by Robbie Fulks
The 411: The depression era Robbie Fulks is here to stay. Some might miss his wit (although his lyrics remain vibrant and pithy, if rarely funny), but the gravitas he now carries proves far more potent. The accompaniment and production mirror this new found sincerity, the vocals are crisp and clear and the instrumentation is loose (and varied) without getting in the way. Like so many of the best roots records, Upland Stories thrives when the listener is planted firmly at Fulks’ side, strolling down a long and dusty road as he shares his worldy tales of romance, cancer, our decaying union and everything in between. Fulks doesn’t balk at sentimentality, “Needed” is the kind of direct and unadorned story of youthful love that other great songwriters might muddy with unnecessary detail or metaphor. That’s not to say to say Fulks’ dodges difficult or complex sentiments, “Needed’s” punchline is a killer: “passion cools, life goes on and old wounds mostly mend”. Fulks reveals this is not a rosy dose of nostalgia, but a father reflecting on his past as he imagines his child’s future without him. Not to be weighed down with mawkishness, Fulks unveils the strained warnings of “America Is A Hard Religion” and the humor of “Katy Kay” before ending on one last sentimental masterpiece: “Fare Thee Well, Carolina Gals”.
The Critics Say: “He’s the real deal; the king of country music just needs to be crowned.” PopMatters
70. The Golden Age Of Bullshit by PARTYBABY
The 411: Talk about throwing absolutely everything at your audience, The Golden Age Of Bullshit is an old fashioned EP in the mold of The Strokes’ The Modern Age EP. This is designed to knock the socks off the listener and prove that Partybaby are the masters of their domain, which, in this case, is wild barroom punk blended with some of Billy Corgan’s ambition and a psychedelic flair for hammering the listener over the head with waves of spiritual noise. It’s hard to avoid smiling at an EP which will leave audiences wondering: “what on earth just hit me” even as they find themselves subconsciously singing alone. Partybaby do have some worrying baggage, there’s a certain air of the 90s revivalists about them, but rather than following in Peace or Swim Deeps’ footsteps and trying to revive the beige sounds of lesser scenester bands, Partybaby have their eyes fixed on the mountain top. The glorious clatter of “California” recalls both Weezer in their Blue Album/Pinkerton pomp and The Smashing Pumpkins as their guitars soared and melted on MC&TIS, but more importantly than all that, the EP is dripping with Partybaby’s own bravado.
The Critics Say: “Partybaby have established their own mythology. It’s one that’ll stick around for millennia.” DIY
69. The Party by Andy Schauf
The 411: On his latest offering Andy Schauf and his mournful croon is loosed on a party, allowing the singer to weave between conversations and sketch characters. This freedom of approach (the ability to spin an overheard sentence off into a host of directions) and the contrived nature of the step up (all these visions of failed and beautiful youth in one place), allows Schauf to find profundity in triviality. Even without the voyeuristic intrigue, The Party is a sublime composed piece that demonstrates a deep affinity for baroque pop and 60s psychedelia. Given this lovely, but lonely palette of sound, Schauf’s best lines are perfectly positioned to dagger at the listeners heartstrings. Everyone can relate to the forlorn admirer watching the object of his desires being mistreated: “what happened to manners, he’s had a few/he’s talking shit, he’s had a few”. It’s worth pointing out that Schauf’s party is interminable: full of jealousy, anxiety and repression – and little good cheer. Still, while a sorrow at the pettiness of it all pervades the recording – making it a tough listen at times – the strength of narratives and the playfully somber arrangements make in an ordeal worth reliving.
The Critics Say: “With this effort Shauf successfully portrays the complicated smogarsbord that is youth by capturing in its crudest form at a party, with its hedonism and heartbreak, and in doing so propels himself miles ahead of his singer-songwriter peers who have tried to do the same.” The Line Of Best Fit
68. The Gospel by Arabrot
The 411: Not that he needed any encouragement, but it seems that throat cancer only served to piss Arabrot frontman Kjetil Nernes off. Sure they were always nihilistic, but The Gospel feels like a statement of all out war on any and everything – not sure that’d be my reaction to beating cancer in six weeks rather than six months, but, you know, different strokes and all that. The Norwegian noise outfit certainly haven’t been blunted by the trauma, if anything they’ve sharped their knives, pulling back the metal elements and moving (even further) towards the avant garde, while simultaneously ramping up their immediacy. “I Run”, “The Gospel” and “Tall Man” are the closer things to hits Arabrot have ever written. Nevertheless, don’t let this talk of immediacy fool you, Arabrot are still brutal and often unpleasant in the extreme – this, ladies and gentlemen, is what it would sound like if Swans declared total war. The music is delightfully varied: there’s pitiless doom, some unexpected harps and even some strolling, dare I say, humorous, post-punk (“And The Whore Is This City”) to be found on this horror show of a record. The Gospel is both monstrous and ambitious, but mostly it just rocks.
The Critics Say: “However, here we also see a side of Årabrot that’s ever more suitable for the fading, decaying grandeur that surrounds all of us: one that is increasingly sonically diverse and eloquent” Drowned In Sound
67. The Colour In Anything by James Blake
The 411: “Put that away and talk to me”, James Blake might the archetypal peddler of digital anxiety and miserablist ennui (we have no reports yet if his brother and sister are speaking to him), but that line is a bridge too far. Surely the only fit and proper response is for Blake’s partner to scream: “Are you kidding me? You spend months tearfully clicking around on your computer and sorrowfully sliding the controls in the studio – and you want to give me a hard time for looking at my phone?” Three proper albums into James Blake’s career and the dodgy pub crooner with a flair avant garde sonic remains a frustrating figure. He is an artist capable of such beauty and incredible depths of nuanced innovation (he is still perhaps the most truly 21st Century musician going), but he is also an embattled self-parody. The Colour In Anything sees Blake once again plunging his laments into a looping electronic void, but there is a renewed focus on haunting hooks (“Radio Silence” is both Blake’s most immediate and most obscure lead single to date) and contrasting a single pained sentiment with an evolving textural landscape of house beats and abstract drones (“I Hope My Life”). At over an hour in length, The Colour In Anything does push its audience’s patience to the very limit, but it is far easier to fall down this rabbit hole of delicate gloom (where even the birdsong is groundbreaking, “Waves Know Shores”) than it is to reject this moribund lurcher.
The Critics Say: “At 17 songs in 76 minutes, Colour is Blake’s longest album yet and with so much talent aiding the songwriter, it can feel belabored. But then there are stunners like “f.o.r.e.v.e.r.” and the title track.” Entertainment Weekly
66. Guidance by Russian Circles
The 411: The field of noise rock, post-rock and post-metal have been overwhelmed by bland cacophonies. Anyone whose been to an unimaginative indie show will know the feeling: the band, seeking a suitable showcloser, with try to make the most awesome noise ever, as if the right pedal and just enough feedback will bring the audience, as one, to nirvana. It never works, but it is useful to keep this biegeness of sound in mind, because Russian Circles are immune to it. Every note of Guidance carries a sense of purpose. Giant swells arise, occasionally waves cascade and dissipate (as they do on “Mota”), sometimes the sound screams forward or stops to linger and twist. Whatever direction Russian Circles head in, it’s feels organic and never contrived. The band’s capacity for foreshadowing is simply stellar: with subtle tempo changes and by imperceptibly increasing their intensity, they alter their audience’s headspace, flooding it with dark clouds or peaceful mists (long before the thundering instrumentation has undergone any kind of radical transformation). When the big sea changes do occur the feeling of satisfaction is palpable. The audience is free to savor the apocalyptic feeling, they may have been ready, but they will never be truly prepared.
The Critics Say: “Guidance is a masterpiece in the art of emotional communication through musicianship” Drowned In Sound
65. A Man Alive by Thao & The Get Down Stay Down
The 411: A Man Alive is informed by two great influences: band leader Thao Nyugen reflections on her relationship (or lack there of) with her estranged father and the sonic inflections of Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs. The latter gives The Get Down Stay Down’s smooth layered rhythms a dose of contorted syncopation and the guitar work a rough, cascading, pitfall quality. Thao’s music now feels expertly controlled, coyly natural and scratchy, like the entire band crammed themselves into Merrill’s bedroom to lay down some tracks. It’s a contradiction of course, but this tension between the organic and the distorted, the restrained and the feral, makes A Man Alive one of the wildest and most satisfying groove records in years. Given this thrilling a musical underpinning, Thao’s anxieties and imagined rationales are afforded room to jut out in whatever direction her subconscious sees fit – i somen moments she’s controlled (and decidedly over it), in others she seems racked with unanswered question in the face of an unthinkable rejection.
The Critics Say: “A visceral, candid and thrillingly propulsive depiction of her efforts to work through her father’s abandonment when she was a child.” Uncut
64. Slow Forever by Cobalt
The 411: Cobalt are swinging for the fences after seven years of turmoil on the side lines. Slow Forever is an hour and twenty minutes that showcases everything the band has to offer from brooding grunge and slow mutating doom to howling Scandi-Black metal and it’s more southern fried American equivalent – and pretty much everything in between. New vocalist Charlie Fell is a revelation for a band who were already critically acclaimed before his arrival. He can contort his voice and take the form of the demented cultist, but he can also supply the hooks and offer tentative rock fans plenty of easy access points. Of course, this is a Cobalt album so much of the admiration falls upon the instrumental work that can be rigid and martial one moment and have all the hair-raising momentum of thrash the next. Like Agalloch at their best, Cobalt enjoy stewing in atmospherics that immediately recall wintery forests full of beauteous allure, but also unnerving shadows and unspoken danger. The joy of the music comes from seeing Cobalt maneuverer themselves from one mood to the next, riding gorgeously subdued grooves into feral onslaughts that will reduce listens to a wimpering puddle by the track’s conclusion.
The Critics Say: “As surprising as it may seem for an album where death, despair, and destruction linger in every word, Cobalt gambled on resurrection and, against the odds, advanced.” Pitchfork
63. Love Streams by Tim Hecker
The 411: It has finally happened. Tim Hecker has finally released an album that I can wholeheartedly enjoy. The Canadian composer has always been lauded, but much of his best received work (see Ravedeath 1972) operated as a fascinating intellectual proposition – reading the intent behind the work and the methods used was fascinating – while the end products were flat. Other electronic wizard had proved, from Eno to Oneothrix, that ambient music and found sounds could do more than inducing chin stroking appreciation: they could delight, shock and ever humor their audience. Love Streams is an album that demands a human reaction, in part because it contorts the most human of instruments: the voice. In Hecker’s hands melody is mutated, the humane is made alien, man becomes mere automaton and, in the album’s most heartbreaking moments, it feels as if men and women have been caged. Violet Monumental I is both beautiful and terrifying. People are stuck, yelping in the void, cascading against the luminous white glass purgatory before they are slowly erased by the near religious white light of the computer scanner. There are some of useful tricks of the trade, ripples of sound that would please Steve Riech, plenty of gorgeous undulation and some clanking off time contrasts that stick out against the beauty of woodwinds, but these tropes don’t diminish the work as a whole, they are deployed with suitable aplomb and never overused. By the time the magnificent “Castrati Stack” arrives with a crackle and crunch, the race has already been won and Hecker is free to wow the crowd with a heavenly victory lap. Accessibility, it turns out, fits Tim Hecker like a glove, who knew?
The Critics Say: “Very few composers can achieve this kind of beauty or this kind of experimentation, and yet Hecker does both, time and time again.” Consequence Of Sound
62. Terminal Redux by Vektor
The 411: The artful metal album has very much become the classic rap album of the mid-90s: i.e. technically brilliant, but farcically bloated. Credit to Vektor, their magnificently intricate creation is not the longest metal album on this countdown (see Paradise Gallows by Inter Arma). The Arizona ensemble may demand a 70+ minutes of their audience’s time, but they certainly do everything within their power to make each and every second essential. Firstly, Terminal Redux is buoyed by an ambitious narrative: an astronaut coming to terms with immortality and the psychological horrors that would actual entail. Secondly, Vektor fill this prog-tastic album with both variety and brutality. This is a prog-rock record, but it is also a brutal dose of blitzkrieg thrash that (despite its length) rarely draws things out. After all, why slowly stretch and contort your victim, when you could grab a knife in both hands and merciless puncture his torso with a million rapid-fire blows? The benefit of accumulating such speed is that when the band do allow the tempo to dip and the instrumentation to linger, it ends up meaning so much more – with an ear attuned to micro deviations delivered at the speed of a light, the sound of a starless sky proves poignant respite before the next intergalactic tempest is whipped up. If you’ve ever wanted to hear the sound of Kill ‘Em All’s rough and ready thrash turned into the precision fire of laser cannons and the exhilaratingly, graceful darting back and forth of a dogfight in space, then this is album for you.
The Critics Say: “Every link in the rust-corroded chain holds for 73 minutes, without releasing your neck.” Spin
61. Oh No by Jessy Lanza
Genre: Art Pop
The 411: Finely chopped techno that skids, scuttles and stutters with seizure inducing regulatory hardly seems like an obvious backdrop for some pop’s most delicate and illusive vocals, and yet, that’s the excellent Oh No’s bread and butter. Pairing producer and Junior Boys whiz Jeremy Greenspan with a sonic palette informed by Yellow Magic Orchestra, Jessy Lanza finds herself surfing atop and interpretive dancing her way through an array of artfully arranged glitches. The music is fiddly and awkward, often doing its best to obscure simple and seductive beats behind layers of malfunctioning techno. Lanza’s seemingly innocuous vocal thrives in this obtuse landscape, she is free to flit between coquettish high and mysterious low notes, that seem to exist on a subdued spectrum that is entirely her own. Lanza spends so much time sliding out of view and subverting expectation that those fleeting moments, where she sits still and sings with a purity of voice practically stop time. On some distant planet in strange and unfamiliar universe, “I Talk BB” and “Begins” might just be the year’s most endearing ballads – here on Earth they prove endearingly oddities. Miraculously, between the intoxicating vocal performance, the bubbling bass, shimmering synth and daring array of electronic jolts, the real star of Oh No is the humble handclap – a primitive tool, but one deployed with devastating effect on this loveably peculiar listen.
The Critics Say: “Lanza, the antithesis of the ululating, overwrought antics of the X Factor school, has an arsenal of talents that puts her in a league of her own. She’s very much for real.” MixMag
60. Midwest Farmer’s Daughter by Margo Price
The 411: Margo Price is in no hurry to tell her story. “Hands Of Time” never goes out of its way to grab your attention. These sumptuous sounds are designed to coax and illustrate a story that emphasises patience. Price is detailing a blue collar redemption story and rehashing the great American mythos of moving from country to city to earn back what was once lost. The stumbling blocks are tragic, but Price doesn’t beg for sympathy. She’s a pillar of stability, who has already admitted to herself that her dream (to “turn back the arms on the cruel hands of time”) is not an attainable goal, but the spark that drives her onwards.
What The Critics Said: “Her bold delivery and fresh take on classic tropes show she’s a master of detailing the chaos of life. She’s a double threat who can write ‘em and sing ‘em.” Popmatters
59. Potential by The Range
The 411: Sampling has historically been a sardonic art. Sure, joyous club hits have been forged, but normally samples have been used to pevert: to make the naïve, sexual and the cute, macabre. And that’s if the producer allows the humanity to remain in tact, more often than not, the studio wizard will strip the voice of its flesh and blood base, abstractions and alien anti-music often emerges. If humanity is allowed to survive it is as a ghost in the machine and howl from the darkness, a forlorn rebellion against automation. The Range rejects this vision, the human voice is neither ornament nor contorted instrument, its autonomy is reinforced and used to color the steely, swirling music that surrounds it. The samples were gathered from YouTube and each snippet is designed to convey something of our collective experience: be it angelic euphoria or a cry in the corner for help. The end result lays somewhere between James Blake’s EPs and Jamie xx’s club conquering In Colour. This music is universal in its uplift, but also insular in its cropped and clipped irregularity. The beats bang, but a little too fast, and the atmospherics simmer like sunset, but one blighted by glitches. The Range might well be saying: this is humanity in all its glory, the cracks will not be plastered over and the stumbles will never be edited out.
The Critics Say: “It’s The Range’s best work yet, dancing synths, spectacular drops and immaculately crisp loops. Without the story it’d stand up as a beautiful piece of work, but add that in and it’s the most human electronic record released for ages.” Loud and Quiet
58. Hardwired…To Self-Destruct by Metallica
The 411: Metallica do not seem the least bit interested in reinventing the wheel, that might cause a million metal fans who endured St. Anger and Lulu to exhale, but it’s not necessarily a good thing. After all, despite their advancing years Metallica are still a rarity: a technically masterfully metal band who are concerned with writing hooks as addictive as their compositions are expansive. `Given Metallica’s legendary stumbles (which have been perhaps too sarcastically savaged in the metal community) it’s understandable that the veteran rockers would take a second stab a rekindingly the fires of youth. Like Death Magnetic before it (sans the killer second single), the more consistent and energetic Hardwired…To Self-Destruct is an attempt to recapture a sound that lies between Ride The Lightening and …And Justice For All. This time there is no attempt to be profound. Hardwired… never feels serious or severe. Metallica sound like they are simply having fun for fun’s sake and the result is the loosest and least tense album they’ve released in decades. The rhythm section is absolutely locked in, sure this is the kind of groove rich thrash ‘tallica probably write in their sleep, but it’s hard to deny the results: each track manages to chug, slide and promenade deliciously. It might seem a tad regressive to rate so highly the sound of a band doing what, essentially, they’ve always done, but after seeing ‘tallica make such hard work of it in recent years, there is a genuinely joyous and successful aura that permeates …Hardwired – it all so seems so effortless and natural. If there’s a flaw it’s Heptfield: he’s in good voice and the hooks mostly hit their target, but there’s a thinness to his vocal performance that robs the band of its usual ooompf. Still, it’s a small price to pay to hear one of the world’s greatest rock bands relishing music once more.
The Critics Say: “This is Metallica galvanised, refreshed, refocused and rediscovering themselves. Best thing they’ve done since The Black album? Yep.” Kerrang!
57. 22, A Million by Bon Iver
The 411: With every passing year Bon Iver flirts with the emperor’s new clothes. The feeling is stronger than ever on 22, A Million, an album full of distorted glitches and vocal degradations that no longer feel revolutionary. The trouble is, just as the album begins to feel dismissible, the humanity and pathos inherent in Justin Vernon’s voice renders the listener defenceless. He might be using techniques James Blake and Kanye West exhausted years ago, but Kanye never had the voice to find this much tragedy in artificial decay and James Blake simply never wrote songs this devastating. Vernon has an amazing ability to cut through the experimentation that surrounds him with a lyric that slices straight to the heart, making 22, A Million an album that is both insular and intimate. The moments when natural instrumentation is allowed to flourish (a little piano here, a soaring horn there) are spellbinding in their purity, throwing the darkness that surrounds them into stark relief. Better still, not only is Vernon telling quite stories of longing, loss and obsession that ring true in their humble sorrow (“29 #Strafford APTS”), but he’s more focused on hooks than at any point in his career. Don’t let the arty obfuscation fool you: this is Bon Iver’s most immediate release to date, one full of both soft, near whispered, tenderness and the torrential ache of seclusion.
The Critics Say: “Not since Kid A has an album so superb pushed away and pulled closer its audience, simultaneously and with such aplomb.” Pretty Much Amazing
56. Telefone by Noname
The 411: Noname Gypsy possesses one of the greatest gifts in all of music: something about her delivery, the way she’ll weaves her raps and her choice of arrangement affords her this great depth of compassion. Every inch of Telefone speaks to hopes withered by anxiety and naivety brutalized by reality. There are times when Telefone seems to play hopscotch in the clouds, only for the bleakest of reality to assert itself when it’s revealed her friends are “casket pretty”. Black womanhood is tragically dissected in 33 minutes: from the present tense horror of young girls mixing with gangsters and being whisked towards abortion clinics to the historic struggles of mothers and grandmothers to make their children’s lives bearable. Noname is trapped by apprehension about her appearance and the way her career feels insignificant compared to her grandmother’s struggle, but this knowledge is hardly relieving or inspirational, it only adds another layer of mental misery. Am I really this shallow? No your not: just because it worse before, doesn’t mean you have to endure today. What’s remarkable is that for an album infested with dark thoughts from the heart of Chi-raq, Telefone never feels moribund. Noname’s innocent Chance-like flow and the delicacy of her arrangements (those gorgeous piano keys), ensure there’s plenty of light (and lightness of touch) to illuminate the darkness.
The Critics Say: “With that same steely determination injected into every track, ‘Telefone’ ensures that Noname won’t be anonymous much longer.” DIY
55. A Good Night In The Ghetto by Kamaiyah
The 411: “Remember when I didn’t have shoestrings?” This understanding of where she came from, ensures that Kamaiyah’s debut is a celebration of pure self-confidence. A Good Night In The Ghetto stays entirely in the pocket – if you’re expecting varied flows, never-heard-before-beats or intricate wordplay, you won’t find it here, this album is all about buoyancy. Kamaiyah is clicking her heels as she dances her way down the back alleys of the ghetto with a bottle of bourbon in hand. She’s a popstar and she’s gassed about it. Like a female answer to YG (who features here), Kamaiyah proves to be a more progressive voice as she tap dances atop an array of minimalist G-funk adaptions. Needless to say, Kamaiyah has hooks for day, so much so that she pretty much ditches verses all together: every couplet could function as a fun loving chorus as punchlines spew from her lips like a spittake. “Niggas” sets the tone perfectly, Kamaiyah’s got out of a bad and basic relationships and now she’s simply enjoying dick, bouncing (pun intended) around town and enjoying her newfound sexual freedom. She knows it’s not conventionally classly, but she shrugs, smiles and sighs: “don’t have to understand it, but this is how I’m living”. And therein lies the key, Kamaiyah is living her life to the fullest without shame: circumstances will not hold her down (nor will any fuck boy). She might be uncouth, she might be thug, but as long as she can get drunk in the club at the end of the week, then no worry can ever hold her down.
The Critics Say: “Kamaiyah stands out from her peers … with her appealingly natural presence. Her voice sounds as unaffected and assured singing as it does rapping, and she writes big hooks.” Pitchfork
54. Paradise by White Lung
The 411: Paradise had one hell of a tough act to follow, 2014’s Deep Fantasy was a work of chaotic pop perfection, a blend of hurtling melodic brutality and snarling vocals. Opener “Dead Weight” instantly reassures the listener, White Lung are still masters of the maelstrom, but while the guitars swirl malovently and Mish-Way Barber’s vocals are as distant and disdainful as ever, the textures are so much richer and White Lung sound, strangely, delightful. Their sound still teeters and crashes like the world’s most unstable seesaw, but by drawing out the individual notes and pulling focus in the heart of a fire fight, White Lung have matured. This is an album of definition. Riffs and delicate textural playing sit in the foreground as Mish (who still sounds like a skeezy, spit hucking, outlaw) manages to pull off a reflective turn. “You know this means nothing, if you die alone”, the words may be reflecting on a life lived purely for aestheticism, but they serve to illustrate an evolution in White Lung’s thinking: this is music with a universal bent, that looks beyond the moment and addressing the nagging ache beneath the rebellious posture and the cry for help. Mish is simultaneously a richer and more grounded frontman, an unlikely beacon among the crashing waves – but don’t fear, she’s still just as lost and overwhelmed as the rest of us.
The Critics Say: “White Lung have somewhat softened their ragged edges and in doing so have created one of the most compelling albums of the year.” NME
53. The Third Law by Roly Porter
The 411: The Third Law isn’t an album you hear, it’s not something that’s listened too, that’s far too passive. The Third Law instead infiltrates your subconscious like a whisper in your ear laced with mind scrambling code and latent triggers. It forces its way inside. Your ears practically vacuum up its seething crackles and alien hisses and once it’s aboard, well, quite simply, we are all done for. Roly Porter’s creation is an ungodly dark, undoubtedly malign and a bizzarely religious experience (you will swear those bursts of static steam are Gregoarian choirs). After setting such a dramatic scene, The Third Law slowly starts to inject elements of beauty, deft control and eerie stillness, but just as you beging to immerse yourself Roly Porter kicks you off balance with a found sound (is that the clatter of machinery? Is that a forklift truck backing up? I though we were on an electronic ice flow?). The brilliance of the music lies in Roly Porter’s ability to hold both beauty and brutality just out of reach, no track ever succumbs to either extreme and the listener is left dangling in a thrilling, but frustrating purgatory – like, perhaps, a conscious machine undergoing some vital maintenance, should we embrace what is happening or should we scream?
The Critics Say: “Porter has figured out how to channel the aggression of his early material into the maturity and otherworldliness of his solo work, and it’s as breathtaking as it is bruising.” Residen Advisor
52. Here’s My Heart Come Take It by Rachel Newton
The 411: Rachel Newton has expanded her gaze eastwards on Here’s My Heart Come Take It. Adding traditional American songs from the Ozark mountains to here repertoire of Gaelic staples. Despite using songs passed down from generation to generation, Here’s My Heart Come Take It feels utterly contemporary and personal. Perhaps it’s the strength of the tales – after all, the odd mention of a maiden can’t undermine the immediacy or anguish of the title track or bleakly beautiful “The Bloody Gardener”. Rachel Newton has a remarkable ability to make the cripplingly personal feel expansive and rich in atmosphere. “Don’t Go Out Tonight My Darling” might be the story of a loathsome alcoholic who leaves his partner to ache in his absence, but this singular suffering of a woman trapped by her love is rendered haunting and universal by Netwon’s harp. She rarely needs more than her harp strings, a few piano keys and a half decent melody to make time stand still, but when strings and fiddles are allowed to join the party the effect is devastating. Unlike her modernist rivals (Marissa Nadler, say) Newton never makes a show of her misery, the atmospherics are somber, but never laid on too thick. There’s a sense of the soft (or chilling) breeze in these arrangements and a humble commitment to understatement in Newton’s vocal that ensures Here’s My Heart Come Take It is potent, but never moribund.
The Critics Say: “It’s an album that enthrals and entrances the senses, places traditional song under a fascinating new spotlight and confirms Rachel Newton as one of our most original and gifted interpreters of those traditions” Folk Radio
51. Treasure House by Cat’s Eyes
The 411: Hands up, who had Cat’s Eyes pegged as pleasing, but fleeting novelty? The kind of collaboration that leads to an album, plenty of talk of a follow up, but eventually goes from the back burner to being mothballed. Well, Farris Badwan might be committed to the day job (The Horrors), but he’s found time to join forces with Rachel Zeffira once more for an album that absolutely blows away its predecessor. Rachel’s operatic vocal is no longer a source of exquisiteness for its own sake; the dynamic between immaculate female vocalist and her lo-fi male counterpart is played for pathos, unexpected progression and laughs. Yes, one of Treasure House’s great attributes is its sense of humor. Beneath the precise postures and stately gloom Farris has always been hilarious and here Rachel proves a game partner: whether it’s time for a raw synth rocker, a Morricone pastiche, a dose of bedroom angst in a Catholic cathedral, a severe torch song or, brilliantly, a 60s girl group diversion. Freedom informs every inch of this LP. Farris and Rachel have the air of artists who walked into the studio and simply said, “so…what do you wanna try next?” and just ran with it.
The Critics Say: “The influences–Shadow Morton, Nina Roti, ’80s dream pop–are easily detectable, but intuitively utilised.” Mojo


The 122nd US Open Championship will be held at The Country Club, Brookline, Massachusetts. The qualifying events just ended on June 6 Golf Digest there is a list of players along with the eligibility criteria. Even if you can’t make it to Brookline to watch golf live, there are plenty of ways to stream the PGA’s biggest championship.
Spotify got big thanks to its amazing music and recommendation algorithms, but the company long ago decided it couldn’t stop there if it wanted to continue growing. It has succeeded in improving the podcast scene thanks to exclusive deals with major podcasters like Joe Rogan and now the company is about to launch audiobooks.
Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is finally here after months of delay. It’s not necessarily the same kind of value proposition as its predecessor, the Galaxy S20 FE, once represented, but it’s still a great phone nonetheless, with a not-so-stellar Snapdragon 888 CPU. color and fast 120Hz display. It’s all nice and good, but if you’re going to buy it, you might want a case for it. You don’t want to ruin your brand new phone, do you?
Google Keep is a simple note taking app from Google packed with many useful features for managing your notes. It is available on the Google Play Store, the App Store and works on most web browsers. If you’re using a new Android device, such as the Google Pixel 6 Pro, the Keep app may already come pre-installed on your phone or tablet.
Facebook’s smart home displays with the Portal brand have never been as popular as competing products from Amazon and Google, with people likely to trust the social network much less than the two big tech companies. remaining. After years of trying to penetrate the market, Facebook (or Meta, as the parent company is now called) is ready to abandon the consumer market entirely, focusing instead on business customers.
Your group chats on WhatsApp might be about to get a little more bohemian as the messaging app has just doubled the number of participants you can have in a single chat. Previously, the limit was 256 people, but now you can have 512 people in the same group chat. This change has been known for about a month through beta, but this is the first time the feature has rolled out to all users.
If you have any Insteon smart home devices, you may have noticed they stopped working suddenly in April. Since then, we’ve learned the company has gone out of business, abruptly shutting down everything – including the servers and backend – and posting a public statement following the incident. You might be equally surprised to discover that today, after all that, your Insteon device is suddenly online again. No, Smartlabs didn’t suddenly figure out how to keep Insteon running. Instead, the company was acquired – and it’s not a huge tech giant, if that’s what you’re thinking.
Android 13 Beta 3 has officially launched. At first glance, it certainly looks like a smaller update, with the most notable thing about it being its platform stability milestone, but there are certainly a lot of changes to it that can take you a while to see. see after install it your phone. Among them, you’ll find more refined phone search capabilities or a slightly larger, iOS-like gesture navigation bar. An improved version of the recently introduced battery widget has also been spotted. Still, it’s good news even if you’re not a beta user, as it will also roll out to older Android versions.
Samsung’s foldable devices are great for power users as their large screens are a boon when running multiple apps at once. The company has also integrated several features in One UI to further enhance the multitasking experience. A new rumor now suggests that the Korean giant will make running apps in split-screen mode on their upcoming Galaxy Z Flip4 and Fold4 easier than ever.
As another month rolls around, Samsung will definitely start updating its devices with their latest security patch. It has started early in international markets, everything should be before the end of May. We are now seeing the first signs of the June 2022 update being available in the US, starting with Verizon Galaxy A21.
When you’re a longtime console player, trying to do it on Android can take a bit of tweaking. Sure, a lot of games are designed from the ground up with smartphones in mind and make smart use of touch input – but there’s more than enough that you’ll want the reliable, accurate input you’re only looking for. see a physical controller. Microsoft has some great options, and its Elite Wireless Controller is easily one of the best Android gaming controllers out there. Today, we’re checking out the company’s slightly more affordable offering, as some exciting new customization options have arrived at Xbox Design Labs.
At Google I/O 2022, the company announced that it will be replacing the old Google Pay app with a new service, again called Wallet. It collects payment cards, car keys, student cards, vaccine cards and everything in between. It also serves as Google’s primary payments app in 42 countries, while users in the US and Singapore use both at the same time. As confusing as this approach may seem on paper, it’s sure to be a popular move – especially with Samsung taking the lead.
Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 is the current flagship Android smartphone series, but Snapdragon 8 More Gen 1 is coming soon. This is only a small step up from the current flagship, but a leak on Chinese social platform Weibo suggests the next system-on-chip (SoC) will be a start. The SM8550 chipset, which we expect to be released as Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, is said to have four different CPU islands, creating a more complex design than Gen 1.
Many of the writers here at Android Police enjoyed our experience with the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro – in fact, the smaller model won our coveted editor’s award for 2021. That’s not to say both phones are perfect, of course. As has become the tradition of Google, there are some pretty weird bugs and bugs that need serious fixing – and fortunately, the company has been quite proactive with its fixes. Here’s everything that’s wrong with the Pixel 6 series that’s been spotted so far.
WhatsApp is constantly introducing new beta builds for testers to try out upcoming features. Recently we have seen possibilities like allowing you to edit sent messages and undo option for deleted chats. Now it looks like next on the horizon could be a pair that will allow us to export WhatsApp data and see status updates in the chat section.
Driven by the continued success of the Apple Watch and Google remembering that Wear OS, uh, already existed, smartwatches are one of the hottest gadget categories right now. As we eagerly await to learn all about the Pixel Watch and its potentially disappointing specs sheet, another rumored product has dusted off. Meta’s long-rumored watch seems to be on ice, just in time to learn about some of its truly ridiculous features.
Samsung certainly feels like the king of Android updates these days, regularly rolling out monthly security updates before the start of the month, beating even Google’s Pixel line in the process. Usually, we see flagships like the Galaxy S22 at the top of the line, and although Samsung finished the ball there with the phone’s June update, availability has so far been limited by region. . As many of us are still waiting to get our hands on it, we’re learning a bit more about what’s to come and it looks like the June 2022 update for the Galaxy S22 series is set to deliver. offers some significant camera improvements.
Google’s new Play Integrity API was first announced at the Google Developers Summit for Games last year. Originally presented as a way to prevent fraud, its utility has expanded in recent literature to overlap and expand on everything the SafetyNet APIs have done to ensure that an application and device be trusted, unmodified, and possibly safe from malicious or fraudulent interactions – in short, developers can trust that nothing bad or weird is going on. Knowing that, today’s news is hardly surprising, but Google has announced that the SafetyNet attestation API will be deprecated in 2024 in favor of the new Play Integrity API.
Mid-range phones are notorious for missing out on some key features that average users love. However, the Moto G Stylus 5G doesn’t sacrifice much to achieve an accessible price point. It feels sturdy enough, looks great, and performs admirably, even under the harshest of circumstances. It’s not perfect, but at $500 it’s one of the more competitive devices in its price range.
Google Chrome may not have changed much on the surface anymore, much to the dismay of those who like the browser’s implementation of bottom bar navigation on Android. But the company is still working to improve and optimize every little piece of code inside it and keep abreast of the latest development trends. Google has highlighted some of the new machine learning-based features it recently introduced to its browser, like a smartly changing toolbar button for Chrome on Android, improvements to Alternate Calendar Journeys, and more. better history and protection against fraud.


Dalla Porta secured the 2019 Moto3 World Championship in the best possible way with a brilliant victory at the end of the Moto3 race. The 22-year-old went into the 17th race of the year knowing that a win would be enough to put the title beyond doubt.
After his main championship rival Aron Canet crashed out on the second lap Dalla Porta had his sights firmly set on victory and rode like a champion. The race was a typical multi-rider battle at the front, with just nine tenths of a second covering the first 14 going into the final lap.
Dalla Porta was the dominant force, but then Tatsuki Suzuki (SIC58 Squadra Corse Honda NSF250RW) sneaked ahead at turn four on the final lap, only for the Italian to retake the lead four corners later. He took the win by 0.077 seconds from team-mate and pole-sitter Marcos Ramirez (Leopard Racing Honda NSF250RW) who slipstreamed his way into second-place on the run to the finish line. Albert Arenas took third, with 0.088 seconds covering the top three!
Suzuki lost out in the final few meters to finish fourth, the 22-year-old from Chiba narrowly missing out on a podium finish for the second consecutive weekend. John McPhee (Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda NSF250RW) was fifth, Ayumu Sasaki (Petronas Sprinta Racing Honda NSF250RW) seventh and Tony Arbolino (VNE Snipers Honda NSF250RW) ninth, with 2.023 seconds covering the top ten.
Dalla Porta’s title is the fifth Moto3 Riders World Championship for Honda riders in the eighth year of the Moto3 class, after Alex Marquez (2014), Danny Kent (2015), Joan Mir (2017) and Jorge Martin (2018). This is also the third straight year in which the brilliant NSF250RW has been the strongest bike in the class, with today’s success the 12th Honda win from 17 races.
Ai Ogura (Honda Team Asia Honda NSF250RW) showed tremendous maturity to score points during his first visit to Phillip Island. The 18-year old from Tokyo had a complicated Saturday, qualifying 23rd and struggling to find the correct lines through Phillip Island’s fast, sweeping corners. Ogura finally finished 14th, seven seconds behind the race winner.
Qatar GP winner Kaito Toba (Honda Team Asia Honda NSF250RW) once again showed his talent. The 19-year-old from Fukuoka briefly led the race and fought for victory until a clash with a rival caused him to crash with just three laps to go.
Teams now north to Kuala Lumpur for next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang, the third MotoGP round in three weekends. The season concludes at Valencia, Spain, on November 17.


It's a time-honored tradition: U.S. businesses find ways to skirt inconvenient or expensive laws by moving operations to other countries. Thus we have had U.S. corporations operating overseas to exploit child labor, run sweatshops or avoid taxes and rigorous health and safety inspections. Now the U.S. government says something similar is happening in regards to email.
By Evan Schuman | 18 March, 2015 01:56
Though she may have broken no laws, Hillary Clinton acted irresponsibly in using a personal email account to conduct official U.S. government business in her capacity as secretary of State.
By Kenneth van Wyk | 13 March, 2015 08:01
Having been at my new company for several months now, this week I was invited to inform executive management about the state of our security. I had half an hour to formally introduce myself and talk about my philosophy, my initial findings and the priorities I think we need to have.
By By Mathias Thurman | 11 March, 2015 03:46
Lenovo pre-installing Superfish software was a security disaster. Whether Lenovo was evil, or, as they eventually claimed, merely incompetent, it's hard to trust them going forward. If nothing else, their initial denials that anything was wrong, leave a lasting impression. Of course, Superfish, along with the software that they bundled from Komodia, also deserve plenty of blame for breaking the security of HTTPS and SSL/TLS.
By Michael Horowitz | 10 March, 2015 00:07
Several electronic and mobile payment options have become available, but most of us in the U.S. are still using plain-vanilla credit and debit cards with magnetic stripes. They use technology that dates to the first Nixon administration. That's not a problem in itself; I have no problem with time-tested security measures that work effectively. But just look around: Data breaches are everywhere, and those magnetic-stripe cards are often implicated.
By Kenneth van Wyk | 27 February, 2015 03:07
As the White House and Congress consider new cybersecurity legislation, some middle-market companies may still be questioning whether the cybersecurity crisis is a real threat for their businesses.
By By Matthew F. Prewitt | 17 February, 2015 21:08
Sometimes I wonder whether any company will ever fall victim to an unsophisticated cyberattack. Because after every attack that comes to light, we hear that same excuse: It was a sophisticated attack.
By Ira Winkler | 11 February, 2015 03:26
The downside of email, chat, text and messaging apps is that they make you feel like you're communicating privately, with only the intended recipients. And that your messages are private. Until they're not.
By Mike Elgan | 07 February, 2015 23:07
By Evan Schuman | 06 February, 2015 06:08
Thank goodness for that signature on the back of my credit card. If it weren't for that smudged scrawl, a thief might steal my card (or card number) and make fraudulent purchases. Or steal my identity. Right.
By By Bret Swanson | 05 February, 2015 02:05
When Amazon unveiled its cloud-based corporate WorkMail email offering last week (Jan. 28), it stressed the high-level of encryption it would use and the fact that corporate users would control their own decryption keys. But Amazon neglected to mention that it will retain full access to those messages -- along with the ability to both analyze data for e-commerce marketing and to give data to law enforcement should subpoenas show up.
By Evan Schuman | 03 February, 2015 20:07
Federal regulators have been throwing their weight around lately, and mostly to good effect for consumers and users of mobile technology.
By Mike Elgan | 03 February, 2015 01:24
If you tuned into Parks And Recreation Tuesday night, you were treated to an episode where social media startup Gryzzl attempts to win over the hearts and minds of its new neighbors in the fictional town of Pawnee with boxes full of gifts, delivered via Amazon-esque drones.
By Matt Weinberger | 29 January, 2015 09:04
January 2015 is already winding down, but it's not too late to think about the lessons of 2014. For anyone in information security, 2014 was a year marked by spectacular breaches. It ended with Sony Pictures Entertainment getting its clock cleaned by hackers, quite possibly from North Korea. Wouldn't it be great if 2015 doesn't include the same sort of clock cleaning at your company?
By By Kenneth van Wyk | 27 January, 2015 02:28
In the last few weeks it's possible some of your Facebook chums posted messages on their walls in which they tried to revoke permission for the social network to use and distribute content they post.
By Jonny Evans | 22 January, 2015 13:58
So who was really behind the Sony hack? And does it really matter?
By By Ira Winkler and Araceli Treu Gomes | 15 January, 2015 03:07
An Internet joke that goes back at least to the early 1980s consists entirely of the phrase: "Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!" Every year, even more often than you'd hear "This will be the year of the Linux desktop!" someone would predict that the Internet was going to go to hell in a handbasket -- and nothing happened. This year it's my turn, but I fear I'm going to be proved right.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 09 January, 2015 07:26
Over the last couple of weeks, I have read numerous news stories about the widely publicized security breaches at Sony and JPMorgan Chase. It seems as if everybody is a Monday-morning quarterback, with every other reporter voicing an opinion on how these breaches should have been prevented. In particular, I read two articles that specifically blamed the information security organizations at those companies for failing to properly stop the attackers. That's not fair.
By By J.F. Rice | 08 January, 2015 01:23
Well that stinks, doesn't it? Sony Pictures goes and scrubs the launch of a $44 million movie after being hacked, potentially by North Korea. Almost reads more like a James Bond plot than a news story, but there it is. And this time, it doesn't seem likely that Bond, James Bond, is going to show up at the eleventh hour to save the day.
By By Kenneth van Wyk | 20 December, 2014 06:09
Maybe I should be outraged by Sony's decision not to distribute the movie The Interview, but I am merely saddened by it. I am saddened that a hacking incident with all the hallmarks of a simple case of extortion has been distorted so it looks like a terrorist threat.
By Ira Winkler | 20 December, 2014 05:58
The following report, is based on a global survey of 706 IT and security professionals conducted in the United States, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The goal of the survey was to capture data on current attitudes and trends with mobile devices and IT security. This is the third survey on this topic and this report evaluates differences in responses to similar questions asked over the past two years.
- CCMobile Designer / Developer - IOSNSW
- CCMobile iOS DeveloperNSW
- CCMobile Designer / Developer - IOSNSW
- FTSenior SQL DBANSW
- CCFront End Web Developer (Drupal)NSW
- CCDBA (Oracle/SQL)NSW
- FTJunior Media Buyer - Sales CoordinatorNSW
- FT.Net Solution ArchitectNSW
- FTBusiness Management - Account Director - Leading Entertainment ClientNSW
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- CCSenior Systems EngineerNSW
- FTApplication Support SpecialistNSW
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Bolstered by favorable economics, today’s global botnets are using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to target firewalls, web services, and applications, often simultaneously. This DDoS threat spectrum includes conventional network attacks, HTTP and SSL floods, and an emerging wave of low-bandwidth threats, plus the new threat vectors likely to target emerging service platforms.
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- Startup takes the effort out of endpoint detection and response


Huawei, the number three smartphone manufacturer in the world is ready to take on Apple as the latter gears up to celebrate its 10th Anniversary with the new iPhone 8.
The Chinese smartphone brand made its way into the handset industry by offering quality handsets with an affordable price tag. As the buzz around Huawei P10 and P10 Plus has started to disappear, the company is readying itself to launch its flagship phablet, Mate 10.
Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Technologies Consumer Business Group has finally confirmed that the successor of Mate 9 will indeed be called Mate 10 which will debut right around the time Apple will unveil its flagship device.
Mate 9 is best known for being a powerhouse featuring Hisilicon Kirin 960 chipset but the new phablet is expected to top this reputation. In an interview, Richard Yu described that with Mate 10, Huawei will have a much powerful product.
He further said; “The Mate 10, which has much longer battery life with a full-screen display, quicker changing speed, better-photographing capability and many other features that will help us compete with Apple.”
It is no hidden secret that Huawei wants to challenge Samsung and Huawei with its flagship smartphones. Apple is already rumored to be in hot waters due to supply issues with the OLED screen that some speculate will cause a delay in the launch of iPhone 8.


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Financial Pressure and Stress; College student’s Reason for Dropping Out
Although taking care of college student’s mental health and their financial burden has been a hot topic in the recent years, it still hasn’t been solved and has been exacerbated by the pandemic. The pandemic actually helped the public realize the detrimental effects of having poor mental health, with 46 percent of Americans reporting having poor mental health during the peak of the pandemic and the lockdowns. The awareness for people to take care of their own mental health is not a social norm.
Financial issues have always been on the forefront of education costs in the US. With wages staying the same but college and university costs climbing year by year, its not the hard to see why 38% of college dropouts dropped out due to financial shortcomings. Yes, there are student loans and financial aid programs, but in the end, an average student pays around $10,675 per year. Coming from poor families or no support from their families result in students taking out a student loan. Student loans are a widely debated topic, but the benefits of a student loan are questionable. Knowing you have a loan is also one of the reasons of financial stress for college students.
Even though the reason for dropping out because of mental health is only three percent, poor social fit is also considered a strong reason for mental stress. Especially after the pandemic, where tensions are higher because of political discussion on masks and vaccines, colleges have become more hostile. And after so many lockdowns are lack of social contact, going back to when things are normal has been difficult. That is why colleges are starting programs to combat mental stress with free therapy and recreational programs.
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The coupe model of Factory Five Racing's three 818 kit car options.
Sourced from a JDM Subaru WRX STI, this engine is a high-revving variant of the 2.0L turbocharged EJ series.
Some people might not consider AC to be a major part of a kit car build, but it might be my personal favorite.
Factory Five Racing 818 Coupe Kit
Version 8 Ej207 JDM Subaru engine
Failed Engine Rebuild
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) has unveiled plans to introduce new functionality for trading synthetic futures based on five active stock option classes.
The new initiative, which is pending regulatory approval, will launch on 9 May and will enable the use of synthetic futures strategies using China Construction Bank, China Life Insurance, China Mobile, HKEx and HSBC stocks.
An HKEx source said the initiative was a response to market feedback, with both institutional and retail brokers already indicating interest in trading synthetic futures. “But we think retail investors might need more education to thoroughly understand this new combination trading function in our stock options market,” the source said. “These synthetic futures are another way to enhance trading and capital efficiencies in our marketplace.”
Stock options account for more than half of HKEx's derivatives market turnover and trading was up 34% in the first two months of 2011 over the same period last year. About 75% of stock options trading on HKEx's derivatives market is by market makers or proprietary traders, with retail (15%) and institutional (10%) business accounting for the remainder.
The standard combination order function may be extended to other stock option classes, subject to market demand.
A synthetic futures strategy is a stock option combination consisting of two option legs. A buyer of synthetic futures purchases a call option and sells a put option with the same underlying stock, strike price and expiry date, whereas the seller of synthetic futures sells a call option and buys a put option with the same features.
The standard combination trading function that HKEx plans to introduce will allow investors to price synthetic futures as a package, thereby reducing execution risk.
According to HKEx, synthetic futures enable their users to manage delta exposure in stock options portfolios, help investors reduce their initial capital outlay and decrease the margin required in a hedged options portfolio with netting capabilities.
“We believe synthetic futures are an effective way for investors to manage delta exposure in stock options portfolios and they may help investors in reducing capital outlays in options-related trading activities,” said Calvin Tai, HKEx's head of trading. “This will be something new for our stock options market so we would like to remind investors that they should be fully aware of the features and risk exposures when using synthetic futures.”