Elfen’s NEOSOUL NEW MUSIC TUESDAY RUN AWAY REMIX by Eric Lau Kaidi Tatham and Moonchild
OMG I just love this Neosoul band Moonchild I could listen to them for hours.
“Run Away (Eric Lau & Kaidi Tatham Remix)” is the latest single from Moonchild. Lifted from the third album by the LA-based soul and jazz trio, the acclaimed producer Eric Lau’s collaborative remix fuses Kaidi Tatham’s unmistakable style (Bugz in the Attic, The Herbaliser) and his own poetic rhythm with Moonchild’s ardour.
In their remix of “Run Away”, Eric Lau and Kaidi Tatham blend the laidback ’80s electronica of the original with their unique character and rhythm to draw out a carefree groove that scintillates with plucky guitar licks. A talented beat-maker, Lau crafted the track by laying down drums to punctuate accents and details in the vocals. Softening the vocal hues, he calls on Tatham for his harmonic textures which perfectly complement Navran’s voice. Lau has worked with legends like DJ Jazzy Jeff, De La Soul and James Poyser as well as performing with Robert Glasper and Erykah Badu. Tatham is a member of the Bugz In The Attic collective and his body of work includes musical contributions for Amy Winehouse, Slum Village, Mulatu Astatke, Soul II Soul.
If you like Moonchild as much as I do you can find them on thisismoonchild.com
Moonchild is touring with The Internet get your tickets now!!
Moonchild Bio provided by Bandcamp.com
Tickets: thisismoonchild.com/tour
Oct 21 – Santa Cruz
Oct 22 – Oakland
Oct 24 – Portland
Oct 25 – Vancouver
Oct 26 – Seattle
Oct 28 – Sacramento
Oct 31 – San Luis Obispo
Nov 3 – San Diego
Nov 11 – Phoenix
Nov 12 – Las Vegas
Nov 15 – Austin
Nov 16 – San Antonio
Nov 18 – Houston
Nov 19 – Dallas
Nov 20 – New Orleans
Nov 26 – Charlotte **just added
Nov 27 – Raleigh
Dec 1 – Richmond
Dec 4 – Washington DC
Dec 5 – Boston
Dec 12 – Detroit
Tyler Perry Is Killing Off His Madea Character Once And For All
The entertainment mogul’s feisty granny character has made him a fortune.
Madea’s days are numbered.
Tyler Perry said he’s retiring his mischievous grandma character after a final film appearance and stage tour.
“This is it,” Perry told SiriusXM radio host Bevy Smith on Monday in the clip below. “It’s time for me to kill that old bitch. I’m tired!”
Perry said his geriatric alter-ego will hit the big screen one last time in “Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral” in March 2019. He’ll also play her on a farewell stage tour.
“We’re gonna say goodbye in ’19,” Perry said. “I just don’t want to be her age playing her.”
Perry likely won’t be forgetting Madea’s largesse. Eight films in the Madea franchise have grossed an overall total of $502 million worldwide at the box office, not to mention the revenue from three other films in which Perry appeared as her.
“She’s been very good to me,” Perry told The Advocate last year. “I love the joy that she brings to people. I love to see them laughing and smiling.”
Anybody feeling sad about the goodbye? Well….
Netflix’s ‘Dogs’: All About This Endearing New Docu-series
Animal lovers, brace yourself. Netflix’s Dogs might just be the thing to break your heart — or make it three-times bigger (Grinch-style).
Just yesterday Netflix dropped the first trailer for a beautiful new docu-series called Dogs. Now, it’s basically exactly what its cutely terse title sounds like; it is a show all about the powerful bond between man and canine. However, the trailer teases that Dogs might be something more than your typical adorable YouTube playlist. Netflix’s new series is going to be a six-part docu-series that will span the globe to tell extraordinary stories about the friendship between people and their beloved dogs.
The Dogs trailer introduces us to a Syrian refugee skyping with his pooch, Zeus, who is still stuck in the war-torn country. The man explains to the audience that he’s going to work to get Zeus out. Elsewhere, an Italian man introduces his Golden Retriever Ice as an integral member of his family — so much so that Ice has to be shushed at the dinner table because he’s “talking” over someone else. The trailer also shows us families hoping to pair their disabled daughter with a service dog who can become her best friend and one Japanese woman who considers her pet dog her “daughter.”
Dogs has an all-star line-up of directors including Amy Berg, Roger Ross Williams, Heidi Ewing, Richard Hankin, and T.J. Martin & Daniel Lindsay. The series was developed by Glen Zipper, who serves as co-executive producer with Amy Berg.
Dogs debuts on Netflix on November 16.
Article via Decider
Ava DuVernay is making a Prince documentary for Netflix
Apple Music also reportedly has a project around Prince’s legendary 1983 Minneapolis concert.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Ava DuVernay will produce a multi-part Prince documentary with Netflix, Deadline reports. The project is being done with the full cooperation of the Prince estate, which has granted the producers access to interviews, archival footage, photos and other materials. “Prince was a genius and a joy and a jolt to the senses,” DuVernay told Deadline. “The only way I know how to make this film is with love. And with great care. I’m honored to do so and grateful for the opportunity entrusted to me by the estate.”
DuVernay earned Oscar and Global Globe nominations for Selma and helmed the Netflix documentary 13th on mass incarceration and race in the United States. She’s also working on a five-part series on the Central Park Five for Netflix. Despite the mess that was Prince’s estate after his death, the Purple One himself might have approved of her involvement. Shortly before passing away, he reportedly reached out to DuVernay about working together, according to Deadline.
Article via Engadget
Uhhh, Meghan Markle’s Friend Claims She Forced Her Ex-Husband to Sign a “Pregnancy Contract”
One of Meghan Markle’s old “friends” has once again emerged to spill details on her life pre-royal family, and the newest claim—which we should all take with a thousands grains of salt—is that Meghan forced her ex-husband Trevor Engelson to sign a “pregnancy contract.”
What is a pregnancy contract, you ask? Well, according to Meghan’s former friend, the then-television star wanted to ensure that her husband would pay for a personal trainer and nutritionist throughout the duration of her pregnancy.
“It came up at a time when they were considering having a family, at some point in the near future,” the friend tells Daily Mail, adding that Meghan “wanted to make sure she would be camera-ready very quickly” and that “she demanded a personal trainer and nutritionist during and after the pregnancy.”
According to this person who’s clearly not at all bitter about not getting a wedding invite, Trevor ended up signing without lawyers involved: “She says she got him to sign something, maybe just a handwritten letter that she could hang over his head.”
No words, just: Sure Jan
Article via Cosmopolitan
In a first, same-sex couple carries the same baby
DALLAS — A same-sex couple in North Texas both wanted to carry their baby. They were able to through a special type of in vitro fertilization, CBS DFW reports.
Now, Ashleigh and Bliss Coulter call 5-month-old Stetson their miracle baby. “The way that Mr. Stetson came into this world was pretty special,” Ashleigh said.
Ashleigh and Bliss knew they wanted kids when they married. They both carried their son through what’s called “Effortless IVF.”
“We gave it a try and it was very, very successful,” Bliss said.
“This represents the first time that two women have both physically carried their child together,” said fertility specialist Dr. Kathy Doody of The Center for Assisted Reproduction.
Kathy and her husband, Dr. Kevin Doody, made it happen using Bliss’ eggs and sperm from a donor.
“She was so confident when she was saying that they can do it,” Ashleigh said. “I think that was surprising to us but also exciting.”
Through Effortless IVF, instead of placing the sperm and eggs into incubators, they go into an INVOcell. The device is then placed in the body for five days where the egg fertilizes and early embryo development begins.
In the Coulters’ case, after five days, Bliss had the INVOcell removed. The embryos were frozen and then one was transferred to Ashleigh. She carried their baby to term.
“This is a revolutionary type of IVF,” Kevin said. “It’s more accessible, it’s more affordable and it’s truly more natural.”
He said it’s received mixed feelings from the medical community.
“I think many have been excited about the thought, but Kevin is correct. Doctors in general, we don’t like change, so I think that their ability to share their story is phenomenal,” Kathy said.
Ashleigh and Bliss said they feel blessed to be able to share the experience together, and more children are in their future.
“You know your whole life changes obviously with anybody when they have a baby so leaning on your partner I think is really, really important and I definitely think it brought us closer together,” Ashleigh said.
Even though the Coulters were the Doodys first same-sex couple to go through Effortless IVF, they’ve performed the process for around 200 heterosexual couples.
They said the process typically costs about half as much as traditional IVF.
Hilary Duff Gives Birth to Baby Girl With Boyfriend Matthew Koma
Congratulations to Hilary Duff and Matthew Koma!
The 30-year-old actress gave birth to a baby girl, Banks Violet Bair, on Thursday, Oct. 25. Koma and Duff both announced the happy news on their Instagram accounts on Monday.
“This little bit has fully stolen our hearts!” Duff captioned a pic of the pair holding their new bundle of joy, huge smiles on both of their faces. “She joined our world at home on Thursday afternoon and is absolute magic ✨.”
“We welcome a beautiful daughter, little sister, and best friend for life,” Koma captioned his pic as a newly-minted proud papa. “Could not possibly be more grateful for our growing family and for the ? who makes it all possible. Cloud ten.”
Duff is already a mom to her 6-year-old son, Luca, with ex-husband Mike Comrie. She announced she and 31-year-old Koma — who recently sparked engagement rumors — were expecting a baby girl in June.
“Guess what guys! @matthewkoma and I made a little princess of our own and we couldn’t be more excited!!!!!!” Duff Instagrammed alongside a picture of Koma sweetly kissing her on the cheek.
Koma, a record producer and songwriter, was also over the moon with the news, writing, “We made a baby girl! She will be as beautiful and sweet as her mother… @hilaryduff another incredible chapter begins.”
Article via AOL
Coca-Cola cannabis-infused drink? CEO addresses rumors
Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey on Tuesday dismissed rumors that the beverage giant is mulling an entrance into the legal cannabis industry, even as other beverage brands have explored cannabidiol (CBD)-infused drinks.
“We don’t have any plans at this stage to get into the space,” Quincey told analysts during an earnings call. “So that’s kind of where we are.”
Demand for products containing CBD, a non-psychoactive compound in marijuana, has grown in recent years amid pushes in various jurisdictions to legalize pot. CBD product sales are expected to surpass $1 billion in 2018, according to the Hemp Business Journal.
Bloomberg reported last September that Coca-Cola was in talks with Aurora Cannabis, a Canada-based marijuana company, to develop a CBD-infused beverage. At the time, Coca-Cola said it was “closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverage around the world,” but said “no decisions” were made on whether to partner with Aurora.
Constellation Brands, the parent company of Corona beer, invested an additional $3.8 billion in Canopy Growth, another Canada-based pot manufacturer, while Molson Coors Brewing is developing cannabis-infused drinks in the country, Bloomberg reported. Canada legalized pot on the national level earlier this month.
Coca-Cola has sought to diversify its product offerings in recent months in order to boost sales. The company took a major stake in premium sports drink brand BodyArmor last August and agreed to buy U.K.-based Costa Coffee days later.
Coca-Cola topped quarterly sales and earnings estimates in its report on Tuesday, fueled in part by a turnaround in diet beverage sales.
Article via FoxBusiness
Tints by Anderson .Paak
Here’s the new music video to Anderson .Paak’s song, Tints featuring Kendrick Lamar!
Shuri Comic Review
With the success of the Black Panther film it was only a matter of time before one of its standout stars, Shuri got her own solo comic.
While Shuri has been in the comics before and has even taken on the Black Panther mantle in her brother’s absence. This story is a little different.
In it’s first issue we see Wakanda preparing its space program and we also see that T’Challa and Manifold will be the first Wakandans in space. The launch is successful however, two weeks and there has been no response from either of them. With Wakanda unsure of their leader’s status several women in Wakanda including Queen Ramonda fell that’s its best that Shuri take the mantle once again.
So far, in my opinion this story is off to a good start, there’s a good plot point that takes T’Challa out of the picture and it gives time to flesh out Shuri. Will she take the mantle? It’s possible but we know that she loves science versus ruling the thrown which will set up her inner conflict.
I look forward to how this story plays out and will be writing reviews on this story every month, as well as Killmonger’s!