ORI DAGAN Reimagines 80s Classic “Video Killed The Radio Star”

 

Canadian jazz singer-songwriter Ori Dagan offers up an inspired reimagining of the ‘80s synth-pop classic, “Video Killed the Radio Star."

A duet with multi-award winning Canadian dance music vocalist Simone Denny, Dagan’s new single is much more than a jazzy take on tech. The update on The Buggles’ 1979 one-hit-wonder swings back in time to marry the big band ‘40s to the electronic ‘80s, giving birth to a bit of 21st century musical magic.

“I was looking for a tune to do this with when all of a sudden ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ came on in a department store,” recalls Dagan. “I just thought, Eureka! Perfect!

“I love this song for being so prophetic, catchy and just plain fun.”

The inspiration didn’t stop in that department store, however; Dagan also wanted to ‘shop’ for the perfect singing partner to turn the song into a killer duet.

Then, Eureka again! Simone Denny, JUNO and MMVA Award winning vocalist, and former singer-songwriter for ‘90s hitmakers, Love Inc., was on his radar. “I met Simone Denny in 2019 at an event,” Dagan shares. “I remember nervously asking her to take a selfie together…

“Growing up, I loved her voice and songs when I was addicted to the MuchMusic Countdown. She has one of the most beautiful instruments in the business, as far as I’m concerned.”

How did the desire to sing with Denny turn into reality? Dagan simply ‘clicked right there’ on Denny’s Instagram account, and sent her a private message with his request.

“To my delight, she agreed to be part of this,” says Dagan. “Working with her in the studio was a real blast; she is a very generous artist.

“I have to confess,” he continues, “I had no idea if she could sing jazz because I had never heard her do it, but MAN she nailed every take! I loved feeding off her energy.”

While the contemporizing of retro cover songs and jazz standards has become a signature for the Toronto-based singer-songwriter, “Video Killed the Radio Star” is the sole reimagined cover Dagan includes on his upcoming and fourth studio album, Click Right Here. In addition to this bonus track, the album, Dagan’s first FACTOR funded project, also features 10 original jazz songs with the central theme of technology, and is set for release April 1, 2022.

HHS Awards $2.21 Billion in Fiscal Year 2021 to Help Americans Access HIV Care, Support Services, and Medication

Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced approximately $2.21 billion in Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program funding for cities, counties, states, and local community-based organizations in fiscal year (FY) 2021. This funding, through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), supports a comprehensive system of HIV primary medical care, medication, and essential support services critical to improving the health outcomes of more than 560,000 people with HIV in the United States.

 

“For more than three decades, HHS has driven federal efforts to end the HIV epidemic in our country and improve health outcomes for people with HIV," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra. "These funds support viral suppression that saves lives, reduces health disparities, and slows the spread of HIV. We will continue to support the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the United States.”

 

The Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program provides care and treatment services to low-income people with HIV, with a strong focus on health equity and addressing social determinants of health. The program serves approximately 50 percent of all people with diagnosed HIV in the United States. In 2019, 88.1 percent of Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program clients who received HIV medical care were virally suppressed, up from 69.5 percent in 2010.

 

“Our Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is a groundbreaking effort that has made extraordinary progress over the years toward ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S.,” said HRSA Acting Administrator Diana Espinosa. “These grants support life-saving care, treatment, and medication that improves health outcomes and reduces HIV transmission to patients across the country.”

 

HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program also awarded $99 million through Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. (EHE) funding in March 2021, as part of a Department-wide initiative to reduce new HIV transmission in the United States by 90 percent by 2030.

 

Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Fiscal Year 2021 Awards:

 

Under Part A of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, approximately $621.4 million was awarded to 52 metropolitan areas to provide core medical and support services for people with HIV. These grants were awarded to highly-impacted urban areas with the highest number of people with HIV and AIDS. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A award recipients, visit

https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-a-grants-emerging-metro-transitional-areas/fy2021-awards.

 

Under Part B of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, approximately $1.3 billion was awarded to 59 states and territories to improve the quality, availability and organization of HIV health care and support services and for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP). Additionally, 16 states received Emerging Community grants based on the number of AIDS cases over the most recent five-year period. In addition, 29 states and territories were also awarded approximately $10.2 million in Part B Minority AIDS Initiative grants. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part B award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-b-grants-states-territories/fy2021-awards.

 

Under Part C Early Intervention Services (EIS) of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, approximately $179.8 million was awarded across the country to 347 local, community-based organizations to provide core medical and support services to people with HIV. Additionally, 30 organizations were awarded approximately $4.4 million in Part C Capacity Development grants. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C EIS award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-c-early-intervention-services-and-capacity-development-program-grants/fy2021-eis-awards. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part C Capacity Development award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-c-early-intervention-services-and-capacity-development-program-grants/fy2021-capacity-awards.

 

Under Part D of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, approximately $67.2 million was awarded to 114 local community-based organizations across the country to provide family-centered comprehensive HIV care and treatment for women, infants, children, and youth with HIV. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-d-services-women-infants-children-and-youth/fy2021-awards.

Under Part F of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, approximately $67.6 million was awarded to support clinical training, oral health services, quality improvement, and the development of innovative models of care through several different programs. Approximately $8.9 million was awarded to 45 recipients through the Dental Reimbursement Program, and nearly $3.5 million was awarded to 12 recipients through the Community-Based Dental Partnership Program. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part F Dental Reimbursement Program award recipients and Community-Based Dental Partnership Program award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-f-dental-programs/fy2021-awards.

 

Under Part F, the AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) Program awarded approximately $30.3 million through 14 grants and cooperative agreements to support education and training of health care professionals, which includes a network of eight regional and two national centers. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program AETC award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-f-aids-education-and-training-centers-aetc-program/fy2021-awards.

In addition, $25 million was awarded through the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Program under Part F, which includes $9.9 million in funding for new initiatives. SPNS supports the development of innovative models of HIV care and treatment strategies using implementation science while promoting the dissemination and replication of successful interventions to support underserved populations. Through these special projects, SPNS recipients implement a variety of interventions, which contribute to the advancement of public health knowledge and the goal of ending the HIV epidemic in the U.S. For a list of the FY 2021 Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program SPNS award recipients, visit https://hab.hrsa.gov/about-ryan-white-hivaids-program/part-f-special-projects-national-significance-spns-program/fy2021-awards.

 

To learn more about HRSA's Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, visit hab.hrsa.gov.

 

For more information about HRSA's role in the EHE initiative, visit www.hrsa.gov/ending-HIV-epidemic.

 

For more information about HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, treatment, and research, visit HIV.gov.

New Grant Helps Pandemic Challenged Historic Sites

This week the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced a new $3.5 million program designed to help preserve and interpret historic places that reflect the inclusive narrative of American cultural history, made possible through a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ American Rescue Plan Humanities Grantmaking for Organizations.

The goal of Telling the Full History: Sustaining the Stewards of America’s Diverse Historic Places, the National Trust’s new grant program, is to sustain diverse cultural sites of importance to underrepresented communities, especially those that have been critically impacted during almost two years of pandemic closures. The National Trust expects to be able to award $25,000 and $50,000 grants to 60-80 humanities-based organizations through this initiative, in an effort to sustain an inclusive American narrative that represents all of the peoples involved in shaping our history and identity.

In the last two years, loss has had an abiding impact on our families and our economy, and recovery efforts have rightly been focused on those aspects of our lives. However, without notice or fanfare, the dedicated stewards of important cultural resources have also quietly struggled during this crisis to protect important places that tell the full American story. This grant program is a recognition of the vital roles that historic places and humanities-based organizations play in defining the American experience and is meant to directly benefit the stewards of diverse historic places as they recover momentum that was lost during two years when operation was critical, yet impossible.

“So many cultural institutions often operate without the material resources they really need,” said Paul Edmondson,” president and CEO of the National Trust, “but they survive by the grit and sheer determination of a committed few. This program is a visionary effort by the federal government through the National Endowment for the Humanities to recognize these keepers of American identity and strengthen their capacity to tell the full American story. In many cases, these grants will serve as a lifeline to institutions operating in the margins, but who hold the keys to our American past.” 

“The National Trust sees historic places as powerful primary sources and their preservation and interpretation advances our quest for a more perfect union,” said Katherine Malone-France, chief preservation officer of the National Trust. “The very presence of these places and the institutions that steward them makes a positive difference in our country. They tell us the truth about ourselves and affirm the fact that it took many cultures, a variety of peoples, who all contributed their strength, ingenuity, and sacrifice to help build our nation. That is the unifying shared national narrative that these grants are meant to express and to help sustain.”

A broad range of humanities-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations are eligible for these grants, including state and local preservation organizations, historic sites, museums, historical societies, and genealogical associations, as well as accredited academic programs in historic preservation, public history, and cultural studies of underrepresented groups. Additionally, local and state governmental agencies, such as state historic preservation offices, tribal historic preservation offices, city and county preservation offices and planning departments, state and local commissions focused on different aspects of heritage, and publicly owned historic sites and museums also are eligible.

The grants will help preserve and interpret historic places of importance to underrepresented communities including, but not limited to, women, immigrants, Asian Americans, Black Americans, Latinx Americans, Native Americans, and LGBTQA communities. Funding will be awarded in these categories:

• Research, planning, and implementation of humanities-based public interpretive programs that utilize diverse historic places to tell the full history of the United States;
• Humanities-based research and documentation to enable local, state, and federal landmark designations to recognize places of importance to underrepresented communities;
• Architectural design and planning to advance preservation and activation of historic buildings and landscapes that tell the full history of the United States; and,
• Humanities-based training workshops to support underrepresented groups in preserving and interpreting historic places that tell the full history of the United States.

Jake Wesley Rogers - Pluto

 Take a trip to Pluto with Jake Wesley Rogers!After months of anticipation, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jake Wesley Rogers propels himself into the stratosphere with the release of his label debut EP Pluto, available now via Facet Records/Warner Records – listen HERE.

 

To celebrate the EP release, Jake is set to perform on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Tuesday, October 5.

 

The Pluto EP features previously released singles “Weddings & Funerals,” “Middle of Love,” and “Momentary,” along with 3 new tracks. Regarding the EP, he commented, “I began writing the Pluto EP in London in 2019 when my grandpa was dying from heartbreak and my lover and I were nearing the end of our relationship. Working with some of my dream songwriters like Eg White and Justin Tranter, I went deeper than I ever have before in exploring my relationship with love and how it’s taken a toll on me and everyone around me.”

Born in Kansas City, MO, Jake Wesley Rogers combines skyscraping vocals, eloquent songcraft, and driving instrumentation to give pop a jolt of infectious integrity and soaring spirit. Generating 20 million-plus streams independently, he captivated a growing fanbase with various singles and the Evergreen EP [2017] and Spiritual EP [2019]. Grammy-nominated songwriter Justin Tranter heard the powerful and poetic “Jacob From The Bible,” fell in love with Jake’s music, and signed him to Facet Records/Warner Records in 2020. Jake Wesley Rogers’ bold music is queer storytelling refracted through a universal lens; it’s inspired by the authenticity and artistry of his heroes like Madonna, Stevie Nicks, and Florence + the Machine. 

Register Today for the 2021 Awards Reception

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Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga: 'Love For Sale' Out Now

Today, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga released their highly anticipated collaborative album, Love For Sale, via Columbia/Interscope Records. This is the legendary duo’s second album together, following 2014’s Cheek to Cheek that debuted at #1 on the Billboard album charts.

 

Love For Sale, the new collaborative album with duet and solo selections from both artists, showcases the Cole Porter songbook of classic popular music and is the final studio recording of Bennett’s career, culminating Bennett and Gaga's 10-year recording history. The long-time friends and collaborators took us behind the scenes of the making of their new album and discussed how the Cole Porter tribute came to be in an album trailer released earlier this week. Watch here.

The first single from the album, “I Get a Kick Out of You,” was released on Tony Bennett’s 95^th birthday celebrating the first night of Bennett and Gaga’s two sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall in New York this past summer.  The album’s current single is the title track “Love For Sale.” 

“Canada’s Drag Race” Drops Wig-Snatching S2 Trailer

“Canada’s Drag Race” is bringing the heat with the drop of the official trailer for season two ahead of its premiere on Thursday Oct. 14th on WOW Presents Plus in the US and select territories worldwide.

The wig-snatching trailer includes sweet-filled snapshots of the queens as well as the runway and werkroom. Featuring a special look at the challenges, artistry, surprise appearances, and gag-worthy drama in store for season two, the trailer showcases the twelve fierce Canadian queens competing for the title of Canada’s next Drag Superstar. 

As previously announced, the CDR S2 queens include Adriana, Beth, Eve 6000, Gia Metric, Icesis Couture, Kendall Gender, Kimora Amour, Océane Aqua-Black, Pythia, Stephanie Prince, Suki Doll, and Synthia Kiss. 

The dazzling roster of celebrity guests joining resident judges Brooke Lynn Hytes, Brad Goreski, Amanda Brugel, and Traci Melchor  for “Canada’s Drag Race'' sophomore season includes the iconic Gigi Gorgeous, Emma Hunter, Connor Jessup, Fefe Dobson, Hollywood Jade, Mitsou, Caitlin Cronenberg, and Bif Naked. Special guests also set to appear includes Canada’s First Drag Superstar Priyanka, TikTok star Boman Martinez-Reid, actor Thom Allison (KILLYJOYS), and more. 

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra presents "A Tribute to Billie Holiday"

The Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra’s (CJRO) sextet is featured in a tribute night of music honoring the legendary “Lady Day,” Billie Holiday. Many of Holiday’s songs will be performed including “Summertime” and “God Bless This Child” along with a few numbers that will be played note by note as originally performed by the Lady herself! Led by vocalist Heidi Schmidt, the sextet features CJRO artistic director, Drew Zaremba on alto sax and flute; Shane Endsley (trumpet); Eric Erhardt (tenor sax/clarinet); Ken Walker (bass); Justin Adams (piano), and Todd Reid on drums.

Founded in 2012 by bandleader, Art Bouton, with a mission to perform the best music with the best musicians, the Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra does just that and more. Exciting world-renowned guest artists and many of the finest regional musicians perform anything from rollicking big band classics to contemporary large and small ensemble jazz to sold-out crowds across Colorado. Audiences at the Arvada Center, PACE Center in Parker, Lakewood Cultural Center, Rialto Theater in Loveland, and beyond have heard the CJRO perform music from Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Maynard Ferguson, and Buddy Rich as well as original arrangements by CJRO composers and other artists.

Tickets are $24, purchase online here or call the Parker Arts box office at 303-805-6800.

Books: PERSIAN DELICACIES: Jewish Foods for Special Occasions

Persian cuisine has long been a major influence in food trends, the royal kitchens of ancient Persian empires were influential and famous for their cooking. Persia, now known as Iran, has long been geographically and historically significant since it connects the Middle East with the Far East, contain influences from ancient Greece, Rome, and many other Asian and Mediterranean influences.

Now there is a new cookbook that celebrates the rich culinary culture of Persia. PERSIAN DELICACIES: Jewish Foods for Special Occasions by Angela Cohan celebrates the foods of her homeland along with traditions from her Persian Jewish heritage.

“I was inspired to compile the specialty recipes of my mother, my late grandmothers, other family members, and friends in this cookbook,” Angela explains. “This book is as much theirs as it is mine. It is a tribute to my heritage as a Persian Jewish woman as well as an evolution of recipes since living and cooking in the United States for the past three decades.”

Fruits, spices, and herbs are used prominently in Persian cuisine. Angela uses fresh and organic products in her recipes representing a fusion of traditional foods with a healthy, modern approach. Typical Iranian main dishes are combinations of rice, meat, vegetables, and nuts. Although kabobs are always on the menu at Persian restaurants, they represent only a small sampling of the dishes Persians eat at home. Many of the recipes in the book can be prepared as vegetarian.

Human Rights Campaign Premieres Video of Queen, Black Trans Woman Who Was Forced Into Homelessness, Says Equality Act Will Prohibit Discrimination Based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity

 

Yesterday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) civil rights organization, is premiering a video calling attention to the need for the Equality Act, legislation that will finally provide consistent, explicit non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people, including Black trans women. The video released today features Queen, a Black transgender woman, sharing Queen’s experience being forced into homelessness after Queen’s landlord learned Queen was transgender.

“Queen’s experience is emblematic of the reasons we need the Senate to send the Equality Act to President Biden’s desk,” said JoDee Winterhof, Senior Vice President, Policy & Political Affairs of the Human Rights Campaign. “Right now, millions of LGBTQ+ people are at risk of being denied service at a restaurant, kicked out of their homes, or dismissed from a jury because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It’s dead wrong. That’s why we can’t stop fighting until the Equality Act is signed into law.”

“I’m speaking out for the Equality Act because I believe that voices, they can change people’s perspective,” Queen says in the new video. “Housing discrimination does not get the attention that it should. And then you add being a trans woman. Then you add being Black. You just keep adding layers to discrimination.”

No one’s civil rights should depend on the state or zip code they’re in. But in the 29 states that lack explicit nondiscrimination protections, LGBTQ+ people are at risk of being refused housing or evicted from their homes, kicked out of a business that’s open to the public, denied health care, or denied government services in a majority of states simply because of who they are. The Equality Act would change that and provide clear, consistent non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people across critical areas, including housing.

2021 is already on track to have the highest number of violent deaths of transgender and gender non-conforming people on record. HRC has tracked 37 instances of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people. Known hate crimes against transgender and gender non-conforming people have risen over the last couple of years.

North By Current: A Poetic and Richly-Layered Document of Addiction, Queer Identity, and Grief

North by Current, the feature documentary from acclaimed visual artist Angelo Madsen Minax. North by Current will show as part of POV’s 34th season, broadcasting on Monday, November 1 on PBS (check local listings) and streaming online at pov.org. The film will be available to stream until December 31st, 2021.

North by Current arrives on POV after a decorated festival run with screenings at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival and AFI Docs in addition to receiving the Grand Jury Award at the Camden International Film Festival and an Honorable Mention for the Jury Award at Outfest. The documentary begins as Minax returns to his Michigan hometown after the inconclusive death of his niece and the wrongful persecution of his sister and brother-in-law, dwelling upon the experiences of grief and the enigmatic emotions of homecomings.

An autobiographical film, North by Current traces the contours of the filmmaker’s life as a trans man against the backdrop of his childhood and his parents’ childhoods in Michigan. Struggling with his parents’ religiously-motivated reluctance to wholeheartedly accept his queer identity, Minax weaves a restlessly creative testament to kinship and the physical and spiritual questions that arise in the wake of unimaginable loss.

In his own words, a “cruel sibling” as a younger child, Minax reflects upon his behavior and the distance that has grown between himself and his family as he contemplates the journeys through motherhood and loss that both his sister and mother experienced. Blending the line between fiction and nonfiction, the film movingly recreates scenes and images from his family’s past while he seeks to understand and move on from his parents’ statement that they “lost” someone when Minax transitioned. Such ambiguities refuse moralizing or the reduction of any of the complexities of Madsen and his family; his vision is deeply human and bracingly honest when dealing with the difficulties borne out of addiction and loss.

As Madsen mines his own personal history, juxtaposing present-day footage with VHS home movies from his childhood, the film begins to resemble a conversation between Madsen's own voice and a more lyrical voice who stands in for his niece and his childhood self. The interplay between the two voices continues throughout the film, from its beginning in the middle of the Michigan winter to its summertime end. The dialogue between voices mirrors the collaborative nature of the film and the participation of Minax’s family as they work towards mending the at-times fractured relationships among themselves while making their love for each other tangible.

"One of my goals with this film is to demonstrate through form, the ways in which life is utterly unrelenting. I want people to be able to sit in that difficulty, where things are raw and maybe hard to watch, but also so universal – everyone comes from somewhere, and has their own sets of struggles," said director Angelo Madsen Minax. "I’m honored that POV is committed to showing this work for what it is – more challenging than comfortable. Audiences deserve to have their ideas about the world challenged and that offering is a privilege."

“As a trans filmmaker, I’m invested in producing complex, multilayered stories. My films cross genres, yet at their core they are stories of transformation and resilience” said producer Felix Endara. “North by Current is emblematic of uncompromising, risk-taking storytelling. After watching the film, I hope audiences come away with a sense that North by Current - as the title suggests - is not a destination but rather a pathway, and a tool for connection. I commend POV for supporting a trans-themed project made by trans filmmakers, and I invite more industry stakeholders to follow its example.”

“We were immediately taken by North by Current,” said executive producer of POV | American Documentary, Chris White. “Madsen is one of the most innovative filmmakers of our time, and his latest film is an excellent addition to an already impressive body of work. A bold and singular film, North by Current pushes the boundaries of nonfiction filmmaking towards exciting new terrain. We can’t wait to share it with the American public.”

With profound feeling and artistry, North by Current exemplifies in the story of one family such universal themes as love, grief, addiction and belonging. Without offering any trite or easy answers, Minax delves deep into his own pain and that of his family’s, offering an emotional analogy to the Michigan seasonal wilderness that marks its own presence throughout the cyclical journey from winter to summer, from brokenness to some kind of repair.

North by Current will be available for streaming concurrently with broadcast on all station-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and the PBS Video App, available on iOS, Android, Roku streaming devices, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung Smart TV, Chromecast and VIZIO. PBS station members can view many series, documentaries and specials via PBS Passport. For more information about PBS Passport, visit the PBS Passport FAQ website.

Oscar and the Wolf - Livestream

Oscar and the Wolf, the indie-pop star alter ego of Max Colombie, shares his brand new single “Livestream” today. Zane Lowe Apple Music 1 show made “Livestream” their World First premiere, saying “sounds like water dripping from flowers, sounding like diamonds.” With the third track to be released from his long awaited third album The Shimmer (due 22nd October on [PIAS] Recordings), Colombie throws us another curveball. Sounding more relaxed and confident than ever before, the Belgian singer serves us the perfect soundtrack to the dripping Indian summer we all crave. “I’m your die hard crazy, I’m your nightlife superstar” he reveals compellingly, “I’m your forever seventeen And I’m the siren in your heart I wanna be there when you need it I come alive when you call me yours.” The song then takes a turn for the sensual with shimmering guitars and light and almost cheerful synths leading into a longing chorus.

Livestream deals with longing for you loved ones, wanting to be close to them. “I’m several months away on tour and away from my love”, Colombie muses, “Waiting to be rejoined, longing to live together, past the city, by the river and over the mountain. I only remember him from times before the wilderness. He can always remember me by watching me on livestreams. Knowing he’s behind that computer screen, is when feel him right next to me.”

Jonas Brothers - Who's In Your Head

 

Today, the GRAMMY Award-nominated Jonas Brothers uncover the music video for their new single “Who’s In Your Head.”
 
Directed by Christian Breslauer, it opens with the guys jamming in a loft as an artist paints a striking portrait of flowers. The vibrancy of the colors dissolves into a succession of surreal visuals—including Joe in a giant steaming cup of coffee—before a final outdoor downtown L.A. street performance complete with a marching band and a smiling crowd in gleeful motion.

In addition to praise from Good Morning America and more, Rolling Stone hailed it as a “funky track,” and Billboard dubbed it “an upbeat pop number bolted onto a funky guitar refrain and featuring some chandelier-busting falsetto.” Meanwhile, UPROXX wrote, “song itself is a fast-paced, tightly produced pop number, featuring the boys singing over a funky guitar line about a lover who’s, let’s say, a little distracted.”
 
Building anticipation, they initially delivered a show-stopping performance of the tune during a sold-out show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO. Following the gig, they posted a TikTok snippet of it, which has already gathered millions of views and incited critical buzz.

NMAC ANNOUNCES 2021 CAPITOL HILL CHAMPIONS AWARD RECIPIENTS

NMAC is pleased to announce Chairwoman Maxine Waters and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge as the 2021 Capitol Hill Champions Awards recipients. The awards will be presented at a virtual event in December.

In honor of the late John Lewis and Elijah Cummings, NMAC will present awards in their names for their lifelong commitment to racial justice and creating equality for all.

The John Lewis Good Trouble Award will be awarded to Chairwoman Waters who embodies John Lewis' dedication to racial equality on all fronts. Throughout Chairwoman Waters’s 40 years of public service, she has been at the foreground of tackling controversial and difficult issues. Whether it be her success on affirmative action legislation during her time as a California state legislator to spearheading the creation of the Minority AIDS Initiative, Maxine Waters has been a champion of human rights and embodiment of dedication to racial equality. The award will be presented by last year's recipient, Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  

The Elijah Cummings Award for Minority Health Equality will be presented to Secretary Fudge, who dedicated her congressional career to fighting for healthcare equality and equity for minority communities. As Chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus and Congresswoman from Ohio, Marcia Fudge successfully tackled issues spanning the political gamut. Through her leadership as HUD Secretary, she is working vigorously to solve issues such as the growing homelessness crisis and racial disparities affecting homeowners. The award will be presented by Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings.

“NMAC’s mission is to lead with race to end racial inequities in health care that prolong the HIV epidemic,” said NMAC Executive Director Paul Kawata. “Chairwoman Waters and Secretary Fudge have dedicated their years in public service to those same goals. It is a great honor to recognize these amazing women for their commitment and service to our nation and to our goal of ending the HIV epidemic.”

NMAC leads with race to urgently fight for health equity and racial justice to end the HIV epidemic in America. Since 1987, NMAC has advanced our mission through a variety of programs and services, including: a public policy education program, national and regional training conferences, a treatment and research program, numerous electronic and print materials, and a website: www.nmac.org. NMAC also serves as an association of AIDS service organizations, providing valuable information to community-based organizations, hospitals, clinics, and other groups assisting individuals and families affected by the HIV epidemic.