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Ana Popovic Releases "Lasting Kind Of Love" Video Featuring Keb' Mo'

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The video for the first single off her latest album shows Popovic's light, romantic side and features GRAMMY-winner Keb' Mo'
Jennifer Velez
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Aug 10, 2018 - 12:43 pm

Blues-rock maven Ana Popovic shows off her guitar playing skills and carefree side in the video for her first single, "Lasting Kind Of Love," featuring GRAMMY-winner Keb'Mo' off her latest album.

In the video, the guitarist calls upon Mo' before she heads out in a car to an unknown destination. The song is about a no strings attached, temporary kind of love and is the first single from her upcoming album, Like It On Top.

We find that Popovic's trip takes her to the beach where she takes out her guitar and strums away. Mo' appears in separate shots singing back to her. The beachy vibes compliment the easy-going vibes of the song, which ultimately sends the message that it's okay to go with the flow when it comes to love, even if it ends in nothing serious.

Recorded in Nashville, the song features Mo', who also produced her new blues influenced album. Other features include Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Robben Ford. Like It On Top is part autobiographical, part statement aimed to empower women. Popovic, who is an influential and respected musician, felt strongly about covering desire and fantasy, getting out of an abusive marriage, feeling empowered doing a craft, and confronting macho attitudes. In all, the album explores ten different aspects of women's empowerment.

"'Being on top' is about achieving your own potential. Succeeding in juggling work, family, social life, expectations of the others, of the society, while pushing limits. Renewing yourself and inspiring others," Popovic said in a statement. "[The album] celebrates those women who take initiative, develop, inspire and motivate. It's about feeling good about yourself and what you do."

While her album is out Sept. 14, you can catch her on tour across the U.S. now. More info here. 

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Pegi Young, Musician And Neil Young's Former Wife, Dies At 66

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Young died following a yearlong battle with cancer
Jennifer Velez
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Jan 3, 2019 - 1:24 pm

Pegi Young, singer/songwriter, activist and musician, whose career includes solo work as well as being frontwoman of Pegi Young & The Survivors, has died following a yearlong battle with cancer. She was 66.

Young's death was confirmed via her official social-media accounts. She died surrounded by family and friends in California, where she was born.

Young released five albums both as a solo artist and with Pegi Young & The Survivors. Her last tour was in the fall of 2017. 

The musician's last album, Raw, released in 2017, addresses her separation from Neil Young, to whom she was married for 36 years. They share two children. The album is a deeply emotional account of their relationship.

"As we were making [Raw], I was encouraging her to write self-affirming songs," bandmate Phil Jones said. "And I believe she did that."

Pegi and Neil met in 1974 and were married in the late ‘70s. They began to perform together in the 1990s; Pegi was Neil's backup singer.

Neil recalls how they met in "Unknown Legend."

In 1987, Pegi and Neil opened the Bridge School which serves children with physical and speech impairments. They were inspired to do so by their son, Ben, who has cerebral palsy.

Years before becoming a musician, Young, who was born in San Mateo, Calif., taught herself folk covers on an acoustic guitar. She wrote poetry in grade school and studied it in college.

Young saw herself as a survivor. "Although we named the band The Survivors after Ben Keith died, we didn’t have any idea some 10 years ago, what an apt name it would turn out to be! I’ve gone through a lot of good stuff and scary stuff, and I will keep going forward," she said on her site.

"I’d like to be remembered for the good I tried to do in my life and for the world. I’m just a human being who tried to be a good person, despite my failings," Pegi Young told Thread MB.

Young leaves behind her son, Ben, and daughter, Amber.

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New Bill Seeks To Name Post Office In Washington State After Jimi Hendrix

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The bill is supported unanimously and proposes the post office on the street Hendrix grew up on be renamed in his honor
Jennifer Velez
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Nov 27, 2018 - 5:38 pm

Legendary GRAMMY-nominated guitarist Jimi Hendrix's legacy lives on long after he's gone. Now, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) has introduced a bill that would bring his rock and roll spirit to a post office in his hometown of Renton, Wash.

If the bill passes, the post office located at 4301 Northeast 4th Street would be renamed to "James Marshall 'Jimi' Hendrix Post Office Building. Smith introduced Bill H.R.6628 in July, which has gained the support of all eight Washington representatives in Congress and has since moved on from its initial review by the House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, according to Consequence Of Sound. The street, as the music site notes, is the one Hendrix grew up on. It is also close to the cemetery where he is buried.

"The Puget Sound region is home to a museum that showcases Hendrix's life and work, a park dedicated to his memory, and several memorials visited by thousands every year, " Smith said. "This designation will further honor this iconic artist and his Seattle roots."

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The iconic guitarist's legacy lives on outside of Seattle too. In 2015, his 1966 Fender Stratocaster was one of the instruments featured in the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Lives' Rare Guitar Exhibit. Hendrix's iconic interpretation of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the 1969 Woodstock Festival earned him a GRAMMY nomination for Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance. 

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Giving Tuesday: The GRAMMY Museum Needs Your Help Supporting Music Education

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The GRAMMY Museum provides K-12 students the opportunity to dive deep into music with its programs and camp. This Giving Tuesday, the Museum is asking for your help to continue bringing these resources to them
Jennifer Velez
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Nov 27, 2018 - 5:00 am

The GRAMMY Museum is home to one-of-a-kind music exhibitions and experiences that bring its visitors closer to the artists and music they love. On Giving Tuesday the museum is asking for your help to support the music education programs they provide, in order to continue bringing music access to students in and out of the classroom.

Throughout the year, the museum seeks to give underprivileged communities access to music education and prepare K-12 educators with resources to show the power of bringing music to the classroom. Over the next 24 hours, the GRAMMY Museum has set out to raise $50,000 to continue providing students with tools and resources they need to explore music education.

Past programs include a workshop on the how music has been a catalyst for change throughout wars, including the Civil War and World Wars I and II, as well as lyric writing workshops. The museum also offers tours for local schools and organizes a camp for young aspiring musicians in high school. These student-centered programs help support the museum's mission of using "music as a gateway to learning; inspiring and cultivating creativity, critical thinking and self-expression."

Teachers and parents have seen students positively engage with the programs. Larchmont Charter School teacher Dave DuMonde shared how excited his students were after their visit to the museum.

"They were fully inspired—a new passion has been sparked in our music program," DuMonde said. "I received a resounding response from parents saying how cool and unique of a trip it was. Thank you, thank you for accommodating our group of 5th and 6th graders!"

"As I looked around during the performance, the children were all engaged and paid close attention to the action on the stage," said one teacher who would like to remain anonymous. "In this day and age of budget cutbacks in the Arts Programs in our school systems, programs such as this are MUCH NEEDED."

According to the museum, a donation of $500  provides a whole class of students bus transportation for a visit to the museum in downtown Los Angeles. A visit to the museum deeply shaped Janet L. Jackson's daughter's musical aspirations.

"My daughter left the GRAMMY Museum after her first visit and declared she wanted to be a rock guitarist," Jackson said. "That year she got a guitar for Christmas and has been taking lessons ever since."

The GRAMMY Museum also puts on a GRAMMY Camp in which high school students learn more about careers in the music industry, including songwriting, audio engineering, music journalism, instrumental performance and more.

"Attending camp really pushed me to work harder and study more about production. I've just finished producing a five track EP, and I'm now learning about licensing, distribution, and advertising. I don't think any of this would have happened if I hadn't been given this opportunity and attended GRAMMY Camp," GRAMMY Camp alum Markus said.

For more information on how you can support the music education the GRAMMY Museum brings to students visit the GRAMMY Museum's donation page.

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Chuck Berry, The Beatles & More To Have Instruments On Display At The Met Museum

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Over 130 instruments spanning 1939 to 2017 from GRAMMY-winning musicians will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019
Jennifer Velez
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Nov 20, 2018 - 2:00 pm

New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art will be the home of the first major art museum exhibition to feature rock and roll instruments, including those from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, starting April 8, 2019.

On Nov. 20, Rolling Stone announced the upcoming exhibition called "Play It Loud: Instruments Of Rock & Roll" on behalf of the museum. It will bring more than 130 instruments used between 1939 and 2017 by many musicians including GRAMMY winners and nominees like Elvis Presley, Metallica, St. Vincent and the Rolling Stones, plus other greats, like Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award honoree Chuck Berry, all under one roof.

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Several guitars will be featured, including the "main guitar" Berry used from 1957 to 1963, Eric Clapton's "Blackie," Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein" and St. Vincent's 2015 guitar. Drum fans will be able to catch The Who's Keith Moon's "Pictures Of Lily" drum set. Other instruments include Emerson, Lake & Palmer keyboardist Keith Emerson's Moog synthesizer and Hammond organ. The collection will also include vintage posters, stage costumes and historic videos, the magazine stated.

The instruments hail from 70 private and public collection from the United States and United Kingdom to explore the genre and the instruments that brought it to life. You can catch it at the Met museum from April 8to October 1, 2019 before it moves to the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland Ohio in November 2019.

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