Spending on after-school activities was once normal for middle-class Chinese families who usually have just one child. However, due to concerns about their financial security, parents are reluctant to pay for extracurriculars like music, dance and sport Piano teacher Liu Hongyu conducts a lesson for a student at a classroom in Beijing, China. Concerned about their financial security, Chinese parents …
“How ya doing?” Mick Jagger asks the crowd, arriving for a club gig in Manhattan. The crowd, industry folk and VIPs like Elvis Costello and Trevor Noah, had gathered to fete the release of “Hackney Diamonds,” the Stones’ first album of new songs in 18 years. There were hopes, but most didn’t know the band would be playing seven tunes …
Six years after her landmark LP “Lemonade,” Beyoncé has returned with the bracing, ravenous album two terrible years demanded. The 16-track “Renaissance,” tipped for weeks as Bey’s most overt dip yet into club music, delivers on every inch of that promise. There are cameos or high-profile samples from disco icons Grace Jones and Nile Rodgers, a loving edit of Donna …
If you’re a regular Mix Up listener there’s a good chance you’ve heard a Logic1000 cut. She’s already drawn co-signs from big dogs Jax Jones, Caribou and Four Tet - so what’s with the hype around Logic1000? "I feel like the music I am making now, in this intuitive kind of way, is really reflective of who I am and …
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