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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time dedicated to reflect upon and celebrate the stories and accomplishments of Asian American and Pacific Islanders.The Washington area has plenty going on this month, including street fairs, educational talks, performances, and more.Here's a look at what's happening in May:
National Museum of Asian Art Centennial Festival ProgrammingNational Museum of Asian Art Monday, May 1 - Sunday, May 14 The National Museum of Asian Art is celebrating its 100th year of operations with a festival devoted to Asian art, cuisine, literature, and history.

FILE - Angelique Kidjo arrives at the presentation of the Gershwin Prize, which honors a musician's lifetime contribution to popular music, hosted at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.The five-time Grammy Award winner Angelique Kidjo, Chris Blackwell who is the founder of one of the most successful a record label and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt have won the 2023 Polar Music Prize, a Swedish music award.

The influential and boundary breaking HE.SHE.THEY.collective is to make a much anticipated debut at Miami Music Week at Toe Jam Backlot on Sunday, March 26 2023 having set Miami alight with it's stage takeover at Rakastella during Art Basel.The famously inclusive international party crew brings a fulsome line up of key associates with Maya Jane Coles, Ellen Allien, DJ Tennis, Danny Daze, Cassy, Chloe Caillet, Honeyluv, Uniiqu3 and more all playing.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Beyonce and Becky Hill were among the early winners at the Brit Awards.The biggest names from the world of music, from Stormzy to Harry Styles and Sam Smith, have descended on London's O2 Arena for the annual ceremony.

While many music artists try to fight their way to the top of the charts using '70s-inspired tunes, Taylor Swift subverts the trend by designing her album covers like one.However, none of the songs featured in Midnight got close to the era of Studio 54.Coming from an artist whose forte is to leave clues for fans to dig and invest in her music, let's theorise why Swift did that.

NPR's Planet Money recently got ahold of a 47-year-old song about inflation that has never been released.They decided to start a record label to try to get the song out into the world.You can listen to the story by clicking the play button above, and read more about the efforts in the Planet Money newsletter.

Kali Uchis has revealed her third studio album, Red Moon in Venus.The project is out today 3rd via Geffen Records, and to promote the record, she's going on a North American tour (get tickets here).While Uchis' last album, 2020's Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios), was recorded in Spanish, she sings Red Moon in Venus in English.

When a record label contacted her wanting to reissue her 35-year-old debut single, Kate Fagan thought it was a prank call.She had released the track, I Don't Wanna Be Too Cool, on her friends' DIY imprint; it had made the rounds in the underground clubs and bars of Chicago's punk scene before fading into obscurity.

A little overshadowed by Bangerz's big-hitting singles, Drive nevertheless epitomises the album's cocktail of traditionalism stirred with ultra-modernity, effectively welding a power ballad to dubstep-influenced electronic bass.But there's more to it than simply co-opting a hip sound: the music's punishing relentlessness smartly mirrors the lyrics' break-up anguish.

The man convicted in the shooting death of rapper Nipsey Hussle was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison during a court hearing on Wednesday.A jury determined that Eric Ronald Holder Jr. shot Hussle outside the hip-hop artist's clothing store in March 2019.Prosecutors alleged that Holder approached Hussle over allegations he had called him a snitch.

MUSIC Columns Opinion articles written in the style of their author.These texts are to be based on verified facts and must be respectful towards people, even though their actions may be criticized.All opinion articles written by individuals from outside the staff of EL PAIS shall feature, along with the author's name (regardless of their greater or lesser renown), a footer stating their office, academic title, political affiliation (if any) and main occupation, or the occupation related to the topic being assessed Shakira | BZRP Music Sessions #53 Skahira, during a musical performance I hate to bug you in the middle of dinner.

MEMPHIS Some wrote messages on the stone wall in front of Graceland, the storied Memphis mansion that housed Elvis Presley's studded jumpsuits and his private plane, the Lisa Marie, customized with gold bathroom fixtures.Others left flowers.A day after the death of Lisa Marie Presley, 54, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis, fans mourned her loss and recalled how the Presleys had touched their lives.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Superstar singer and songwriter Taylor Swift won all six trophies she was contending for on Sunday at the American Music Awards, including the night's top prize: artist of the year.The new AMA accolades lifted Swift's lifetime total to 40, breaking her own record for most wins at the world's largest fan-voted awards ceremony.

Twenty-five ago, the '90s version of A Hard Day's Night featured Meat Loaf, Alan Cumming, and Roger Moore.On December 26, 1997, this improbable film is , a clear parody movie starring the Spice Girls themselves, arguably the biggest musical group in the world at the time, in a movie you barely remember.

Daniel Craig has returned as Benoit Blanc in the Knives Out sequel, Glass Onion.Although there are no cozy sweaters like the first film, the sequel delivers the old-school whodunit goods.In the same Agatha Christie-style of the first film, Glass Onion both revels in murder-mystery cliches, while also subverting a few, too.

In 1973 the album charts got weird.Sure, there were classic albums by iconic artists such as Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones and Elton John that topped the charts that year.Two different ones in Elton's case.But there was also a No. 1 album of bluegrass banjo-picking from the movie soundtrack of a film that made fans wince whenever they thought of actor Ned Beatty.

Local "It's very strange, but what's come of it is amazing."Dave Perry didn't plan on any of it.The former Lowell Sun veteran reporter never planned on co-owning a record store in the Mill City, but alas, he has one now.Vinyl Destination, which he owns with his son, Dan, opened in 2013.Nor did his family plan on the heartbreak of losing Perry's daughter-in-law - the wife of his other son, Ben - to a specific kind of cancer in the digestive system, better known as GIST, in 2020.

Subscribe to our daily newsletter and have the latest stories from Mission Local delivered directly to your inbox.Two men were shot in a barrage of gunfire at Empire Distribution's SoMa recording studio on Monday night, after at least one shooter fired into the Bryant Street building around 9:30 p.m.

If you've been on the internet pretty much at all over the last few days, it's very likely that you've seen a rush of people posting fantastical, anime-inspired digital portraits of themselves.These "Magic Avatars" - as their creator, a photo-editing app called Lensa AI, has dubbed them - have taken the internet by storm, their virality hand-in-hand with that of ChatGPT, OpenAI's next-gen AI chatbot.

Although her catalogue of recordings was not large, there were two songs that guaranteed Irene Cara a permanent place in the pop music hall of fame.In 1980 Cara, who has died unexpectedly aged 63, announced herself by topping the British singles chart with Fame, which also went to No 4 in the US.It was the title song of Alan Parker's eponymous film, documenting the struggles of students at New York's High School of Performing Arts.

We tend to think of 1971's Hunky Dory as the moment David Bowie finally snapped into focus after years of dead ends and false starts.It opens with a song often seen as his mission statement, Changes, with its promise of constant forward motion and undertaking to make pop weird again.It unveiled the brand of glam rock that would send his career stratospheric, on Queen Bitch, and his most celebrated backing band, soon to be renamed the Spiders From Mars.

Photo by @markmorrisonofficial via Instagram / MLS via Realtor.comBritish R&B singer Mark Morrison, best known for his 1996 smash hit, " Return of the Mack," has just closed on a swanky pad in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.He paid $1.8 million.Morrison scored a significant discount on the property, which was first listed for $2,350,000 in August and had a couple of price reductions.

Choreographer Polina Mitryashina, artist Victor Melamed, and jazz producer Evgenii Petrushanskiy, from left, in Tel Aviv on Nov. 2.All three are Russian artists who have recently fled Russia to live in Israel.Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR TEL AVIV  Some of Russia's biggest artistic talents have immigrated to Israel this year, finding a safe place to rebuild their careers and voice their conscience about their country's war in Ukraine.

Rennie Peters is a UK based artist who is a resident at We Are Love Juice, and also the A&R and label manager of the exciting INLV record label.We caught up with her recently to find out what the aims are for the label, and how their new Winter Sampler compilation came to be...
Hey Rennie, how are you, what's good and bad in your world right now?Hey!