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According to a preliminary investigation released Friday by the Committee to Protect Journalists, nearly 100 journalists have been killed covering the war in Gaza. Israel has defended its actions, saying it has been targeting militants. One organizer complained that the White House Correspondents' Association - which represents the hundreds of journalists who cover the president - largely has been silent since the first weeks of the war about the killings of Palestinian journalists. The night's remarks also were expected to cast a spotlight on the many journalists detained and otherwise persecuted around the globe for doing their jobs, including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia since March 2023. Kelly O'Donnell, president of the correspondents' association, opened the event by reminding the audience of the important work that journalists do but noting that the dinner is happening at "a complex moment for our nation," and in a decisive election year.
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Betts is survived by many local family members including his wife of more than three decades, Donna Betts, and his daughter, country music singer Kimberly Betts, who performed around Sarasota-Manatee with her band Gamble Creek, which featured her son (Dickey’s grandson), Grant Tyler, on guitar. SARASOTA COUNTY — Dickey Betts, a driving force behind the Allman Brothers Band that launched Southern rock and influenced the jam band scene, died Thursday, April 18, at his home in Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay, according to his longtime manager David Spero. Now Scally is unsure where they should put “Space Song” in the setlist for the Once Twice Melody tour. Over takeout shrimp cocktail, calamari, sandwiches, and fries, he plays out the scenarios—first third or encore? —until Legrand announces that we don’t need to talk about it anymore.
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This tendency toward emotional ambiguity is another one of Beach House’s quiet acts of resistance in an era when streaming services have replaced genres with moods as the primary method of categorization. (Here’s music to pep you up. Here’s music to chill out to.) Beach House songs can melt the boundaries between the morose and the ecstatic, refusing to prescribe a desired effect, allowing the music to be moody without specifying which mood. This is not to say that Beach House’s work is stagnant or unadventurous. Its albums are a bit like vast stretches of a shingle beach—blank and uniform from afar, but full of idiosyncrasies up close. On its last LP, “7,” from 2018, the band widened its scope to include French-language vocals, a distortion pedal, and a sprawling kind of psychedelia. “Once Twice Melody,” its new record, is its most ambitious and dynamic.
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We both feel lucky that younger people keep discovering us and we’re able to keep making records. Betts’ daughter Christy married Frank Hannon, guitarist and co-founder of the multi-platinum selling hard rock band Tesla. Hannon’s 2012 solo album “Six String Soldiers” features one of Dickey Betts’ last studio recordings.
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The Los Angeles Rams have the 19th pick in the 2024 NFL Draft on Thursday night. If they hold onto the pick it will be the first time the franchise has made a first round selection since they took Jared Goff No. 1 in 2016. It will also be the first time that the team has picked in the first round since Sean McVay became head coach in 2017 so you can understand why the team is kind of excited. "Since the Israel-Gaza war began, journalists have been paying the highest price- their lives-to defend our right to the truth. Each time a journalist dies or is injured, we lose a fragment of that truth," CPJ Program Director Carlos Martínez de la Serna said in a statement.
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After playing with them in Indiana, Betts returned home and teamed up with fellow guitar player Larry “Rhino” Reinhardt, a Bradenton native who would go on to play with Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond, bass guitarist Berry Oakley and keyboardist Reese Wynans. They emerged in the late 1960s in Jacksonville as the band Second Coming. Several hours later, after the lethargy of fried food and booze sets in, and the conversation turns heavy, Scally can sense the mood in the room has shifted beyond innocent loopiness.
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Over the years, they have made subtle tweaks to the languid slowcore template they fashioned on their self-titled 2006 debut. The organ-heavy Depression Cherry wrapped itself in velvety drones that bristled with dissonance; 7 was darker and more muscular, tinged with a syrupy hit of shoegaze. They have never abandoned the attributes that make them inimitably Beach House; compare Once Twice Melody with a record like Devotion or Teen Dream, and it’s clearly the same band, yet profound changes have taken place. Before you get judgy and start thinking that this is just some soulless corporate promotion, you know that the decor is more than just Rams chic.
There are feathery acoustic guitars and rosy vocoders, watery analog synths and chord changes that explode like fireworks against the night sky, and all of it has been mixed to emphasize its nuanced contrasts and swollen dimensions. In their soaring choruses and sumptuous arrays of synths, guitars, and percussion, they have taken on the proportions of spectacular, stadium-sized alt pop. (Guest drummer James Barone’s controlled wallop goes a long way toward establishing the record’s blockbuster footprint.) Where once they sounded indebted to bands like Mazzy Star or My Bloody Valentine, here they’re chasing a shiny brass ring bearing the fingerprints of Air, M83, even Tame Impala. Since their start in the mid-2000s, Beach House have maintained a certain level of mystery. Little is known about their origins or their personal relationship, and the music’s signature wash of blissed-out guitar reverb, vintage organ tones, and Legrand’s sensuous voice became a kind of universal astral projection in the vast vibescape of online music culture.
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The album has been released gradually, in chapters, the last of which will come out later this month. This is unmistakably a Beach House record, but it’s also an expansive, occasionally fantastical project accentuated with grand orchestral flourishes and eighties synth-pop glamour. It’s the group’s least focussed album yet, but it’s also so sublimely imagistic that it makes you wonder why film directors and music supervisors haven’t been hounding Legrand and Scally to create movie scores. After “Bloom,” Beach House took a pause, and then recorded “Depression Cherry.” When the album came out, in 2015, the duo offered a statement to describe their retreat from the mainstream in terms that were stubborn and a bit pious. “With the growing success of ‘Teen Dream’ and ‘Bloom,’ the larger stages and bigger rooms naturally drove us toward a louder, more aggressive place; a place farther from our natural tendencies,” they explained. “Here, we continue to let ourselves evolve while fully ignoring the commercial context in which we exist.” On the album, their first of two that year, they scaled back the boom of the drums, reducing the percussion to a ticker-tape hush.
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Assuming the Rams don't trade out of the first round, they will be picking on the first day of the draft for the first time since 2016 when Jared Goff was the No. 1 overall pick. In addition to McVay and general manager Les Snead, the draft house will typically have celebrity guests. Eric Dickerson, Rebel Wilson, Erin Andrews and Brody Jenner were photographed at the venue in 2021. The Rams have run their draft out of a draft house since 2021, though they referred to last year's location in the San Fernando Valley as a "draft lab." A social media post of a small Bull Terrier mix desperately chasing its owner’s car struck a chord with dog lovers in Long Beach Wednesday.
“Ramblin’ Man” is the Allman Brothers Band’s first and only Top 10 pop hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 1 on the U.S. “There’s always been that scrappy part of us that just wants to get it done quickly for the sake of capturing that thing,” says Legrand. They play me an old iPhone video of “Masquerade,” the album’s clubbiest track, being written on an early-’90s keyboard called a Rapman, just a built-in beat and Legrand’s chords evoking a labyrinth of darkness. Hypnotic duo whose swirling organs, fuzz guitar, and ghostly vocals have revealed new possibilities in dream pop. The Jokers were a regionally popular act that could fill 1,500-capacity dance halls.
They all—the ballads, the anthems, the lullabies, the synth-pop throwbacks—serve a purpose in fleshing out the enormity of Beach House’s spellbinding universe. It’s a long way from the summer sun to the dark embrace of the universe, and on Once Twice Melody, Beach House are determined to cover the entire distance. From the current vantage point, Beach House’s entire career looks like one long, gradual process of transformation, a slowly winding path leading up to this point.
Besides Tame Impala, they are perhaps the only current band that has been both sampled by one of the greatest rappers of our time and immortalized by some of the worst EDM bros. Eight albums later, they have come to define modern dream pop by merging elements of psychedelia, shoegaze, and dub with the indelible whine of George Harrison’s guitar, the hint of danger in Warhol’s Factory, and the eternal cool of their arthouse influences. The discography of musical duo Beach House consists of eight studio albums, one compilation album, five extended plays, and 25 singles. The group was formed in Baltimore, Maryland by Victoria Legrand as a vocalist and keyboardist, and Alex Scally as a guitarist, keyboardist, and backup vocalist.
The boy everyone called Dickey traded his ukulele for a mandolin and then a banjo and then an electric guitar, because he noticed the electric guitar impressed the girls. Of course, once you imagine something, it is never going to be like that. The duo brought a bottle of mezcal, a bouquet of flowers, and three shot glasses to the interview. As Legrand sips a baby shot, she keeps imagining that this is the first alcohol any of us have ever imbibed. Scally soon turns the three-foot-long, spaceship-like coffee table into a narrow fort. We eye the knick-knacks on the shelves—vases out of Restoration Hardware by way of the Met’s antiquities collection—with suspicion and tuck into a tray of caramel-filled chocolates atop a bed of crushed ice-cream cones.
In 2012, the indie-pop duo Beach House took the stage in Central Park, in front of nearly five thousand people, one of the biggest audiences of its career. The band, made up of the vocalist and keyboardist Victoria Legrand and the guitarist Alex Scally, had made a name for itself first within Baltimore’s eclectic scene, and then in the wider world. The music was woozy and impressionistic, but also steady and painstaking. It had become synonymous with the term “dream-pop,” making it part of a lineage that includes the work of artists from the Beach Boys to My Bloody Valentine. On Beach House’s self-titled début album, from 2006, Legrand and Scally used nothing but a guitar, a Yamaha keyboard, and an organ to produce a thick, lo-fi blanket of warbled sound that drew on elements of doo-wop, drone, and shoegaze but sounded unmistakably new. Whatever alchemy had been forged between Legrand and Scally lent the music a kind of twilit mysticism.
"He knew the song word for word. Man, it was such an honor. He sang it and I told him later that those words have never had so much feeling. The way he sings, he makes every word punchy. It really was beautiful. It really was." Yet as a slow drip of pure serotonin, Once Twice Melody delivers. It can be tempting to wonder if the album is too long, but the more time I have spent with it, the harder it has been to decide which tracks I might cut.
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