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20 December Birth Flower Tattoos
As the year draws to a close, December offers a wonderful opportunity to slow down and reflect. Those born in this chilly month have a twofold opportunity to celebrate a fresh start, thanks to the advent of their birthday as well as the coming new year. Getting a meaningful tattoo inspired by your birth flower has become increasingly popular in recent years, and if you’re looking for an artistic way to honor your December birthday, we’re here to help. Narcissus and holly are the designated birth flowers for December. Along with their enchanting shapes and natural appeal, both blooms carry profound meanings, making them perfect floral inspirations for birthday ink.…
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Joanne Shaw Taylor – Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? – Backseat Mafia
Blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Joanne Shaw Taylor has shared her latest single entitled, ‘Who’s Gonna Love Me Now?’. The track delves into the complex emotions surrounding grief, love, and moving forward. Written from a deeply personal place, the song reflects on recent experiences with family loss, drawing her back to the memories of her mother’s passing and the initial shock and heartache that accompanied it. “This song was a way for me to process some of the emotions I’ve been feeling,” Joanne explains. “At the start of this year, I lost another family member, which brought me back to those early, raw days of grief after losing my mom. Writing ‘Who’s Gonna Love…
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I Tried Plopping My Hair Using the TikTok Method: See Pics
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Contrary to what my husband thinks of TikTok, I’ve actually learned a lot on the video-sharing app. I’ve discovered how to apply concealer to lift my face, an at-home tanning kit that lets me fake a spray tan without leaving my bathroom, and how to plop my hair. Prior to discovering TikTok videos on how to properly dry my hair, I thought only my sister was blessed with my mom’s curly hair and that I was…
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Good American Soft-Tech Denim Review
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Good American is known for its innovative material, B-corp certified production, and inclusivity when it comes to sizing. To be frank, I wish every denim brand looked a lot more like this one. And when I heard the label was re-launching its bestselling Soft-Tech jeans for fall, I knew PS editors had to be among the first to test out the new selection. GA introduced some of its signature silhouettes, like the Good Waist Palazzo Jeans,…
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Understated but stunning second album from the Snarky Puppy stalwarts. – Backseat Mafia
And it all began in Leeds in the noughties. Bill Laurance newly graduated from the Uni and trying to earn his crust around the city’s music scene met Michael League, doing the same on his troubadour travels from the States. Gigging together in various jazz-soul leaning bands on the unforgiving northern circuit a friendship grew before League returned to his homeland. Back from his UK expedition he revived Snarky Puppy, the jazz fusion big band he’d started as an undergrad studying in Texas, and with plans to record their debut album needed a new piano player. He called up Laurance and it all stems from there. That lynchpin relationship has…
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Blue-Black Hair Color: Ideas and Inspiration
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here. Blue-black hair first had a moment back in the early 2010s, when stars like Katy Perry and Rihanna debuted the edgy color. The playful yet timeless twist on traditional black hair is now back in a big way. Celebrities like Megan Thee Stallion and Camila Mendes have been seen with new-and-improved versions of the look, proving the hue can also work on a multitude of styles, ranging from bobs to curls. If you’ve ever looked up…
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The Gates Of Slumber – Full Moon Fever – Backseat Mafia
Indiana’s doom metal behemoths, The Gates of Slumber, have announced the release of a new self-titled album out on November 29th via Svart Records, the band’s first full length offering in thirteen years. The second single from the album ‘Full Moon Fever’ has been shared. Karl Simon comments on the new single: ”If my memory serves me right, Full Moon Fever was the first song for the new album. The music was written around about when Tom Petty died. And yes, the song is dedicated to him. Not inspired by his music per se, but I was always a big Petty fan and yeah. Figure it out on your own time… The first set…
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Wingz Of The Monkey – Jägermeister Love and Cigarette Kisses – Backseat Mafia
Following a string of successful single releases throughout 2024, Wingz of the Monkey have released their second EP, ‘Jägermeister Love and Cigarette Kisses’. This new EP follows their 2023 debut EP, ‘ Ape Allegations’ (read or review here). The new EP includes the three singles previously released throughout 2024, plus two new tracks, ‘Sarcastic Sympathy’ and a cover of the Fugazi track ‘I’m So Tired’. Opener ‘The Accuser’ makes a huge statement with its whipping wah-wah guitar riff, pounding drums, and singer Pat’s unique drawl. It’s a brilliant start and a sign that the band hasn’t lost any of the magnificence and fierce nature that the first EP delivered. It…
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The ethereal Juice Webster makes a welcome return with ‘Hannah’ ahead of headline launch. – Backseat Mafia
It’s been too long a gap since the Melbourne artist Juice Webster graced us with her astonishing debut album ‘Julia’, one of our most lauded antipodean albums of 2023, and it is great to see her back with her new single ‘Hannah’ as well as a live show ahead. Described as alternative folk, we have said that Webster’s instrumentation recalls elements of The National or Sufjan Stevens, the vocals are easy to compare to Big Thief, Phoebe Bridgers or Taylor Swift, and yet she has her own distinctly unique sound. It is something that is restrained and yet intense like a slow burning fuse, filled with a wide-eyed romanticism with…
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Ellis-D – Shakedown – Backseat Mafia
Following a 2 week support tour across Europe with Fat Dog, and in anticipation of a slot at Mutations Festival, Brighton’s Ellis·D shares frantic goth-punk single ‘Shakedown’ via Crafting Room Recordings (Ideal Living, SoftTop). The track was written and recorded entirely by Ellis·D himself (aka Ellis Dickson) at Hackney Road studios with Shuta Shinoda (Hot Chip, Jenny Beth) Discussing the single, Ellis says: “I channeled a lot of fear and frustration into this track when I was writing it. It was very cathartic. I wanted to try and create something from the point of view of someone on a total ego trip who exudes complete over-confidence as means of bottling…
