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How to Treat Eczema on Every Part of Your Body
Eczema has a mind of its own. One week it’s a flaky patch on your arm; the next, it’s a stinging red spot near your eyes or behind your ears. And somehow, what works for one flare only makes another worse. That’s because the skin on different parts of your body varies in thickness and sensitivity, meaning eczema needs to be treated differently depending on where it appears. To help decode what works (and what doesn’t), board-certified dermatologists Tiffany Clay-Ramsey, MD, FAAD, and Chinonso Kagha Abisogun, MD, FAAD, explain how to tailor your routine based on location — plus the small, everyday mistakes that can make flare-ups worse. Experts Featured…
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Circa Waves – Death and Love part 1; near death experience leads to a joyous celebration of life – Backseat Mafia
Circa Waves return with their latest album, a collection of feel-good indie rock anthems that play to their strengths. While they don’t attempt to reinvent the wheel, they deliver exactly what fans have come to love – big choruses, infectious energy, and a warm, uplifting vibe. This record is a celebration, a reflection of frontman Kieran Shudallss recent experiences, and a reminder to appreciate life’s moments. The album comes in the wake of a significant personal event for Shudall, who underwent emergency heart surgery in 2023. That experience has clearly shaped the tone of the record, filling it with a newfound appreciation for life and a sense of joy that…
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Part Two’. – Backseat Mafia
So a few days until the Buck Moon on 21st July means that the release of the second instalment in the Harvestman ‘Triptych’ series is similarly imminent. This three album musical cycle created by Steve Von Till (aka Harvestman) the guitarist/vocalist/lynch pin of seminal post metal pioneers Neurosis began this April with the earthy psych folk soundscapes of ‘Triptych: Part One’(reviewed in BSM HERE). Made available on the day of the spring’s lunar spectacle, the Pink Moon, this inaugural album in an ambitious sequence braided strands of early music drone, sub-bass dub, post rock and pastoral electronica into an elemental flowing soundtrack. So what will ‘Triptych: Part Two’ bring? Connectivity…
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The World’s rarest album from the Wu-Tang Clan to be displayed at Hobart’s Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) as part of Name Dropping Exhibition. – Backseat Mafia
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) announced today that one of the rarest, most valuable pieces of music ever created, the Wu-Tang Clan’s fabled Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, will be part of upcoming exhibition, Namedropping. For a limited time, visitors can see the album on display, with limited access to public listening events held in Mona’s Frying Pan Studios. Jarrod Rawlins, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Mona, says: Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances. ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ is more than just an album, so when I was thinking about status, and what a transcendent…
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Bearings Announce Deluxe Version Of Their Record ‘The Best Part About Being Human’ – Backseat Mafia
Bearings have announced a deluxe version of their record ‘The Best Part About Being Human’ via Pure Noise Records. Produced by Sam Guaiana (Silverstein, Between You & Me). The record will feature three new songs and three re-imagined. On the lead single, the band says “Stormy Weather is about being exhausted by your situation but fighting through it. A bad period of time sucks, but you have gotta get through it and have a little faith in the future” Check out the track, below: The rest of the album features the most tightly honed songwriting of Bearings’ near-decade career – including “Gone So Gone”, “Live Forever Never Die,” and “Slip” – leaving listeners instantly nostalgic for sweaty…
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Middle Part Hairstyles and Tips
If there’s something we learned from this year’s Oscars, it’s that the middle-part isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. While the look isn’t new, a contentious TikTok debate over which hair part reigns supreme — the Gen Zs picked the middle part, while millennials typically preferred the side part — has resulted in an uptick of interest around the middle-part hairstyle. Over the last few years, countless celebrities have stepped out with middle-hair parts. We’ve seen the look on face-framing updos, sleek styles, straight hair, natural curls, and every hair type in between. Middle parts have been spotted on long and short hair — because, really, it can be worn with…
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Penelope Trappes at The White Bay Power Station as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney 27.03.2024 – Backseat Mafia
Tonight Australian-born, Brighton-based vocalist and producer, Penelope Trappes is performing at the White Bay Power Station as part of the Sydney Biennale. Supporting Trappes is Bluetung, which is the project of Mitchell J.G. Reynolds: a musician and electronics technician originally from regional NSW, now based in Naarm/Melbourne. Trappes is known for blending mesmerising ambient drones and evocative post-classical melodies with haunting, reverb-soaked vocal chants. Trappes’ fourth album, ‘Heavenly Spheres,’ was released in April 2023 under her own label, Nite Hive. The album was crafted solely with piano, voice, and an antiquated reel-to-reel tape deck during a fortnight residency at Britten Pears Arts, situated in the residence once occupied by the…
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Meanjin/Brisbane garage-rock outfit Velociraptor release the quirky angular ‘Computer Future Part 1’ and announce launch gig. – Backseat Mafia
Having only just re-entered the music scene after a hiatus, Brisbane band Velociraptor have barged their way out of the barriers with their quirky slice of post punk pie, the single ‘Computer Future Part 1’. It’s a song about the dystopian nature of our modern society and pogoes about like a punk in a mosh pit. There is an urgent quirky bounce to the delivery with a mix of Devo, Talking Heads and, for those with long memories of the antipodean music scene, a hint of Mi-Sex’s classic ‘Compute Games’. Bubbles, squeaks and a lot of attitude. While sung by the band’s drummer George Browning, the song was written by…
