TWO new songs from Kip Moore. Today, he put out a pair of songs, one called "Flowers in December" which he wrote with Erich Wigdahl, and one called "Wildfire" that he wrote with Oscar Charles, Dan Couch and Hank Born. These releases come on the heels of Kip's first batch of new music in quite a while, also including “Live Here To Work” (which he put out in September), and "Learning As I Go," which came out in October. In terms of a full studio album, Kip released his fifth studio album Damn Love in early 2023, though he’s turned the page to a new chapter, now signed with Virgin Music Group, after leaving his longtime label MCA Nashville earlier this year. Of the two, "Flowers In December" is definitely my favorite, and Kip says he pulled inspiration from many different places to create it. For me, as someone who has listened to his music for years, it feels more in line with some of his earlier stuff in terms of the sound, which is intriguing to me in terms of what the new project will sound like as a whole: "We’ve played ‘Flowers In December’ a couple of times live and the reaction was just so visceral we knew this had to be the next song to be released. I’ve always been influenced by different types of music, that began when I was a kid. This song has so many different threads of those inspirations running through it. I’m also fortunate enough to be in a new chapter of my career, and so with that in mind I decided to make good on releasing more and more music as the songs are recorded, and so I’m also releasing ‘Wildfire’ today. When we wrote and recorded this song there was no agenda in mind and all the walls came down on trying to fit into any kind of perceived box. I hope people are able to feel this music the way we did while making it." Kip has said that it's part of a forthcoming album, which will likely be released sometime early next year (I'm guessing). It seems as though this big label change has allowed Kip to do more creatively, and more specifically how he wants to with releasing more music and all, which I think is a really good thing. Additionally, on Wednesday, Kip received the 2024 International Artist Achievement Award at the CMA Awards, as he's been touring a lot overseas this year in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and more, where he actually has a huge following, selling thousands of tickets across different countries. I'm sure an album announcement is on the way sooner rather than later to follow a solid year touring everywhere, and from what I've heard so far, it's shaping up to be a solid project and I am really looking forward to hearing what he's come up with considering the new chapter, and more importantly, new inspirations. You can listen to both songs below. "Flowers In December" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyO6F_IQubs "Wildfire" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqnzjQwd8g0 Remaining 'The Nomad World Tour' Dates: 11/22 - Chicago, IL @ Joe’s on Weed Street 11/23 - Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore Minneapolis 12/05 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony 12/06 - Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony 12/07 - Philadelphia, PA @ TLA 12/12 - New York, NY @ Webster Hall 12/13 - Boston, MA @ Royale Boston 12/14 - Boston, MA @ Royale Boston

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After a harrowing election season, we could all use an emotional pick-me-up. Thankfully, the internet never fails to deliver. Check out five uplifting stories we’ve found that made us smile this week. Enjoy—and don't forget to share the love!1. This toddler's adorable reaction @vita.paskar This is when things start to get exciting ? when they begin to understand! #fyp #christmas #target #toddler ♬ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee Victoria Paskar’s son Ellis had just been born last December, so when it came to appreciating the magic of the holiday season, it wasn't something he was really able to do. This year, however, that’s changed: In an adorable TikTok video, Paskar caught the moment when Ellis (now a toddler) notices the lit-up trees and holiday decorations. So magical and pure in every way.2. More meals for seniors in need Subaru - Share the Love Event and Meals on WheelsHunger is a national problem, and one that Subaru is helping to fix. Thanks to the Subaru Share the Love Event, Subaru has delivered more than 4.6 million meals and friendly visits to seniors facing hunger and isolation. Since 2008, Subaru is the largest automotive donor to Meals on Wheels—and they’re just getting started. With every new Subaru sale, Subaru and its retailers donate at least $300 to charities like Meals on Wheels.3. This five-year-old piano prodigy brings down the house with Mozart Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani wows audiences with his amazing musical talents.Pianoforte/FacebookA clip of a five-year-old performing at the 10th International Music Competition in Italy is now going viral, and it’s no surprise why. To little to even reach the pedals with his feet, Alberto Cartuccia Cingolani still wows the audience with a masterful performance of a Mozart piece. According to his mother, Alberto had participated in seven national and international music competitions and won first place in all of them, all by the time he was four and a half. It’s like he’s channeling Amadeus himself.4. An adopted man reunites with his bio mom and forms a "sweet" connection Lenore Lindsey and Vamarr HunterABC 7 / YouTubeWhen 50-year-old Vamarr Hunter decided to take a genealogy test to find his biological mother, he had no idea how close he had already been to finding her. After a genealogy test, Hunter discovered that his mother, Lenore Lindsey, who had given him up for adoption as an infant, was actually the owner of “Give Me Some Sugar” in South Shore Chicago—Hunter’s favorite bakery. The two experienced an “immediate connection” after meeting, and after Lindsey suffered a stroke, Hunter stepped in to manage the bakery full-time. No, you’re crying.5. A teacher uses AI to inspire her classroom See on Instagram Now this is wholesome: An elementary teacher in Turkey named Gülümser Balci used artificial intelligence to create images of her students as their future selves in their dream jobs. Each kid is shocked and delighted to see themselves as adults, living out their dreams.For more things that'll make you smile, check out all the ways Subaru is sharing the love this holiday season, here.

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The actor, who was an icon of 1960s British cinema, died in a bar while shooting the film.

Donald Trump nominated Sean Duffy as secretary of transportation earlier this week. The pick feels potentially more significant than those offered for the old-line cabinet positions. When the outgoing administration was the incoming administration, Joe Biden generated much chatter regarding a successor when he nominated Pete Buttigieg as secretary of transportation. Despite Trump entering office as a lame-duck president, no such speculation greets Duffy. It should. He overflows with the least discussed but arguably most important quality in winning national elections: likeability. In this sense, Duffy eclipses the leading contenders — JD Vance, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley — talked about as a potential successor to Donald Trump in the one category (forget about Allan Lichtman’s “keys”) that has carried the day in every presidential election in my lifetime. And that lifespan suddenly matters. Yes, that he married a Mexican matters more politically in 2028 than it did on his wedding day. Yes, his enormous family itself constitutes a powerful voting bloc. Yes, Duffy hails from swing-state Wisconsin. But chronology matters here more than even geography. The former congressman comes from Generation X, which earlier this month voted for Trump in greater proportions than Baby Boomers, Millennials, and Gen Z did. Generation X likes Duffy so much because we grew up with him on the most Generation X show on the most Generation X channel on the most Generation X medium (cable TV) during the decade when Generation X came of age. We met Sean Duffy on MTV’s The Real World during the 1990s. And therein lies a tale. The producers set him up as the token conservative upon which the rest of the house, disproportionately political and liberal, could use as a pinata (the fate of past characters fitting his mold). The producers selected Duffy to serve as the outlier to the Stanford afro-centrist Kameelah, the bisexual Genesis, halfway-hippie guy Jason from Colorado, and feminist Montana on the Boston iteration of the show. Duffy flipped the script. He came across as uber-likable, befriended most of his housemates, and always emerged from confrontations as the more sympathetic character. The fact that he competed in lumberjack competitions increased viewer interest in him. He parlayed that popularity to a seat in Congress representing Wisconsin. One of the strange ironies of MTV — when it still wielded enormous cultural significance — involves how its 1990s promotion of left-wing politics — overtly through the “Rock the Vote” and “Choose or Lose” campaigns that it pushed, and covertly, if not subtly, through its programming — backfired. Yes, MTV aggressively pushing gay characters in its reality shows altered public perception. And its producers feeding participants questions — e.g., “Boxers or briefs?” — in staged forums further humanized liberal politicians. But one cannot help but notice that the generation MTV sought to mold and the most successful of its programming’s graduates lean right. Trump nominating Duffy serves as merely the latest illustration of this. Oregonian Kennedy acted as the quirky, left-of-the-dial VJ before reemerging as a libertarian voice on Fox News and elsewhere. Louisianan Theo Von, beyond quirky if apolitical on Road Rules, memorably interviewed Donald Trump during this election cycle and serves as one of many non-mainstream comics to gather a mainstream audience through podcasts. Ohioan Mike Mizanin did not fare as well as Duffy in the unofficial role of conservative yokel on The Real World; he subsequently parlayed the wrestling persona “The Miz” he debuted on MTV into two decades and counting with the WWE, which includes two runs as champion. Rachel Campos, who starred on Real World: San Francisco, the series’ most memorable season, and later married Duffy, now serves as a regular on Fox News. Even Beavis and Butthead moved right. MTV did not plan it this way. But Gen X, mistakenly dubbed the most apolitical generation largely by Baby Boomers imagining their goofy, self-righteous activism necessarily metastasized to coming parts of the body politic, rebelled against the masters of reality television who could not, ultimately, master reality. And given that in all but Biden’s term Baby Boomers have occupied the Oval Office since 1993 (a time of shrinking power on the world stage, declining GDP growth, and ballooning debt), four years from now seems about time the generation of Elon Musk and Dave Chappelle and Tiger Woods and Molly Ringwald take its turn in the presidency. READ MORE from Daniel J. Flynn: Campaign Grifters Ironically Killed Dems’ Government Grift Five Frightening Ways Democrats Campaigned as They Govern The Age of Trump The post A Gen X President (Four Years from) Now More Than Ever appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.

No one in Rock was more consistently influential than David Bowie. He effectively adopted (and discarded) images (Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane & The Thin White Duke) and styles creating an incredible and varied body of work. Here is the list of Great Songs: #10. Space Oddity It was first released on July 11th, 1969, as the opening track of Bowie’s self-titled second studio album.   Space Oddity #9. Under Pressure w/ Freddie Mercury and Queen Both Bowie and Queen were recording at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. Bowie had contributed unused backing vocals for a Queen song before work then began on “Under Pressure.” Queen bassist John Deacon came up with the original riff which was altered during the recording process. Under Pressure #8, Blue Jean Written by Bowie for his sixteenth studio album “Tonight” (1984). It was one of only two tracks on the album written entirely by Bowie. Blue Jean #7. Modern Love The song, co-produced by Nile Rogers of Chic who had hoped to make a “very noncommercial, avant-garde album” with Bowie. After recoding “Let’s Dance,” the album’s title track, and “Modern Love,” Bowie asked Rodgers to “make (a) great commercial record. Modern Love #6. Cracked Actor The track, written during Bowie’s stay in Los Angeles while on the American leg of the Ziggy Stardust Tour, is from his sixth studio album “Aladdin Sane” (1973).  Cracked Actor #5. Fame Written by Bowie, Carlos Alomar and John Lennon, the song features backing vocals by the former Beatle. Bowie said that Lennon was the “energy” and the “inspiration” for “Fame”, and that’s why he received a co-writing credit. “Fame: became Bowie’s first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Fame #4. Rebel Rebel The song has been described as Bowie’s farewell to the Galm Rock movement. Rebel Rebel #3. Changes Released in 1971, it featured Rick Wakeman (Yes) on piano along with the future Spiders From Mars – guitarist Mick Ronson, bassist Trevor Bolder and Mick Woodmansey. Changes #2. The Jean Genie The lead single from his 1973 album “Aladdin Sane” it was recorded with his backing band The Spiders From Mars.  The Jean Genie #1. Suffragette City Released in ’72 as the B-side of “Starman,” it subsequently appeared on Bowie’s fifth studio album “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” (1972). “Suffragette City” was originally offered to Mott The Hoople who declined it and recorded Bowie’s “All The Young Dudes” instead – which became the band’s biggest commercial success. Suffragette City ### The post 10 Great David Bowie Songs appeared first on RockinTown.