Good Saturday morning, cats and kittens. Hope you had a fantastic week.
Don't forget to join us for another kick-ass edition of Saturday Night Karaoke tonight- live and loud at the Iron Horse Tavern in Historic downtown Norcross. It's the last blast before Christmas, so bring your holiday cheer!
Opera singer Jackie Evancho says she's being bullied online after the announcement she would be performing at Donald Trump's inauguration.
"My family is kind of a big target. I have a transgender sister and so a lot of hate goes towards us," Evancho told People magazine.
"But I also get a lot of love. So, we pay most attention to that. Sometimes we get really annoyed with the hate, everyone does, we have to admit it but we just ignore it."
It's pretty well known that I think the president-elect is a buffoon (I've always thought this- I've been repulsed by the guy since the first time I saw him, back in the 80s), but the bullying thing is bullshit. Grow up, you fucking assholes.
Biologists in California have named a newly discovered, rare plant after Jimi Hendrix.
The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii, or "Hendrix's liveforever."
The plants have very long life spans and are less than a foot tall with pinkish-white flowers that dies in summer and re-sprouts in fall.
Former San Diego State University graduate student Mark Dodero is said to have discovered the plant while listening to "Voodoo Child."
President Obama signed into law the Better Online Ticket Sales Act yesterday, according to a statement from the White House Press Secretary. The BOTS Act of 2016 is aimed at stopping "the circumvention of control measures used by Internet ticket sellers to ensure equitable consumer access to tickets for certain events."
To put it plainly- the law will make it much easier for fans to buy tickets to shows at face value right when they go on sale.
The will make those the practice of resellers buying up blocks of tickets and selling them them at much higher prices illegal and outlaw the sale of tickets obtained through such technologies that circumvent measures in place to stop those practices "if the seller participated in, had the ability to control, or should have known about the violation."
Trent Reznor said last year that a new Nine Inch Nails project would arrive before 2016 ended and it was announced yesterday that he'd be making good on that promise. The EP 'Not the Actual Events' will hit stores next Friday- along with reissues of their back catalog.
"It's an unfriendly, fairly impenetrable record that we needed to make," Reznor said.
As for the reissues, Reznor said he wanted "to present the catalog as it was intended to be, with no compromises. That means a careful remastering of the audio from the original sources, a painstaking recreation of the artwork, pristine materials, some surprises and an insane attention to detail that you probably won't notice…but it matters to us. No extra bullshit and gimmicks -- the 'real' records in their truest form."
Tina Turner is getting the biography treatment again- this time with a theatrical musical being developed in London called 'Tina: The Musical.'
Playwright Katori Hall is working with Dutch writers Frank Ketelaar and Kees Prins on the project, with 'Mamma Mia!' director Phyllida Lloyd signed on to head the project.
An unrelated project based on Turner's life and career was produced in London's West End in 2012. No other info about the new show has been announced.
Birthdays today include: Taylor York of Paramore; Sarah Dallin of Bananarama; Mike Mills of REM; Paul Rodgers of Bad Company; and Art Neville of Neville Brothers. #MusicalBirthdays
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