NORTHLANE
Releases Music Video For
"Heartmachine"
Sydney, Australia - May 11th, 2018 - Northlane have released their brand new music video for "Heartmachine", which premiered for a full 48 hours on Apple Music this week. Watch the video directed by Jason Eshraghian HERE. The deeply personal song about the human condition is off of the band's most recent release Mesmer out now via UNFD.
"Heartmachine" is off of the band's most recent release, Mesmer, and is the final video in the Mesmer collection, which was alluded to in the album trailer released right before the surprise album drop. Previous releases in the collection include "Citizen", "Intuition", "Solar", and "Colourwave".
Frontman Marcus Bridge explains, "Heartmachine is a song about pain, heartbreak and loss. When the heart wants to heal and move forward, anxiety and depression work like a machine to drag you down again and again. I wrote this song in the studio after feeling low for months about a relationship that had fallen apart on top of other personal issues. I almost immediately felt a weight lifted off my chest when I started to release that pain through this song. As I let go of my heartbreak, represented through my relationship with the female character in the music video, my strength grows and I'm finally able to control my power at the end of it all."
Northlane released Mesmer in March 2017 with no forewarning. The album debuted at #3 on the ARIA Chart and earned the band their second ARIA Award for Best Hard Rock / Heavy Metal album that same year. In 2018, Mesmer was nominated for an AIR award (Australian Independent Record Labels Association) for Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy or Punk Album, as well as Best Artwork at the Heavy Music Awards. The album, which has amassed over 10 million streams, is available for purchase HERE.
The Sydney natives formed in 2009, and with four successful albums under their belt Northlane has become one of the most successful heavy music acts in Australia. The band has won two back-to-back ARIA Awards in the Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal album category for Node and Mesmer. Additionally, the band's prior release, Node, debuted at #1 on the ARIA Chart and was nominated in the "Best New Band" category for the 2015 Alternative Press Music Awards. With the recent release of their highly successful fourth full-length album, Mesmer, the band continues to prove that they are a force to be reckoned with in the hard rock scene.
Northlane is Marcus Bridge (vocals), Jonathon Deiley (guitar), Josh Smith (guitar), Alex Milovic (bass), and Nic Pettersen (drums).
Mesmer Tracklisting:
Follow Northlane:
Website: http://northlaneband.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/northlane
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Northlane
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/northlane/
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Training Program for Rural Nonprofit Leaders - Now Accepting Applications
In partnership with American Express and Fifth Ocean Consulting, Invest in Success provides an intense and immersive program for rural nonprofit leaders.
The 2018 cohort will receive training on board governance, organizational finance, marketing, leading change, advocacy, and case studies. Additionally, grants are available to the cohort to implement their training.
The last day to apply is May 15th, so don't delay.
For more information, visit our website or email info@utahcf.org.
Utah Women's Giving Circle Panel: The Slippery Slope of Sexual Harassment
Join the Utah Women's Giving Circle on May 30th as we hear from panelists on the history and current status of sexual harassment in our communities, in the media, and in policy work. We will be honored to feature:
This event is free with RSVP for Utah Women's Giving Circle members and college students. Tickets are available to the rest of the public for just $10.
Save the Date: Social Investors Forum
It's like Shark Tank for social good -- you don't want to miss this event!
The Community Foundation of Utah's seventh Social Investors Forum will be held on June 6th! Join us to watch local nonprofit and for-profit organizations pitch their programs to the Investment Committee for funding.
Click here to learn more about the Social Investors Forum and click the button below to RSVP.
TINY STILLS
Premieres "When I'm With You"
Living Room Session
Sophomore Album
Laughing Into the Void
Out June 1st, 2018
Pre-Order Now at: tinystills.com
"If you take one listen, you will find yourself either tapping along or keeping up with
the perfectly placed whistling in the chorus." - Substream Magazine
"Tiny Stills offer refreshing power-pop charged with
an array of dynamic, intoxicating emotion." - Atwood Magazine
May 11, 2018 - Los Angeles, CA - Power pop band Tiny Stills has shared a brand new Living Room Session video of "When I'm With You," premiering now on New Noise Magazine. A sugary sweet song about a new relationship, "When I'm With You" is the latest single from Tiny Stills' forthcoming sophomore album, Laughing Into the Void, which will be released on June 1st, 2018. Laughing Into the Void is full of brutal honesty, crunchy guitars, and catchy melodies that help you remember that even the worst days have a silver lining: at least you're not alone. For more information, or to pre-order the album, please visit: www.tinystills.com.
"I originally wrote this song to try and impress someone that I had a crush on- I wanted him to like me," lead singer Kailynn West shares.
"It's my way of trying to capture that feeling of excitement when you're in the beginning stages of a relationship when even boring daily routines feel special because you're sharing them with someone special. Everything feels special."
She continues: "I wanted to make an acoustic version of this song because this is how it was originally sent to him- just a quick voice memo on my phone. Its just really honest and simple. We recorded it in our living room, and our friend Taylor Allen shot it. Zach Comtois is on guitar, and Tony Thaxton, the inspiration himself, on percussion."
Tiny Stills is a power pop band from Los Angeles influenced by Courtney Barnett, That Dog, and 90s/00s rock. Their first album, Falling is like Flying was released in 2014 and was a direct response to the isolation and anxiety that comes from life changing events after front-person and founding member Kailynn West was held up at gunpoint. It's upbeat and pop-y melodies were born from a desire to make something that felt and sounded nothing like the she felt at the time - happy. Since then, West has been the nucleus of the project with a rotating cast of band members, but most recent lineup includes Harry Foster (bass), Zach Comtois (guitar), and Tony Thaxton (drums).
After a last-minute lineup change left an opening on a national tour with Bayside's Anthony Raneri and A.W. in 2015, West stepped in at the last minute to complete the tour as Tiny Stills. She sold thank you cards with download links as merchandise after selling out of physical copies of the first record; from there, the project hit the ground running.
Tiny Stills will release their highly anticipated sophomore album, Laughing Into the Void, on June 1st, 2018. They'll be celebrating with a hometown album release show on May 31st at The Hi Hat in Los Angeles. For a full list of upcoming tour dates, please see below or visit www.tinystills.com.
For more information:
Website: www.tinystills.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/tinystills
Twitter: www.twitter.com/tinystills
Instagram: www.facebook.com/tinystills
Laughing Into the Void Track Listing:
1. When I'm With You
2. Colorblind
3. Lala
4. Can You Blame Me
5. My Skin
6. Small Talk
7. Right All Along
8. Don't Call Me A Catch
9. Let's Fall In Love
10. Someday Everyone Who Hurt Me Will Be Dead
Upcoming Tour Dates w/Sundressed:
5/31 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Hi Hat (Album Release Show)
6/1 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Rebel Lounge
6/3 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
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Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse Wins 12 DownBeat Awards,
With 64 Wins Since ’05
Salt Lake City-based Music School and Performance Center
Lauded With Top Honors For 2018, Announces Major Expansion
Salt Lake City, UT – May 10, 2018 —It was announced today that Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse, a Salt Lake City-based music school for bands, has won twelve 2018 DownBeat Student Music Awards recognizing outstanding performances by graduate and undergraduate soloists, ensembles, composers and engineers. This brings the total number of DownBeat awards won by the Soundhouse program since 2005 to 64. Asked why his program has become one of DownBeat’s most awarded schools over the past decade, Soundhouse founder and chairman Caleb Chapman said, “We’ve got amazing instructors, a world-class facility and kids who work incredibly hard. It’s a combination that works well for us.”
As the oldest publication devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond," DownBeat celebrates high-caliber jazz education with its annual awards. 12 of the Salt Lake Soundhouse’s 18 bands have been recognized with at least one award from the magazine, including the Crescent Super Band, the Voodoo Orchestra, Soul Research Foundation, Little Big Band, Vicious Beat, Time Check Jazz Orchestra, Kingston Winter, Jukebox Antihero, Hooligans Brass Band, The Inevitables, Lo-Fi Riot, and La Onda Caribeña.
“Soundhouse is one of the winningest music programs of the last decade when it comes to the DownBeat Student Music Awards. What Caleb Chapman and his team at Soundhouse have done is nothing short of amazing. Soundhouse is teaching young musicians to perform and improvise with incredible technique, creativity and joy. It’s one of the top music programs in the nation,” said DownBeat publisher Frank Alkyer.
To pair with its record of award success, nearly every senior high school student member of Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse has received a college scholarship offer, putting the average annual total for scholarships offered to graduates at one million dollars. In 2017, scholarships offered to Soundhouse seniors totaled over $2 million.
It was also recently announced that new Soundhouses are set to open in Nashville, L.A. and Boston later this year, with a franchising plan in place to build Soundhouses across the country and globe. The combination rehearsal spaces and performance centers will offer local musicians the ultimate array of tools, instruction and opportunities to create, practice, and perform music in a wide variety of styles.
About Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse
Caleb Chapman’s Soundhouse is a nationally recognized contemporary music school and performance center whose top-tier musicians, educators and celebrity guests mentor bands on performance, recording, touring and more. Chapman is an award winning music educator, producer, entrepreneur, author, bandleader and performer.
The Soundhouse program teaches and values teamwork, self-confidence, leadership, self-discipline, time management, marketing, problem solving, networking, entrepreneurship, creativity, improvisation, and other skills to help musicians achieve success. Soundhouse members rehearse with like-minded musicians on a weekly basis in facilities stocked with professional gear. Soundhouse currently operates a performance center in Salt Lake City with centers opening in Nashville, Los Angeles and Boston in the coming months, thereafter in other cities in the U.S. and around the world.
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Justice May Provide Redacted Portions of Rosenstein Mueller “Scope” Memo
Judicial Watch is number one when it comes to providing independent oversight on what your government is up to – including the out-of-control Mueller investigation.
The Justice Department has disclosed that it may soon provide us with previously withheld material from the heavily redacted August 2 memorandum in which Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein granted broad authority to Special Counsel Mueller three months after Mueller’s appointment.
The initial, highly controversial appointment memo, controversially, was written in May 2017. The Justice Department’s notice to us came almost immediately after the explosive District Court hearing in which Judge T.S. Ellis III demanded the full memorandum be made available to the court in two weeks, by May 18.
In a May 4 response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit we filed, the Justice Department revealed that it is now “processing the August 2 memo to determine if it can release additional portions that have not already been filed publicly.” The agency had previously refused to acknowledge that any such “scope” documents exist.
We filed our FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department on October 5, 2017, after the agency failed to respond to a July 10, 2017, request (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-02079)). Judicial Watch is seeking:
A few hours after Judge Ellis’s explosive hearing (here’s the transcript), the Justice Department officially admitted to us that a scope memo existed:
As you are no doubt aware, in conjunction with its opposition to Paul Manafort’s motion to dismiss his criminal indictment, the United States filed on that criminal docket a redacted version of an August 2, 2017, Memorandum regarding ‘The scope of Investigation and Definition of Authority’ conferred on the Special Counsel….
In light of the Special Counsel’s public acknowledgement of the August 2 memo, the government has been assessing whether the acknowledgment alters its prior response to Request No. 3 [for documents describing the scope of Mueller’s authority] of the FOIA request at issue in this suit, and processing the August 2 memorandum to determine if it can release additional portions that have not already been filed publicly, but needs some additional time to complete these tasks.
We are pleased, especially after Judge Ellis’s hearing, that our lawsuit is causing the Justice Department to rethink its cover-up of the “scope memo” for Mueller. We have never before seen this level of secrecy and cover-up surrounding the operation of a special or independent counsel.
In the August 2 memorandum we obtained, Rosenstein reiterated the broad authority he gave Mueller in his May order authorizing the special counsel:
[T]o conduct “the investigation confirmed my then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on March 20, 2017, including: (1) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and (2) any matters that arose or may arise directly from that investigation….”
The May 17, 2017 order was worded categorically in order to permit its public release without confirming specific investigations involving specific individuals. This memorandum provides a more specific description of your authority. The following allegations were within the scope of the Investigation at the time of your appointment and are within the scope of the Order…
The Justice Department then redacted all of the “following allegations.”
The August Rosenstein memorandum also included a section providing Mueller a “more specific description of your authority,” authorizing the special counsel to expand his prosecution of former Trump advisor Paul Manafort by investigating:
Allegations that Paul Manafort:
The Justice Department then redacted additional material apparently detailing the “crime or crimes” relating to Ukraine that Mueller was authorized to investigate.
We are pursuing numerous additional FOIA lawsuits related to the surveillance, unmasking, and illegal leaking targeting President Trump and his associates during the FBI’s investigation of potential Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.
These Deep State actors have assumed great authority for themselves and we must hold them accountable. On its face, Mueller’s quest has gone off the rails. It is high time we get the DOJ back under control through transparency and accountability through the courts.
FBI Advised Comey to Consult with Mueller’s Office Prior to Testifying
We have been asked to believe that Robert Mueller can fairly investigate matters involving his longtime friend and professional colleague James Comey. This is simply laughable, especially since we know the two of them were conferring in private, a fact we had to go to court to confirm.
We just uncovered new emails from the Department of Justice (DOJ) showing that former FBI Director James Comey was advised by FBI officials in May 2017 to consult with Special Counsel Robert Mueller prior to testifying before any congressional committees regarding Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and his firing as FBI director.
According to numerous news reports, Comey met directly with Mueller previous to his June 8, 2017, testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sources said that Comey’s opening statement and subsequent testimony were coordinated with Mueller.
At the hearing, Comey revealed that he had intentionally leaked material from a memo allegedly documenting a meeting with President Trump in order to help assure the appointment of a special counsel.
“I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. Didn’t do it myself, for a variety of reasons. But I asked him to, because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.”
The DOJ and FBI have stated that Comey’s leaks were unauthorized and compared the disclosures to Wikileaks. The documents we obtained are the first to reveal that high-ranking FBI officials helped Comey coordinate his testimony with Mueller.
We extracted the documents in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ on January 31, 2018 (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:18-cv-00220)). The lawsuit was filed after the DOJ failed to respond to an August 14, 2017 FOIA request seeking:
An email chain dated May 18, and 19, 2017, with the subject line “Future testimony” shows then-FBI Chief of Staff James Rybicki, then-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Assistant Director Gregory Brower, Comey and others discussing Comey’s upcoming testimony:
On May 18 at 6:30 p.m., Comey wrote to Rybicki to confirm that he had accepted the invitation to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) but declined the invitations from the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.
Comey also writes: “Last, would you please tell OGC [Office of the General Counsel] that I would like to be able to review any documents authored by me or on which I am copied that will be produced to SSCI in connection with my testimony and would like the opportunity for that review before I testify?”
An email from a redacted sender, apparently Comey, to Rybicki dated May 19 at 11:49 am reads:
Jim
I just got off a call with Senators Burr and Warner. They would like to have a hearing next Wednesday at which I testify, first in open session and then in closed, if necessary. I asked them not to announce it until I check with FBI/DOJ to see if you want to discuss anything before they do that. I told them I had asked for guidance on any institutional prerogatives and for the opportunity to review any documents FBI has produced that relate to me. I told them I would communicate with them by the end of the day to either ask them to hold announcing the Wednesday hearing or go ahead.
Many thanks.
Jim
On May 19 at 2:10 pm, Rybicki writes back:
Director: We just met to discuss the requests outlined in the two emails below. Before responding the General Counsel has asked me to confirm that you have discussed with the attorneys representing you, and that you are comfortable discussing these issues with us rather than communicating through your counsel.
On May 19 at 3:02 pm, a redacted sender, likely Comey, responds to Rybicki: “Yes and yes.”
Also in this chain, on May 19 at 4:11 pm, Rybicki writes to McCabe, FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich, former FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, Brower, Elizabeth Beers, and other redacted names:
Please see a DRAFT response to Director Comey (below). I will hold pending further direction….
Director:
In response to your emails below we have consulted with executive management here, including the General Counsel, and recommend the following:
These documents show that James Comey, who was fired by the president, nevertheless had easy, friendly access to the FBI as he prepped his infamous anti-Trump testimony to the Senate.
This collusion led to Comey’s attacking President Trump and misusing FBI records as part of a vendetta against the president.
Judicial Watch Scores New Victory for 76-Year-Old Veteran
The Department of Veterans Affairs has a well-earned terrible reputation. Judicial Watch hasn’t ignored the damage that agency is doing to veterans and the rule of law: case in point being our client Robert Rosebrock.
The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has affirmed a U.S. Magistrate Judge’s April 11, 2017, dismissal of criminal charges against Mr. Rosebrock, who was prosecuted for allegedly taking “unauthorized” photographs of American Flags at an entrance to a park on the Los Angeles VA campus (United States of America v. Robert L. Rosebrock (No. 2:17-cr-00262)). (For some background on Bob’s battles, click here for a moving video).
The magistrate judge ruled in Rosebrock’s favor on First Amendment grounds. The District Court affirmed the magistrate judge’s dismissal of the charges, but held that the plain language of the regulation under which Rosebrock was prosecuted did not prohibit unauthorized “news” photography anywhere on VA property.
The charges stemmed from allegations that Rosebrock took unauthorized photographs of American Flags and unauthorized videos of VA police on Memorial Day 2016 and Sunday, June 12, 2016. In rejecting the VA photography/video charges, U.S. Magistrate Judge Steve Kim ruled that the regulation as applied to the West LA VA’s Los Angeles National Veterans Park was not reasonable under even the most lenient First Amendment standard. Rosebrock also was acquitted after trial on April 18, 2017, of a further criminal charge for allegedly displaying a napkin-sized American Flag on a fence at the park’s entrance on Memorial Day 2016.
The VA refused to accept the magistrate’s ruling and appealed to the District Court. We argued VA officials sought to retaliate against Rosebrock for his long-standing criticism of the VA for what he considers to be violations of the terms governing use of the land on which the West LA VA facility is located.
Since 2008, Rosebrock and a small group of supporters have assembled nearly every Sunday and Memorial Day at the Great Lawn Gate entrance to the Los Angeles National Veterans Park to protest the VA’s failure to make full use of the property to benefit veterans, particularly homeless veterans. For years, the VA has allowed land on the campus to be used for a variety of non-veteran related purposes, including a baseball stadium for the University of California Los Angeles baseball team, athletic fields for a private prep school, and a City of Los Angeles dog park.
Although the District Court did not address VA officials’ motives in pursuing criminal charges against Rosebrock, its ruling lends credence to the claim that Rosebrock was selectively and vindictively prosecuted for his weekly protests. Further evidence of a retaliatory motive is the recent revelation of fraud high up at the Greater Los Angeles VA facility.
It’s clear: The VA persecuted Rosebrock for his advocacy and the outrageous criminal charges against him have since been shown to lack any factual or legal basis. President Trump should ask who at the VA and DOJ is responsible for this reprehensible effort to jail our client for exercising his First Amendment rights.
Until next week,
Tom Fitton
President
Judicial Watch
