Can Lamine Yamal change attitudes towards immigrants in Spain? The youngest goalscorer in the Euros put the spotlight on Rocafonda. Its residents hope it will bring change The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2024
Spain PM Set To Testify In Wife's Graft Probe Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to testify on Tuesday in a preliminary graft probe into his wife's business dealings, a case that has piled pressure on his fragile minority government. International Business Times · Jul 30, 2024
“In my experience, 70% of vintage guitars are clunkers – a new guitar will beat their sound and how they play. But if you get that diamond in the rough, it’s next-level”: Wayne Sermon is sneaking vintage guitars into Imagine Dragons’ blockbuster pop-rock You’ll hear a small but special collection of vintage instruments on Imagine Dragons’ recorded output – even if you don’t know it – as jazz-schooled, Berklee-trained Wayne Sermon pursues the holy grail of serving the song Guitar World · Jul 29, 2024
“Nothing was even mic'd up through the P.A. – they just listened to our amps and the two vocal mics. Sometimes we'd just play rubbish”: The Beatles on their struggles to be heard over the screams of Beatlemania – and the toll it took on their performances Technology has advanced light years in the six decades since the frenzy of Beatlemania, and the world of onstage guitar amplification is no exception Guitar World · Jul 26, 2024
Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone. Local officials want help Spain's Canary Islands are struggling to deal with thousands of teenagers and children traveling alone to the archipelago The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2024
Korg Collection 5 adds ARP 2600 synth, Vox Continental organ and classic electric piano emulations, taking it way beyond its original remit Plugin reboots of non-Korg synths and keyboards have now joined the bundle, too MusicRadar · Jul 19, 2024
Spain’s far-right Vox quits key regional governments over migration row Spanish PM hails a great day for Spain after party pulls out of coalitions with conservative People’s party The Guardian - UK · Jul 12, 2024
Spain’s far right quits five regional governments over migration spat The Vox Party will pull out of five power-sharing deals across Spain in protest of national migration policy The Independent UK · Jul 12, 2024
“It was like going back 60 years... You can imagine what it would have sounded like in the Cavern”: Could this be Lennon’s first Vox? Could this rediscovered AC15 be Lennon's first Vox amp? MusicRadar · Jul 12, 2024
“The serial number was the same as John Lennon’s amp. I couldn’t believe it”: John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used on early Beatles recordings and Cavern gigs – was lost for 60 years. Now it may have been found, covered in black paint, on an auction site Heard on Please Please Me and Love Me Do, this unassuming 1962 Vox AC15 Twin may have just become the most valuable amp on the planet – and we’ve had the exclusive first look Guitar World · Jul 11, 2024
‘He’s a miracle’: All eyes on Lamine Yamal after Spain’s win against France Sixteen-year-old’s defiant gesture – spelling out Rocafonda postcode labelled ‘multicultural shithole’ by far-right Vox party – prompts debate in Spain The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2024
Lamine Yamal’s celebration explained after inspiring Spain to Euro 2024 final The 16-year-old scored a wonder goal for Spain to become the youngest ever scorer at a men’s European Championship The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2024
"Yes in God's Backyard"—A Useful, But Limited Form of Housing Deregulation There is a growing movement to let churches and other religious organizations build housing on their property that would otherwise be banned by zoning regulations. Reason · Jun 18, 2024
The mystery monolith returns! Mirrored structure appears again in Las Vegas desert A monolith previously appeared on a Las Vegas street in 2020 The Independent UK · Jun 18, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Jun 18, 2024 Populist, nativist, neofascist? A lexicon of Europe’s far right There are numerous terms to describe the wide array of far right parties, but what do all they mean – and do we always use the right ones?
The Conversation · Jun 18, 2024 The modern world’s relationship to time is broken – and it’s fuelling the rise of the far right To truly understand populism, we have to take the long view. In the 1960s, populist parties won, on average, 5.4% of the vote in Europe, while today, following the European Parliament elections on 9 June, more than 20% of the electorate trusts them with their vote.
The Conversation · Jun 14, 2024 Why are Europeans – including the young – being pushed to the far right? In Europe, the slogan “never again fascism” is one that still resonates. The death and destruction wrought by hyper-nationalist, authoritarian states in the first half of the 20th century still haunts the nightmares of successive generations.
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The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2024 The far right may not win real power in Europe – but it will influence those who do Polls predict huge gains for the far right in the European elections. But it is too fragmented to truly capitalise on them, says Cas Mudde of the University of Georgia
France 24 · May 30, 2024 Spain's parliament approves amnesty law for Catalan separatists Spain’s Parliament voted Thursday to give final approval to a controversial amnesty law for hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in the illegal and unsuccessful 2017 secession bid.
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2024 New research raises hopes of exhuming foreign Spanish civil war dead Catalan authorities ask relatives to provide DNA to help identify 522 members of International Brigades from US, Canada, Britain and Ireland
Guitar World · May 28, 2024 “I realized there’s no way to play the Van Halen stuff on my rig – it’s a different animal”: Joe Satriani has seemingly switched out his Ibanez guitars to play Van Halen material on the Best of All Worlds Tour Satch is having an amp custom-made for the tour – and now it looks like he's got a new guitar and pedalboard, too
Windows Central · May 23, 2024 ChatGPT4o may have 5 new voices, but former OpenAI staffers are reportedly being coerced to sign NDAs or risk losing vested equity worth millions of dollars A new report by Vox reveals new documents signed by Altman allowing OpenAI to claw back equity from former employees who refuse to sign NDAs, preventing them from criticizing the company.
Guitar World · May 23, 2024 “The AC30 works in a different way from most guitar amps”: Used by The Beatles, Brian May and The Edge, the Vox AC30 is one of the all-time great amp designs – but what makes it sound so good? What's behind the AC30's coveted chime, and why has it remained a consistent amp choice for generations of guitar greats?
Fortune · May 21, 2024 OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI—but never delivered, sources say The company's "Superalignment team" repeatedly had its requests for computing power rejected, sources say.